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Sayonara DVD

By on September 11, 2011 in DVD

The day has finally come for me to say goodbye to DVD. In the mid nineties, I recall car booting all my entire and beloved vinyl collection as I shifted up to CD. Then five years ago I digitised all my CDs to MP3 and stored the old disks in wallets in the loft. Now [...]

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Will British Film Rise Like A Phoenix From The Sony Warehouse Fire?

By on August 13, 2011 in DVD, VOD, WTF

Guest blogger David Wilkinson of UK Distribution outfit Guerilla Films, tells us about the longer term impacts of the riots and the fire at the Sony distribution warehouse. What was I to do with 1,400 DVD’s of RABBIT ON THE MOON a British/ Mexican co-production that were only selling 4-5 copies per year? I asked [...]

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London Riots… the aftermath for film distribution

By on August 11, 2011 in DVD, WTF

As the streets of Ealing return to normal, the longer term impact of the riots begin to show themselves. On TV, many of you will have seen a huge Sony warehouse burning to the ground. What you might not know is that was a distribution warehouse for DVD, BluRay and games. 25 million disks went [...]

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Our 1,000th Gone Fishing DVD is sold… meet the film maker and read the review!

Our 1,000th Gone Fishing DVD is sold… meet the film maker and read the review!

By on March 4, 2010 in DVD, Gone Fishing, Guest Blog

Last month we sold our 1,000th copy of Gone Fishing on DVD (trailer here). So I asked Nick, the buyer to share his thoughts on the film, and his own film making journey. I first became aware of Chris Jones when I purchased the 2nd edition of “The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook.  I was 23 [...]

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Did you know, before I was a film maker, I was a stunt double for Santa? Really!

Did you know, before I was a film maker, I was a stunt double for Santa? Really!

By on December 7, 2009 in DVD

XMAS SPECIAL, BUY 1 GONE FISHING DVD, GET 1 FREE! That’s right, two for one – and we promise that the DVD’s will be sent with love from Santa and his little helpers. Really. Honestly. Truly. Not many people know this, but aside from being the writer and director of Gone Fishing, I was also [...]

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Make your life easy and avoid the Christmas rush!

Make your life easy and avoid the Christmas rush!

By on November 5, 2009 in DVD, Feedback, Gone Fishing

It’s getting to that time of year isn’t it – the terror of Xmas shopping for friends and relatives when you have no clue what they could want! For me it’s even worse in reverse, when my close family and friends keep asking ‘what do you want for Xmas…?’ and I just don’t know – [...]

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DVD sales still going strong…

By on July 23, 2009 in DVD, Feedback, Gone Fishing

I wanted to share an email I got from a film maker friend, Dave Fussell, who bought several copies of ‘Gone Fishing’ on DVD as presents. We have had extraordinary feedback from people who received ‘Gone Fishing’ as a gift, especially those of the older generation, who are not interested too much in the internet [...]

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Patronus Protects DVD's from piracy…

Patronus Protects DVD's from piracy…

By on February 27, 2009 in DVD, Magazine Articles, Piracy

I have just arrived at the Sedona Film Festival in Arizona, and will be letting you know how it akk goes… On the flight over, I have been working on a feature for MovieScope magazine about piracy. It’s not going to be the usual ‘outrage at copyright theft’ and ‘how to stop pirates’ article, but [...]

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Gone Fishing DVD comments

Gone Fishing DVD comments

By on January 8, 2009 in DVD, Gone Fishing

I have been getting feedback from people who have bought the DVD, on the movie and the whole package, and I thought I would share some of them with you… Remember, if you want your own copy in PAL or NTSC, you can still buy it here…  And if you are new to the blog, [...]

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Christmas Push for Gone Fishing

Christmas Push for Gone Fishing

By on December 2, 2008 in DVD

I am attempting to get the Gone Fishing DVD out there for Christmas and have set the INCREDIBLE target of selling 1,000 DVDs! This will fund the final Oscar push in January. I just emailed out to my user group, but if you read this, please consider sending it out to everyone you know too. [...]

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Chat track recording for the DVD release… all done!

Chat track recording for the DVD release… all done!

By on November 27, 2008 in DVD

Over the last couple of days I have been recording the commentary tracks for the Gone Fishing DVD (which you can now buy with the link to the left here). When I started to plan this, the first thing that I realised is that because Gone Fishing is only 13 minutes long, it would be [...]

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Subtitles for Festivals

Subtitles for Festivals

By on February 20, 2008 in DVD, Festivals, Premiere

I have been working on festival plans today, and specifically on the world premiere. Cannes is looming and it would be great to get into competition there and give them the world premiere. I have been reliably informed that if we have already done French subtitles, that will work in our favour – and so [...]

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Final DVD – death and resurrection!

Final DVD – death and resurrection!

By on February 20, 2008 in DVD, Rocketboy, SFX

I had just about mastered the final DVD’s for Gone Fishing, in both PAL and NTSC, with both Dolby Digital and DTS sound, with perfect picture (even the NTSC thanks to a great system trascoder called Canopus Procoder 3)… And then I got the dreaded email. We had missed a person off the credits. And [...]

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PAL DVD of Gone Fishing Complete

PAL DVD of Gone Fishing Complete

By on February 15, 2008 in DVD, Software, Sound

Yesterday I completed the PAL DVD for ‘Gone Fishing’. This DVD is for showing to festival co-ordinators and people who may be interested in the new features I am writing. For now, it won’t be available to anyone else, not even my family! (as I explained on the blog before, we need to keep tight [...]

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One day to go…

One day to go…

By on January 11, 2008 in DVD, Premiere, Screenings

One day to go… And the film is still not complete! And BAFTA keep changing their minds about what we can and cannot do in terms of screening… And I am about to have a heart attack! The seminar is all coming together nicely though, and it looks like it will be an amazing day. [...]

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