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Broad Green Slates Video Distrib With Uni Pictures Home Ent

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BROAD GREEN PICTURES AND UNIVERSAL PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT ENTER LONG TERM, MULTI-YEAR DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

Broad Green Pictures to Handle Sales and Marketing Across All Platforms

LOS ANGELES (July 22, 2015) – Broad Green Pictures and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment announced today a long term, multi-year distribution services agreement.  Under the agreement, Universal will exclusively manage back-room distribution services for all Broad Green titles for Blu-ray and DVD with Broad Green Pictures continuing to handle sales and marketing across all platforms.  The announcement was jointly made by Steve Nickerson, President of Home Entertainment, Broad Green Pictures and John Morici, Managing Director – U.S. & Canada, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

Broad Green Pictures, a feature film financing, production and distribution company founded by Gabriel and Daniel Hammond in 2014, will distribute up to 16 specialty and wide release film per year across a multitude of platforms. This agreement will allow Broad Green to share their growing slate of films with fans and help establish the studio’s home entertainment distribution infrastructure.

“Partnering with Universal Home Entertainment allows us to develop a strong distribution model that sets up the studio for lasting success,” said Nickerson. “I have had the pleasure of working with their team many times in the past, always with successful results, and am confident that our partnership will yield positive growth for Broad Green.”

“We are very pleased to enter into this exclusive collaboration with Broad Green Pictures and its team of highly creative and savvy executives,” added Morici. “ Pairing Broad Green’s fast-growing entrepreneurial company with Universal’s distribution infrastructure effectively positions both of us for long-term success.”

Broad Green Pictures’ growing slate of films include the critically acclaimed 99 Homes, A Walk in the Woods, Infiltrator,Brain on Fire, Samba, I Smile Back and Learning to Drive, as well as Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups, Voyage of Time and his untitled project starring Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Michael Fassbender.

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About Broad Green Pictures

Broad Green Pictures is a feature film financing, production and distribution company founded by Gabriel and Daniel Hammond in 2014. The studio distributes both specialty and wide release product across a multitude of platforms resulting from in-house development and production as well as acquisitions and co-productions.

 

Broad Green is constructing a fully-integrated movie studio providing filmmakers with unparalleled development support, production infrastructure, and marketing resources to execute their vision from script to screen. Through collaborative partnerships with both rising talent and established filmmakers, Broad Green shares incredible stories with the widest possible audiences, pushing boundaries and taking creative risks.  The studio’s upcoming slate includes the critically acclaimed 99 Homes, A Walk in the Woods, Infiltrator, Brain on Fire, Samba, I Smile Back and Learning to Drive, as well as Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups, Voyage of Time and his untitled project starring Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Michael Fassbender.

About Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Universal Pictures Home

Entertainment is a unit of Universal Pictures, a division of Universal Studios (www.universalstudios.com). Universal Studios is a part of NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and a suite of leading Internet-based businesses. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

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