Freestyle Releasing, LLC is an independent film distributor based in

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, founded in 2004, specializing in releasing films theatrically. Unlike most distributors, Freestyle Releasing does not put up any prints and advertising money for its releases, leaving advertising costs to production companies.

History

Freestyle Releasing was founded in 2004 by Susan Jackson, Mark Borde and Mike Doban, formerly at United Artists Theaters. By January 2006, Jackson started the DVD label Freestyle Home Entertainment as an adjunct for additional leeway in its deal making. The company booked ''

Winter Passing ''Winter Passing'' is a 2005 American comedy-drama film directed by playwright Adam Rapp and starring Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Amelia Warner, Amy Madigan, and Dallas Roberts. Rapp's directorial debut, the film premiered at the ...

'' and '' Find Me Guilty'' for Yari Film Group in 2006. Jackson and Borde in 2010 formed Freestyle Digital Media, a film aggregator for the video on demand market. By May 2011, Doban left to be chief operating officer at Sycamore Entertainment Group, a film prints and advertising (P&A) financing firm. Jackson died in October 2014. In October 2015

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acquired Freestyle for an undisclosed amount "said to be sealed for high-eight figures".

Units

* Freestyle Digital Media, founded in 2010, a film aggregator for the

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market with an output deal with

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. * Turtle's Crossing, independent producer sales company, which was founded by Jackson in 1999 and represented producers in selling their films Freestyle had a service distribution deal with Jeff Clanagan for a line of African-American movies called Code Black.

Selected releases

* ''

Trois ''Trois'' is a 2000 erotic thriller film directed by Rob Hardy and produced by William Packer. It stars Gary Dourdan, Kenya Moore and Gretchen Palmer. The film was given a limited theatrical release and was one of the years highest grossing ...

'' (2000) * '' Dot the i'' (2003) * ''Spin'' (2003) * '' Fighting Tommy Riley'' (2004) * ''

Hair Show ''Hair Show'' is a 2004 comedy film directed by Leslie Small starring Mo'Nique and Kellita Smith. It is the theatrical directorial debut of Leslie Small. Plot Peaches (Mo'Nique), a hair stylist from Baltimore, and her estranged sister, Angela (Kel ...

'' (2004) * ''

Riding the Bullet ''Riding the Bullet'' is a Horror fiction, horror novella by American writer Stephen King. It marked King's debut on the Internet. Simon & Schuster, with technology by SoftLock, first published ''Riding the Bullet'' in 2000 as the world's first m ...

'' (2004) * '' Modigliani'' (2004) * '' An American Haunting'' (2005) * ''

Preaching to the Choir ''Preaching to the Choir'' is a 2006 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Charles Randolph-Wright and starring Billoah Greene, Darien Sills-Evans, Novella Nelson, Janine Green, Rosa Arredondo, Eartha Kitt, Tichina Arnold and Adewale ...

'' (2005) * '' The Illusionist'' (2006) * '' The Heart Specialist'' (2006) * ''

The Haunting of Molly Hartley ''The Haunting of Molly Hartley'' is a 2008 American supernatural horror film written by John Travis and Rebecca Sonnenshine and directed by Mickey Liddell. The film, starring Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford, AnnaLynne McCord, and Jake Weber, was ...

'' (2008) * '' Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour'' (2007) * '' Dragon Wars'' (2007) * ''

Bottle Shock ''Bottle Shock'' is a 2008 American comedy-drama film based on the 1976 wine competition termed the "Judgment of Paris", when California wine defeated French wine in a blind taste test. It stars Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, and Bill Pullman and is ...

'' (2008) * ''

Me and Orson Welles ''Me and Orson Welles'' is a 2008 period drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hir ...

'' (2008) * ''

Delgo ''Delgo'' is a 2008 American computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Marc F. Adler and Jason Maurer, written by Scott Biear, Patrick J. Cowan, Carl Dream, and Jennifer A. Jones. It stars Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Love Hewitt, ...

'' (2008) * ''

The Collector ''The Collector'' is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhous ...

'' (2009) * '' My One and Only'' (2009) * '' N-Secure'' (2010) * ''

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'' (2010) * '' Crooked Arrows'' (2012) * ''

The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure ''The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure'' (also referred to as ''The Oogieloves'') is a 2012 American interactive educational children's musical adventure comedy film loosely based on the children's television series '' My Bedbugs'' by Alex ...

'' (2012) * '' God's Not Dead'' (2014) * ''

Left Behind ''Left Behind'' is a multimedia franchise that started with a series of 16 bestselling religious novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. It focuses on a seven-year conflict between the Tribulation Force, an underground network of converts, a ...

'' (2014) * '' Woodlawn'' (2015) * ''A Foreign Affair'' * '' Camera Store'' (2016) * '' After Louie'' (2018) * '' Danger One'' (2018) * '' Supervized'' (2019) * '' Children of the Corn'' (2020) * '' The Believer'' (2021) * '' Range Roads'' (2021) * '' Because of Charley'' (2021) * '' Arthur, curse'' (2022)

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.freestylereleasing.com Film distributors of the United States 2004 establishments in California Companies based in Los Angeles Entertainment companies established in 2004 Entertainment Studios