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Sycamore Entertainment Group To Release “The Eye of the Storm” On DVD and Blu-ray
Sycamore Entertainment Group To Release “The Eye of the Storm” On DVD and Blu-ray.
About this update from Sycamore Entertainment Group, Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"November 12th, 2012 Hollywood, CA – Sycamore Entertainment Group, Inc. (SEGI), a leading\ninnovator in hybrid film distribution, is pleased to announce it has launched its\nhome entertainment division: SYCAMORE ENTERTAINMENT HOME VIDEO. The newly-formed division will launch\nwith the release of the DVD and Blu-ray of the award-winning drama “The Eye of the Storm,” directed by Fred\nSchepisi, on January\n29th, 2013.\n\n “In this new era of distribution, we are thrilled to bring “The Eye of the Storm” to DVD and Blu-ray through our new home\nentertainment division,” says Ed Sylvan, CEO of Sycamore. He goes on to say “DVD\nand Blu-ray sales account for a significant portion of revenues in a film’s\nlife cycle. We created this division to maximize the revenue from this market\nwhile the industry transitions to more digital platforms.”\n\nSYCAMORE ENTERTAINMENT HOME VIDEO has hired Brian\nW. Brown as director of Sales. Brown, a 25-year veteran of the home\nentertainment industry, has overseen home entertainment divisions at New Yorker\nFilms and, most recently, Music Box Films, where he spearheaded the campaigns\nand sales for such high-profile titles as “The Girl With the\nDragon Tattoo” trilogy and Guillaume Canet’s “Tell No One.” Brown has begun promotion\nand a specialized marketing campaign for the film. “Sycamore’s\nvision of the film distribution market place allows me to utilise my tenured\nexperience to its fullest” says Brown. He goes on to say, “This is a fantastic\nfirst release into the home video industry; we are receiving a very\nenthusiastic response from home video wholesalers and retailers nationwide.”The film placed in\nthe top 50 independent movie downloads on ITunes and is garnering attention in\nthe industry with its campaign for awards this season. The\nHollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg’s blog ‘THE RACE’ has recently added Geoffrey\nRush as “Possible” in the category of best actor. Sylvan continues, “The timing of\nthe launch of our new division and DVD release could not have been better. As a\nresult, we are now able to leverage our awards campaign\ninto greater publicity for the DVD\nrelease.”\n\nC...