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We Must Bring Home Seville Film Catalog

We Must Bring Home Seville Film Catalog

When our business falls into the hands of foreign companies, they are inevitably at the mercy of decisions made abroad. And when the file president Strangers decide to shoot the granulator, It’s really too bad for us. We have no opinion.

That’s what just happened with the decision of the American multinational Hasbro, which has just ordered Les Films Sevilla to put an end to its feature film theatrical distribution service.

Seville Films is a subsidiary of Entertainment One, the multinational Hasbro company, that specializes in toys, figurines, toys and stuffed animals, purchased in December 2019, before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, for US$3.8. Billion dollars (more than 4.8 billion Canadian dollars).

The closure of Seville Films is even more disastrous for Quebec culture because Seville was not only the largest distributor of Quebec films, but also the distributor with the largest catalog of Quebec feature films.

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Distribution side

There is no doubt that other Quebec distributors will do their best to try and convince the producers who used to deal with Les Films Sevilla to sell them their next feature-length films.

It is, among others, part of this group: Opale Films, Maison 4:3, K-Films America, Axia Films, TVA Films, Filmoption International, etc.

the problem ? None of the current Quebec distributors in the past invested as much money in the distribution and promotion of Quebec films as Les Films Sevilla.

We’ll see…

The future of the catalog

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For the survival of Quebec culture, it is necessary at all costs to return the catalog of Quebec feature films held by Les Films Sevilla into the hands of a company in Quebec, which also includes films previously distributed by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm, after its merger with Seville.

This catalog includes barbarian invasions ; Fall of the American Empire ; fires ; Just the end of the world ; Mom ; 14 days, 12 nights ; 1987 ; 1991 ; liar ; Good Cop, Bad Cop 2 ; he sat ; 1:54 ; From father to police ; disassembly ; You sleep Nicole ; Gabriella ; The disappearance of fireflies ; Insha’Allah ; Louis Cyr: The Most Powerful Man in the World ; Barefoot at dawn ; Hochelaga, Land of Souls ; mafia company ; Great seduction ; Sarah prefers running ; King Dave ; combo ; my circus ; time catcherAnd the review ; etc.

In addition, we find vanishing lines Directed by Myriam Bouchard and Catherine Chabot, the new movie from prolific film producer Dennis Robert, which hits theaters this week.

For a multinational like Hasbro, in which the sale of toys and games accounts for 85.3% of its turnover ($6.7 billion, just over C$8.6 billion), the Quebec film catalog from Seville is financially nothing but peanuts.

But for those of us in Quebec, this catalog is worth its weight in cultural gold.

And since the production of our films is funded largely with public funds through SODEC (Quebec) and Telefilm (Federal), we have a collective interest in bringing the Quebec film catalog home within the Seville Movies Company of Quebec.