Bontonfilm is a Czech film company. It was founded in 1994 by transformation from Lucernafilm Video (successor of Ústřední půjčovna filmů).
As of 2022, Bontonfilm holds a 10.4% market share being 4th largest Czech distributor (behind Falcon a.s., Cinemart and Bioscop a.s.).
History Bontonfilm is linked with Bonton company that as founded in 1990 to produce music. Bonton eventually expanded to film industry and acquired Lucernafilm Video which became Bontonfilm. Bontonfilm quickly became biggest Czech film distributor with about 30% share of the market.
Bontonfilm managed to partner with major American studios including 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks Animation, Universal Pictures and Paramount. Bontonfilm distributed films by these studios in the Czech Republic. The main rival of Bontonfilm was Falcon a.s. which distributes films by Walt Disney Pictures and Columbia Pictures.
This changed in 2013, major American studios switched to Cinemart and Bontonfilm lost its position of strongest film distribution company of Czech market, falling to fourth place in the market.
Films Czech Release date Title Notes 29 September 1994 Faust 24 November 1994 The Order 2 February 1995 Indian Summer 30 March 1995 Too Loud a Solitude 13 April 1995 In the Coat of Lioness' Arms 11 May 1995 Golet in the Valley 18 May 1995 Game of Chance 9 December 1996Forgotten Light 29 January 1997 Boomerang 4 March 1998Helluva Good Luck 27 May 1999 Which Side Eden 7 December 2000 Wild Flowers 19 April 2001Ban From Paradise 19 December 2002Girlie22 January 2003Good One 9 December 2004Lovers and Murderers7 July 2005Close To Heaven21 September 2006Pleasant Moments15 February 2007Maharal- Tajemství Talismanu10 July 2008Bathory 1 September 2009Absurdistán
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