The ERA Yearbook In Numbers
And, with a hefty plop, the ERA yearbook for 2013 lands on our desk. It’s the annual publication from the Entertainment Retailers’ Association, pulling together data from across the retail spectrum and taking in all areas of entertainment, from video to music and games. In keeping with many of the entertainment yearbooks, handbooks and annuals [...]
Click here for more >Dawn Breaks, Franchise Closes
The Twilight Saga bandwagon is now up and rolling in earnest as eOne prepares for the release of Breaking Dawn Part 2, the final part in the five-film series. And as the by now well-oiled machine swings into action, with TV spots appearing and, as we’ve noticed this week, outdoor ads aplenty, including bus sides [...]
Click here for more >The Top 10 Of Everything 2012
It’s taken us a few weeks to get there, but since the middle of December, we’ve been pulling together lists from all over the place to compile this, our annual look at the best of the previous 12 months. Our Top 10 Of Everything 2012 takes in the cold, hard facts, from sales data for [...]
Click here for more >The Top 10 Bestselling Titles Of 2012… So Far
The Official Charts Company has had a busy year, what with celebrating the 60th anniversary of the singles chart, among other things. It is also increasing its consumer focus too, becoming as much for the public as it is the trade. This new consumer-facing strategy has seen it upping its game in the PR stakes, [...]
Click here for more >10 Great Things About Brookside
“In 1982 a twice-weekly drama burst onto our television screens on a brand new channel. A channel that promised challenging and taboo-breaking programmes. This drama blazed a trail in terms of television production, and heralded a braver new way of telling stories and highlighting issues that affected all our lives. Naturalistic, gritty and sometimes quite [...]
Click here for more >Best Box Sets Vote Goes Down To The Wire
Another week, another top television box sets you must own chart surfaces from the quality press. The Raygun has been documenting the irresistible lure of the format for the chattering classes for some time, but, the inexorable rise of Breaking Bad has taken it on light years. Heck, the phrase “box set” has moved into [...]
Click here for more >Quotes From The Moments Worth Paying For LFF Panel
The Moments Worth Paying For panel held during the London Film Festival was part of a whole raft of activity around the LFF, taking its remit beyond merely showcasing some cracking films from around the world. It gave the Industry Trust and the Film Distributors’ Association, the two driving organisations behind the event, the chance [...]
Click here for more >Bob’s Your Uncle
It may be some 30 years since he died, but reggae legend Bob Marley continues to be a subject of huge interest, as proved by the release of the latest documentary charting his life, Marley, and the reviews its arrival on DVD and Blu-ray brought. Our regular round-up of home entertainment reviews shows that Marley [...]
Click here for more >Sweet And Tender Hooligans
It will, come the end of the year, prove to be one of the best limited theatrical platform releases of the year and probably one of its most successful too. We are, of course, referring to The Rise And Fall Of A White Collar Hooligan, the hooligan to credit car fraudster tale due from Momentum [...]
Click here for more >Diamond Geezers
The votes are cast, the counting has finished and, a matter of days ahead of the diamond jubilee, HMV has unveiled the best British film released during Queen Elizabeth II’s reign. The 60-year poll organised online by the retailer makes for interesting reading, even if it doesn’t throw up too many major surprises. The music [...]
Click here for more >10 Things We Learnt From The FDA Yearbook…
The arrival of the any trade-related yearbook is always an exciting moment in The Raygun office. For anyone in the trade, and certainly for us on the trade press, it’s the perfect way to enjoy a tea break, sitting, with our feet up, brew in hand, a film or some weird soundtrack choice playing in [...]
Click here for more >Top 10 Retailer Barometer
This fascinating top 10 comes from Kantar Worldpanel’s entertainment team and is a quarterly look at the state of entertainment retail. Crucially, the retailer barometer offers a snapshot of where the different retailers are at. Taken from extensive data and a pool of 15,000 entertainment consumers, and covering the all-important final quarter to December 25 [...]
Click here for more >Justice Is Served: Top 10 Nic Cage Films
His hairstyles vary wildly from film to film, he’s long been mocked for his move into action hero status and he’s haunted by remarks made by former pal Sean Penn years ago (“He’s no longer an actor,” his old spar commented), and yet Nicolas Cage keeps going from strength to strength. His name equates with [...]
Click here for more >LOVEFiLM’s Top 10 Of Everything…
We’ve already featured a host of year end bits and pieces, but this mine of information comes from LOVEFiLM. Not content with merely putting together a list of the year’s best renters – althought the company did that too – it also pulled together a wealth of statistics and other goodies. Among these were regional [...]
Click here for more >Blockbuster’s Top 10 Rental Titles Of 2011
This intriguing top 10 chart came in a little too late for inclusion in to our top 10 of everything chart for 2011 (here); we were going to add it in to that page, but it was so mammoth already, we thought we’d give this some space of its own. So here are Blockbuster’s 10 [...]
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