Winchester Films
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Winchester Films was a British production company. It was started in March 1993 and was listed on the Alternative Investment Market
Alternative Investment Market
AIM is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller companies to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable to the main market....

 to raise the capital needed to build an effective portfolio of films and TV programmes. In the late 1990s and the early part of the 21st Century, Winchester Films acquired produced many British films and acquired distribution rights to films from other countries. It also expanding into the US, setting up an office in Los Angeles in order to make connections with the Hollywood crowd. This led to Winchester Films being granted distribution rights to Heartbreakers (the UK's largest distribution deal - $53 million).

In July 2003, the company acquired Cobalt Media who added their portfolio to that of Winchester's. In March 2004, the company was taken over by ContentFilms Inc and the name was officially changed from Winchester Films to ContentFilm. ContentFilm is listed on the AIM market in London.

Winchester Films produced

  • Tales Not Told (2005)
  • The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
    The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course is a 2002 Australian comedy-adventure film based on the nature documentary series The Crocodile Hunter, starring Steve Irwin and his wife Terri Irwin. The Irwins play themselves filming an episode of The Crocodile Hunter while trying to protect a crocodile....

     (2002)
  • One Night (2002)
  • Last Orders
    Last Orders (film)
    Last Orders is a 2001 British/German drama film written and directed by Fred Schepisi. The screenplay is based on the 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel of the same title by Graham Swift.-Synopsis:...

     (2001)
  • Another Life
    Another Life
    Another Life is an American television soap opera produced and broadcast by the Christian Broadcasting Network from June 1, 1981 to October 5, 1984...

     (2001)
  • Wild About Harry
    Wild About Harry
    Wild About Harry is a comedy album by The Bob and Tom Show, which was first released in November 2003. It is a two-disc set which represents original material recorded during their syndicated, daily radio show and other studio numbers which had not been previously presented on air...

     (2000)
  • Greenfingers
    Greenfingers
    Greenfingers is a 2000 British comedy film directed and written by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on a true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England.-Cast:...

     (2000)
  • Throw Down
    Throw Down
    Throw Down is a 2004 Hong Kong film directed by Johnnie To. Director To dedicated the film, one of his most personal films to date, to the late Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. The film stars Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying and Tony Leung Ka-Fai...

     (2000)
  • Lighthouse (film)
    Lighthouse (film)
    Lighthouse is a 2000 British horror film directed by . The film follows survivors of a shipwreck being preyed on by an escaped psychotic convict who beheads his victims...

     (2000)
  • Captain Jack
    Captain Jack (film)
    Captain Jack is a British comedy film released on video by Kosch Vision in 1999.-Plot:Captain Jack stars Bob Hoskins as a rebellious captain of a small Whitby boat who is determined to flout petty maritime bureaucracy...

     (1999)
  • The Sea Change
    The Sea Change
    The Sea Change is a 1998 British-Spanish comedy film directed by Michael Bray and starring Maryam d'Abo, Sean Chapman and Ray Winstone. A workaholic British banker neglects his girlfriend...

     (1998)
  • Shooting Fish
    Shooting Fish
    Shooting Fish is a 1997 British film co-written by Richard Holmes and Stefan Schwartz. Holmes produced and Schwartz directed. It co-starred Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend as two con men with Kate Beckinsale as their unwilling assistant. It was produced by Winchester Films and partly funded by...

     (1997)
  • Clockwork Mice
    Clockwork Mice
    Clockwork Mice is a 1995 British drama film directed by Vadim Jean and starring Ian Hart, Catherine Russell and James Bolam.-Cast:* Ian Hart ... Steve* Catherine Russell ... Polly* Rúaidhrí Conroy ... Conrad* Art Malik ... Laney...

     (1995)

Distributed films

  • Shade
    Shade
    Shade is the blocking of sunlight by any object, and also the shadow created by that object. Shade also consists of the colors grey, black, white, etc...

     (2003)
  • Slap Her... She's French
    Slap Her... She's French
    Slap Her… She's French, shown in the United States as She Gets What She Wants, is a 2002 Winchester Films teen comedy, directed by Melanie Mayron and starring Piper Perabo.-Plot:...

     (2002)
  • Heartbreakers (2001)
  • Soul Assassin (2001)
  • Greenfingers
    Greenfingers
    Greenfingers is a 2000 British comedy film directed and written by Joel Hershman. It is loosely based on a true story about the award-winning prisoners of HMP Leyhill, a minimum-security prison in the Cotswolds, England.-Cast:...

     (2000)
  • Honest (2000)
  • Palmer's Pick Up (1999)
  • Vol-au-vent
    Vol-au-vent
    A vol-au-vent is a small hollow case of puff pastry. A round opening is cut in the top and the pastry cut out for the opening should be replaced as a lid after the case is filled...

    (1996)
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