Regent Releasing

Regent Releasing is a U.S. theatrical distribution company based in Los Angeles, California, under the umbrella of Regent Entertainment, which is owned by producers Paul Colichman (formerly of IRS Media) and Stephen P. Jarchow.

Focusing on narrow releases of independent films from around the world and from U.S. filmmakers, Regent's successes include such Academy Award-winning films as Departures, Best Foreign Language film from Japan; Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellen; Sordid Lives, starring Olivia Newton-John, Delta Burke, and Leslie Jordan; Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever, starring Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons and Joan Plowright; and The Hunting of the President, producer Harry Thomason's documentary based on the book about the right-wing conspiracy to destroy Bill Clinton. Regent also distributes film acquisitions from Here Films, their LGBT sister public company.

Current films include the Academy Award winner Departures^[1] by director Yojiro Takita; the stop-action puppetry animation award contender $9.99,^[2] starring Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia from director Tatia Rosenthal; Little Ashes,^[3] and foreign film contenders Tokyo Sonata^[4] by director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and The Song of Sparrows^[5] from Iranian director Majid Majidi.

In 2005, Regent secured a three-year, $50 million credit facility through Merrill Lynch.^[6] In 2011, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America sued Regent Entertainment charging "defendants committed deliberate acts of fraud and self-dealing... and schemed to funnel loan proceeds to themselves through a series of sham transfers and transactions with affiliated parties."^[7]

Regent Releasing titles (by release year) include:

2010

Dream Boy
Eichmann
The Magician
Manuela y Manuel
Murder in Fashion
Patrik, Age 1.5
Shake Hands with the Devil^[8]
Watercolors

2009

The Blue Tooth Virgin
Departures (Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film)
Eleven Minutes
Little Ashes^[9]
Serbis^[10]
Sex Positive
The Song of Sparrows^[11]
Taxidermia^[12]
Tokyo Sonata^[13]

2008

2007

Cut Sleeve Boys
Eleven Men Out
Fat Girls
Freshman Orientation
Looking for Cheyenne (Oublier Cheyenne)
Nina's Heavenly Delights
Race You to the Bottom
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (documentary)
Stephanie Daley
Unconscious^[19]

2006

April's Shower
Aurora Borealis
In Her Line of Fire
Guys and Balls
The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
Poster Boy
Queens
Shock to the System
Summer Storm

2005

Beautiful Boxer
Eternal
Hellbent
Margaret Cho: Assassin
Sex, Politics & Cocktails

2004

The Burial Society
Callas Forever
The Hunting of the President (documentary)
Merci Docteur Rey
Showboy
Straight-Jacket

2003

Friends and Family

2001

Sordid Lives
Speedway Junky

2000

Looking for an Echo
$pent

1999

Sixth Happiness

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