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Tartan Films USA Officially Closes Their Doors
Tuesday, May 27, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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May 27, 2008 will mark a sad, sad day here in the States as it was announced by Variety Asia Online that Tartan Films USA has officially closed their doors. "This came in Monday. The lawyers have spoken and Tartan USA has been closed," the site writes. If you weren't keeping score, Tartan was the US distributor for OLDBOY, ELECTION, ELECTION 2 (aka TRIAD ELECTION), SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE and a bunch of other titles. Almost 101 of them, in fact. Watch for some acquisitions and re-released over the next year or so. This news really blows as Tartan was about to launch Blu-ray and already gave us OLDBOY in the new format.



Source: Variety

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SnuFFy
2:05pm, May 27, 2008

WTF???? Is there a reason for this?? I checked out abouit 90% of the movies released by them


Amazonagent
2:29pm, May 27, 2008

Very, very sad. :(


Tex Massacre
2:37pm, May 27, 2008

Having reviewed dozens of Tartan films and owned many more on them...I can categorically say this is tragic news. No one was putting out Asian Horror with the quality and love that Tartan was. This goes right up there with last years shuttering of CasaNegra as a major blow for international horror fans.


Maelstrom
2:42pm, May 27, 2008

This REALLLLY sucks :(


patricktullius
3:02pm, May 27, 2008

WTF???????? ARE YOU SHITTING ME??? WTF WTF WTF this is HORRIBLE news!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously?????? what?


Slasher Freak
3:06pm, May 27, 2008

This is AWFUL! :(


jarofsap
4:00pm, May 27, 2008

Brutal, just brutal. I guess renting almost every one of their titles wasn't enough to really help. RIP. This is balls.


Men Behind the Sun Chips
4:57pm, May 27, 2008

absolutely terrible news. much of my viewing habits in the last 3 years have revolved around many exceptional Tartan Asia Extreme releases. weept.


Mightygil
8:30pm, May 27, 2008

this is truly terrible! I own 24 of their titles and rented/own several others. Hopefully www.tartanvideo.com (in the UK) can pick up the unreleased movies and I'll be shifting my support to them now


Chancedude
10:18pm, May 27, 2008

This sucks so bad.


inksb
10:40pm, May 27, 2008

I have been following this for the last few weeks, its really too bad. Tartan was one of the few quality Asian horror distributors in the US. A sad day for Asian/Horror cinema.


lance666
9:35pm, May 28, 2008

most unfortunate. where does this leave the consumer. i have yet to purchase all the great titles distributed by tartan. how difficult will it be now?


Vilos8771
9:08am, May 29, 2008

if i have to get them from the UK, please tell me they won't be shitty PAL to NTSC converts...


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