emwriterdude Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Will the other DVD Decision results come out on DVD eventually in 2005, or never, cause I really want to buy Greed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombi6422 Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 No, all the dvds no matter win or lose are released within the next 2 years maybe less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush522 Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 According to my calculation, of the 20 films in DVD Decision 2003, only nine have come out in DVD to date and that includes the five that 'won' the contest. I checked on Amazon and the ones that haven't been issued on DVD are Night of the Iguana, Blackboard Jungle, Bad Day at Black Rock, Executive Suite, Finian's Rainbow, The Actress, Somebody up there Like's Me, After the Thin Man, Another Thin Man, The Good Earth and I'll Cry Tomorrow. I don't know if any have been scheduled for release but I don't get the impression that Warner is exactly rushing these films out. Ariel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombi6422 Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Only 9 months have went by from the competition so we have another year and 3 months to go. They'll be out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush522 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Actually it's been a year. I'll check back with you this time next year to see what has been released. Ariel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombi6422 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 A year?! The first dvd of the competition was released on January 6th this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush522 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 OK. I'll check back a year from now and it will be one year and nine months. Do you figure that all the films will be on DVD by then? I see no sign of it. Ariel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombi6422 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Yes, they will. In order to put on voting like this with the winners being released 5 months later; they'd have to have pretty much every title almost ready for release. So now they are probably just staggering the titles or have plans to make them to sets as they did with the Judy Garland titles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush522 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 What is your source of information? Opinion? Or do you work for or have inside information about what Warner Home Video plans to do? Ariel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombi6422 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 It was at all the dvd press release websites last year. The winners were to be released in January and the losers were to be all released by 2 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagebrush522 Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Well, apparently the press release said 12 - 18 months. Auds to weigh in on classic DVDs Jennifer Netherby Variety May 12, 2003 HOLLYWOOD -- Consumers will soon get to decide whether Warner Home Video will next release "Night of the Iguana," "Bad Day at Black Rock" or "Love Finds Andy Hardy" on DVD. In a rare case of the synergy that AOL and Time Warner imagined when the two companies were merged, WHV, Turner Classic Movies and America Online are partnering on a consumer DVD promotion that should benefit all three entities and please fans of classic movies. The DVD Decision 2003 campaign will encourage consumers to go to AOL Movies online throughout the month of June and pick their five favorite movies from a list of 20 titles in the Warner library that have yet to be released on DVD. All 20 titles, also including "The Asphalt Jungle," "The Blackboard Jungle," "The Days of Wine and Roses," "Executive Suite," "Finian's Rainbow," "The Postman Always Rings Twice," "Somebody Up There Likes Me" and "The Wind and the Lion," will each be shown on TCM weekday afternoons from June 23-27. TCM viewers will be alerted about the contest and encouraged to vote. Cross marketing The promotion also will be marketed in AOL Time Warner publications like People magazine and other properties owned by the media behemoth, with the winning titles announced in July. Extra DVD features will be produced relating to those five consumer-picked film titles, some of which may be TCM cable specials, and the newly mastered DVDs will be released in January following a rebroadcast on TCM of the five winning titles in October. AOL Movies will list the eligible titles along with synopses, photos and clips from the movies. The 15 titles not selected will eventually be released on DVD 12-18 months later, but without the special treatment, said new Warner senior VP of classic catalog George Feltenstein. Broader market Warner execs said one goal of the promotion is to broaden the audience for classic films and introduce them to a wider base of consumers through AOL. "This will expose a whole new generation of consumers to classic movies," said senior VP of U.S. marketing Mike Saksa. With DVD players expected to be in 50 million households this year, the studio now considers DVD a "broad market business." WHV has increased the number of catalog releases from eight in 2000 to more than 20 in 2001, 44 in 2002 and more than 100 this year. That number will grow even higher in 2004. With the studio sitting on a library of thousands of titles, the largest of any studio, WHV expects to make DVD Decision an annual campaign, with a far greater number of eligible titles next year and a greater number of winners. Warner claims a 27.5% market share in catalog DVD. The other titles among the 20 eligible movies are "The Actress," "After the Thin Man," "Another Thin Man," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "For Me and My Gal," "The Good Earth," "I'll Cry Tomorrow," "Where the Boys Are" and "Ziegfeld Girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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