Shock Entertainment to distribute Acorn Media and Image product

RLJ Entertainment Australia and Regency Media are pleased to announce the appointment of Shock Entertainment to distribute all branded Acorn Media and Image product from September 1, 2014.

The distribution of all catalogue titles will also be made available from the Shock Entertainment Team from March 1, 2015

The new exclusive agreement will see Regency Media replicating, and the Shock Entertainment Team selling and distributing all RLJE products across the Acorn and Image brands.

Lesley Fromant, Managing Director of RLJE Australia says “We are very pleased to announce this exclusive deal. For the last seven years we have been very ably served by REEL DVD. The new opportunity to align ourselves with Regency Media, Australia’s leading independent DVD distributor, will allow us to maximise our brands within the DVD space and open up great opportunities in emerging media”.

Don Hunton, CEO of Regency Media Group says “We are delighted to be appointed as Acorn Media’s Replication, Distribution and Content Sales partner (Physical & Digital) in ANZ. Acorn Media has an amazing track record in developing, licensing & delivering quality entertainment content that has delighted consumers the world over. We feel privileged to work with the Acorn Team in continuing the tradition, and expanding both the Acorn and Image Branded products across the Australian and New Zealand consumer landscape”.

RLJ Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd is a fully owned subsidiary of RLJ Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: RLJE) a premier independent owner, developer, licensee and distributor of entertainment content and programming in primarily North America, the United Kingdom and Australia with over 5,300 exclusive titles. Via its majority ownership of Agatha Christie Limited, RLJE manages the intellectual property and publishing rights to some of the greatest works of mystery fiction, including Miss Marple and Poirot. RLJE also owns all rights to the hit UK mystery series Foyle’s War.

Regency Media Group is a privately held Australian company that comprises a diversified group of digital media manufacturing, distribution, licensing & publishing businesses and has been a major player on the Australian Entertainment landscape since it was founded in 1986. Shock Entertainment is the Home Entertainment arm of the Regency Media Group and one of the major independent licensors and distributors of visual content in Australia and New Zealand, including WWE, AFL and Eagle Vision.