Palisades pledges to remain extremely Extreme.
Everyone's been eyeing Palisades Media since the company bought up the defunct Tartan's highly covetable UK and US film libraries and proclaimed they'd keep right on acquiring and distributing films (on DVD, with the possibility of occasional theatrical releases) in the Tartan tradition. Why would a print and advertising financing firm get into indie film distribution right around the time that everyone else is fleeing the industry like it's a loft party that's out of liquor? It seems, mostly, because they were Tartan's major US creditor and foreclosed on their assets. Grady Hendrix at Kaiju Shakedown tries to get clarification from Palisades CEO Vin Roberti on the company's plans for the future. A few highlights: Will you be keeping the Asian Extreme line? Will we be keeping it? We're looking to grow it to a 2000 title library by 2010. Are you worried about the state of the home video...
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