Newmarket Films


Newmarket Films, LLC. was an American privately owned independent film production and distribution company and a former film distribution subsidiary of Newmarket Capital Group. The company produced such films as The Mexican, Cruel Intentions, and the Christopher Nolan films The Prestige and Memento. Newmarket distributed, in North America, such films as The Passion of the Christ, Whale Rider, Monster, Donnie Darko, and God Grew Tired of Us.

History

Newmarket Capital Group was founded in 1994 by Chris Ball and William Tyrer, with the company's executive team made up of Chris Calhoon, Rene Cogan, John Crye and Robert Fyvolent. The company was originally launched as a film financing company. Newmarket financed and produced films that had "break-out potential" and finance as small as $2 million and as large as $20 million. While financing and producing Memento, the company had trouble trying to find a distribution deal. Producer Aaron Ryder, who brought the film to Newmarket, decided to distribute it as a one-off project under Newmarket Films. Memento was a critical and commercial success, thus leading Newmarket Films to become a full theatrical distribution company.
Newmarket Films was acquired by Exclusive Media Group in 2009. In 2010, Newmarket made a deal with Lionsgate Home Entertainment to become the exclusive home entertainment distributor for Newmarket's film library. Later that year, Chris Ball left the company to form the distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment; Rene Cogan and John Crye joined him. Exclusive Media then sold its own film library, including the Newmarket library, to in 2015.

Filmography

;As distributor
Release dateTitle
March 16, 2001Memento
October 22, 2001Donnie Darko
October 18, 2002Real Women Have Curves
March 14, 2003Spun
April 18, 2003Lilya 4-ever
June 6, 2003Whale Rider
December 17, 2003Monster
February 25, 2004The Passion of the Christ
August 16, 2004Stander
September 24, 2004Silver City
October 15, 2004P.S.
December 10, 2004The Green Butchers
December 24, 2004The Woodsman
February 18, 2005Downfall
June 3, 2005Rock School
August 5, 2005The Chumscrubber
January 27, 2006Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
October 27, 2006Death of a President
January 12, 2007God Grew Tired of Us
August 31, 2007The Nines
January 22, 2010Creation
May 28, 2010Agora
October 21, 2010The Last Play at Shea
December 29, 2010The Way Back
May 13, 2011Hesher

;As financier/producer