Amazon Prime Video & Broad Green Pictures Announce Exclusive Distribution Deal

By: Apr. 22, 2016
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Broad Green Pictures and Amazon today announced a multi-year output deal, which will make Prime Video the exclusive premium subscription home for Broad Green's upcoming slate of theatrical films. Among the first films to be added to Prime Video will be the comedy adventure A Walk in the Woods starring Robert Redford, Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson. The film was released theatrically over the 2015 Labor Day weekend and brought in nearly $30 million in box office.

Other releases being added include Learning to Drive starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley; I Smile Back starring Sarah Silverman who was nominated for a SAG Award for her role; and the critically-acclaimed 99 Homes starring Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern and Michael Shannon, who won a SAG and was nominated for a Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award for his role.

Also included in the deal is Broad Green's upcoming summer release (in theatres July 15) The Infiltrator starring Bryan Cranston as Robert Mazur, an undercover U.S. Customs agent who brought down the largest drug and money laundering operation in U.S. history. Lucy Walker's follow-up documentary Buena Vista Social Club - Adios, which will provide an intimate look into the changes and success the Buena Vista Social Club musicians have experienced over the past 20 years, will also come to Prime Video.

"The titles that we have released previously on Amazon have had great success, both in DVD and Blu-Ray, as well as streaming on-demand on Amazon Video. Working with Amazon to share our titles on Prime Video now gives us the ability to strategically promote our films across more platforms, to reach even more viewers," said Steve Nickerson, President of Home Entertainment at Broad Green Pictures.

"We know our Prime members are always hungry for great entertainment and that's what we aim to bring them," stated Jason Ropell, Worldwide Head of Motion Pictures for Amazon. "Broad Green are producing critically-acclaimed, smart, and unique films that we know our Prime members will love watching on Prime Video."

Prime members will be able to enjoy these films through the Amazon Video app for TVs, connected devices and mobile devices, or online at Amazon.com/primevideo at no additional cost to their membership. Prime members can also download the titles on iOS, Android and Fire devices at no additional cost for offline viewing.

About Broad Green Pictures? Broad Green Pictures is a feature film financing, production and distribution company founded by Gabriel and Daniel Hammond in 2014. The studio distributes both specialty and wide release films from in-house development and production as well as acquisitions and co-productions.

Broad Green is a fully-integrated movie studio providing filmmakers with unparalleled development support, production infrastructure, and marketing resources to execute their vision from script to screen. Through collaborative partnerships with both rising talent and established filmmakers, Broad Green shares incredible stories with the widest possible audiences, pushing boundaries and taking creative risks. The studio's upcoming slate includes The Infiltrator, Brain on Fire, The Dark Horse and Bad Santa 2, a co-production with Miramax. The studio will also release Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time and his untitled project starring Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara and Michael Fassbender. Previously released films include A Walk in the Woods, the critically-acclaimed 99 Homes, I Smile Back, Learning to Drive and Knight of Cups.



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