Making A Fist Of It
The full value of the limited theatrical platform and shortened cinema to home entertainment windows and how it can work in tandem with a strong publicity campaign, has been highlighted this week with the launch of Salute from Arrow. The film is due at cinemas today (July 13) and it looks as if Arrow’s faith and [...]
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With Father’s Day almost upon us, and with a raft of promotions in stores and online, it’s worth pulling out at least one title that should have any industry veteran, old horror fan or VHS devotee, positively drooling over. At one end of the spectrum, HMV has scored The Muppets as coming out tops as [...]
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Another week, another box set feature… In recent weeks, both the Mail On Sunday’s You magazine and the Daily Telegraph have trotted out extensive features on TV on DVD, box sets and how they’ve changed the writers’ respective lives, loves, family activities and more. It’s as if the writers have just discovered TV on DVD [...]
Click here for more >Making A Killing…
The high profile DVD release of The Killing 2, the much anticipated follow up to the hit TV show of the year, due in December, marks the next stage in the development of the ambitious Arrow operation. The Arrow Films brand is not a new one to the market, in fact it’s one of [...]
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It was around the time that Momentum’s Zombie Virus On Mulberry Street came out. This writer was having a sabbatical away from trade journalism and working on the creative and design agency side, and was chatting with another distributor. “All bets are off,” he said to us. “They got away with it and didn’t get [...]
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Looking to launch a film or DVD close to home during the summer months? Then head the Scotland’s cultural capital Edinburgh, for its annual international film festival, EIFF. The event is increasingly being used for DVD and limited theatrical bows and, if the timing is right, then it can be a great platform. Here three [...]
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The Arrow Video imprint is continuing its ongoing series of releases of classic slices of old video goodness, the kind that The Raygun grew up on. Vamp is not necessarily a change in direction for the label’s output – it is, after all, 18-rated, it’s a horror film and it came to prominence during the [...]
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His career spans some five decades. He’s made some of the most influential horror films of the modern era. He’s introduced UK and US audiences to fright flicks from outside the English-speaking world. His choice of music has been almost as seminal within horror and music circles, taking in psych rock and moving into Italian [...]
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We covered this on last week’s Raygun newsletter, but it really is worth closer inspection. It’s the latest from Arrow Video, the Arrow Films imprint that deals in classic old video fare, films predominantly from what we’d called the golden age of video – the 1970s and 80s – often wrongly dubbed nasties, but horror [...]
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