Picturehouse was a specialty film production and distribution company formed in 2005 as a joint venture of New Line Cinema and HBO Films, both divisions of Time Warner.

 

The company was formed from New Line and HBO's acquisition of the distribution arm of Newmarket Films, which was run by Bob Berney, who would also remain the head of this new company. New Line's specialty division Fine Line Features was folded into Picturehouse. Its DVD releases were split between HBO Home Video and New Line Home Video.

 

After Time Warner's 2008 consolidation of New Line into Warner Bros., the Hollywood press believed that Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures would retire and merge. On May 8, 2008, however, it was announced that both of the specialty divisions would be shut down, costing 70 employees their jobs.

 

Notable releases

• Last Days (2005) (the company's first release)

• Starter for 10 (2006)

• Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)

• The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)

• A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

• Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

• Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus (2006)

• Gracie (2007)

• El Cantante (2007)

• Run, Fatboy, Run (2007)

• Rocket Science (2007)

• Silk (2007)

• Mongol (2007)

• La Vie en rose (2007)

• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

• The Orphanage (2007)

• The Fox and the Child (2007)

• The Women (2008)

• Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)

• Amusement (2008)