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Trimark Pictures

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Trimark Pictures
FormerlyVidmark Entertainment (1984–1989)
TypeSubsidiary
IndustryFilm
FoundedAugust 1984; 38 years ago (1984-08) (as Vidmark Entertainment)
June 23, 1989; 33 years ago (1989-06-23) (as Trimark Pictures)
FounderMark Amin
DefunctMarch 12, 2001; 22 years ago (2001-03-12)
FateMerged with Lionsgate
SuccessorLionsgate Films
(Lionsgate Entertainment)
HeadquartersSanta Monica, California,
United States
Key people
Mark Amin (Chairman & CEO)
ProductsMotion Pictures
ParentVidmark, Inc. (1985–1995)
Trimark Holdings (1995–2000)
Lionsgate (2000–2001)
DivisionsTrimark Interactive[1]
Trimark Television
Kidmark Entertainment
Trimark Home Video
SubsidiariesCinemaNow (formerly)
Trimark Ultra Sports

Trimark Pictures was an American[1] production company that specialized in the production and distribution of television and home video motion pictures.[2] The company was formed in 1984 by Mark Amin as Vidmark Entertainment with Vidmark Inc. (later Trimark Holdings Inc.) established as the holding company.[3] As a small studio, Trimark produced and released theatrical, independent, television and home video motion pictures. The logo features a triangle with a profile of a tiger's head.

Among the company's many releases are Peter Jackson's 1992 film Dead Alive, which they chose to release theatrically due to Jackson's possessing a following.[4] They are well known for releasing films considered to be controversial for the time period, as in the case with the 1999 film Better Than Chocolate, as some newspapers refused to carry advertisements for the film that featured the word "lesbian" as part of a critic blurb.[5]

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Television

Television

Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports.

Home video

Home video

Home video is recorded media sold or rented for home viewing. The term originates from the VHS and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats such as DVD, Blu-ray and streaming media. In a different usage, "home video" refers to amateur video recordings, also known as home movies.

Mark Amin

Mark Amin

Mohammed Mark Amin is an Iranian American motion picture producer, distributor and writer who has been working in independent and mainstream cinema for more than two decades. Some of Amin's film credits include The Prince and Me (2004), starring Julia Stiles, 1997's Eve's Bayou, starring Samuel L. Jackson, and 2002's Frida, a biopic which Amin executive produced.

Independent film

Independent film

An independent film, independent movie, indie film, or indie movie is a feature film or short film that is produced outside the major film studio system, in addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies. Independent films are sometimes distinguishable by their content and style and the way in which the filmmakers' personal artistic vision is realized. Usually, but not always, independent films are made with considerably lower budgets than major studio films.

Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the director, writer and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. Other notable films include the critically lauded drama Heavenly Creatures (1994), the horror comedy The Frighteners (1996), the epic monster remake film King Kong (2005), the World War I documentary film They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) and the documentary The Beatles: Get Back (2021). He is the fourth-highest-grossing film director of all-time, his films having made over $6.5 billion worldwide.

Braindead (film)

Braindead (film)

Braindead is a 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy Splatter film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Jackson, along with Fran Walsh and Stephen Sinclair. It stars Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody and Ian Watkin. The plot follows Lionel, a young man living in South Wellington with his strict mother Vera. After Lionel becomes romantically entangled with a girl named Paquita, Vera is bitten by a hybrid rat-monkey creature and begins to transform into a zombie, while also infecting swathes of the city's populace.

Better Than Chocolate

Better Than Chocolate

Better Than Chocolate is a 1999 Canadian romantic comedy film shot in Vancouver and directed by Anne Wheeler.

Background

Vidmark Entertainment was formed in August 1984 and began operating as a domestic home video distributor in early 1985. In April 1986, Vidmark Entertainment signed a deal with ABC Video Enterprises, to distribute six titles on videocassette.[6] In 1987, Vidmark began distributing and sub-licensing motion pictures for international distribution. That year, the company entered theatrical distribution and production with the acquisition of four films and completion of its first in-house productions, namely American Gothic, That's Adequate, Silent Memory and Born of Fire.[7]

Vidmark Entertainment entered motion picture production in 1988 with the feature Demonwarp.

Trimark picked up its first film, Warlock, a 1989 film starring Julian Sands which was a major theatrical hit with fans of such films. Trimark eventually made the sequel Warlock: The Armageddon in 1993. Trimark also saw success in other familiar film series the studio produced and distributed. Leprechaun, released in 1993 starring a young Jennifer Aniston and Warwick Davis as the sinister leprechaun grossed over $10 million during its theatrical run. One theatrical sequel and four direct to video sequels eventually followed. Other Trimark productions included The Dentist, a major hit on HBO, Return of the Living Dead III and Pinocchio's Revenge. Trimark also made the dramatic Eve's Bayou, starring Samuel L. Jackson, which received critical acclaim. Trimark also released the miniseries Storm of the Century on home video. On June 29, 1990, Vidmark Entertainment began trading on NASDAQ with the ticker symbol VDMK.[8]

On December 31, 1991, Vidmark acquired International Broadcast Systems, Ltd. for $1.6 million and renamed the company as Trimark Television. In June 1992, Vidmark, Inc. changed its name to Trimark Holdings, Inc. to reflect Trimark's diversification of its distribution streams. In March 1993, the company formed Trimark Interactive to expand into the emerging market for interactive software and multimedia. Trimark Interactive's assets were sold to Graphix Zone in March 1997.

In 2000, Trimark merged with Lions Gate Entertainment in which Amin became the single largest shareholder. In 2001, Mark Amin founded Sobini Films, and is its CEO.

In late 2017, Lionsgate launched a channel for Roku streaming players using the Vidmark name and a modified variant of their late 1980s logo, with Lionsgate-owned movies, including some from the original Vidmark and Trimark, amongst the selection.[9]

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American Gothic (1988 film)

American Gothic (1988 film)

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That's Adequate

That's Adequate

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Julian Sands

Julian Sands

Julian Sands is an English actor. He is known for his roles in films such as The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, Warlock, Arachnophobia, Boxing Helena, and Leaving Las Vegas. On television, he is known for playing Vladimir Bierko in 24, Jor-El in Smallville, and Yulish Rabitov in Banshee.

Leprechaun (film)

Leprechaun (film)

Leprechaun is a 1993 American comedy horror film written and directed by Mark Jones, and starring Warwick Davis in the title role, with Jennifer Aniston in her film debut. Davis plays a vengeful leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his pot of gold. As he hunts them, they attempt to locate his gold to mollify him.

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress and producer. She rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green on the television sitcom Friends from 1994 to 2004, for which she earned Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards. Since her career progressed in the 1990s, she has become one of the world's highest-paid actresses.

HBO

HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American pay television network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent subsidiary Home Box Office, Inc., itself a unit owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based at Warner Bros. Discovery's corporate headquarters inside 30 Hudson Yards in Manhattan's West Side district. Programming featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy and concert specials, and periodic interstitial programs.

Pinocchio's Revenge

Pinocchio's Revenge

Pinocchio's Revenge is a 1996 American psychological slasher film written and directed by Kevin S. Tenney and distributed by Trimark Pictures. It stars Rosalind Allen and Todd Allen and was released direct-to-video. The film's plot concerns a lawyer who brings home a wooden puppet that was found buried with a boy supposedly killed by his father. Her 8-year-old daughter Zoe sees the doll and takes it as her own. Soon accidents start happening and Jennifer struggles to find the cause as she begins to question her daughter's wellbeing and whether or not there may be something sinister to the doll. The movie is closer "to Don Mancini's original intent for Child's Play".

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou is a 1997 American Southern Gothic drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons, who made her directorial debut with this film. Samuel L. Jackson served as a producer, and starred in the film with Lisa Nicole Carson, Jurnee Smollett, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan, Meagan Good and Diahann Carroll. The film premiered at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in theaters on November 7, 1997. The film grossed $14 million domestically on a budget of $4 million, making it the most commercially successful independent film of 1997.

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American actor and producer. One of the most widely recognized actors of his generation, the films in which he has appeared have collectively grossed over $27 billion worldwide, making him the second highest-grossing actor of all time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gave him an Academy Honorary Award in 2022 as "A cultural icon whose dynamic work has resonated across genres and generations and audiences worldwide".

Miniseries

Miniseries

A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Many miniseries programs can also be referred to and can also be shown as a television film that is usually shown with only a few limited number of episodes too as well. "Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. As of 2021, the popularity of miniseries format has increased in both streaming services and broadcast television.

Storm of the Century

Storm of the Century

Storm of the Century, alternatively known as Stephen King's Storm of the Century, is a 1999 American horror television miniseries written by Stephen King and directed by Craig R. Baxley. Unlike many other television adaptations of King's work, Storm of the Century was not based on a novel but was an original screenplay written by the author and directly produced for television. King described the screenplay as a "novel for television." The screenplay was published as a mass-market book in February 1999 prior to the TV broadcast of the mini-series.

List of distributed movies

Theatrical

Release Date Title Notes
May 12, 1989 Going Overboard
September 24, 1989 A Fool and His Money
November 17, 1989 High Stakes
July 14, 1990 Solar Crisis
September 29, 1990 Backstreet Dreams
November 2, 1990 Frankenstein Unbound Co-production, Co-distributor and Co-financer with 20th Century Fox
January 11, 1991 Warlock Originally released in 1989. Co-distributed with New World Pictures.
May 1991 Servants of Twilight
June 14, 1991 Kickboxer 2 theatrical distribution only
October 4, 1991 Whore
October 18, 1991 Dolly Dearest
November 15, 1991 And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird
January 31, 1992 Into the Sun
May 20, 1992 The Psychic USA distribution only
January 8, 1993 Leprechaun
February 12, 1993 Dead Alive USA distribution only
September 24, 1993 Warlock: The Armageddon
October 8, 1993 Deadfall
October 29, 1993 Return of the Living Dead III limited release
November 12, 1993 Philadelphia Experiment II
November 24, 1993 Cyborg 2
January 14, 1994 Death Wish V: The Face of Death
February 25, 1994 Silent Tongue
April 8, 1994 Leprechaun 2
May 11, 1994 Return to Two Moon Junction
May 13, 1994 Trading Mom
September 21, 1994 Criminal Passion
October 28, 1994 Frank and Jesse
November 23, 1994 Love and a .45
December 5, 1994 The Stoned Age
December 9, 1994 Federal Hill
January 10, 1995 Payback
January 19, 1995 Night of the Running Man
April 21, 1995 Swimming with Sharks
June 27, 1995 Heatseeker
August 11, 1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court North American theatrical distribution only; produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Tapestry Films; handled international and North American home video rights
September 8, 1995 Separate Lives USA distribution only
October 6, 1995 Kicking and Screaming
October 25, 1995 The Doom Generation USA distribution only
February 10, 1996 Evolver co-production with A Band Apart
August 1996 Crimetime
October 18, 1996 The Dentist
January 31, 1997 Meet Wally Sparks
February 28, 1997 Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
April 25, 1997 Nothing Personal USA distribution only
May 2, 1997 Ripe
May 16, 1997 Sprung
July 25, 1997 Box of Moonlight
September 10, 1997 First Love, Last Rites
November 7, 1997 Eve's Bayou
January 16, 1998 Star Kid
January 24, 1998 The Curve
March 13, 1998 Chairman of the Board
April 17, 1998 Chinese Box
July 24, 1998 Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
August 21, 1998 Carnival of Souls limited release
September 4, 1998 Phoenix produced by Lakeshore Entertainment
September 11, 1998 Cube
September 18, 1998 Trance / The Eternal retitled for DVD release
October 7, 1998 Slam
December 11, 1998 The Dentist 2
December 30, 1998 Another Day in Paradise
May 28, 1999 Twice Upon a Yesterday
July 18, 1999 Flypaper
August 13, 1999 Better Than Chocolate
September 17, 1999 Romance
October 15, 1999 Joe the King
February 18, 2000 Beautiful People
April 21, 2000 The Last September
May 12, 2000 Held Up
July 11, 2000 History Is Made at Night
October 12, 2000 Faust: Love of the Damned
January 2001 Skipped Parts

Direct-to-video

Release Date Title Notes
March 18, 1988 Demonwarp
November 30, 1988 Body Beat
February 9, 1990 The Sleeping Car
June 6, 1990 The Amityville Curse
September 15, 1990 Spirits distribution only; produced by Cinema Group
September 26, 1990 Mob Boss produced by American Independent
April 17, 1991 Black Magic Woman
December 1, 1991 All-American Murder
September 27, 1993 Thunder in Paradise
November 2, 1994 Dangerous Touch
November 9, 1994 Hong Kong '97
June 27, 1995 Leprechaun 3
March 12, 1996 True Crime
June 18, 1996 Two Guys Talkin' About Girls
September 3, 1996 Sometimes They Come Back... Again
October 7, 1996 Pinocchio's Revenge
February 25, 1997 Leprechaun 4: In Space
October 29, 1997 Trucks
July 28, 1998 A Kid in Aladdin's Palace
April 27, 1999 King Cobra
September 7, 1999 Sometimes They Come Back... for More
October 12, 1999 Warlock III: The End of Innocence
December 27, 1999 Turbulence 2: Fear of Flying
March 2, 2000 Cut
March 28, 2000 Leprechaun in the Hood
May 23, 2000 Cord
October 17, 2000 Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the 13th
December 5, 2000 The Sr. Francisville Experiment
March 13, 2001 Killer Bud
May 13, 2001 Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
June 26, 2001 Blood Surf

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A Fool and His Money (1989 film)

A Fool and His Money (1989 film)

A Fool and His Money is a 1989 American comedy film directed by Daniel Adams and written by Michael Mailer and Adams. The film stars Jonathan Penner, George Plimpton, Wendy Adams, Gerald Orange, Chuck Pfiefer and Sandra Bullock in her first leading role. The movie was released on September 24, 1989.

High Stakes (1989 film)

High Stakes (1989 film)

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Backstreet Dreams (film)

Backstreet Dreams (film)

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Frankenstein Unbound

Frankenstein Unbound

Frankenstein Unbound is a 1990 science fiction horror film based on Brian Aldiss' 1973 novel of the same name, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda, Jason Patric, and Nick Brimble. The film is co-written and directed by Roger Corman, returning to the director's chair after a hiatus of almost twenty years. This is his final directorial effort to date, for which he was paid $1 million to direct.

Kickboxer 2

Kickboxer 2

Kickboxer 2 is a 1991 American martial arts film directed by Albert Pyun and written by David S. Goyer. The film is the second entry into the Kickboxer film series, and stars Sasha Mitchell in the role of David Sloan, the brother of Kickboxer's lead character Kurt, portrayed by Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Dolly Dearest

Dolly Dearest

Dolly Dearest is a 1991 American supernatural horror slasher film starring Denise Crosby, Rip Torn, Sam Bottoms, Chris Demetral, Candace Hutson and Lupe Ontiveros. The film was initially supposed to be direct-to-video, but it did get a limited theatrical release in the Midwestern United States. Despite being critically panned, it has been sometimes credited as being the inspiration for the 2014 film Annabelle.

And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird

And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird

And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird is a 1991 science fiction family film written and directed by Tony Cookson; foreign language releases were titled RoboDad.

Into the Sun (1992 film)

Into the Sun (1992 film)

Into the Sun is a 1992 action comedy film involving a pilot and actor thrown into a dangerous situation. The film stars Michael Paré and Anthony Michael Hall.

Leprechaun (film)

Leprechaun (film)

Leprechaun is a 1993 American comedy horror film written and directed by Mark Jones, and starring Warwick Davis in the title role, with Jennifer Aniston in her film debut. Davis plays a vengeful leprechaun who believes a family has stolen his pot of gold. As he hunts them, they attempt to locate his gold to mollify him.

Braindead (film)

Braindead (film)

Braindead is a 1992 New Zealand zombie comedy Splatter film directed by Peter Jackson, produced by Jim Booth, and written by Jackson, along with Fran Walsh and Stephen Sinclair. It stars Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody and Ian Watkin. The plot follows Lionel, a young man living in South Wellington with his strict mother Vera. After Lionel becomes romantically entangled with a girl named Paquita, Vera is bitten by a hybrid rat-monkey creature and begins to transform into a zombie, while also infecting swathes of the city's populace.

Deadfall (1993 film)

Deadfall (1993 film)

Deadfall is a 1993 crime drama film directed by Christopher Coppola. Coppola co-wrote the script with Nick Vallelonga. The film stars Michael Biehn, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Trigger, Charlie Sheen, James Coburn, and Peter Fonda. It is also the prime influence on the song "Deadfall" written by the American hardcore punk band Snot. A prequel/sequel, Arsenal, starring Nicolas Cage as his character Eddie King, was released in 2017.

Source: "Trimark Pictures", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 16th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimark_Pictures.

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