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 >Everything’s Coming Up Roses
When your first proper full movie release takes something like £44 million at UK cinemas and shifts more than 2 million units in its first couple of months (on its way to 2.5 million sales to date), you’d be forgiven for thinking that a company such as 4DVD would have jumped headfirst into the feature [...]
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 >Playing It For Laughs
4DVD has gone from a standing start to becoming one of the biggest players in the comedy sector in the past decade and now commands an impressive market share. Where it’s succeeded in recent years is in developing a fully-formed strategy, one where it is signing acts on A&R deals, watching the comedians develop routines, [...]
Click here for more >Father, Dear Father
He’s one of the most enduring comedy creations of the past few decades, consistently topping polls on TV from both comics, critics and, crucially, audiences too. His catchphrases – or at least one single word, “feck”, have crossed over into the popular lexicon. Each year, the complete adventures of this character and his colleagues sell [...]
Click here for more >A Midnight Launch
Fans queued overnight outside HMV’s flagship Oxford Street store in the heart of London for a Midnight launch, although the event itself didn’t take place until the next evening… Confused? Let us explain further: the Midnight we’re referring to are Internet sensations A Midnight Beast, who’ve gone from youtube to their own show in a [...]
Click here for more >New DVD-friendly Inbetweeners Trailer
This link to a trailer we’ve embedded here landed in our inbox just as we were finishing all our special coverage for The Inbetweeners Movie, including a special edition of The Raygun newsletter and all the content you can see here on our website. It’s a specially adapted trailer for the film, with added DVD [...]
Click here for more >Knee-Deep In Point Of Sale…
We’ve got plenty of coverage for The Inbetweeners Movie on our website and in our special edition of The Raygun newsletter and here’s some more in the shape of some of the point of sale that’s been put together by 4DVD for the release. The units below will be appearing in the grocery sector and [...]
Click here for more >Stepping Out
We’ve already noted this on our newsletter, but it seems as if you can’t turn the telly on these days without seeing comic Micky Flanagan. He’s everywhere these days, appearing on most of the panel shows that are on most of the major channels, having been on the likes of The Apprentice You’re Fire, The [...]
Click here for more >Strangling Sales
Interview of the week, from where we’re standing, was the one with Frankie Boyle in the Sunday Times’ Culture supplement at the weekend. We mentioned it in our round-up of the weekend’s press coverage, but seeing as we can’t link to the feature without making someone pay for the privilege, but try this: he hates [...]
Click here for more >Take Hart
Good to see Miranda back on our screens this week, with the arrival of the second series of her eponymous show on BBC2. It’s neatly timed to coincide with the release of the first series via 4DVD and, if you’ve been looking, you’ll probably have seen Miranda ads in assorted newspapers and magazines and she’s [...]
Click here for more >The Return Of The Real Skins
When The Raygun chats to the affable and friendly Vicky McClure, less than 48 hours after her starring role in This Is England 86, she’s still enjoying the buzz surrounding the transmission of one of the most eagerly anticipated and well received television programmes of the year. The series has achieved a distinction that is [...]
Click here for more >‘Rave’ On
We’ve already covered this extensively (see here), but we were sent this viral clip for 4DVD’s Beyond The Rave, released on September 13) and liked it so much, we thought it worth posting up here. The title, of course, is the first to carry the Hammer logo for some years. And, as you should be [...]
Click here for more >Inbetween Days
The third series of Inbetweeners is nearly upon us, with 4DVD’s release following on from the transmission and we at The Raygun, like the scores of fans who’ve bought Inbetweeners DVDs already (1 million sales across two series and one box set), can’t wait. So until it arrives, here’s a specially commissioned short, funded by [...]
Click here for more >Hammering Home The Message
It’s one of the most famous names in horror, one that is now being revitalized after lying dormant for some years; the release of Beyond The Rave, via 4DVD, sees the Hammer studio rising from its slumber. It’s the first of a series of programmes and films that is aiming to restore the studio to [...]
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