Upcoming Releases

[filmlover]

classicflix.com has posted the artwork to the rereleases of Funny Face and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Love both covers, especially the one for Funny Face.

 

http://www.classicflix.com/artwork-added-funny-face-breakfast-tiffanys-a-364.html?osCsid=44a790ee39739aa03430a7f9529383a1

[Film_Fatale]

*Love both covers, especially the one for Funny Face.*

 

The *Funny Face* one is great - but the one for *Breakfast at Tiffany's* seems to have been used for every single video release of the movie.

[filmlover]

I think it only seems that way... : )

 

http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-at-Tiffanys-Audrey-Hepburn/dp/6305537321/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1224799486&sr=8-10

 

http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Tiffanys-Special-Aniversary-Collectors/dp/B000BTGY1O/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1224799486&sr=8-1

 

Current:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Tiffanys-Paramount-Centennial-Collection/dp/B001HPP2XW/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1224799486&sr=8-11

[Film_Fatale]

Well, my mind seems to be playing tricks on me!

[TripleHHH]

Its probably been mentioned here, but this Tuesday is a great day for comedy as both the MST3K 20th Anniversary Set and the Abbott and Costello Box set are both coming out, close to 30 movies combined for laughter in different ways. Just wanted to mention it as a friendly reminder..come to think of it the Little Rascals is this Tuesday as well...more "LOL"ing

[filmlover]

I wonder if we are going to see any more major announcements for the end of the year sales. Seems like there won't be because there wouldn't be much time for retailers to place orders.

[Film_Fatale]

I agree that it's unlikely, filmlover.

 

As for next year's releases, I just read that Disney will be releasing a 20th anniversary edition of *Oliver & Co.* next February. No plans for Blu-Ray, tho, apparently.

[filmlover]

You would think they reword the official release info that says, "Finally Releasing from the Disney Vault on DVD _and_

_for the First Time EVER in High Definition!_

 

http://www.ultimatedisney.com/oliverandcompany-pressrelease-0203.html

 

Needs to be on Blu, too.

[Film_Fatale]

*Needs to be on Blu, too.*

 

I hope so, too. There's no reason I can think of why they shouldn't want to release it on Blu-Ray - they're releasing *Tinker Bell* on Blu-Ray.

[edgeciff]

Sony is releasing the long awaited Michael Powell classic STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN which stars Kim Hunter and David Niven, on January 6. The DVD will also contain another unreleased Michael Powell film AGE OF CONSENT.

[Film_Fatale]

*Sony is releasing the long awaited Michael Powell classic STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN which stars Kim Hunter and David Niven, on January 6. The DVD will also contain another unreleased Michael Powell film AGE OF CONSENT.*

 

That is so exciting - it's one of my favourite Powell-Pressburger movies. I am really dying to see the cover art. Hope they used something with bright Technicolor all over it.

[filmlover]

The *Douglas Fairbanks - A Modern Musketeer* set I listed the photo and full details awhile back has been pushed back to December 2nd.

[filmlover]

A whole bunch of info of upcoming releases - _some we already know_ - from Barrie Maxwell over at digitalbits.com:

 

AC Comics' latest serial plans include *Jungle Girl: The Complete Nyoka Serial Collection* (both *Jungle Girl* [1941] and *Nyoka and the Tigermen* [1942] on a 4-disc offering, set for a September release); *Flying Disc Man from Mars* (1950, October release); and *The Invisible Monster* (1950, November release). All are DVD-R efforts.

 

Alpha has two waves of new releases coming. On October 28th, expect the following: *Cartoon Rarities of the 1920s*; *Crime and Punishment* (1923); *Daughter of the Night* (1920, with Bela Lugosi); *Hidden Guns* (1956, with Bruce Bennett); *Lady Luck* (1936, with Iris Adrian); *Minesweeper* (1943, with Richard Arlen); *All-American Co-Ed* (1941)/*Swing Hostess* (1944); *Night Alarm* (1934, with Bruce Cabot); *One of Our Aircraft Is Missing* (1941, with Eric Portman); *One Too Many* (1951, with Ruth Warrick); a Range Busters double bill of *Texas to Bataan* (1942)/*Tumbledown Ranch in Arizona* (1941); and a Tom Tyler double bill of *Trigger Tom* (1935)/*Santa Fe Bound* (1937). Coming on November 25th will be: a battlefield double feature of *Iron Angel* (1964)/ *Then There Were Three* (1961); *The Girl Who Came Back* (1935, with Sidney Blackmer); a Harlem double bill of *Souls of Sin* (1949)/*Murder on Lennox Avenue* (1941); a Tom Keene double feature of *Glory Trail* (1937)/ *Painted Trail* (1938); a law and order double bill of *Cross Examination* (1932)/ *Defenders of the Law* (1931); a Range Busters double bill of *Texas Trouble Shooters* (1942)/*West of Pinto Basin* (1940); a Tom Tyler double bill of *Honor of the Mounted* (1932)/*Silent Valley* (1935); *Underworld Scandal* (1948, with Phillip Reed); and a vintage 1932 double bill of *Hearts of Humanity/Hotel Continental*. Also sprinkled in among these releases are a number of 4-episode compilations of various vintage TV shows including the *Roy Rogers Show, Ozzie and Harriet, Adventures of Robin Hood*, and others. Check out the Alpha website (oldies.com) for full details.

 

BCI plans to release *The Best of Password: The CBS Years 1962-1967* on December 2nd. ?Password? was a very popular game show that featured Allen Ludden as the host. BCI's four-disc set will include 32 classic episodes.

 

Criterion has announced its January releases. They include the previously-hinted-at Douglas Sirk's *Magnificent Obsession* (1954) in a two-disc edition that includes the 1935 version starring Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor. It will arrive on January 20th. Other major supplements are an audio commentary by film scholar Thomas Doherty and *Douglas Sirk: From UFA to Hollywood* (1991): a rare 80-minute documentary by German filmmaker Eckhart Schmidt in which Sirk reflects upon his career. Coming on January 13th is Roberto Rossellini's *The Taking of Power* by *Louis XIV* (1966) and *Eclipse Series #14: Rossellini's History Films: Renaissance and Enlightment*. The latter includes *Blaise Pascal* (1972), *The Age of the Medici* (1973), and *Cartesius* (1974).

 

Disney has replaced its previously-planned Disney Treasures release of *Destino* on November 11th with *The Mickey Mouse Club Presents Annette - the 1957-1958 Season*. As previously reported, Destino will eventually show up as part of a future Blu-ray release of *Fantasia*. The studio has announced March 10th as the street date for its release of *Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition,* available as two-disc editions in both DVD and Blu-ray. The DVD will include audio commentary with Leonard Maltin, Eric Goldberg and J. B. Kaufman, song selection, a Pinocchio's Matter of Facts trivia text track, 2 deleted scenes and an alternate ending, deleted songs, the No Strings Attached: The Making of Pinocchio documentary, live action reference footage, art galleries, The Sweat Box featurette and the Pinocchio Puzzles interactive game. The Blu-ray will add the Cine-Explore option, BD-Live features (Movie Chat, Movie Mail, Movie Challenge and Disney Movie Rewards Live) and the Pinocchio Knows Trivia Challenge game. The Blu-ray will also include a bonus version of the film on standard DVD.

 

Flicker Alley has now confirmed its release of *Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer* with a revised date of December 2nd. The five-disc set includes: *His Picture In The Papers, Flirting With Fate, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish,* and *The Matrimaniac* (all 1916, produced by Triangle); *Wild and Woolly, Reaching for the Moon, and A Modern Musketeer* (all 1917-18, produced by Fairbanks for Paramount/Artcraft); *When The Clouds Roll By, The Mollycoddle, The Mark of Zorro,* and *The Nut* (1919-1921, produced by Fairbanks for United Artists). A Modern Musketeer, long thought to survive only as a fragment, is finally complete in a new restoration by the Danish Film Institute, in partnership with the Museum of Modern Art and Lobster Films, and is accompanied by an optional audio commentary by Jeffrey Vance and Tony Maietta; The Mark of Zorro is digitally mastered from an original 35mm fine grain; both of these films have new orchestral scores by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Included in the bonus material is a gallery of rare stills from Douglas Fairbanks' personal collection at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as an extensive booklet essay by Tony Maietta and Jeffrey Vance, authors of the new biography, ?Douglas Fairbanks? (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences/University of California Press, 2008) which will be published at the same time as the DVD release.

 

Fox has penciled in April 14th for a Blu-ray release of *The Seven Year Itch* (1955, with Marilyn Monroe). Hopefully that's just one of several Monroe titles that could appear on that date in high definition. Fox has also updated its classics web page. There's no startling new news there, but there is confirmation that Fox is developing new DVD editions of *The Robe* (1953, CinemaScope and flat versions), *The French Connection* (1971) and *The French Connection II* (1975), *Man Hunt* (1941), *The Diary of Anne Frank* (1959), *Vanishing Point* (1971), *Stars and Stripes Forever* (1952), and *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* (1945). I would suspect that Man Hunt is not far off, if it's to be at all tied into the year-end theatrical release of the Tom Cruise film about the plot to assassinate Hitler (Valkyrie). Fox will also release *The Jackie Robinson Story* (1950, starring Robinson himself in a well-regarded film biography) on January 6th.

 

Belated news from Grapevine Video (grapevinevideo.com) indicates that their September releases were the usual mix of five silents and two sound double bills - *Annabell Lee* (1921, with Lorraine Harding, transferred from a tinted 35mm nitrate); *Irene* (1926, with Colleen Moore); *The Night Bird* (1928, with Reginald Denny); *Phantom of the Forest* (1926, with Thunder the dog, transferred from 35mm nitrate); *The Spieler* (1928, with Alan Hale); *Glorifying the American Girl* (1929)/*Dixiana* (1930); and *Double Cross* (1941)/*Roar of the Press* (1941). Grapevine's late October slate, in honour of Hallowe'en, includes: *Haunted Castle* (1921, a rare tinted version of this Murnau film); *Le Voyage Imaginaire* (1926, directed by Rene Clair); *Scarlet Days* (1919, directed by D.W. Griffith); *Where the North Holds Sway* (1927, from 35mm nitrate); *White Tiger* (1923, directed by Tod Browning); *The Mad Monster* (1942, with George Zucco); and *Tales of Tomorrow* (1951-53, seven episodes from the TV series).

 

Image Entertainment will have the *National Film Preservation Foundation's Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986* for release on March 3rd, 2009. The 2-disc, 5-hour anthology presents works by 27 artists, from Bruce Baillie to Andy Warhol, who pushed the boundaries of cinema during these key decades. Included are films by luminaries such as Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, and Harry Smith as well as various rediscoveries. The set also features new music by John Zorn and a 70-page book of program notes, with a foreword by Martin Scorsese. The films were selected from the preservation work of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anthology Film Archives, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, and the Pacific Film Archive. None has been available before on good-quality video. Coming on November 11th will be a 4-disc set of *Mister Peepers: Season 2,* the vintage TV comedy series with Wally Cox.

 

Kino has delayed indefinitely its release of The Man on the Eiffel Tower. It was originally planned for September 16th.

 

Legend Films will release *The Deadly Bees* (1967) and *The Man Who Could Cheat Death* (1959) on October 21st.

 

Lionsgate has apparently delayed indefinitely its release of Ulysses (1954, with Kirk Douglas). It was originally set for October 28th.

 

MGM has now announced that the nine discs of *Pink Panther* cartoons (that will be included in its November 18-disc set of Pink Panther movies and cartoons) will also be released as a stand-alone 9-disc set on January 27th. It'll be called *The Pink Panther and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection.* Also due on the same day are standard DVD and Blu-ray versions of the new special edition of *The Pink Panther* (1963) that is included in November's 18-disc set.

 

Paramount, in conjunction with CBS, has set January 20th as the release date for *My Three Sons: The First Season, Volume Two* and January 27th for *The Invaders: The Second Season* (26 episodes, also the final season). The studio has also added two further titles to its new Centennial Collection for release on January 13th. They are both Audrey Hepburn films - *Breakfast at Tiffany's* and *Funny Face*. Yes there are 4 or 5 new featurettes on the discs added to the supplements on the previous releases of these titles, but how many times do we have to see these films released? Paramount needs to start delivering classic titles we haven't seen appear umpteen times already, but if it's going to be re-releases they should at least be in Blu-ray at this stage of the game. I'd say these latest two titles will and should be no-sales for most classic fans. In other Paramount news, the Home Theater Forum has just completed its National meet in Hollywood and Paramount addressed some of their questions about classic films. The studio confirmed that it does have the U.S. rights to *The African Queen* and that it is now actively working on restoring the title for DVD and possibly Blu-ray release. For a long period there were complications in getting the process underway due to the need to acquire the appropriate elements which Paramount did not have in North America but which did reside in the U.K. where the original production company, Romulus Films, is located (hence the availability of the film as a Region 2 release for some considerable time now). Paramount was not willing to commit to a specific release date as yet, but late 2009 or 2010 seems like a reasonable timeframe. The studio is also actively working on a restoration of *Wings*, the 1927 Best Picture winner, but again no definite release date is yet available.

 

Ryko has confirmed that *Daniel Boone: Season 6* will get a release on November 18th. This final season set will be 7 discs containing 26 episodes, with several supplements including a round table discussion with cast and fans.

 

As reported elsewhere here on The Digital Bits, long-awaited news from Sony indicates that *A Matter of Life and Death* (1946) will apparently finally appear under its American release title Stairway to Heaven on January 6th. It will be paired with *Age of Consent* (1969) in a Michael Powell double feature release. Supplements on the 2-disc set include introductions by Martin Scorsese for both films; commentaries by Ian Christie (on A Matter of Life and Death) and Kent Jones (on Age of Consent); and a making-of featurette and some cast/crew interviews for Age of Consent. Meanwhile, Sony is packaging a number of its previous releases into three-title, three-disc sets for release on November 4th. The price is $20 list. Most fans will already have the classic titles, but it's a good opportunity if by some chance you don't. Of course, the cynical analysis of this is that Sony is simply trying to milk the titles one more time before the inevitable Blu-ray releases. The classic combinations are: *The Awful Truth/Born Yesterday/His Girl Friday* and The Man from *Colorado/The Man from Laramie/Man in the Saddle*. In a similar vein, a *Columbia Best Pictures Collection* will appear on November 18th. It will be a 14-disc, 11-title set containing *It Happened One Night, You Can't Take It with You, All the King's Men, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, A Man for All Seasons, Oliver!, Kramer Vs. Kramer and Gandhi*. Sony will be releasing what it calls newly remastered versions of *It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and You Can't Take It with You* on December 9th. These are likely just the same transfers that appeared in the Frank Capra Collection a couple of years ago. This will be at least the third go-round for all four titles on standard DVD and they really should now be appearing on Blu-ray. Initial indications suggest the supplements will be the same as on previous releases.

 

Warner Bros. ...first classic announcement for 2009 focuses on romance with eight titles new to DVD coming on January 27th. Available as a collection only called the *Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection* will be four titles starring Troy Donahue (*Palm Springs Weekend, Parrish, Rome Adventure, and Susan Slade*). Single releases will include *Goodbye Mr. Chips* (1969, with Peter O'Toole, original full-length road show version), *Far from the Madding Crowd* (1967, directed by John Schlesinger, original uncut international version), *The Yellow Rolls Royce* (1964, with Rex Harrison), and *Waterloo Bridge* (1940, with Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh). Supplements have not been revealed as yet. Also coming will be the much-requested three-part documentary *MGM: When the Lion Roars*. It's set for January 20th and will be a two-disc set. There's no indication of any supplementary material as yet, but the Warner press announcement does mention that the release will launch the 2009 TCM Classic Movies Promotion - no details on that either as yet, but let's hope it means really good things for classic fans in the coming year. February 3rd will bring the long-anticipated *Natalie Wood Collection*. It will contain newly remastered editions of *Splendor in the Grass* (1961) and *Gypsy* (1962), as well as *Inside Daisy Clover* (1965), *Cash McCall* (1960), *Bombers B-52* (1957), and *Sex and the Single Girl* (1964). Each title will generally include a cartoon and trailer, with Gypsy also having two deleted musical numbers. For Natalie Wood fans, Warner will also release her final film *Brainstorm* (1983) as a stand-alone title in Amaray packaging. Finally, Warners has also announced the *Sidney Poitier Film Collection* for release on January 27th. It will include four films. New to DVD will be *Edge of the City* (1957, never before on home video), *Something of Value* (1957), and *A Warm December* (1973, also directed by Poitier). The fourth title is *A Patch of Blue* (1965) which will be newly packaged.

 

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/barriemaxwell/maxwell102808c.html

[filmlover]

There are reports of problems with the new Hitchcock set.

 

from dvdbeaver.com:

 

Reports are coming in by the droves about the MGM Hitchcock Premiere Collection. We do not yet own the entire set and have only covered Notorious and Rebecca which played without issue on my Malata - but we understand many individual's players are having problems with all, or selective transfers from the set. These represent faults such as the disc wobbling in the tray, unsubstantiated noise in playback, freezing and chapter skips. MGM must recall this set immediately. If you own the set please verify if you too have these problems and report them to the outlet you purchased them or MGM directly. If we find an email to use we will post it here.

[filmlover]

Amongst all the titles listed in that upcoming releases I posted below, I am personally very happy to see that *The Seven Year Itch* is coming to Blu.

[Film_Fatale]

I'm also glad to see *The Seven Year Itch* scheduled for BR release and hope they're already working on other MM titles. :x

 

As for the Hitchcock set, well, it sounds pretty bad and if that's what happened then I do hope they will recall the set. Kinda glad that I decided to hold on and not get that title until closer to the Black Friday sales.

[edgeciff]

Deep Discount's big sale is just around the corner!

[filmlover]

Fox has several new releases announced for Blu-ray in 2009:

 

January 20, 2009

 

*The French Connection* (2 discs)

 

Extras:

Commentary by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider

Commentary by William Friedkin

Vignette/Documentary/Featurette:

William Friedkin Introduction to The French Connection

D-Box

Isolated Score Track

Interactivity: Trivia Track

Deleted Scenes

Vignette/Documentary/Featurette:

BBC Documentary: The Poughkeepsie Shuffle

Making the Connection: The Untold Stories of the French Connection

Hackman on Doyle

Color Timing The French Connection

Scene of the Crime

Friedkin and Grosso Remember the Real French Connection

Cop Jazz: The Music of Don Ellis

Rogue Cop: The Noir Connection

Anatomy of a Chase

 

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=69079

 

February 10, 2009

*Raging Bull*

 

Extras:

Commentary By Director Martin Scorsese and Editor Thelma Schoonmaker

Cast & Crew Commentary- Irwin Winkler, Robbie Robertson, Robert Chartoff, Theresa Saldana, John Turturro, Frank Warner, Michael Chapman and Cis Corman

Storytellers Commentary- with Mardik Martin, Paul Schrader, Jason Lustin and Jake LaMotta

Raging Bull: Before the Fight

Raging Bull: Inside the Ring

Raging Bull: Outside the Ring

Raging Bull: After the Fight

The Bronx Bull (Making of Documentary)

DeNiro vs. LaMotta

LaMotta Defends Title

 

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=69082

 

 

February 24, 2009

 

*French Connection 2*

 

Extras:

Commentary by Director John Frankenheimer

A Conversation with Gene Hackman

Still Galleries

 

 

*Vanishing Point*

 

Extras:

Commentary by Richard Sarafian

D-Box

TV Spot (:20)

TV Spot (:60)

 

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=69083

[edgeciff]

There must be lots of money out there to spend, since many people are interested in buying these expensive BluRay discs. I have yet to buy a Blu Ray machine, but when I do I will be buying a very limited amount of these discs unless the prices come down drastically. Even with sales, the discs are still too darned expensive for myself and for most folks. I have already shelled out lots for dozens of lasers and I won't be doing the same again.

[filmlover]

Edgecliff, I hope I am wrong, but it sounds like there is a bit of anger in your post. At what? Blu-ray? Or are you bothered by the fact we are listing Blu-ray classic releases here, too. Either way, I hope you are not angry.

 

As far as prices for Blu discs, they are coming down. WB has set some of their cataogue titles under $20, and some sales do yield great prices. I don't think you could say that, for example, Fry's special last week of $16.95 each on the James Bond titles in high definition is expensive. That's only about $1 more than what you would get the new 2-disc DVD versions of each from Amazon. I know that one can pick up DVDs for $5 each when they are on sales and studios are trying to dump them, but most new DVD releases hover at $20 or above. Do you buy those?

 

Don't worry, there is no rush for you to buy into Blu.

[LsDoorMat]

I'm sure Edgecliff can speak for himself, and I am certainly not angry at people who want to announce and discuss the latest Blu releases, but I will say I share some of his sentiments. In my opinion the Blu-ray phenomenon is just enabling the studios to release the same big-name titles again in this new format while ignoring the older titles that are not on DVD at all, and pre-widescreen titles are pretty much being ignored completely. It is not necessary for me to see every pore on Ingrid Bergman's face in order for me to enjoy Casablanca. Meanwhile, I would really like to see that Showboat set WHV has been promising for the last two years, the second volume of Lon Chaney silents, and another volume of Forbidden Hollywood.

[filmlover]

Hi, calvinnme,

 

Thanks for your input. But couldn't the same argument have been made about VHS when DVD was starting to come in?

 

If the sales on things like the Lon Chaney set were good, then there will be a second volume. If not, the studio may decide to cut its losses. (I own the LC first volume and would like there to be more.) But I don't think you can blame Blu-ray for taking away titles they would issue on DVD. As the upcoming release long list that is posted a few below shows, a lot more is still coming out on DVD. You also have to understand that things are kind of quiet now because the year end is here. I am sure in about a month or so we will hear about WB's exciting lineup for 2009. And I don't think that titles like How the West Was Won being issued on Blu-ray hurt things (as there was a DVD version at the same time with more screen image than the previous DVD release).

 

As far as seeing Ingrid Bergman's pores, that is not what it is about. It is just seeing everything clearer. I think the best way to describe the difference between high definition and standard DVD is this: Have you ever had a projector? If so, you know how you rotate the lens until you get to the very best clarity you can see on screen? Well, DVD is like that last bit of bluriness just before you rotate the lens a bit more and get a clear picture.

[LsDoorMat]

Hi filmlover.

 

The change from VHS to DVD was a real improvement in technology. There was no tape to rewind, you could go directly to particular scenes, and the clarity for films of all ages was much better. There was also the issue of storage and durability. Tapes often break or get eaten by the recorder, and having a large VHS collection was just not doable considering the size of the devices. Blu-ray is much more expensive than standard DVD and simply cannot make older films that are perfectly clear on standard DVD appreciably clearer. Even then,the VHS/DVD transition has had its casualties, IMHO. For example, the very early talkies such as Al Jolson's films and Eddie Cantor's films had VHS and laserdisc releases. However, these really old films that were perfectly acceptable in the resolution you could expect from these technologies suddenly looked poor with the resolution DVD could produce. The studios did not want to spend the money it would take to restore these films to something that would look acceptable on DVD, and so they were never upgraded save for The Jazz Singer, and then it wasn't until last year that this film was finally released on DVD.

 

Thus my main distaste for the technology is that some films that are yet to be released on standard DVD will simply be ignored by the studios if they can't get a splashy release on Blu-Ray. The studios don't want to take any chances right now with the bad economy, and Blu-Ray gives them a way to make money and play it safe at the same time as they re-release everything that is already in my library on Blu.

 

It may be that Blu allows you to see the modern classics (post 1955) more clearly, but contrary to your reassurances I feel that the price will be that some of the very old films may never be seen at all on a studio authorized DVD.

 

Thanks for letting me vent.

[edgeciff]

filmlover, that is perfectly silly about me being angry over listings of Blu Ray. I didn't mean to come across that way I usually scan all the websites and know of DVD's coming out before they are even listed here. Regardless of sales I think Blu Ray discs are still overpriced as compared with SD discs. I don't know what WBHV is offering for under $20, I would have to check this out. Right now I think Blu Ray is a niche market, but it will continue to grow, but very slow even with so much being released.

 

However, as long as there is money to be gotten, I think studios such as WB, FOX and SONY will continue to release older items from their catalogues and SD versions will be around a very long time.

[iowahawkeye]

I appreciate your post film lover, as i have feared the same thing happening and posted it on the site many months ago. Even TCM was going to release a 3rd Forbidden Hollywood this year, but it never happened. There are even some great Neil Simon comedies that haven't even been released on dvd yet, namely Chapter Two and Only When I Laugh. I worry that w/a sinking economy, these titles will NEVER see the light of day! Instead, we're seeing some titles douple dipped 3 times over! I will continue to hope that standard dvds of old tiles continue to be released. I really don't see Neil Simon being released in Blu Ray for heaven's sake!