eOne’s Direction
It’s surprisingly relaxed at the new, expanded eOne’s offices in central London. Momentum staff have moved in, the merger between the two companies is pretty much done and the first batch of titles put out under an eOne banner have worked at retail – in some cases supremely well. But like a duck, gently gliding [...]
Click here for more >Top 10 Father’s Day
The BVA is becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to supporting the industry. Yes, there’s its ongoing lobbying work – director general Lavinia Carey is one of the best-known figures around Whitehall and Westminster, meeting politicians and civil servants, pushing copyright and other industry related issues – but there’s other flag-waving PR initiatives too. Just [...]
Click here for more >Goodbye To All That…
To say that Gennaro Castaldo leaving HMV marks the end of an era at the retailer – or the whole industry for that matter – is something of an understatement. For almost 28 years, more than a quarter of a century, Castaldo was a constant within our industry and at the retailer. He’d been there [...]
Click here for more >The Wrecking Crew
In bygone days of the video industry, June was the time when we all began to shut up shop and pray for the summer to end. But the first Monday in June was chock full of strong releases and the biggest ended up vying for space in newspapers the weekend before, as our regular round-up [...]
Click here for more >Cool As Ice
Dogwoof is putting the finishing touches to its first ever Blu-ray release, Chasing Ice, which is coming out on both standard definition as well as the high def format, on June 10, marking the label’s first bow into this arena. Given the film’s amazing imagery, it’s a worthy addition to the Blu-ray arena. The company’s [...]
Click here for more >Every Trailer Tells A Story…
DVD trailers… the poor, long-forgotten black sheep of the promotional reel family. Shoved to the side by their more illustrious brothers from the theatrical wings… When was the last time you saw a fuss made about a DVD trailer in the same way people do a theatrical one? In fact, when was the last time [...]
Click here for more >No Means No
It’s been a hive of activity at Network’s offices recently, with its ongoing releases, both of classic TV and newer films recently being bolstered by the The British Film collection. June 17 sees a big release of No, one of the most successful Latin American films ever released in the UK. It will arrive with [...]
Click here for more >Mob Rules
A group of commuters at one of the country’s biggest train stations spontaneously burst into song… Buskers clad in French revolutionary-era peasant garb start belting out songs from a musical… Meanwhile, in stores around the country, HMV staff and their customers also join in the singalong fun… All these happeningswere linked to the event-sized launch [...]
Click here for more >Staying On Top Of The Game
blinkbox, already nominated at the BVA awards this year for what the judges called its “clever way” of tying its advertising in to current events, staying topical and keeping people talking about the brand, has done it again with its new campaign. The vod platform, the one where viewers don’t need a subscription, has also [...]
Click here for more >More Moments
Not content with one ad in recent weeks, the Industry Trust for IP Awareness has seen two big screen spots appearing in cinemas around the country. Both continue its hugely effective Moments Worth Paying For campaign, each highlights the value of “official”, legitimate films, the threats posed by piracy and further directs consumers to FindAnyFilm.com, [...]
Click here for more >Eureka’s Check-mate
Eureka is keeping itself busy. Not content with signing up milestone movies from cinema history for its Masters Of Cinema imprint, as well as inking deals with the likes of Universal to give a touch of its MoC magic to major studio fare, as well as releasing other titles, its own and its distributed labels, [...]
Click here for more >England Expects
The phrase game-changer is bandied an awful lot around our business, particularly when it comes to feature film releases. It’s got to a stage where we at The Raygun will no longer use it to describe any release that way, just to avoid the continued over-egging of the pudding. A game-changer, we noted a while [...]
Click here for more >The BVA Awards 2013 In Full
It’s a tradition now: at the end of the annual BVA awards ceremony, all the assorted winners of gongs at the video industry’s annual celebration of its achievements, line up for a group shot. And here, left, is that picture from the 2013 event, held at the now regular location of Old Billingsgate down by [...]
Click here for more >Where Next For HMV?
One of the key elements of the HMV saga was the amount of column inches, in print and online, devoted to self-professed retail experts offering the retailer advice on what it should do next. And yet among the cacophony of voices shouting at the retailer and administrator Deloitte, few had any working knowledge of the [...]
Click here for more >The Full Story
Anyone trawling through video sharing sites, particularly YouTube, recently, may have noticed an increasingly annoying phenomenon – the growth of the “full movie” available to the billions of online users. Type in those magic words and you’ll be offered any number of films, including recent and current releases, both from cinemas and home entertainment and [...]
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