New York-based IFC Films announced on Tuesday that it is rebranding as Independent Film Company (IFC) and will operate under the newly named umbrella IFC Entertainment Group.
The group integrates AMC Networks’ four distinct film divisions led by head of IFC Entertainment Group Scott Shooman: Independent Film Company, IFC Center, RLJE, and horror streamer Shudder.
Each brand will continue to operate in a synergistic approach. Shooman told Screen the emphasis will continue to be on curating “the cream of the crop”, adding: “This is an extension of what we’ve been doing for a long time and reinvigorating it with a strategy that helps us to grow. We’ll probably do fewer films, bigger films, but we’re still looking for the highest quality titles likes we’ve always done.”
With Cannes on the immediate horizon, the executive said there could be more pre-buys to secure bigger films at an earlier stage, and added that the company would still be in the market for international films and documentaries.
“We will do as many as we historically have done,” said Shooman. “We’re just going to be more intentional. Last year we had four features that represented their countries in the international feature film Oscar race. Two of them were Shudder [Austria’s The Devil’s Bath, and Guatemala’s Rita] and one of them was more of a drama [Norway’s Armand].
”So we still want to find the best that’s out there and Cannes offers a lot of that. Their films tend to be more international and we’re excited to find those filmmakers that we love.”
The rebrand comes after a big 2024 for IFC Entertainment Group with the releases of Late Night With The Devil, Oddity, The Taste Of Things, In A Violent Nature, Ghostlight, and last season’s Oscar-nominated stop-motion animation Memoir Of A Snail.
The 2025 slate includes Eli Craig’s dark horror comedy Clown In A Cornfield at RLJE and Shudder, Sean Byrne’s thriller and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection Dangerous Animals, which Independent Film Company and Shudder will release in the US, and Jay Duplass’s SXSW audience award-winning film The Baltimorons.
On Tuesday the company unveiled the new logo with audio created by Adam “Adrock” Horovitz of the Beastie Boys.
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