Orion Classics

Orion Classics
Company type	Label
Industry	Motion pictures
Founded	1982; 42 years ago (original); May 21, 2018; 6 years ago (relaunch)
Founders	Michael Barker; Tom Bernard;
Fate	Merged into The Samuel Goldwyn Company (original)
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California, United States
Key people	Sam Wollman (senior VP acquisitions, MGM); Chris Ottinger; (MGM president of worldwide television and acquisitions); John Hegeman (Orion Pictures president);
Owner	Amazon MGM Studios
Parent	Orion Pictures

Orion Classics started in 1982 as the distribution label for the then independent film production company Orion Pictures, now owned by Amazon MGM Studios. It was relaunched in May 2018.

The original focus of 1980-era Orion Classics was on acquiring independent and foreign films for North American distribution, as headed by Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom. In addition it aimed to produce some arthouse films of its own. It was launched when Barker, Bernard and Donna Gigliotti moved from UA Classics, a United Artists specialty division. Among its most notable films were Babette's Feast, Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train and Richard Linklater's Slacker.

Since its relaunch Orion Classics has released Mike P. Nelson's The Domestics and Jim Cummings' The Wolf of Snow Hollow, among others.

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