Skouras Films is an American

United States

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 movie distribution company. The original title of the company was Skouras Pictures. Distributed films include Blood Simple

Blood Simple

Blood Simple is a 1984 neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Joel Coen and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director...

, Joey Breaker

Joey Breaker

Joey Breaker is a 1993 American romance film starring Richard Edson and Cedella Marley. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Erik King also appear in the movie. The movie contains some autobiographical elements of its writer and director Steven Starr.-Plot:...

, Living on Tokyo Time

Living on Tokyo Time

Living on Tokyo Time is a 1987 movie starring Minako Ohashi and Ken Nakagawa and directed by Steven Okazaki.It is a romantic comedy revolving around Japanese American rock musician Ken and his marriage of convenience to Kyoko, a young immigré from Japan who speaks limited English.The film...

, The Quiet Earth

The Quiet Earth (film)

The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction post-apocalyptic film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Pete Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It is loosely based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison...

, and Apartment Zero

Apartment Zero

Apartment Zero is a political thriller from Argentina. Directed by Argentine-born screenwriter Martin Donovan and starring Hart Bochner and Colin Firth, the film is suffused with homoerotic overtones and moments of black comedy. The film was produced in 1988 and premiered at film festivals...

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Through hard work and good fortune the Skouras family attained a respected position in the film industry, building the Skouras Theatres Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

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 and later operating larger companies on the United States national scene. Spyros Skouras

Spyros Skouras

Spyros Panagiotis Skouras was an American motion picture pioneer and movie executive who was the president of the 20th Century Fox from 1942 to 1962...

 as President of 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

 from 1942-1965. George Skouras

George Skouras

George P. Skouras, George Skowras, in Skourohorion, Greece, was an American movie executive and president of United Artists Theatres. He was one of ten children, three of which came over from Greece in 1910 as poor sons of a sheep herder and rose to become top movie executives...

 longtime President of United Artists

United Artists

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 Theatre Circuit and Charles Skouras

Charles Skouras

Charles P. Skouras in Skourohorion, Greece, was an American movie executive and president of Fox Coast West. He and his two brothers, George Skouras and Spyros Skouras, came from Greece as poor sons of a sheep herder who rose to become top movie executives.-Biography:The Skouras brothers arrived...

, President of National Theatres and Fox West Coast Theatres

20th Century Fox

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The family has recently launched Skouras Films. Modeled closely on Skouras Pictures the new company plans to release 10 films a year on a worldwide basis with plans to expand into digital video production later this year. Members of the Skoura family enjoy a broad spectrum of contacts and are active in the daily operation of studio script sales, as well as being voting members of the Motion Picture Academy.