Image Launches International TV Sales Arm

CHATSWORTH, March 25: The
North American home-entertainment outfit Image Entertainment has set up a worldwide
television sales division, led by Steve Saltman.

Saltman was previously the
senior VP of domestic television at Image. In his new role as senior VP of
worldwide television, he is responsible for all forms of television
distribution, including the worldwide sales of Image-licensed and
Image-distributed content across broadcast television, cable/satellite,
pay-per-view and video-on-demand platforms.

“The expansion of our
television department increases our sales reach, provides new revenue streams
and brings us one step closer to becoming a full service, worldwide
entertainment sales and distribution organization,” said David Borshell, the
COO of Image Entertainment.

The new division will be
at MIPTV next month with a lineup that includes U.S. television rights to the
feature films The Air I Breathe, starring
Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy, Brendan Fraser, Andy Garcia, Sarah Michelle Gellar,
Emily Hirsch and Forest Whitaker; The Secret, starring
David Duchovny, Olivia Thirlby and Lili Taylor; Before the Devil Knows
You’re Dead, starring Philip
Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke and Albert Finney; Autumn Hearts, starring
Susan Sarandon, Max von Sydow, Gabriel Byrne and Christopher Plummer; Love
and Other Disasters, starring
Brittany Murphy; and The Color of Freedom, starring Joseph
Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert and Diane Druger.

Other titles on offer
include Notorious B.I.G./Bigger Than Life, Megadeth: That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires and a wide selection of large-screen motion
pictures, originally created for exhibition in IMAX theaters, from
award-winning film production company MacGillivray Freeman Films, including The
Alps: Climb of Your Life, Mystery
of the Nile, Hurricane on the
Bayou and Coral Reef Adventure.

The Image TV sales team is
rounded out by Barbara Gomperz-McCarney as executive director of international
sales and operations and Tiina Teal as manager of television sales and
international operations, both reporting to Saltman.

—By Mansha Daswani