The Spanish Prisoner out of print - new edition coming?

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denti alligator
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The Spanish Prisoner out of print - new edition coming?

#1 Post by denti alligator »

Curiously this one is out of print. Can't see why and don't expect Mamet to be gung-ho about doing a flashy new edition. Isn't this a fairly popular film (for a Mamet film, at least)? What's up?
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#2 Post by dx23 »

Sadly, Sony has/had the rights for this film and they probably discontinued the DVD for the same reason they have discontinued other ones in their catalog: stupidity and greed. Sony has become one of the worst studios/company in the world and their inept desicions are made by how much a title is known in the mainstream and how much copies can their sell. Many films, like Hi-Lo country, The Last Days of Disco along with the Spanish Prisioner have been OOP for quite some time and there is no new releases for those titles in the horizon.
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#3 Post by Schkura »

Sony is the master of manufacturing scarcity, it seems.
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#4 Post by Forrest Taft »

denti alligator wrote:Curiously this one is out of print. Can't see why and don't expect Mamet to be gung-ho about doing a flashy new edition. Isn't this a fairly popular film (for a Mamet film, at least)? What's up?
When was this re-released? Sadly, it doesn´t look like a new flashy edition. Wasn´t there a rumour that Criterion was to release this?
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#5 Post by domino harvey »

I just got my copy from DD and it looks like these are just remaining copies from the original run, based on the ten-year old security tape at least. So apparently Sony just found a crate of these in their warehouse or something
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#6 Post by zombeaner »

domino harvey wrote:I just got my copy from DD and it looks like these are just remaining copies from the original run, based on the ten-year old security tape at least. So apparently Sony just found a crate of these in their warehouse or something
Same here.
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