Indie Film and TV Player AMG Global Launches Music Joint Venture

Seventeen-year-old company AMG Global, a subsidiary of the entertainment division of AMG, has formed a joint venture with veteran music executive Mark Berry. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) November 20, 2015 - Toronto - The new division, AMG Global Music, will oversee all music used in AMG Global films, as well as administer and market music from AMG Global productions. It will also partner with record labels for soundtrack albums.

Berry, a producer who migrated from record production to become Executive Producer of AMG Visuals before co-founding the music publishing company Sabrinas Songs, has been named Chairman and partner of AMG Global Music.

Since its founding, AMG Visuals has exec produced, financed or distributed about 7 movies, including Drake Homecoming, James Brown Live & The Jeff Healey Band documentary; and has almost an equal amount in development, under production, or completed but not yet released. The music from those productions, currently handled by outside administrators, will be consolidated under AMG Global Music.

"In just over seventeen years we've established [AMG Global] as one of the most prolific feature film and television players outside of the major studios in Hollywood, and in partnership with AMG, I look forward to us being able to create and acquire music assets that will help AMG Global Music to become a vibrant new player in the music sector," Berry said in a statement.

In addition to maximizing the obvious synergies with its parent company's film activities, AMG Global Music will also act as a traditional music publishing firm, signing songwriters and acquiring songwriter catalogs, music production libraries, classical and pop catalogs, and other music publishing assets, representing a major new player in music publishing acquisitions.

Previously, Berry, built Sabrinas Songs, Attackin Tunes & Raquels Songs, which ultimately was sold to Cherry Lane Music now part of BMG Rights Management in 2010.

In addition, Berry forsees AMG Global developing new music-driven film and television projects, including shopping for songwriter catalogs that could be acquired and developed into biopics, and star established contemporary music artists.

Meanwhile, Berry adds, "we want to have our own soup-to-nuts platform where we can leverage the music assets that we have while defraying the cost of music production," he adds. "We wouldn't just sign a songwriter in a vacuum, but we would sign one we thought could write a main or end title."

About Mark S. Berry & AMG:
AMG is a leading Toronto based entertainment & media company with an unparalleled client list of artists and content creators across film, television, music and digital media. Led by an experienced and innovative management team, AMG was formed in 1998 by international record producer, engineer & mixer Mark S. Berry, Music Producer and operates under his leadership as Chairman. Berry, whose extensive production, engineering & re-mixing talents has earned him 36 international gold & platinum records for such notable Grammy & Juno nominated musical icons as, David Bowie, Duran Duran, Yes, Boy George, Billy Idol, Kool & The Gang, Cameo, Carly Simon, Joan Jett & many, many more. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in NYC, LA, Hong Kong, Seoul & Beijing.

Through its partner companies, including award-winning global creative music supervision agency AttackTrax, AMG also provides clients with unique music advertising, music brand integration and marketing opportunities across traditional, social media, mobile, film, television and gaming platforms. Already the owner of an extensive music publishing catalogue in affiliation with BMG Music, AMG's mission is to target potential acquisitions in the music, film & television industries ranging from independent record labels, artists, writers, DVD, feature length films, extreme sports content to purchases in the music publishing sector. AMG's focus is music distribution through its deal with Universal Music Group Distribution, the insertions of music into international feature film & television, as well as the development of reality based and documentary television programming.

About AttackTrax:
AttackTrax is one of the world's leading providers of 100% pre-cleared production music in all media. AttackTrax is committed to quality and offers 10,000+ tracks of music in all genres from world renowned music publishing catalogs. Previous AttackTrax insertions have included Making of The Matrix Reloaded, Coach Carter, Urban Legend, Harvard Man, Dawsons Creek, Roswell, MTV, Viacom, VH1 and many more including major sports programs internationally. The attacktrax.com website has been designed as a state-of-the-art, automated, online customer experience and decision engine that functions on all platforms and complements an already world-class AttackTrax brand.

For more information, please visit:
www.theamgcorp.com
www.attacktrax.com

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