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Palm Pictures

 
Hoover's Profile: Palm Pictures, L.L.C.
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Palm Pictures, L.L.C.
76 9th Ave., Ste. 1110
New York, NY 10011
NY Tel. 212-320-3600
Fax 212-320-3709

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.palmpictures.com
Employees: 175

Palm Pictures is an entertainment company with operations devoted to film and music. The company releases about ten movies theatrically per year in genres such as drama, documentary, and musical film. It also acquires and distributes projects for DVD, such as The Basketball Diaries, Sex and Lucia, and the 15th anniversary re-release of Stop Making Sense. Other holdings include Blue Mountain Music (music publishing) and Arthouse Films (specialty film library). The company additionally operates Palm Pictures UK though an office in London. Palm Pictures was founded in 1998 by influential music industry exec Chris Blackwell, who helped further the careers of Steve Winwood, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley, and U2.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $15.0M

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Chris Blackwell
COO and CFO: Marty Hillis
Head of Publicity and Marketing: Deborah Schonfeld

Competitors:
Independent Film Channel
Newmarket Films
Strand Releasing

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Palm Pictures is a US based entertainment company owned and run by Chris Blackwell. Palm Pictures produces, acquires and distributes innovative music and film projects with a particular focus on the DVD format. Palm has positioned itself as a leader in the converging music and film markets, placing an emphasis on projects like music documentaries, arthouse & foreign cinema, and music videos. Palm Pictures' entertainment properties include a film division, a music label, sputnik7.com, epitonic.com, Arthouse Films and RES Media Group, publisher of RES magazine.

Palm Pictures has its own customised content channel on Audiotube.

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Film titles

Films distributed by Palm Pictures include:

See also Directors Label.

Music artists

Artists distributed by Palm Pictures include:

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