Banger Films Official Blog

Just stumbled across this and well done to the marketing team over at the conference for exploiting social media and Facebook ads. It looks like Sam will be attending the Noctis Metal Music Conference to be held in Calgary, Alberta on September 24 of this year.

Noctis IV Metal Fest and Conference - Sept 23, 24 2010 Calgary, Alberta

The conference is part of the Metal Fest which is in it’s 4th incarnation and this year will feature a headlining act by Germany’s thrash metal hero’s SODOM. Geez I remember mostly Persecution Mania but I’m sure there was some scratchy, shitty cassete bootleg of Obsessed by Cruelty somewhere. Rather than rehash a bunch of info already spashed across the event pages I’ll just direct you to the pertinent Metal Info.

Here is the main link for all things Noctis IV Metal Fest and Conference

Check out this Facebook page for event info for the Noctis Metal Music Conference

Check out this Facebook page for even info for the Noctis IV Metal Fest

Don’t forget to Stumble, Tweet and Like all these posts!

Okay that is a bit of a long title but it communicates the topic succinctly. If you’ve been paying attention to any Rush related news feeds recently, you’ll have seen that there was a flurry of traffic for this story starting on Tuesday. This is fantastic news for the Banger Films team and Rush who will see their film distributed across a much broader geographical range.

The Toronto based film production, distribution and consulting company Tricon, is also on the hook to distribute the Metal Evolution series which is currently in production at various spots around the Metal Globe.

Here is a piece from www.channelcanada.com

Tricon Films & Television, one of North America’s strongest independent production and distribution companies, is proud to be working with award-winning production company Banger Films. With this new relationship, Tricon has acquired the international television rights to the recently theatrically released documentary RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE, which chronicles the legendary band over the past 40 years. Tricon is also set to distribute METAL EVOLUTION: THE SERIES (8 X 60), which is slated for the spring of 2011 on VH1 Classics.  “Banger Films founders Scot McFayden and Sam Dunn bring a wealth of talent, creativity and heart to their projects,” said Andrea Gorfolova, President of Tricon Films & Television. “Tricon is thrilled to be joining creative forces and distributing their products with the same passion and dedication.”

Several sites have featured the story as it broke and they are listed them below as they appeared in the news feed. You could call them the winners of the Break the News race.

The Hollywood Reporter

Village Gamer

C21 Media.Net

Channel Canada

Those are naturally a rehash of the original press release but it also demonstrates that they have done well to present their content in a way which Google is easily able to send to their news feeds.

Iron Maiden Flight 666 is set to be featured at this years Heavy Mtl festival in Montreal. If you’re anywhere in the area, don’t miss this chance to catch the award winning Banger Films documentary on the big screen!

From the Heavy MTL website:

Heavy MTL is North-America’s premier destination heavy music festival and takes place in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

The first edition of the festival took place in June 2008 and saw the likes of Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe, Disturbed, Three Days Grace, Dethklok, Anthrax, Type O Negative, Mastodon, and many others shred their way through an intense two-day celebration of heavy music.

After taking a break in 2009, Heavy MTL organizers are committed to making Heavy MTL 2010 the place to be for heavy music fans in 2010.

Heavy MTL 2010 will be held on July 24^th and 25^th in the breathtaking site that is Parc Jean-Drapeau at Île Saint-Hélène, Montréal.

Also catch the incredible documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil. A gut wrenching, hilarious and emotion filled glimpse into the past and present lives of the members of the Heavy Metal legends, Anvil.

Both movies will be shown in stark contrast to each other with a very special Q&A with the members of Anvil as well as Sam and Scot from Banger Films.

In case you missed that last part = Don’t miss this chance to see last years 2 best music documentary’s on Iron Maiden and Anvil as well as an up close and personal Question period with Sam Dunn, Scot Mcfadyen and members of Anvil!

GET YOUR TICKETS BEFORE THEY SELL OUT !!! <= Click that eh..

Anvil: The Story of Anvil

Iron Maiden Flight 666

Rush has released another exclusive video teaser to their YouTube channel. These clips are not found anywhere else on line!! This is the official Rush Beyond the Lighted Stage Youtube Channel so be sure to ‘fave’ it and check back often in the run up to the DVD/Blu Ray release.

The page did 25,000 views since the first announcement was made yesterday.

Pre-Order your copy TODAY => Click to Pre-Order Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage

Check out the Rush YouTube Channel (click the image below)

Check out the Rush Youtube Channel

Hi Folks. Fantastic news (for those of you in these areas) !! The Rush documentary is set to release to a select few Canadian Theatres on June 10, 2010. Be sure to keep an eye on the theatres and don’t miss out!! Here, I’ll just get to the point below:

EXPERIENCE IT.

ONE NIGHT ONLY THURSDAY, JUNE 10 at 7pm

RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage is Released to the Following Theaters:

SCOTIABANK THEATRE, TORONTO

CINEMARK TINSELTOWN, VANCOUVER

THE UPTOWN, CALGARY

CINEMA DU PARC, MONTREAL

CINEMA LE CLAP, QUEBEC CITY

* Additional Le Clap screenings on Fri June 11 at 7 & 9:15pm and Sat June 12th at 9:15pm *

There is a ton of great press out there and some scathingly terrible review as well, which are quite hilarious, and clearly do nothing to serve the good of the writer. Here, check this one out. Some fantastic quotes in here especially “Lead singer and bassist Geddy Lee‘s high-pitched voice, especially, is a demon wail of an epileptic cat with cancer — a banshee on helium.” => magic..

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/04/agonies_of_rush.php

Also to get you in the mood here are a few clips  from various places (thanks Darren for sending these over)

Lovely interview with a few dudes: You need to flip over to the Tube cuz they disabled embed. But come back and tell us what you think!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_UUsxoFWpo

Audio interview by Richard Crouse:

Part 2

Enjoy Kids, Good luck finding tickets to the shows cuz they’re gonna sell out!!