Red Envelope Entertainment LLC (originally Netflix First) was a film production and distribution unit created by Netflix in 2006. The studio produced independent content for the company's DVD-by-mail service. The company produced and/or distributed over 100 films, before ultimately being closed in 2008. The firm cited the closure of the production division, as a result of pressure from partnered film studios, which were competing for rights.
In 2012, Netflix returned to producing original content under its own banner.
Films distributed
- 2 Days in Paris
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days5
- Antônia
- Black White + Gray (uncredited)
- Born into Brothels6
- Buddha's Lost Children
- The Business of Being Born
- Chevolution
- Confessions of a Superhero
- Dandelion
- Elegy (uncredited)
- Hopeless Pictures
- I Like Killing Flies
- I'm Reed Fish
- Just Another Love Story
- Kicking It
- Love Songs
- Maxed Out
- Mister Foe
- Nice Guys Sleep Alone
- No End in Sight (uncredited)
- Open Hearts
- The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair
- Phoebe in Wonderland (uncredited)
- Protagonist
- Puccini for Beginners
- The Puffy Chair
- Reprise
- Running with Arnold
- Sherrybaby
- Steal a Pencil for Me
- Strike
- Super High Me
- This Film is Not Yet Rated
- This Filthy World
- This Is England
- Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends
- Towelhead (uncredited)
- Trumbo
- Two Days in April
- An Unreasonable Man
- A Very British Gangster
- A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
- You're Gonna Miss Me
- Zach Galifianakis Live at the Purple Onion
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"Wired 14.09: Tech Biz: Netflix becomes an exclusive distributor of indie flicks". Wired.com. January 4, 2009. https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/netflix.html ↩
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Kay, Jeremy (July 23, 2008). "Netflix closes down Red Envelope Entertainment". Screendaily.com. http://www.screendaily.com/netflix-closes-down-red-envelope-entertainment/4039994.article ↩
"Spotlight: Will Netflix's Red Envelope Entertainment be Sundance 2.0?". Digital Media Wire. January 25, 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-10-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20081013055635/http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2007/01/25/spotlight-will-netflix-s-red-envelope-entertainment-be-sundance-2-0 ↩