Movie Legends Re-authoring for Brightspark

We have been re-authoring some DVD titles for Brightspark from their Movie Legends range - older black and white movies from Hollywood Legends like John Wayne (The Man from Utah & The Star Packer), Robert Mitchum (Gung Ho) and Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope (Road to Bali). T...

Kung Fu Assassin DVD Authoring

Maniac Films have been working on a DVD release of the 2008 2-part Kung Fu mini-series Kung Fu Assassin, starring David Carradine & Daryl Hannah. The following is a brief synopsis: 1929. China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire prov...

UFO DVD Authoring for Italian release

We have just completed a 13 disk DVD authoring run of Gerry Anderson's UFO, a science fiction TV series first broadcast in 1970. The authoring has been carried out for Content Partners who have been working with the Italian distributor to arrange the release. Each disk contains 2...

DVD authoring for Lucky Lady re-release

Maniac Films have been working on a DVD re-release of the 1975 comedy-drama film 'Lucky Lady', starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minellia and Burt Reynolds Set during the Prohibition era, we follow a young widow, Claire (Liza Minelli), who gets involved in liquor smuggling and romance...

DVD authoring for The Dark Corner 70th anniversary

We have just completed DVD authoring for a re-release of the 1946 black & white film 'The Dark Corner'. The film tells the story of Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens), a tough private investigator who, when he realizes that he's being followed, confronts his assailant, a shifty ...

Angler Walkabout DVD encoding for Amazon streaming

We have been re-encoding the two Angler Walkabout fly fishing documentary films we helped edit by Julian Wicksteed to make them compatible for the Amazon online streaming service. Julian sells his DVDs and fly fishing books through his own website www.anglerwalkabout.com and also through A...

DCP building for Ilfracombe Film Festival

We have been building DCP (Digital Cinema Packages) for lots of short films for the Big Film Weekend at Ilfracombe Cinema. The Ilfracombe film festival is screening loads of 'Sea' related films over the weekend of 22-24th April 2016 with classic films like South Pacific, Point Brea...

The Inhabitants DVD Authoring for retail

We have just finished authoring a new DVD release for Three Wolves, The Inhabitants. This film has some pedigree in that it is from the writers of John Carpenters 'The Ward'. The Inhabitants is a horror film that was released in 2015. It tells the story of a couple who buy an hist...

Serco Training multi-lingual DVD authoring

We have been busy creating multi-lingual DVD masters for Serco corp's 'Our Code' training films that highlight the corporate code for Serco employees operating in the UK and overseas. We have created an NTSC master with special USA and Canadian only versions and a different PAL...

River Monsters Italian DVD box set coming soon

We're just starting to work on a new DVD box set for River Monsters, the popular extreme fishing TV show starring fisherman and biologist Jeremy Wade. We will be building the 48 episodes into a set of discs for the Italian Market with dubbed Italian langauge. We will be creating new me...

Replication for Destined To Survive Holocaust DVD

In 2009, we worked with Film-maker Fiona Evans and Director Jonathan Marshall MBE to create a DVD release of a documentary whcih they had been working on. The documentary, titled 'Destined To Survive', is the spoken testimony of Solly Irving, a Holocaust Survivor. Solly makes regu...

The Fortune Teller - DVD authoring for retail

Maniac Films have just authored a DVD release of The Fortune Teller - a supernatural horror film about a widow who is terrorised by an entity in her home. The film tells the story of Samantha, an actress who is employed as a fake Fortune Teller, but is thoroughly sceptic about all things ...

NTSC DVD Authoring & Replication for Absolute Dogs NTSC

Following on from the DVD production that we did for Absolute Dogs back in December, we have just finished creating an NTSC edition of their Naughty But Nice dog training DVD Naughty But Nice is a series of 3 films, totalling 2h 45mins that take dog and puppy owners through a range of tec...

The Dreamwarrior DVD authoring

We have finished authoring an Emmy award winning movie The Dreamwarrior (formally Dreamkeeper) to DVD. This film won the American Indian Movie Film Festival Award for the Best Film and Prime time Emmy Awards for The most outstanding special visual effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Speci...

DVD authoring for Between Two Worlds feature film

We have just completed DVD authoring for the first UK release of British rom-com, Between Two Worlds. This film has a great British cast including Chris Mason (Legend), Hannah Britland (Rush, Skins) and Lucien Laviscount (Waterloo Road, Coronation Street), but it has been making head...

DCP Encoding for Festivals and Distribution

DCP (Digital Cinema Package) encoding from £30 + vat. DCP creation is the final step in film production for the delivery of a digital, high-resolution master for screening on digital cinema screens - for film festivals or for cinema distribution in preference to Apple Prores HQ. M...

DVD & Blu-ray Authoring/Production services

Maniac Films provide a range of DVD and Blu-ray authoring & production services - from encoding & building a master disk, to simply producing multiple copies of your finished DVD. Authoring is the process of creating a DVD or Blu-ray video capable of playing on a DVD or Blu-ray pla...

DVD & Blu-ray Duplication & Replication Services

DVD & Blu-ray mastering and replication For DVD and Blu-ray runs of over 1000 copies, it is best to use replication instead of duplication. Replication is not carried out in-house, but at a dedicated factory in Europe. The process involves making a glass master disk, from which mult...