Hello –In celebration of today’s much anticipated DVD & Blu Ray release of Richard Stanley’s 1990 Sci Fi Epic Hardware, we have produced an exclusive new promo featuringIggy Pop. Iggy recreates his cameo role from Hardware as Angry Bob the DJ. We hope that you will feature this !As you may already know, we have also produced a clip featuring Lemmy of Motorhead that was released last week for Hardware, the link to that you can find here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR076lrE4_I 

LOS ANGELES, CA, July 28, 2009 – Severin Films today announced the 10/13 release of the 1990 sci-fi/horror cult classic HARDWARE, the infamous feature film debut of music video visionary turned writer/director Richard Stanley (DUST DEVIL).  Originally rated X by the MPAA and subsequently edited by distributor Miramax, HARDWARE will be presented uncut and uncensored for the first time ever from a print supplied by Stanley himself. In addition, the limited edition two-disc DVD and Blu-ray will include audio commentary, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes footage, and Stanley’s never-before-seen hour-long Super 8 version of the film.

Golden Globe® winner Dylan McDermott (The Practice) stars as a post-apocalyptic scavenger who brings home a battered cyborg skull for his metal-sculptor girlfriend. But this steel scrap contains the brain of the M.A.R.K. 13, the military’s most ferocious bio-mechanical combat droid. It is cunning, cruel, and knows how to reassemble itself. Tonight, it is reborn…and no flesh shall be spared. Stacey Travis (GHOST WORLD) co-stars – along with appearances by Iggy Pop, Lemmy of Motörhead and music by Ministry and Public Image Ltd. – in this kick-ass sci-fi thriller that New York Newsday hailed as “thought provoking and disturbing”, and Fangoria still calls “gritty, trippy and frightening…HARDWARE is one of the best horror movies you’ve never seen. 

“They say ‘once in every generation a plague shall fall upon you’,” says director Richard Stanley, “and so it is that after an absence of almost two decades I am proud to announce the second coming of HARDWARE to American shores in its full, savage, psychedelic, utterly unexpurgated and wholly unrated glory. We have relished working with Severin films and Norman Hill of Subversive Cinema – who oversaw the successful 2008 release of DUST DEVIL – to fully restore, remix and remaster HARDWARE for its first appearance on DVD and to provide the viewing public with an experience unlike anything they have ever seen before. You have been warned!”

“One of the most ferocious sci-fi/horror films of our time is long overdue for rediscovery,” says Carl Daft, co-founder and CEO of Severin Films. “And to now be able to restore HARDWARE to Richard’s original vision is an absolute honor. Furthermore, the scope and breadth of never-before-seen materials being supplied by Richard virtually guarantees that this will be one of the top genre discs of the year. This is what you want, this is what you get.”

Severin Films was formed in 2006 with offices in Los Angeles and London. Their previous releases include THE SINFUL DWARF, recent Goya Award winner Jess Franco’s MACUMBA SEXUAL and BLOODY MOON, Walerian Borowczyk’s IMMORAL WOMEN, the unrated Director’s Cut of GWENDOLINE starring Tawny Kitaen, Oscar® nominee Patrice Leconte’s international hit THE HAIRDRESSER’S HUSBAND, and Enzo Castellari’s original action classic INGLORIOUS BASTARDS.

AMERICAN rock ‘n’ roll legend Iggy Pop is planning to reform Iggy and the Stooges to perform their seminal album Raw Power, 36 years after it was released.

The news will please Pop and Stooges fans around the world, who, for a variety of reasons, have not seen the group play some of its most famous songs, such as Search and Destroy, Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell and Shake Appeal. Three of the four original members of the Michigan band re-formed as the Stooges in 2003 and toured regularly for five years, including in Australia, but they played nothing from Raw Power because the band’s line-up changed after its first two albums, the Stooges and Funhouse. The band became Iggy and the Stooges to make their third album in 1973, guitarist Ron Asheton was replaced by James Williamson and Asheton played bass.Also, Pop was a heroin addict at the time, one of the contributing factors in the Michigan group’s split soon after the album came out and flopped. Asheton, whose brother Scott is the Stooges drummer, died of a heart attack in January this year. Pop, 62, told The Australian on Tuesday that he had plans to re-unite with the remaining Iggy and the Stooges line-up, with noughties Stooges addition Mike Watt on bassPop said that while the original Stooges ended with Asheton’s death, “there is always Iggy and the Stooges, the second growth of the band”. “I had a meeting in LA last week with James (Williamson),” Pop said. “It was the first time we had seen each other in 30 years. So we talked about doing something together. Raw Power would be the repertoire.” The landmark album, mixed by Pop’s friend David Bowie, has been cited by Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain and many other rock stars as their favourite album and is considered one of the most influential in rock history, despite the fact that it sold so poorly on release. He also revealed that Asheton had left six or seven “hard-driving rhythm tracks” that could also be used in a future project. Pop, who has had a largely successful solo career for the past 30 years, has just released a left-field, jazz-influenced album, Preliminaires, inspired by French writer Michel Houellebecq’s novel, The Possibility of an Island. From: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25511689-601,00.html 

I’m truly saddened to report the death of one my heros, Ron Asheton. He was found dead this morning. The cause of death is believed to have been a heart attack. I have seen him play with the reunited Stooges many times as they were one of my favorite bands. If you didn’t see them live, you don’t know what you were missing.  I would recommend that everyone pick up a copy of The Stooges’ Funhouse (if you don’t have it already) and listen to in tribute.

More on Ron Asheton:

 http://www.nme.com/news/the-stooges/41900