If I have bought and paid for the DVD or Blu-Ray, I will share it with whoever I like and there is nothing you or anyone can do about it, as I own the film.

Wrong you purchased a license to play the DVD or Blu-Ray disc on your player or pc, the license does not include uploading the content on the disc to the internet, you may back-up or lend your copy of the disc to a friend, you may not sell copies of the disc to other people.

With a digital file that would be Copyright theft if you uploaded the file to the internet then you still have your copy, and anyone else who wants it can make a copy as well.

Films cost too much or I don’t have a job and I only buy movies after watching them.

At the most extreme you are saying film makers should produce a film and give everyone a copy for free, do you see how that does not work?

Why would anyone produce a movie or any other creative work that cost money without making that back, in the real world not all movies are made in Hollywood and have budgets of millions of dollars/pounds, independent film makers live without backing from studios and work for a living and may never see a profit.

This is theft,  the only thing is that people have a distorted view of the world that all digital copies doesn’t count, it’s still the same as bootlegging, the film makers see no profits only the people violating.

By downloading and not buying new films and other media you condemn the world to films like SAW 8 and Hostal 4, and the music of  Justin Bieber, Rebecca Black  and Lady GaGa.

In the first issue of our new production diary we will be discussing some of our older production that have bitten the dust or have just proving hard to continue funding, and also a look at the upcoming movie Danger of Death.

1. DefCon
Just before filming stopped we ran into trouble over not being able to find suitable shooting locations within budget, and two of the actors unable to film there scenes midway into shooting, recasting the parts with two new actors was impossible, parts of this production will be used other films or shorts.

2. There’s Always Wednesday
This film was in it’s ninth draft and out on the indefinite hold list before filming even started.

3. Operation: Sweet Death
As some of you may know already know Operation: Sweet Death is now in pre-production with a fixed budget, with a opportunity to use an existing film franchise name worldwide, so the name for this production is using a place-holder name for the time being, Set in the aftermath of a nuclear power plant meltdown.

4. Danger of Death
This will be our last production released on DVD, as we move over to full HD workflow and Blu-Ray only releases, Danger of Death will have release a in December.

This is just a quick update about a few things on the website, first Maniac and Maniac The Revenge have both been digitally re-mastered from the original master tapes, the last edition were taking from a lousy u-Matic master and to say the image quality was questionable was a understatement, anybody who ordered the first edition on DVD will be sent a the two replacement disc in the next few weeks.

Our first 1080p HD film is just about compete, and we are about to start testing the Blu-Ray disc for compatibility, reading a few forums about the issue, it seems a lot of brand name players can’t play burned disc without encryption on the discs which is something we don’t have access to, so it seems that our first HD feature film may only come out on the DVD format.

A few weeks ago “Pop Hak” emailed us about a bootleg DVD from china called Death Cemetery which is a renamed copy of our film The Graveyard of Death which is infact just the workprint from disc two of the Limited Edition and not the full 96 minutes edition, so keep a eye out for that.

Nightmare of the Living Dead is just about finished too, a lot of video filtering has been done on the raw footage to improve visual quality of the film, just as with Zombie Ferox was our first test of this software, we hope to offer the best reconstruction of the film possible for the new DVD.

Coming this September There’s Always Wednesday, an Science Fiction film set in the Post Apocalyptic future, head over to our youtube page for an teaser trailer.

More information about the film will be posted soon with images and more.