Press release -
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and NonStop Entertainment partner up
Stockholm, Sweden – 12th of September, 2017.
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment are pleased to announce they will take on the NonStop Entertainment Blu-ray & DVD distribution starting December2017. The partnership will further strengthen the Universal Pictures slate with strong local and international content from Nonstop Entertainment. Distribution is managed by Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic AB (UNISPHE) and includes the Nordic and Baltic territories.
John Revill, EVP UPHE:
“We are delighted to start a new relationship with Non Stop Entertainment and look forward to building a very successful partnership”
Örjan Olsson, General Manager UNISPHE:
”We are incredibly proud that Universal has partnered with NonStop Entertainment and we will now represent another strong and qualitative partner under our wings of Nordic distribution. With NonStop, we continue to add great content to our portfolio that distinguishes us from others, we are very excited about the future together with our partners and customers.
Jakob Abrahamsson, CEO NonStop Entertainment:
“In today’s rapidly changing home entertainment market you need to work with multi-territory partners that are big enough to benefit from economies of scale but also agile and attentive enough to appreciate the customers’ changing behavior and needs, and with UNISPHE we’ve found all that and then some.”
Among NonStop's upcoming DVD releases are SUPERSWEDE – the moving story of Swedish racing legend Ronnie Peterson, BRIMSTONE – a western thriller starring Kit Harrington & Guy Pearce and UK Action/Thriller STRATTON, starring Dominic Cooper.
For more information, please contact Örjan Olsson, General Manager UNISPHE
Phone: +46 70-529 25 75
E-mail: orjan.olsson@unisphe.se
Jakob Abrahamsson, CEO NonStop Entertainment
Tel: +46 70- 797 66 71
Topics
- Cinema, Film, Photo
About Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE – www.uphe.com) is a unit of Universal Pictures, a division of Universal Studios. Universal Studios is a part of NBCUniversal, one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and a suite of leading Internet-based businesses. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
About NonStop Entertainment
NonStop Entertainment is a leading distributor of quality film, and has since it launched in 1998 widened the concept of independent cinema and develop new forms for distribution of film in the Nordic, Baltic and Benelux regions. NonStop Entertainment is proud Scandinavian distributor of modern classics like Handmaiden, Lady Macbeth, God’s Own Country, Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words, The Wrestler, This is England, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Searching for Sugar Man, Leviathan, Winter's Bone, Moonrise Kingdom, Magic Mike and Mommy.
Under the sublabel NonStop Dox, NonStop Entertainment launches the greatest documentaries available in the world, recent examples include Weiner, Risk, City of Ghosts, Life animated, McQueen, and Grace Jones – Bloodlight and Bami. Under the label NonStop Darkness, the company distributes original genre cinema, including It Follows, Babadook, Grasy Strangler, My Friend Dahmer, Bitch and The Girl With All The Gifts. In 2016 NonStop Entertainment launched its classic label NonStop Timeless, reintroducing gems lika The Dictator, Three Colors, Suspiria, Orlando and The Piano in cinemas.
About Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic (‘US’) was established in April, 2013 and launched commercially August 1st, 2013. The company is an equally shared joint venture between major film studios Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures, which encompass their physical Home Entertainment business. ‘US’ is one of the leading companies that distribute rights and productions in the entertainment industry for domestic use on DVD & Blu-Ray in the rental- and buying market. Among the over 7 000 movie titles in the business catalogue you can find franchises as “DUMMA MIG”, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, SMURFARNA, FAST & FURIOUS, and reputable TV-series as DOWNTON-ABBEY and BREAKING BAD.
