Gramercy Pictures | |
Type: | Label |
Fate: | Currently dormant |
Successor: | Focus Features |
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Defunct: |
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Location City: | Universal City, California |
Location Country: | United States |
Industry: | Film |
Products: | Motion pictures |
Owner: | Comcast |
Parent: | Focus Features (NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment) (NBCUniversal) (ultimately owned by Comcast) |
Gramercy Pictures was an American film production label. It was founded on May 20, 1992 as a joint venture between PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Gramercy was the distributor of PolyGram films in the United States and Canada and also served as Universal's art-house division. After Seagram's buyout of PolyGram, Gramercy along with October Films and Interscope Communications[1] were merged by Barry Diller to form USA Films in 1999. On May 20, 2015, Focus Features (the current art-house division for Universal) revived the name as a label for action, horror and sci-fi genre films; the label was shut down after the release of Ratchet & Clank on April 29, 2016.
Gramercy Pictures was formed on May 20, 1992 as a joint venture between PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Universal Pictures.[2] Gramercy Pictures released its first film, the Mario Van Peebles western Posse, on May 14, 1993.[3] [4]
On January 11, 1996, PolyGram bought the 50% stake owned by Universal thus assuming full control of Gramercy.[5] The distributor also had box office hits in 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1996's Fargo and 1997's Bean. Several Gramercy releases of the 1990s have grown in stature to become cult classics in the present day: The Big Lebowski, Dazed and Confused, Clay Pigeons and Mallrats. In addition, 1995's The Usual Suspects won two Oscars, for Best Original Screenplay (Christopher McQuarrie) and Best Supporting Actor (Kevin Spacey).
When Seagram acquired PolyGram on May 22, 1998, the latter was merged and folded into Universal; as a result, it reacquired Gramercy as it controlled Universal. In turn, Seagram sold the bulk of the PolyGram film library titles released up until March 31, 1996 to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1999, and later on, it sold Gramercy and two other specialty divisions, Interscope Communications and October Films, to Barry Diller's USA Networks, which merged all three companies into USA Films.[6] [7] [1] USA Films was then merged with Universal's own art-house division, Universal Focus, and transformed into Focus Features in 2002 after Vivendi Universal acquired USA Networks from Diller.
On May 20, 2015, Focus Features announced that the Gramercy label has been revived to release action, horror and sci-fi genre films. Its first release was on June 5, 2015.[2] The revived label was later shut down following the box office failure of Ratchet & Clank and a shift from genre films by Focus Features.
Release Date | Title | Notes | Budget | Gross |
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May 14, 1993 | Posse | $10 million | $18,289,763 | |
August 20, 1993 | King of the Hill | co-production with Wildwood Enterprises and Bona Fide Productions | $8 million | $1,214,231 |
September 3, 1993 | Kalifornia | $8.5 million | $2,395,231 | |
September 24, 1993 | Dazed and Confused | $6.9 million | $7,993,039 | |
November 5, 1993 | A Home of Our Own | $12 million | $1,677,807 | |
December 3, 1993 | A Dangerous Woman | $1,497,222 | ||
February 4, 1994 | Romeo Is Bleeding | $10 million | $3,275,865 | |
February 25, 1994 | Savage Nights | distribution only; produced by Banfilm, La Sept Cinéma and Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie | $662,341 | |
March 9, 1994 | Four Weddings and a Funeral | $4.4 million | $245,700,832 | |
April 15, 1994 | Backbeat | $2,392,589 | ||
May 6, 1994 | Dream Lover | $256,264 | ||
July 29, 1994 | Foreign Student | |||
August 10, 1994 | The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | $2 million | $29,679,915 | |
September 9, 1994 | A Good Man in Africa | produced by Polar Entertainment, Capitol Films and Southern Sun | $20 million | $2,308,390 |
September 28, 1994 | Jason's Lyric | $7 million | $20,851,521 | |
October 28, 1994 | Drop Squad | $734,693 | ||
November 4, 1994 | Double Dragon | distribution only; produced by Imperial Entertainment | $7.8 million | $2,341,309 |
January 20, 1995 | S.F.W. | $63,513 | ||
February 10, 1995 | Shallow Grave | $2.5 million | $19,779,614 | |
February 24, 1995 | Before the Rain | $763,847 | ||
March 17, 1995 | $13,940,383 | |||
April 19, 1995 | New Jersey Drive | $5 million | $3,565,508 | |
April 28, 1995 | The Underneath | $6.5 million | $536,023 | |
May 3, 1995 | Panther | $6,834,525 | ||
August 16, 1995 | The Usual Suspects | $6 million | $34,380,094 | |
September 22, 1995 | Canadian Bacon | $11 million | $178,104 | |
September 29, 1995 | Moonlight and Valentino | $2,484,226 | ||
October 20, 1995 | Mallrats | co-production with View Askew Productions and Alphaville | $6.1 million | $2,122,561 |
November 10, 1995 | Carrington | $3,242,342 | ||
December 29, 1995 | Dead Man Walking | $11 million | $83,080,768 | |
February 23, 1996 | La Haine | €2,590,000 | $309,811 | |
March 8, 1996 | Fargo | $7 million | $60,611,975 | |
March 22, 1996 | Jack and Sarah | $218,626 (USA) $2,492,000 (UK) | ||
Land and Freedom | $228,800 | |||
April 19, 1996 | $1,007,306 | |||
May 3, 1996 | Barb Wire | $9 million | $3,793,614 | |
May 10, 1996 | Cold Comfort Farm | $5,682,429 | ||
August 30, 1996 | The Trigger Effect | $8 million | $3,622,979 | |
September 13, 1996 | Grace of My Heart | $5 million | $660,313 | |
September 20, 1996 | Loch Ness | $7 million | £1,239,343 | |
October 4, 1996 | Bound | $6 million | $3,802,260 | |
October 18, 1996 | Jude | $7 million | $409,144 | |
December 24, 1996 | I'm Not Rappaport | $26,011 | ||
December 24, 1996 | The Portrait of a Lady | $3,692,836 | ||
January 29, 1997 | Gridlock'd | $5 million | $5,571,205 | |
February 14, 1997 | When We Were Kings | $2,789,985 | ||
March 7, 1997 | The Eighth Day | $416,401 | ||
April 11, 1997 | Keys to Tulsa | $57,252 | ||
May 2, 1997 | Commandments | co-production with Northern Lights Entertainment | $5 million | $548,562 |
May 9, 1997 | Twin Town | $3.3 million | $127,923 | |
August 6, 1997 | Def Jam's How to Be a Player | $12 million | $14,009,368 | |
September 19, 1997 | Going All the Way | $113,069 | ||
October 3, 1997 | The Matchmaker | $3,392,080 | ||
November 7, 1997 | Bean | $18 million | $251,212,670 | |
December 17, 1997 | Guy | $4,134 | ||
February 18, 1998 | I Want You | $1,672 | ||
March 6, 1998 | The Big Lebowski | $15 million | $46,129,927 | |
March 27, 1998 | No Looking Back | North American distribution only; produced by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Good Machine, Marlboro Road Gang and South Fork Pictures; 20th Century Fox handled International distribution | $5 million | $222,099 |
May 1, 1998 | Go Now | $25,695 | ||
May 29, 1998 | The Last Days of Disco | $8 million | $3,020,601 | |
June 12, 1998 | The Land Girls | $238,497 | ||
August 21, 1998 | Your Friends & Neighbors | $5 million | $4,714,658 | |
September 25, 1998 | Clay Pigeons | $8 million | $2,253,139 | |
October 16, 1998 | Reach the Rock | $4,960 | ||
November 22, 1998 | Elizabeth | $30 million | $82,150,642 | |
January 22, 1999 | The Hi-Lo Country | $166,082 | ||
March 5, 1999 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels | $1.4 million | $28,172,686 | |
October 1, 1999 | Plunkett & Macleane | |||
October 29, 1999 | Being John Malkovich | $13 million | $32,382,381 | |
Release Date | Title | Notes | Budget | Gross | |
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February 18, 2000 | Pitch Black | $23 million | $53,187,659 | ||
March 24, 2000 | Waking the Dead | $8.5 million | $327,418 | ||
April 14, 2000 | Where the Money Is | $28 million | $7,243,669 | ||
August 4, 2000 | Mad About Mambo | $65,283 | |||
September 8, 2000 | Nurse Betty | $25 million | $29,360,400 |
Release Date | Title | Notes | Budget | Gross | |
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June 5, 2015 | $10 million | $112,983,889 | |||
July 10, 2015 | Self/less | $26 million | $30,523,226 | ||
August 21, 2015 | Sinister 2 | $10 million | $52,882,018 | ||
January 8, 2016 | The Forest | $37,608,299 | |||
March 4, 2016 | London Has Fallen | $60 million | $191,094,450 | ||
April 29, 2016 | Ratchet & Clank | distribution only with Focus Features; produced by Cinema Management Group, Blockade Entertainment, PlayStation Originals and Rainmaker Entertainment; final film released before Gramercy's shutdown | $20 million | $12,880,804 |