Update: Django Shoots First

There was some mis-communication and the wrong street date was posted and announced.

Ok... so this is a fairly pleasant mistake, as far as mistakes go.  Apparently the street date for Django Shoots First is November 10th, 2009... not November 24th.

We have the DVDs for our online store already in house and they look good.

Also, tomorrow is the street date for Gatling Gun, From the Orient with Fury, and The Man From Oklahoma.  Pre-orders are closed.  All who pre-ordered those films, your DVDs are on the way!

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Western Film Fair

Catch Rick and Enid at the convention, pick up the new cover of Sacramento there and get Michael Forest to sign it.

Rick and Enid are at the Western Film Fair in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  They have a few of our DVDs out and are taking pre-orders.  They are offering 16.95 + free shipping and handling for the four releases in October and we thought we would just pass it right onto the site as well.

They are sitting nearby Michael Forest and have the newly redesigned cover of Now They Call Him Sacramento.  We printed up a VERY limited run of them and Michael is there ready to sign them for your collection.

We also have 50 limited edition 18 x 24 inch posters of the front and back cover in pre-press form.  While you are there, try to snag one and get Michael to sign it.  If you can't make it down there and want to get one of these posters, drop an email to the DFI Store via the Contact Us page and Rick will be in touch.

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Release Dates: Gatling Gun and three others

October 27th, 2009 is our street date for Gatling Gun, Django Shoots First, and the re-releases of The Man From Oklahoma and From the Orient with Fury

You can pre-order any or all of these DVDs on our store starting today.  Look for these great DVDs in your favorite retail store on October 27th, 2009.  If you want to make sure we get into your store, ask for the DVD by name and tell them to check out our website! (our distributor is ADA and any retail store can submit their orders on August 17th)

Thank you all for your patience.  We will be adding new films onto the site soon and let you know what other films are on the horizon.

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Video quality for Gatling Gun

We received the completed movie back from the two labs and it looks great.

Just finished watching the digibeta of Gatling Gun that we received from the labs.  Looks great!  Colors are nice and vibrant, clarity is great, and there is very little dust or scratches.  All in all, the video quality is great.

There were some audio drop outs that we will have our audio engineer work with.  We have received a few different video and audio sources from visitors to the site, so we are in great shape to get the movie all pieced together and finished.

Rick is going to compare the video we have with what has been released before.  The technician at the Seattle lab thought we had scenes that were not in the samples we sent him to compare the film with, which would be odd.  Should be able to have the comparison finished in the next few weeks and know if he was mistaken or if, for some reason, our print inherited some otherwise unused scenes.

Our version has a runtime of just shy of 99 minutes, which seems to match the Italian DVD sent to us.  So, it is probably just a human error and is nothing.

We hope to announce a release date for this film within the next 6 - 8 weeks.  We will be working with Ryko to see what works for both of our schedules.

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Gatling Gun - Extra Languages

Because our print was cut, all of our dubbed tracks are missing the five minute scene. Which means we can only put English unless we can find someone with an old VHS or better that is not in English..

While it is always a great extra feature to have other languages on disk, for this film we have our hands tied.

The Italian title for this film is Quel caldo maledetto giorno di fuoco.  Check out the IMDB page for this film to see the other titles and release dates.

If you have a VHS, bootleg DVD, etc that has an audio track other than English, please contact the production staff.  We would love to get this film out rather quickly though, so time is of the essence on this one.

Thanks guys, looking forward to getting this film out there and seeing the response.  It is a great film and I'm sure all you Spaghetti Western fans will love it.  One of those films that many would consider is a "real" Spaghetti Western, not like some of our fun comedy westerns.  Look for this film to be out by the end of the year.

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Gatling Gun

We have begun working on the artwork for Gatling Gun. Some early production notes for this film.

The caliber of this film is truly top notch.  It has a feel to it that you just don't find too often.  I obviously enjoyed the film quite a bit.

As is quite irritatingly the case with a lot of films recently, the print for this film had some scenes removed.  I've written in the past about how confused and agitated it always makes me feel when we come across this.  There seems to be no, even remotely logical, reason for them to do this.  It was like the lab back in the seventies and eighties didn't know how to use a VTR deck.

Anyway, we found the negative in a lab in Europe, ordered the missing video and Rick will be previewing that tape sometime in the next two weeks.

We have a pretty decent amount of artwork in house for this film.  We have a few theatrical-style posters and a few promotional-style posters.  As with any film we release though, we are always open to getting access to more artwork.  If you have some art for this film that you think would be useful to us, feel free to send the production crew an email.

We currently have a first draft of our front cover finished, check it out at the pictures page for Gatling Gun.  We have scheduled next week for working on the rest of the artwork drafts.  If I get some time, I'll upload the artwork we get done on Friday (3-13) afternoon.

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