Independent studio The Weinstein Company, which is in the middle of a restructuring process, has finalized a new home video distribution deal with the worldwide acquisitions unit of Sony Pictures, according to which TWC and Dimension titles will release through Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The Sony deal is envisioned as long-term, in batches of 9 to 10 films.
The first movies under this arrangement are Rob Marshall's
Nine,
A Single Man,
The Road,
Youth in Revolt,
Halloween,
Piranha 3D,
Nowhere Boy,
Hoodwinked 2 and
Blue Valentine. However, note that not all of these titles will necessarily get a high-definition release.
Weinstein content used to be distributed by Genius Products, of which TWC was the majority shareholder. The home entertainment distribution operations of Genius were sold to Vivendi Entertainment in
September 2009. Afterwards, Weinstein property has been released by different distributors: Quentin Tarantino's
Inglourious Basterds was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Universal, and Rob Zombie's
Halloween II, by Sony.
In related news,
Outlander (a TWC title released on DVD in 2009 with no accompanying Blu-ray edition) will finally hit Blu-ray Stateside on May 18, released by Vivendi.