Rolling Thunder Pictures

Rolling Thunder Pictures was a film distribution company, set up under Miramax Films by Quentin Tarantino, that was headed by Jerry Martinez and Tarantino. It specialized on releasing independent, cult, or foreign films to theaters.^[1] The company was created in 1995 but closed in 1999.^[1] The company was named after the film Rolling Thunder.^[2]

Rolling Thunder Pictures

Founded	1995; 30 years ago (1995)
Founder	Quentin Tarantino
Defunct	1999; 26 years ago (1999)
Fate	Defunct
Key people	Jerry Martinez Quentin Tarantino

Releases

The following films were re-released under the Rolling Thunder Pictures label:

• The Beyond (in association with Grindhouse Releasing)
• Chungking Express
• Detroit 9000
• Mighty Peking Man
• Sonatine
• Switchblade Sisters

The label also released the independent films Hard Core Logo and Curdled. The 1994 Jet Li film Fist of Legend had been scheduled for a Rolling Thunder Pictures release, but eventually Dimension Films released it. Other production companies re-released on DVD later.

Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures Triple Feature

On April 16, 2013, coinciding with the release of Django Unchained, Miramax and Lions Gate released a special DVD set of three films previously released under the Rolling Thunder Pictures label. The set includes The Mighty Peking Man, a King Kong knock-off; Detroit 9000, a detective-style blaxploitation film; and Switchblade Sisters, an obvious inspiration for Tarantino's films. Tarantino said of the collection "If you like my stuff, you can look at it as – this is where mine came from."^{[citation needed]}