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Foundation date 1 january 1982
Artisan Entertainment Inc. was a privately held independent American movie studio until it was purchased by Canadian studio Lions Gate Entertainment in 2003. At the time of its acquisition, Artisan had a library of thousands of films developed through acquisition, original production, and production and distribution agreements. Mark Amin funded Artisan and sale was rumored to be backed by Keyur Patel, a media investor in formation of new studio. Its headquarters and private screening room were located in Santa Monica, California. It also had an office in TriBeCa, Lower Manhattan, New York City.
The company owned the home video rights to the film libraries of Republic Pictures, ITC Entertainment, EMI Films, Gladden Entertainment, Hemdale Film Corporation and Carolco Pictures before it went defunct.
Artisan's releases included Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Grizzly Falls, Killing Zoe, National Lampoon's Van Wilder, The Blair Witch Project, Novocaine, and Startup.
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(2000)Filmography of Artisan Entertainment (170 films)
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Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001)
, 1hOrigin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Jeu, Films about magic and magicians, Christmas films, Films about toys, Children's films
Actors Kelly Sheridan, Tim Curry, Michèle Lituac, Benoît Allemane, Kirby Morrow, Chantal Strand
The frame story is of Barbie's young friend, Kelly, having trouble performing a ballet move and her fears of going onstage. Barbie tells her a story of The Nutcracker to cheer her up.
'R Xmas (2001)
, 1h25Directed by Abel Ferrara
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Christmas films
Actors Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato, Ice-T, Victor Argo, Andrew Fiscella, Meredith Ostrom
A New York drug dealer is kidnapped and his wife must come up with the money and drugs to free him from his kidnappers before Christmas.
Say Nothing (2001)
, 1h34Directed by Allan Moyle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Romance
Actors William Baldwin, Nastassja Kinski, Hart Bochner
Startup.com (2001)
, 1h47Directed by Jehane Noujaim, Chris Hegedus
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about computing, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about technology, Documentaire sur le monde du travail
Kaleil Isaza Tuzman et Tom Herman ont un rêve depuis qu'ils sont devenus amis à l'âge de quinze ans : s'enrichir en développant leur propre société dot com, dans un aspect de l'interface informatique. Aujourd'hui, à la fin de la vingtaine, ils ont eu l'idée qu'ils pensaient faire leur fortune, à savoir, comme Tom l'appelle, des " contraventions de stationnement " : l'entreprise sera l'interface en ligne de perception des recettes pour les administrations municipales. GovWorks.com a vu le jour en mai 1999 avec seulement une idée. Le processus de construction de l'entreprise se concentre sur l'obtention de capital-risque basé uniquement sur l'idée, avec la mécanique réelle du site Web apparemment presque une pensée après coup.
The Pool (2001)
, 1h29Origin German
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors James McAvoy, Isla Fisher, Thorsten Grasshoff, Kristen Miller, John Hopkins, Cordelia Bugeja
Pour fêter la fin de l'année scolaire et des études, une grande fête est organisée par les étudiants dans la plus grande piscine de Prague. Seule ombre au tableau, un tueur en série va s'inviter à la fête.Le massacre va pouvoir commencer.
Ticker (2001)
, 1h35Directed by Albert Pyun
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Dennis Hopper, Steven Seagal, Ice-T, Kevin Gage, Tom Sizemore, Jaime Pressly
The film begins with a SWAT team going into the house of a United States Senator. Someone is holding the Senator hostage. The bomb squad arrives in a helicopter and they rappel down into the house. Frank Glass (Seagal) is in charge of the bomb squad. Glass finds a bomb in the basement and works to disarm it while the SWAT team is in a shootout with some of the hostage takers.
Double Bang (2001)
, 1h39Directed by Heywood Gould
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors William Baldwin, Jon Seda, Adam Baldwin, Elizabeth Mitchell, Sofia Milos, Richard Portnow
A policeman's corrupt partner is killed by a hit man. The policeman gets involved with the criminal gang responsible for the killing in order to seek revenge and to 'bring down' the gang's boss.
Blue Hill Avenue (2001)
, 2hDirected by Craig Ross, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Allen Payne, Angelle Brooks, Michael Taliferro, Andrew Divoff, Clarence Williams III, Aaron D. Spears
Four friends—Tristan (the leader), Simon (the right-hand man), E-Bone (the hot head) and Money (the mediator)--are street smart kids growing up in the tough Roxbury section of Boston in the 1980s. Starting out as small-time dope dealers on Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, they eventually go to work for Benny, a major player in the Boston crime scene. As the four friends grow up and become the biggest dealers in the city, things become increasingly heated: Tristan's wife wants him to leave the business because she's pregnant, Tristan finds out his sister is hooked on drugs and is alienated from his family, Simon becomes obsessed with a near-death experience and expects to die, cops dog their tracks trying every trick in and out of the book to catch them, and Benny, their main supplier, wants them out of the business for good. Worse, it becomes clear one of the four is trying to sell the others out to the cops. In the end, Tristan faces Benny down, after losing his friends, and is able to get out of the business—and the life—for good.
Brooklyn Babylon (2001)
, 1h29Directed by Marc Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Hip hop films, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Black Thought, David Vadim, Carol Woods, Olek Krupa, Vernon Campbell
In Brooklyn's Crown Heights, where West Indian Rastafarians and other Blacks live next door to the Jewish Chabad community, ethnic tensions are high. After a minor car crash, the headstrong Judah and other Jewish men who patrol the neighborhood as vigilantes confront Scratch, a mouthy African-American hustler. Passengers in the cars make eye contact: Sol, a hip-hop musician, songwriter, and artist (Scratch's friend), and Sara, who is betrothed to Judah but wants to go to college and be on her own. Over the next few days, while Scratch and Judah's conflict escalates in violence, Sara and Sol connect in ways that echo Sheba and Solomon.
Good Advice (2001)
, 1h33Directed by Steve Rash
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Charlie Sheen, Angie Harmon, Denise Richards, Jon Lovitz, Rosanna Arquette, Meredith Salenger
Charlie Sheen plays Ryan Turner, a hotshot broker living an upscale life in New York City with his shallow girlfriend Cindy Styne (Denise Richards). One morning, he is playing golf with the owner of one of the biggest newspaper publishers of New York. He tells Ryan of a huge merger between his company, Simpson Inc., and a large drug corporation. Ryan, ecstatic that this could be his big break, calls all his clients and informs them of the huge deal that is going to happen and they all place large amounts of money into the merger. However, the next day, Simpson reveals that there is not going to be a merger. Ryan loses most of his own, and much of his clients' money in light of the news. He storms over to Simpson's office, and Simpson tells Ryan that he personally screwed him over because Ryan was sleeping with his wife. Ryan, now near bankrupt, sells his possessions and moves in with his girlfriend, Cindy. Ryan tries to get another job at another brokerage, but his license is revoked. Devastated, he loafs around, until Cindy tells him that she is leaving for Brazil with another man.
Made (2001)
, 1h35Directed by Jon Favreau
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Actors Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn, Peter Falk, Sean Combs, Jonathan Silverman, Famke Janssen
Bobby has ties to the local mafia boss, Max, but works as an honest mason for Max's construction projects. He fights in amateur boxing matches on the side, but his career is lackluster (five wins, five losses, one draw). Struggling to support his stripper girlfriend Jessica and her daughter Chloe, Bobby decides to do a mafia job for Max. Against his better judgment, he brings along his ne'er-do-well friend Ricky.
Nobody's Baby (2001)
, 1h48Directed by David Seltzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Skeet Ulrich, Gary Oldman, Radha Mitchell, Ed O'Neill, Mary Steenburgen, Caroline Aaron
In this comedy, Billy Raedeen (Skeet Ulrich) escapes the law after being convicted with his partner in crime Buford Bill (Gary Oldman). On his way to Utah, Billy rescues a baby from an auto wreck and decides to keep it though he knows next to nothing about caring for an infant. He gets help from diner waitress Shauna Louise (Radha Mitchell) and her neighbor Estelle (Mary Steenburgen). When Buford tracks Billy down, he sees the baby as a monetary potential. However, Billy and Shauna Louise have grown attached to the child and they aren't willing to give her up.
Novocaine (2001)
, 1h35Directed by David Atkins
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Steve Martin, Chelcie Ross, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern, Lynne Thigpen, Elias Koteas
Generally, the film is a dark and quirky "tragicomedy". The "everyman" protagonist, Dr. Frank Sangster (Steve Martin), is a dentist with a fairly pleasant but rather innocuous, ordinary and uneventful life. But all of this gets derailed, and Frank's life descends into an increasingly complex mess, from the minute a beautiful and seductive new patient named Susan Ivey (Helena Bonham Carter) comes to him, seeking a root canal and a little pain relief...
Soul Survivors (2001)
, 1h24Directed by Stephen Carpenter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Ghost films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Wes Bentley, Luke Wilson, Angela Featherstone
Cassie and Sean, as well as ex-boyfriend Matt and good friend Annabel, go to a club situated in an old church. There Cassie sees a man with a clear, plastic mask (Carl Paoli) and an imposing man with a scarred face (Ken Moreno). Deathmask tries to grab her on the dance floor, but she pushes him away and steps outside the club with Sean.
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about education, Films about school violence
Actors Treat Williams, Angie Everhart, Patrick Kilpatrick, Bill Nunn, Tim Abell, J. Don Ferguson
Karl Thomasson (Williams), an ex-Special Forces soldier and retired mercenary, is now working as a police detective. One day, he is approached by his old army buddy Teague who gives him a mission: working undercover at a military school where Ted, Teague's nephew, is one of the cadets. Teague believes that the cadets and the student faculty are part of a white supremacist cult being run at the school. Karl accepts the mission and begins working as a history teacher at the school, seeking to expose and eradicate the cult.