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Palisades Media Acquires Tartan Catalog of Titles
Tartan Video U.S.A., the domestic division of U.K.-based arthouse distributor Tartan Films, shuttered operations on June 1 and auctioned its approximately 100-film library, including OldBoy, Lady Vengeance and A Tale of Two Sisters. Film print and advertising financing company Palisades Media Corp. bought the U.S. rights to the catalog, according to Video Business. Read on for full details.
Palisades created Palisades Tartan Film Acquisitions to house its new library. The unit intends to redistribute titles into the North American marketplace shortly, and is considering former Tartan U.S.A. employees to staff its operations. No hires have been made yet, but the unit expects to have a team in place by July 1, executives said.
Tartan Films owner Hamish McAlpine decided to close the U.S. unit because of financial struggles within the company, according to sources. Spokesman Paul Smith confirmed the U.S. division’s closure, but he declined to specify underlying reasons.
About 10 Tartan U.S.A. employees lost their jobs as the division was dismantled.
Ken Burns, Palisades co-manager, said the company wants to improve the promotion of Tartan titles.
Tartan films are distributed through Genius Products, which juggles many distributed DVD lines, most notably The Weinstein Company’s theatrical films.
“We want to get Tartan back to where it was a few years ago,” said Burns. Titles “have not being properly marketed or presented for a significant amount of time.”
Tartan U.S.A. has not launched new products in 2008. Its last 2007 titles were the Nov. 6 releases of OldBoy on Blu-ray Disc and Johnnie To-directed Election on standard DVD.
At this point, certain Tartan titles are still available at retail, including standard DVD and Blu-ray versions of OldBoy at Amazon.com.
Tartan Films continues to control the U.K. distribution rights for several titles in the U.S. library, including OldBoy, Lady Vengeance and A Tale of Two Sisters.
Fede Alvarez’s (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) Alien: Romulus will be unleashed in theaters nationwide on August 16, and Entertainment Weekly brings us two new images today.
The first image you’ll find below gives us another fresh look at the film’s Xenomorph, with Alvarez promising the outlet that it’s the most H.R. Giger-faithful Xenomorph of them all.
Entertainment Weekly writes, “… Alvarez promises [the Xenomorph’s design] is closer to H.R. Giger’s original creation than any other iteration.” The late H.R. Giger was of course integral to Ridley Scott’s Alien, designing the iconic monster the franchise is centered on.
The other image you’ll find below gives us a look at two of the human characters from Alien: Romulus, Archie Renaux’s Tyler and Cailee Spaeny’s heroine Rain Carradine.
Head over to Entertainment Weekly for their full preview of the upcoming film.
Here’s the full official plot synopsis for Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, which comes in the wake of Disney reviving the Predator franchise in spectacular fashion with last year’s Prey…
“While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”
Cailee Spaeny (The Craft: Legacy, Pacific Rim Uprising) leads the cast alongside Isabela Merced, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Spike Fearn and Aileen Wu.
Alien: Romulus takes place in between the first two films. It’s been described as “an original standalone feature,” one that “will focus on a group of young people on a distant world.”
Fede Alvarez co-wrote the script with Rodo Sayagues (Evil Dead). Ridley Scott is on board as producer for the film, the first movie in the franchise to be released by Disney.
Xenomorph in ‘Alien: Romulus’. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
(L-R): Archie Renaux as Tyler and Cailee Spaeny as Rain Carradine in ‘Alien: Romulus.’. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS
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