Still riding the success of mega-award-winning BuckleRoos,COLT Studio is preparing for another run in 2006: The feature-length documentary on the making of BuckleRoos, eXposed: The Making of a Legend, has been playing film festivals all over the world and saw a DVD release late last month. "We wanted to do the film festivals first and get the buzz out," says John Rutherford, President/Creative Director. "That's really helped the sale of BuckleRoos."
The just-released Buckshot Beyond Perfect stars Jason Kingsley and Brad Patton. The COLT label will see Man Country in April, with popular exclusives Gage Weston, Luke Garrett, Carlo Masi, and Chris Wide.
Rutherford will also release a Buckshot movie called Big Rig, in stores in June with fan favorites Colby Taylor and Gus Mattox. Kristofer Weston will direct most of the other six planned Buckshot releases for 2006. Up to four COLT films and a few of the solo Minuteman series are scheduled for the year.
"One of the things that is coming more to fruition now is, 'COLT Corners' are starting to appear at different stores. Virgin Megastores have put in Corners for our calendars, clothing, and some of our COLT Gear items. And with Bruno Gmünder our European distributor, we're doing the same thing in stores in Europe."
The COLT-branded leather products should also expand to U.S. stores in 2006. "One of the fun things about it is that we're so diversified as far as the COLT brand: T-shirts, playing cards, greeting cards, magazines, calendars, hats, DVDs — it's very easy for stores to kind of place us in a corner with as much merchandise that we have."
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