First Run Features folded into Icarus Films

Interesting tidbit from a press release I received today:

Seymour Wishman, President of First Run Features, and Jonathan Miller, President of First Run/Icarus Films, announced today that First Run Features has sold its interest in First Run/Icarus Films back to the company.

The result of this transaction is that First Run/Icarus Films is now wholly owned by Jonathan Miller, who will continue as President of the company.

Additionally, First Run/Icarus Films will change its name to Icarus Films, as of June 1, 2008.

(Some background:
First Run/Icarus Films was formed in 1987 when Icarus Films (founded in
1978) and First Run Features merged their non-theatrical divisions to create a new company to serve the non-theatrical marketplace.

Founded in 1979, First Run Features is a leading distributor of fiction and documentary films, with a library of approximately 450 titles.  First Run releases between 10 and 15 films annually in theatres, and around 50 new films per year on DVD. Recent releases have included Michael Apted’s 49 UP, Daniel Karslake’s FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO and Oren Jacoby’s CONSTANTINE’S SWORD.)

Comments

[JM]

you have misread the press release. try again.

[Craig Phillips]

Thanks -- I assume you meant my headline was slightly off, since the posting itself consisted ONLY of the press release, so if there was anything else off you can blame the people who wrote the press release, not me. But the headline was basically missing a word so I rewrote it. Thanks. In the future, what's more helpful than being coy is to specify the correction. Cheers.