Bleecker Street

Bleecker Street is an American film distribution company based in New York City. The company was named after Andrew Karpen's prior company, Focus Features' street address, 65 Bleecker Street.

History
Bleecker Street was formed in August 2014 by CEO Andrew Karpen, who is the former co-CEO of Focus Features with backing from Manoj Bhargava. With the announcement of the company's formation, Bleecker had indicated an exclusive U.S. distribution output deal with Shivani Rawat's ShivHans Pictures, effective immediately. Initial plans have the distributor releasing three to five pictures in 2015 and expanding from there. Karpen hired four former Focus Feature employees as presidents in September 2014. At the September 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, Bleecker Street made its first film deal for Pawn Sacrifices North American rights.

In January 2015 at Sundance Film Festival, Bleecker Street made its first acquisition of worldwide rights with the purchase of Brett Haley's I'll See You In My Dreams Also at the festival, the company signed on with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment for a multiyear Blu-ray, DVD, Electronic Sell-through and Video-on-Demand platforms deal in the United States. Also that month, Bleecker signed a Canadian distributor multi-year deal with Elevation Pictures starting with Danny Collins. Bleecker followed that up with an exclusive subscription multi-year content licensing agreement with Amazon Prime.

in 2023, Bleecker Street is sold to Styhon Partners Entertainment and is renamed as Styhon Distribution.