Thunderbird Releasing
Thunderbird Releasing |
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| Industry |
Film distributor |
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| Founded |
London, UK (2002) |
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| Headquarters |
Shoreditch, London, UK |
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Key people |
Edward Fletcher, Managing Director;
Eve Gabereau Managing Director |
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| Products |
Thunderbird Releasing |
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| Owner |
Thunderbird Entertainment |
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| Website |
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Thunderbird Releasing is a London-based all-rights film distribution company, with a division in Canada, specialising in arthouse, independent and world cinema. Established as Soda Pictures in 2002 by Eve Gabereau and Edward Fletcher, the company releases 25+ films a year and has a library of over 300 titles.
They have released such groundbreaking films as Fatih Akin’s Head-On, Tran Ahn Hung’s Norwegian Wood, Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy, Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves, Christian Petzold’s Barbara and Phoenix both starring Nina Hoss, from Saudi Arabia Wadjda, Brazilian award-winner The Second Mother, Icelandic breakout hit Rams, French thriller Disorder starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger and the Oscar-nominated documentary Finding Vivian Maier, as well as on the Canadian side Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club, Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise and the Western Slow West starring Michael Fassbender. Upcoming they have the critically acclaimed Cannes competitors Paterson and Toni Erdmann, Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion starring Cynthia Nixon and directed by Terence Davies, and the documentary David Lynch: The Art Life.
Thunderbird Releasing is part of the Thunderbird Films Group, a film and television production company based in Vancouver with additional offices in Toronto and Los Angeles and who are behind the Netflix Original series Beat Bugs and Executive Producers of the upcoming Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling.
Films
2017
2016
| Title | Directors | Cast | Theatrical Release Date |
| Paterson | Jim Jarmusch | Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani | November 25 |
| Phantom Boy (2015) |
Jean-Loup Felliciolli, Alain Gagnol |
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October 21 |
| Southside With You |
Richard Tanne |
Parker Sawyers, Tika Sumpter |
September 30 |
| The Lovers and the Despot |
Ross Adam, Robert Cannan |
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September 23 |
| The 9th Life of Louis Drax |
Alexander Aja |
Jamie Dornan, Sarah Gadon, Aaron Paul |
September 2 |
| The Childhood of A Leader (2015) |
Brady Corbet |
Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, Stacy Martin, Yolande Moreau, Robert Pattinson, Tom Sweet |
August 19 |
| Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015) |
Stig Björkman |
Ingrid Bergman |
August 12 |
| Up For Love |
Laurent Tirard |
Jean Dujardin, Virginie Efira |
August 5 |
| Remainder (2015) |
Omer Fast |
Tom Sturridge, Cush Jumbo, Ed Speleers, Arsher Ali |
June 24 |
| Long Way North (2015) |
Rémi Chayé |
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June 17 |
| Louder Than Bombs (2015) |
Joachim Trier |
Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Ryan, David Strathairn, Devin Druid |
April 22 |
| Disorder (2015) |
Alice Winocour |
Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger |
March 25 |
| The Here After (2015) |
Magnus von Horn |
Ulrik Munther |
March 11 |
| Rams (2015) |
Grímur Hakonarson |
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February 5 |
| Innocence of Memories (2015) |
Grant Gee |
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January 29 |
| Breakdown |
Jonnie Malachi |
Craig Fairbrass |
January 15 |
2015
| Title | Directors | Cast | Theatrical Release Date |
| The Forbidden Room |
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson |
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December 11 |
| Tell Spring Not To Come This Year |
Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy |
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| Zarafa (2012) |
Jean-Christophe Lie, Remi Bezancon |
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| By Our Selves |
Andrew Kötting |
Toby Jones |
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| Just Jim |
Craig Roberts |
Craig Roberts, Emile Hirsch |
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| The Second Mother | Anna Muylaert | Regina Casé | September 4 |
| National Gallery (2014) | Frederic Wiseman | | 9 January |
| The Turning (2013) | Ensemble | Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto | 6 February |
| Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014) | David Zellner | Rinko Kikuchi | 20 February |
| Difret (2014) | Zeresenay Mehari | Meron Getnet, Tizita Hagere | 6 March |
| The Face of an Angel (2014) | Michael Winterbottom | Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Cara Delevingne | 27 March |
| Altman | Ron Mann | | 3 April |
| Jauja (2014) | Lisandro Alonso | Viggo Mortensen | 10 April |
| Phoenix (2014) | Christian Petzold | Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld | 8 May |
| The Goob (2014) | Guy Myhill | Liam Walpole. Sienna Guillory, Sean Harris | 29 May |
| Shooting for Socrates (2014) | James Erskine | | 5 June |
| Natural Resistance (2014) | Jonathan Nossiter | | 19 June |
| That Sugar Film (2014) | Damon Gameau | Damon Gameau, Stephen Fry, Hugh Jackman | 26 June |
| Still the Water (2014) | Naomi Kawase | Nijirô Murakami, Jun Yoshinaga | 3 July |
| The Reunion (2013) | Anna Odell | | 10 July |
| The Wonders (2014) | Alice Rohrwacher | Alba Rohrwacher, Monica Bellucci, Sam Louwyck | 17 July |
| Gemma Bovery (2014) | Anne Fontaine | Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng | 21 August |
2014
| Title | Directors | Cast | Theatrical Release Date |
| Teenage (2013) | Matt Wolf | | 24 January |
| Journal de France (2012) | Raymond Depardon, Claudine Nougaret | | 31 January |
| The Patrol (2013) | Tom Petch | | 7 February |
| Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) | Jim Jarmusch | Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, John Hurt | 21 February |
| Half of a Yellow Sun (2013) | Biyi Bandele | Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, John Boyega | 11 April |
| Looking for Light: Jane Bown | Luke Dodd, Michael Whyte | | 25 April |
| Ilo Ilo (2013) | Anthony Chen | Yann Yann Yeo, Tian Wen Chen | 2 May |
| American Interior | Gruff Rhys | Gruff Rhys | 9 May |
| Pantani: The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist | James Erskine | | 16 May |
| Omar (2013) | Hany Abu-Assad | Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany | 30 May |
| For No Good Reason (2012) | Charlie Paul | Ralph Steadman, Johnny Depp | 30 May |
| PULP: A Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets | Florian Habicht | PULP | 6 June |
| Camille Claudel 1915 (2013) | Bruno Dumont | Juliette Binoche | 20 June |
| Finding Vivian Maier (2013) | John Maloof, Charlie Siskel | | 18 July |
| The Police Officer's Wife (2013) | Philip Gröning | Alexandra Finder, David Zimmerschied | 22 August |
| Night Moves (2013) | Kelly Reichardt | Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Peter Sarsgaard | 29 August |
| Watermark (2013) | Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky | | 5 September |
| A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013) | Ben Rivers, Ben Russell | | 12 September |
| Down by Law (R/I) (1986) | Jim Jarmusch | Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni | 12 September |
| Violette (2013) | Martin Provost | Emmanuelle Devos, Sandrine Kiberlain, Olivier Gourmet | 3 October |
| My Name is Hmmm... (2013) | Agnès b. | Douglas Gordon | 17 October |
| Sacro GRA (2013) | Gianfranco Rosi | | 7 November |
| Electricity | Bryn Higgins | Agyness Deyn, Christian Cooke, Paul Anderson | 5 December |
| Kon-Tiki (2012) | Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Joachim Rønning | 19 December |
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