XLrator Media is an American

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headquartered in

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. The CEO is Barry Gordon, who founded the company in April 2010. In 2014, they began offering

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services in partnership with other companies.

History

Barry Gordon founded XLRator Media in April 2010. XLrator acts as a releasing company and partners with ARC Entertainment for the physical distribution. Gordon said that their market is films with an acquisition cost in "the low-seven-figure range". In 2012, XLrator launched the label Turbo for international action films, partnered with

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to create a horror-themed label curated by them, and created their own genre film label, Macabre. In 2014, XLrator partnered with New Artists Alliance to co-produce and distribute three science fiction films, and in 2015, they partnered with RNR to co-produce and distribute three action-thriller films. The same year, the Macabre label was made available on

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, an online video service. In 2016, they partnered with

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to create the Lifeline documentary label and partnered with

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to distribute fifteen genre films per year, starting in October 2016.

References

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