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Out of Left Field Tartan UK Closes Their Door As Well...
Friday, June 27, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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I hate waking up to bad news as it just bothers you the entire day. We knew that Tartan's US branch was in trouble and has all of their assets auctioned off to Palisades Media Corp. This morning some shocking news came right out of left field, Sources told Variety that Tartan employees found the London office doors closed Thursday June 26 and were then informed later in the day by Tartan topper Hamish McAlpine the company was closed for business. Read on for the official announcement. R.I.P. Tartan.

LONDON — U.K. distrib Tartan Films has finally shuttered.

Sources told Variety that Tartan employees found the London office doors closed Thursday June 26 and were then informed later in the day by Tartan topper Hamish McAlpine the company was closed for business.

Speculation over the future of Tartan has been rife for several months. The distrib was believed to be in takeover talks with David Bergstein of the Capco Group, the firm that owns ThinkFilm, a stake in I.M. Global as well as the U.K.'s Capitol Film and has itself been plagued by rumors of financial troubles, for much of last year before negotiations broke down following disagreements over Tartan's financial worth.

Last October Tartan announced it had received a cash injection of £3 million ($6.2 million) in the form of a convertible loan from a private investor and also had restructured its Brit operation, with managing director Laura De Casto ankling. The company's theatrical and home entertainment departments, previously run out of separate London offices, were also merged into one entity based at Tartan's head office.

Tartan USA, the company's U.S. arm, announced at this year's Cannes that it was being foreclosed. Film print and advertising financing company Palisades Media Corp. has since bought the U.S. rights to its library.

Those moves now appear to have only offered temporary respite from a downward turn of fortune for McAlpine, who founded Tartan in 1982. The company subsequently expanded by launching sub-labels such as Tartan Terror and Tartan Asia Extreme. Distrib arguably became the home for genre fare and edgy, foreign-language pics, especially from Asia.

No official comment has been made yet by Tartan execs as to what the future holds for the company although it seems likely that a team of liquidators and accountants will be brought in to assess the company's assets and sell them off.

Source: Variety

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Read 8 User Comments

creepmasterx9000
3:14pm, June 27, 2008

This sucks soooooooooooo badly! Where do we turn now?! Bloody hell, someone PLZ buy up Tartan and keep that thing afloat!


korollocke
5:25pm, June 27, 2008

Some one step up, marty abrams perhapes???


ophelia santi
6:42pm, June 27, 2008

absolutely...someone needs to help us fans...christ knows we need it over here with all these pg13 bullshit remakes


foghorne
6:43pm, June 27, 2008

trump where you at, you pitch in the money and ill do the rest. what about tarantino he loves all these films????


gishikin
3:03am, June 28, 2008

Hello Anchor Bay, get your fucking check book out! Horrible news, just horrible. How does one of the best film distributors come to this? Tartan you will be missed greatly.


rosemarys_son92
1:38pm, June 28, 2008

What? Are you serious? That sucks!


wolves ate the king
4:40pm, June 28, 2008

sad day


megomobile
7:15pm, June 28, 2008

Maaaan, when they announce the US division was closing, my pain was quelled only by the reminder that Tartan was still kickin' in the UK, and maybe they'd come back when finances were more favourable. To this news, I can only say that I am terribly saddened and I hope with all my heart that someone jumps in to keep Tartan afloat.


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