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In 1993, the company expanded towards North American distribution through its First Look Pictures subsidiary. Dalloway, The Secret of Roan Inish, Waking Ned Devine, and Titus. įilms ranged from genre titles such as Blue Tiger (starring Virginia Madsen) and No Way Back (starring New Zealand actor Russell Crowe) to art house films, including Antonia's Line, Mrs. The company was the original international home video distributor for the show Tales from the Darkside, until it was sold off to Lorimar-Telepictures in late November 1987 after Lorimar International president Jeff Schlesinger saw all episodes of the show that was well-suited and combined to become eight ninety-minute episodes from the show. In 1987, while other sales companies were gaining production outfits, the Littles stated that they would avoid production, so Overseas Filmgroup had set up a company policy stating that they would acquire new films via distribution advances, and the three new movies, namely those directed by Roland Emmerich, will be offered to various Mifed buyers. Overseas Filmgroup decided to pay $3 million in order to set up operations for different areas worldwide such as Spain, Arizona, Texas, Taiwan, Italy, southern California and Colorado in the mid-1980s, and by 1986, the company became active, setting up a number of domestic theatrical, home video and television syndication sales with New World Pictures and other distributors. From the company's foundation, it competed with fellow, also-defunct film producers J&M Film Sales (later J&M Entertainment), Manson International and Producers Sales Organization as the most successful company with global film sales. Overseas Filmgroup expanded towards film financing to give the company greater control over its output.

In 1980, Robert and Ellen Little founded Overseas Filmgroup as a film sales company for foreign markets. Reorganized into Millennium Entertainment in 2010įirst Look Studios was an American independent film distributor, that specialized in home video releases of films and television series.JSTOR ( January 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "First Look Studios" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.