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Cinecom Pictures

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Fate
  
Bankruptcy

Defunct
  
1991

Founded
  
1982

Headquarters
  
New York City

Industry
  
Independent film production and distribution

Key people
  
Founders Ira Deutchman, Amir Malin and John Ives

Cinecom Pictures was an independent film company founded in 1982 by Ira Deutchman (a former member of United Artists Classics), Amir Malin and John Ives. Its first release was Robert Altman's Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.

The company also distributed The Brother from Another Planet and Salaam Bombay!. Its highest-grossing release was 1985's A Room with a View. It closed down in 1991 after it filed for bankruptcy.

Selected films released

  • 1982: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean (Robert Altman)
  • 1982: Starstruck (Gillian Armstrong)
  • 1983: Angelo My Love (Robert Duval)
  • 1983: City News (David Fishelson)
  • 1983: El Norte (Gregory Nava)
  • 1983: L'Argent (Robert Bresson)
  • 1984: 1918 (Ken Harrison)
  • 1984: Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax)
  • 1984: The Brother From Another Planet (John Sayles)
  • 1984: Last Night at the Alamo (Eagle Pennell)
  • 1984: Metropolis (Fritz Lang)
  • 1984: Secret Honor (Robert Altman)
  • 1984: Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme)
  • 1984: The Times of Harvey Milk (Robert Epstein)
  • 1984: Burroughs (Howard Brookner)
  • 1984 The Revolt of Job (Imre Gyongyossy and Barna Kabay)
  • 1985: The Coca-Cola Kid (Dusan Makavejev)
  • 1985: Latino (Haskell Wexler)
  • 1985: Pumping Iron 2 (George Butler)
  • 1985 Let Ye Inherit (Imre Gyongyossy, Barna Kabay, atalin Petenyi)
  • 1985 Tom Goes to the Bar (Dean Prisot)
  • 1986: Home of the Brave (Laurie Anderson)
  • 1986: Menage (Bertrand Blier)
  • 1986: Parting Glances (Bill Sherwood)
  • 1986: A Room With A View (James Ivory)
  • 1987: Matewan (John Sayles)
  • 1987: Maurice (James Ivory)
  • 1987: Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (Stephen Frears)
  • 1987: Swimming to Cambodia (Jonathan Demme)
  • 1988: Miles from Home (Gary Sinise)
  • 1988: Salaam Bombay (Mira Nair)
  • 1989: Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (Paul Bartel)
  • 1990: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

    • References

    Cinecom Pictures Wikipedia
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