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 >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 >Trust Recruits Superhero
Anyone visiting the cinema over the Easter weekend may have caught a glimpse of this, the latest Moments Worth Paying For advert from the Industry Trust For IP Awareness. Representing something of a coup for the anti-piracy group, which has been at the forefront of the fight against copyright theft, educating the public about why [...]
Click here for more >A Monster Of A Movie
As anyone who reads The Raygun, especially our regular The Week In Video column, will know that we watch a fair few films during our regular working week, working through our hefty to watch pile, only to see more and more being added to this. In this never-ending task – as soon as you think [...]
Click here for more >(Out)post Of The Day
Flippant as it may sound, Nazis have made something of a comeback recently. But this is not real-life fascists or Hitler worshipping far right nutters in eastern Europe and beyond we’re talking about here, rather a direct to video craze that has seen Nazis move from their usual terrain – war movies –into other areas. [...]
Click here for more >“Get Your Trousers On Pirates… You’re Nicked!”
The latest in the award-winning Moments Worth Paying For campaign, the Industry Trust-led initiative aimed at highlighting the importance of our creative industries to the film-making process – and the kind of feelings they can inspire – has gone live at UK cinemas. Announced a few weeks ago (and featured on our newsletter), the latest [...]
Click here for more >A Unique Experience
His comments and thoughts range from the inspirational to the completely barking, moving from the forthcoming Olympics to telepathy, by way of primitive synthesisers and the contemporary art world. He’s well into his 80s, and dressed in a manner that can only be described as “outlandish”; it’s impossible not to like Bruce Lacey, artist, sometime [...]
Click here for more >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 [...]
Click here for more >Cross Promotion
It started with a competition to promote a DVD release and now the Daddy Cross is expanding even further. The priest with a somewhat twisted sense of retribution and divine justice harks back to the golden years of British exploitation films, but has had to get out the collection plate to finish showing off his [...]
Click here for more >Lemon Aid For The Trust
The award-winning Induistry Trust For IP Awareness’ ongoing Moments Worth Paying For has further champions in the shape of one of the UK’s leading operators and one of its future film stars, one who’s already a television personality but who’s making his big-screen feature debut this summer. Yes, the Industry Trust has teamed up with [...]
Click here for more >Give It Some Wallop…
This, noted celebrated writer and bon viveur Robin Turner (one of the driving forces behind the excellent Caught By The River website and its assorted offshoots), is a vision of what pubs used to be like… Speaking at the launch of Roll Out The Barrel, the latest archive collection of odds and sods from the [...]
Click here for more >None More Black
Regular readers of this website or The Raygun newsletter will know of our admiration for the BFI’s marvellous Flipside imprint, the label dedicated to unearthing lost and forgotten classics, often with a particularly sleazy bent, and predominantly from the 1960s and 1970s. It’s done it again with its next batch. As well as Nightbirds, a [...]
Click here for more >Across The Great Divide
Every time we head in to Momentum’s West End offices, we end up having an enthusiastic conversation with its marketing team about post-apocalyptic thrillers. It’s a genre beloved of the independent and us at The Raygun too. Not only does it make for exciting fare (although we always feel that we’d survive about five minutes [...]
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