{"id":12670,"date":"2011-08-12T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12670"},"modified":"2011-08-12T00:19:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T23:19:17","slug":"sony-warehouse-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/08\/12\/sony-warehouse-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Warehouse Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A warehouse vital to the distribution of independent music and films has been destroyed by fire in the recent UK riots.<\/p>\n

On Monday night, the Sony DADC in Enfield was burnt to the ground leaving many prominent distribution labels badly affected.<\/p>\n

The impact for many key independent film distributors has been devastating, with many losing their DVD and Blu-ray stock.<\/p>\n

An official statement from Nick Hartley, chief operating officer of PIAS Entertainment Group, was published by Billboard<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Sony DADC have identified a temporary distribution partner [yet-to-be-announced] and it is envisaged that they will be in a position to pick, pack and ship orders in the course of next week.\u00a0Our key focus at the moment is to get things re-manufactured and we are working with our labels on the best way of doing that is — identifying which lines are turning over the fastest and getting them to start re-manufacturing again.\u00a0At the same time we looking in our Brussels warehouse and [speaking to] other labels in Europe, if they don’t go through us, to see what stock there is to be able to ship back from Europe into the U.K. in order to keep supplies going.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UK shops typically carry a reasonable amount of stock but Hartley highlighted the more pressing problem:<\/p>\n

“Our biggest problem is going to be the depth of catalog. Remanufacturing and getting stock in [outlets] next week of the top several lines is do-able, but we had over 8,000 lines at Sony DADC. [As for] whether they will all ever be re-manufactured, there’s obvious issues there and I think some of them will lose out in that process.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Companies directly impacted by the fire include the BFI<\/a> (who re-release many classics), Artificial Eye<\/a> (an established major arthouse label) and Dogwoof<\/a> (a new and pioneering UK indie releasing many acclaimed documentaries).<\/p>\n

The warehouse was engulfed in flames live on the BBC News channel.<\/p>\n