Media Blasters Partners with Allegro Media Group

Media Blasters has announced that it has formed a partnership with the media distribution giant Allegro Media Group. Key Media Blasters' labels AnimeWorks -specializing in Japanese animation-, Tokyo Shock -specializing in Asian film-, and Shriek Show -specializing in horror-, will now be distributed through Allegro. With this partnership, Media Blasters will now "focus on localizing properties for the US market, developing new features and series, and producing the highest possible quality DVD, Blu-Ray, and digitally distributed releases," said John Sirabella, President and CEO of Media Blasters.

Sirabella noted that "Allegro employs a state-of-the-art distribution system and large sales force to provide superior market penetration to the media products it represents."

Joseph Micallef, Chairman and CEO of Allegro Media Group, described the agreement as "an important step in our continuing evolution to become a broad based media company". He went on to add: "The addition of the MB catalog to Allegro's roster of exclusively distributed labels will take our revenues well over $100 million and more importantly it means that video products now represent more than half of our sales in all three of our major operating groups: core market distribution, special markets, and vendor managed/racked programs".