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!

Filed Under:

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.

Filed Under:

Contest - Win free upcoming DVDs

While we work like madmen to get some artwork out to print, we are calling on your help.

Until Friday June 5th, 2009 we are running a contest with the prizes being one free copy of EACH of the following DVDs when they are released in stores:

- Mission Bloody Mary

- From the Orient with Fury

- Special Mission Lady Chaplin

- Tiffany Memorandum

- Fuller Report

What you have to do

We are looking for five summaries (one for each of these films) to be included on the back cover of the DVD.  Entries must be 250 - 300 words, be safe for store shelves (no vulgar language, et al.), and have to be in English.  Entries with correct spelling and grammar will receive more attention.  No duplicate entries, but you may submit as many new works as you desire.  Any submission must be YOUR works.

What to include

A bit about the plot, some selling points, recognition for cast and crew that were outstanding in this and other performances.  Pick up your DVD collection and read through some of the different synopsis to get further ideas.

Creativity counts major, so we leave it up to you.

Will you receive credit?

Absolutely.  When we have picked winners, we will contact them and ask for a "by line" to include below their summary.

When will the winners receive the DVDs?

They will receive it on (or as close as possible to) the street date for these films.  Since none of these films currently HAVE a street date, patience will be essential.  This is a way for all those who have purchased these films to get a chance to get the updated releases for free.  While we can't offer that to everyone, we can at least get you this close.

Any questions or anything I miss?

Drop us an email to the webmaster or leave a comment below.  Check out the submission form at http://www.doradofilms.com/eurospies-contest.php.

Filed Under:

Eurospy animated menus

Might be getting a bit of free help next week, probably use it to create some animated menus for some DVDs.

For those who bought the three Eurospies, what did you think of the menus?  Was the animation / video and any transitions something that added to, subtracted from, or was of no consequence to the final product.

Before we re-release these films, we are trying to decide whether slightly updating the current menus will be sufficient or if our time would be better suited in creating brand new menus.

I'm slightly biased since I worked on quite a few of those menus.  Could they have been better?  I would be surprised if there wasn't at least something the crew could have done to make it better.

If you have any ideas, suggestions, comments, etc... leave us a comment.

Filed Under:

New DVD covers

We are doing some polishing to some of our old DVDs because of a pending retail contract.

We are in the process of redoing our DVDs for retail distribution.  We finally got into a distribution company who will be putting our products into retail stores around the US, and possibly even abroad.  They asked us to work up some different covers as they didn't think our old ones would sell too well.  A few of the covers were fine, but since we were redoing some we figured we would polish off all of them.

We have a new, more eye appealing template that no longer has the solid, flat bars on the top and bottom.  We added icons to the back covers to allow quick and easy review of where the DVD can play and what format the film is presented in.  Along with that, we pushed the barcode up more, giving us some more real estate on the back cover.  We managed to free up almost all of the front cover space, only taking a small section of the top left corner.  We haven't passed the covers on to the distribution company yet, but I think you will agree that they are a vast improvement over the old covers.

The Last Gun

Not really too much different actually.  We were able to make the cover image larger, filling up almost the entire cover.  Instead of the generic font for the cover, we traced the title directly from the film.  Decided to add the original Italian name to the cover, to avoid confusion with another film named The Last Gun.  Added the producer and director.  back cover is more more elegant and it is not as crowded.  Added a few more images showing the other main actors as well.

From the Orient with Fury

This cover was not as good as it should have been.  Back when we released it, we didn't have a lot of art assets for the film and we could only work with what we had.  Now, we have some more to choose from and we decided to use part of our old assets and part of a flyer we dug up that had a rather stylish look to it.  The front cover features part of the flyer.  The original flyer had different text where we put "Ken Clark is Agent 077 in" and "From the Orient with Fury", but beyond that we only laid the other cast and crew information right on top of the image.  It looks SO much better.  For the back cover we used the theme from the front cover and created a background suitably featuring the city and Margaret Lee from the old front cover.  We moved the old Ken Clark cutout over a bit and the back cover was basically done.  Personally, this is my favorite cover right now.  It is not finished, but it is such an improvement on the original already.

Mission Bloody Mary

No one seemed to think the old cover for this film was bad.  But, we took advantage of our new template and used the extra space to provide a bit more information about the cast and crew.  The back cover was polished up a bit and looks nice and sharp.  It blends better with the DVD menus now too.

The Three Musketeers of the West

Not too much different from what we had before, just moved some cover elements around a bit and it made room to fit one screenshot image.  Just a note, we still haven't heard back from the lab in Paris about the audio track, but we are not giving up on it.  We are nagging them until they let us know the price so we can finish the project.

Filed Under: