History Creator / GramercyPictures

The company tended to suffer from a nasty streak of bad luck, however; while some of their films were hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie. ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics and VindicatedByCable, most of them were duds. (The one-two punch of ''Mallrats'' and [[Creator/MichaelMoore Michael Moore's]] ''Film/CanadianBacon'' nearly bankrupted them.) However, possibly due to the initial split management, they tended to have ExecutiveMeddling in spades- and when that wasn't there, ScrewedByTheNetwork was; Creator/KevinSmith said of them "they couldn't market their way out of a paper bag." Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes; 1998 saw only one success, ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', and even then it only became a cult hit when it reached video. The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram's, the liquor company that had acquired Universal in 1996, acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later spun them off to millionaire Barry Diller along with the Creator/USANetwork; he merged them and October Films into USA Films, which was then merged with Universal Focus, and became Creator/FocusFeatures). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Creator/OrionPictures; its first release in over a decade being ''Film/{{Insidious}}: Chapter 3''. Unfortunately, the critical and commercial calamity of ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'' killed the label [[HistoryRepeats a second time]]... [[EpicFail and within a year to boot]]! The brand has no future titles announced and [[http://deadline.com/2016/05/loving-peter-kujawski-focus-features-cannes-film-festival-1201756511/ the new management of Focus]] wants to steer away from genre fare. This means Universal will make ''Insidious: Chapter 4'' instead. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

* ''Film/DoubleDragon''

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* ''Film/TheManWhoWasntThere''

* ''Film/TheForest''

* ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie''

The company tended to suffer from a nasty streak of bad luck, however; while some of their films were hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie. ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics and VindicatedByCable, most of them were duds. (The one-two punch of ''Mallrats'' and [[Creator/MichaelMoore Michael Moore's]] ''Film/CanadianBacon'' nearly bankrupted them.) However, possibly due to the initial split management, they tended to have ExecutiveMeddling in spades- and when that wasn't there, ScrewedByTheNetwork was; Creator/KevinSmith said of them "they couldn't market their way out of a paper bag." Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes; 1998 saw only one success, ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', and even then it only became a cult hit when it reached video. The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram's, the liquor company that had acquired Universal in 1996, acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later spun them off to millionaire Barry Diller along with the Creator/USANetwork; he merged them and October Films into USA Films, which was then merged with Universal Focus, and became Creator/FocusFeatures). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Creator/OrionPictures; it initially seemed to be doing well, but the ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'' movie ended up being a bomb in theatres and Focus Features management has since said they're steering away from B-movies, marking the end of Gramercy for the second time. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

The company tended to suffer from a nasty streak of bad luck, however; while some of their films were hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie. ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics and VindicatedByCable, most of them were duds. (The one-two punch of ''Mallrats'' and [[Creator/MichaelMoore Michael Moore's]] ''Film/CanadianBacon'' nearly bankrupted them.) However, possibly due to the initial split management, they tended to have ExecutiveMeddling in spades- and when that wasn't there, ScrewedByTheNetwork was; Creator/KevinSmith said of them "they couldn't market their way out of a paper bag." Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes; 1998 saw only one success, ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', and even then it only became a cult hit when it reached video. The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram's, the liquor company that had acquired Universal in 1996, acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later spun them off to millionaire Barry Diller along with the Creator/USANetwork; he merged them and October Films into USA Films, which was then merged with Universal Focus, and became Creator/FocusFeatures). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Creator/OrionPictures; amongst other flicks, it's distributing the ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'' movie. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

The company tended to suffer from a nasty streak of bad luck, however; while some of their films were hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie. ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics and VindicatedByCable, most of them were duds. (The one-two punch of ''Mallrats'' and [[Creator/MichaelMoore Michael Moore's]] ''Film/CanadianBacon'' nearly bankrupted them.) However, possibly due to the initial split management, they tended to have ExecutiveMeddling in spades- and when that wasn't there, ScrewedByTheNetwork was; Creator/KevinSmith said of them "they couldn't market their way out of a paper bag." Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes; 1998 saw only one success, ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', and even then it only became a cult hit when it reached video. The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram's, the liquor company that had acquired Universal in 1996, acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later spun them off to millionaire Barry Diller along with the Creator/USANetwork; he merged them and October Films into USA Films, which was then merged with Universal Focus, and became Creator/FocusFeatures). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Orion Pictures; amongst other flicks, it's distributing the ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'' movie. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

The company tended to suffer from a nasty streak of bad luck, however; while some of their films were hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie. ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics and VindicatedByCable. (The one-two punch of ''Mallrats'' and [[Creator/MichaelMoore Michael Moore's]] ''Film/CanadianBacon'' nearly bankrupted them.) However, possibly due to the initial split management, they tended to have ExecutiveMeddling in spades- and when that wasn't there, ScrewedByTheNetwork was; Creator/KevinSmith said of them "they couldn't market their way out of a paper bag." Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes; 1998 saw only one success, ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', and even then it only became a cult hit when it reached video. The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram's, the liquor company that had acquired Universal in 1996, acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later spun them off to millionaire Barry Diller along with the Creator/USANetwork; he merged them and October Films into USA Films, which was then merged with Universal Focus, and became Creator/FocusFeatures). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Orion Pictures; amongst other flicks, it's distributing the ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'' movie. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

The company tended to suffer from a nasty streak of bad luck, however; while some of their films were hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie. ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics and VindicatedByCable. (The one-two punch of ''Mallrats'' and [[Creator/MichaelMoore Michael Moore's]] ''Film/CanadianBacon'' nearly bankrupted them.) However, possibly due to the initial split management, they tended to have ExecutiveMeddling in spades- and when that wasn't there, ScrewedByTheNetwork was; Creator/KevinSmith said of them "they couldn't market their way out of a paper bag." Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes; 1998 saw only one success, ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', and even then it only became a cult hit when it reached video. The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram's, the liquor company that had acquired Universal in 1996, acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later spun them off to millionaire Barry Diller along with the Creator/USANetwork; he merged them and October Films into USA Films, which was then merged with Universal Focus, and became Creator/FocusFeatures). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Orion Pictures; amongst other flicks, it's distributing the ''Film/RatchetAndClank'' movie. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

The company tended to suffer from a nasty streak of bad luck, however; while some of their films were hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie. ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics and VindicatedByCable. (The one-two punch of ''Mallrats'' and [[Creator/MichaelMoore Michael Moore's]] ''Film/CanadianBacon'' nearly bankrupted them.) However, possibly due to the initial split management, they tended to have ExecutiveMeddling in spades- and when that wasn't there, ScrewedByTheNetwork was; Creator/KevinSmith said of them "they couldn't market their way out of a paper bag." Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes; 1998 saw only one success, ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', and even then it only became a cult hit when it reached video. The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram's, the liquor company that had acquired Universal in 1996, acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later spun them off to millionaire Barry Diller along with the Creator/USANetwork; he kmerged them and October Films into USA Films, which was then merged with Universal Focus, and became Creator/FocusFeatures). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Orion Pictures; amongst other flicks, it's distributing the ''Film/RatchetAndClank'' movie. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

The company tended to suffer from a nasty streak of bad luck, however; while some of their films were hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie. ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics and VindicatedByCable. (The one-two punch of ''Mallrats'' and [[Creator/MichaelMoore Michael Moore's]] ''Film/CanadianBacon'' nearly bankrupted them.) However, possibly due to the initial split management, they tended to have ExecutiveMeddling in spades- and when that wasn't there, ScrewedByTheNetwork was; Creator/KevinSmith said of them "they couldn't market their way out of a paper bag." Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes; 1998 saw only one success, ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', and even then it only became a cult hit when it reached video. The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram's, the liquor company that had acquired Universal in 1996, acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later spun them off to millionaire Barry Diller along with the Creator/USANetwor; he kmerged them and October Films into USA Films, which was then merged with Universal Focus, and became Creator/FocusFeatures). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Orion Pictures; amongst other flicks, it's distributing the ''Film/RatchetAndClank'' movie. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

Gramercy Pictures was one of the 90s "indie" studios born from a larger, established studio, in this case Creator/{{Universal}}, which started the label in 1992 alongside Creator/PolyGramFilmedEntertainment, hence the name ("Gram" for [=PolyGram=] and "Ercy" for Univ''ers''al). It was [=PolyGram=]'s US distribution house and served as a dual label for Universal, concerning both "arthouse" flicks and lower-budget movies; by 1996 [=PolyGram=] bought Universal's half. Plenty of the company's films were box-office hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics. Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes with an entire ''year'' of bombs (sans ''Film/TheBigLebowski''). The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later merged them and October Films into [[Creator/USANetwork USA Films]], which was then renamed Universal Focus, and after that Creator/FocusFeatures). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Orion Pictures; amongst other flicks, it's distributing the ''Film/RatchetAndClank'' movie. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

Gramercy Pictures was one of the 90s "indie" studios born from a larger, established studio, in this case Creator/{{Universal}}, which started the label in 1992 alongside Creator/PolyGramFilmedEntertainment, hence the name ("Gram" for [=PolyGram=] and "Ercy" for Univ''ers''al). It was [=PolyGram=]'s US distribution house and served as a dual label for Universal, concerning both "arthouse" flicks and lower-budget movies; by 1996 [=PolyGram=] bought Universal's half. Plenty of the company's films were box-office hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics. Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes with an entire ''year'' of bombs (sans ''Film/TheBigLebowski''). The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later merged them and October Films into [[Creator/USANetwork USA Films]], which was then renamed Universal Focus, and after that Focus Features). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Orion Pictures; amongst other flicks, it's distributing the ''Film/RatchetAndClank'' movie. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

Gramercy Pictures was one of the 90s "indie" studios born from a larger, established studio, in this case Creator/{{Universal}}, which started the label in 1992 alongside Creator/PolyGramFilmedEntertainment, hence the name ("Gram" for [=PolyGram=] and "Ercy" for Univ''ers''al). It was [=PolyGram=]'s US distribution house and served as a dual label for Universal, concerning both "arthouse" flicks and lower-budget movies; by 1996 [=PolyGram=] bought Universal's half. Plenty of the company's films were box-office hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/DazedAndConfused'' and ''Film/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'') later became cult classics. Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes with an entire ''year'' of bombs (sans ''The Big Lebowski''). The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later merged them and October Films into [[Creator/USANetwork USA Films]], which was then renamed Universal Focus, and after that Focus Features). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Orion Pictures; amongst other flicks, it's distributing the ''Film/RatchetAndClank'' movie. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)

Gramercy Pictures was one of the 90s "indie" studios born from a larger, established studio, in this case Creator/{{Universal}}, which started the label in 1992 alongside Creator/PolyGramFilmedEntertainment, hence the name ("Gram" for [=PolyGram=] and "Ercy" for Univ''ers''al). It was [=PolyGram=]'s US distribution house and served as a dual label for Universal, concerning both "arthouse" flicks and lower-budget movies; by 1996 [=PolyGram=] bought Universal's half. Plenty of the company's films were box-office hits, and many of the ones that underperformed (ie ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' and ''Film/DazedAndConfused'') later became cult classics. Unfortunately for them, they followed cycling between box-office flops and successes with an entire ''year'' of bombs (sans ''The Big Lebowski''). The company seemed to be getting back on track with ''Film/{{Elizabeth}}'' in November of that year, but by 1999 it was too late. That year, Seagram acquired [=PolyGram=] and reduced Gramercy into an InNameOnly unit (and later merged them and October Films into [[Creator/USANetwork USA Films]], which was then renamed Universal Focus, and after that Focus Features). Unfortunately for them, they couldn't have chosen to do that at a worse time--by the time Gramercy was reduced to that status, they put their name on films such as ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', ''Film/BeingJohnMalkovich'', ''Film/NurseBetty'', ''Film/PitchBlack'', and many more. Many of these were box-office hits that Gramercy would miss. The company was recently revived as Focus Features' answer to the recently-revived Orion Pictures. (See [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Film}} here]] for more examples of Gramercy screwing up.)