Who Exposes Himself
The arrival of a Timelord is not to be sniffed at at the best of times, but the current incarnation of the good Doctor’s arrival at the MCM Expo, the bi-annual film, comic and anime convention held at London’s Excel centre in the east of the city, gave a major boost to the event. For, [...]
Click here for more >Cav Some Of That
Cyclist Mark Cavendish, one of the sport’s highest profile stars, champion sprinter and, by all accounts, thoroughly nice bloke, popped along to HMV’s flagship Oxford Street store in the heart of London’s West End for a special signing of the newly-released DVD charting his illustrious career. Cav, as he’s affectionately known by his adoring fans, [...]
Click here for more >A Little Bit Extra
No need to phone home when you have a bike to get you there… This bunch of cyclists took to the streets to celebrate the release of E.T. The Extra Terrestrial on Blu-ray for the first time. Universal sent the cyclists out and about in London’s West End for the launch of the Blu-ray. Clad [...]
Click here for more >Joining The Monster Club
This is a smart little piece of social media-based promotion from Universal, put together to help promote the recent release of its hugely impressive Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection on Blu-ray. It’s a spot the monsters-style graphic drawn up by the studio and, as well as appearing here on our website, it’s been pushed [...]
Click here for more >The RECing Crew
It started with a tweet on a Friday afternoon, sent in the direction of @theraygun. It told us, with some severity: “[REC] Genesis review discs are INFECTED!” Within 24 hours it was boasting scores of tweets, new followers and a whole piece of Twitter theatre – an industry first – as scores of horror writers and [...]
Click here for more >Reaping The Rewards
The launch of The Hunger Games on DVD, Blu-ray and other formats was one of the first big event releases as we move into the busiest period of the year, signifying near week after week of blockbuster titles arriving. It’s Lionsgate’s biggest release ever in the UK and the fast-growing company showed that it [...]
Click here for more >Brawl In The Game
July 2011 and The Raygun, along with hordes of other film fans, are queuing in the pouring rain outside XOYO, a relatively new venue in London’s fashionable east end, for the premiere of Hobo With A Shotgun. It’s organised the event as part of a brief theatrical campaign for the launch of the film. Brief [...]
Click here for more >Keeping It Real
Scream as dinosaurs run free outside Buckingham Palace… Flee in terror as a giant ape climbs up the side of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square… Stand open-mouthed as a futuristic De Lorean car quite literally flies past Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament… These may seem like scenes from sequels to blockbuster films such [...]
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WIth their pre-teen appeal and cartoon-like appearance, twins Jedward are the perfect vehicle to help promote Warner’s long-running franchise Scooby-Doo! and here are the duo alongside the cartoon mutt to help push the major’s latest activity surrounding the dog and his pals. As we reported on our most recent newsletter, supermarket giant Sainsbury’s has put [...]
Click here for more >Rio Dancing, Not Quite On The Sand
Here’s a brace of stars from current primetime Saturday evening hit show Strictly Come Dancing marking the launch of Rio with a special samba workshop. Camilla Dallerup and Ian Waite turned up at the giant Westfield shopping centre in west London to help promote the Fox release this Monday (October 24). The release was neatly [...]
Click here for more >Momentum Injects Some Passion
Momentum is getting right on one for its avid house actioner Weekender, released this week after a brief theatrical outing. It has left no stone unturned and no viral avenue unexplored for this tale of rave era entrepreneurs who get mixed up with some rather nasty gangsters. We’ve already looked extensively at much of its [...]
Click here for more >A Frosty Reception
Best pals Simon Pegg and Nick Frost understand what makes fans tick, they are, after all, the ultimate fan boys turned film stars themselves. And when it comes to supporting a release the duo, who had become best pals before hitting paydirt with Spaced and, later, films such as Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz [...]
Click here for more >A Whole New World
Our youngest correspondent at The Raygun is a massive Peppa Pig fan, and his support for the brand alone makes this worth posting. But it’s also worth keeping and eye on Peppa this year. Not only is it a remarkable homegrown success story, but it manages to keep going from strength to strength. The Easter [...]
Click here for more >Potter Takes To The Streets And Stores
There was no Deathly silence in HMV’s flagship Oxford Street store last week, as the Harry Potter roadshow rolled into town to mark the DVD and Blu-ray release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1. Cast from the ongoing series, including the likes of Mark Williams and the irrepressible Warwick Davies were greeted [...]
Click here for more >Treading Water
Here’s the Dawn Treader, the eponymous star of the latest Chronicles Of Narnia release, sailing into the heart of London to help launch pre-sales for the April 18 release of Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. The near full-size replica copy of the ship sailed the seas, or rather the Thames, around St Katherine’s Dock and [...]
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