Open Road Films
is a distribution label that was created in 2011 as a joint venture between theatre companies AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas as a way to fill some of their many screens (though they do also distribute to other chains). Distributing mostly genre fare, nearly all of their titles are pickups/acquisitions that are made independently or were dropped by other studios but unlike most studios, do not produce projects in-house. The company also has deals with Universal (DVD/Blu Ray/on demand) and Showtime (pay cable). The studio was sold to Tang Media Partners in 2017, although it retained a marketing partnership with its original owners.
In October 2017, the studio was quietly merged with IM Global and renamed to Global Road Entertainment, which later declared bankruptcy after a slate of bombs (Midnight Sun, Show Dogs, Hotel Artemis and A-X-L). After being purchased by Raven Capital Management, the Open Road brand was revived and began releasing new films in late 2020.
Films distributed by Open Road include:
- Killer Elite (2011)
- The Grey (2012)
- Silent House (2012)
- Lockout (2012) (co-distributed with FilmDistrict)
- Hit And Run (2012)
- End of Watch (2012)
- Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (2012)
- Red Dawn (2012) (co-distributed with FilmDistrict, picked up from MGM)
- A Haunted House (2013 and 2014 sequel)
- Side Effects (2013)
- The Host (2013)
- Jobs (2013)
- Machete Kills (2013)
- The Nut Job (2014)
- Sabotage (2014)
- Chef (2014)
- Nightcrawler (2014)
- Rosewater (2014)
- The Loft (2015)
- The Gunman (2015)
- Little Boy (2015)
- Dope (2015)
- Rock the Kasbah (2015)
- Spotlight (2015)
- Triple 9 (2016)
- Snowden (2016)
- Max Steel (2016)
- Sleepless (2017)
- Before I Fall (2017)
- Spark (2017)
- The Promise (2017)
- Marshall (2017)
- Midnight Sun (2018)
- Show Dogs (2018)
- Hotel Artemis (2018)
- A-X-L (2018)
- Boarding School (2018)
- After We Collided (2020)
- Memory (2022)
- Marlowe (2022)
