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Entertainment Company Charts Course For Next Several Years
TLA Releasing US, a wholly owned subsidiary of TLA Entertainment Group, Inc., is restructuring its organization and operations with the intent to become a more streamlined and effective releasing company. This reorganization is limited to TLA Releasing US and does not affect the parent company’s other divisions which include TLA Releasing UK, www.tlavideo.com and TLA Video retail stores.
TLA Releasing plans to sell or license its library of over 200 gay, horror and international titles for DVD, TV and VOD. Along with this, TLA Releasing will either employ a sales organization or enter into a strategic partnership to release the films TLA Releasing has recently produced or acquired. These titles include Chef’s Special, (Spain, 2008), Shank (UK, 2009), and Redwoods (US, 2009).
These changes were precipitated by the economic situation and the changing marketplace for gay-related feature films. A more streamlined organization is needed today. “It is an exciting time to re-imagine TLA Releasing in the marketplace, not only as distributors but also as a micro-studio,” said TLA Releasing Head of Production and Development Derek Curl. “We believe that our 4th quarter releasing slate is a strong line-up that will reaffirm the company’s world-wide brand name as a leader in gay cinema.”
TLA President Raymond Murray has this to say, “People’s entertainment viewing habits are rapidly changing and the previous structure of a large organization doing production, post-production, authoring, advertising, warehousing and sales in-house was a model which does not work in today’s market.”
As a result of this restructuring, only two employees in the 17 person staff have been laid off. Changes to the TLA Releasing structure are effectively immediately. All inquiries should be directed to Derek Curl, @ derek@tlareleasing.com.
Founded in 1981, TLA Entertainment owns and operates the award winning DVD retail Web sites TLAvideo.com and TLAraw.com as well as the popular video-on-demand website, TLAondemand.com. As the premier retailer for the latest and greatest in Movies and Television, Skin and Cult, Gay & Lesbian and Adult entertainment, the TLA brand offers customers an opinionated and edgy take on home entertainment.
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