Sumerian Records & Films Acquires Comic Book Publisher Behemoth – CB
EXCLUSIVE: Ash Avildsen’s Sumerian Data & Movies, which is trying to improve its movie and TV footprint, has acquired impartial comedian e book writer and gaming firm Behemoth Leisure. Of their first 12 months, Behemoth offered greater than 500,000 books and is presently eighth in whole market share amongst English-language comedian e book publishers in income generated. Their title…
EXCLUSIVE: Ash Avildsen’s Sumerian Data & Movies, which is trying to improve its movie and TV footprint, has acquired impartial comedian e book writer and gaming firm Behemoth Leisure.
Of their first 12 months, Behemoth offered greater than 500,000 books and is presently eighth in whole market share amongst English-language comedian e book publishers in income generated. Their title You Promised Me Darkness #1 is the best-selling black and white debut problem since 2013’s Batman: Black and White #1.
On the film aspect, the corporate revealed the comedian for acclaimed Iranian vampire romance movie A Woman Walks House Alone At Evening which debuted on the Sundance Movie Competition. It additionally revealed the comedian collection for Netflix’s French-Japanese animated sci-fi title MFKZ, and in partnership with Ubisoft, Behemoth revealed the collection Watch Canine: Legion primarily based on the online game.
Behemoth has comedian distribution by means of each Lunar and Diamond, in addition to Simon & Schuster for books. The corporate additionally has partnerships with Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony in place for upcoming video video games.
Sumerian Data is named an indie label for rock, various, and metallic with a number of latest Grammy nominations. They’re distributed by Virgin Music and Common Music Group in addition to a frontline partnership at Capitol Data. The label’s artists embrace Asking Alexandria, Black Veil Brides, Smashing Pumpkins, Meg Myers, and Lilith Czar.
Leisure arm Sumerian Movies’ function American Devil was distributed by Miramax and Showtime. Their first scripted episodic collection is the younger grownup music drama Paradise Metropolis (starring Andy Biersack, Bella Thorne, Drea de Matteo, Olivia Culpo, Fairuza Balk, and the late Cameron Boyce), which is presently streaming on Amazon Prime, Tubi and IMDB TV within the US and Pluto within the UK. The corporate now plans to supply three-five authentic options yearly as nicely driving extra in to TV manufacturing.
Stated Ash Avildsen, Sumerian founder/CEO: “Nathan and Ryan have constructed Behemoth so rapidly and independently with such a fantastic authentic IP number of characters, worlds and story. It was a simple resolution to group up with these very gifted younger mavericks when the chance arose. They’ve good style! Having a diligent, confirmed group in comedians, graphic novels and gaming is paramount to Sumerian as we proceed our ardour for story-telling throughout all audio and visible spectrums. We are going to at all times be discovering, creating or growing IP into books, episodic collection, function movies, animation and past.”
Added Nathan Yocum, co-founder of Behemoth: “After 15+ years of pushing the boundaries of what an impartial document label can obtain, it’s a an unbelievable reward for us to be becoming a member of the Sumerian household as we speak. Whereas we’re happy with what we’ve completed over the previous few years, Ryan and myself couldn’t go on the chance to align visions with Ash and enter this unbelievable subsequent chapter of limitless potentialities and progress as Sumerian Comedians & Video games. The facility and weight that the Sumerian identify carries is actual and the way forward for Sumerian has by no means regarded so optimistic.”