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5-disc Blu-Ray edition is $39.99 at Yes Asia. Great value.

Person wrote:5-disc Blu-Ray edition is $39.99 at Yes Asia. Great value.

I think that's actually retail for that set. Warner Bros. online store have both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, for 27.95 each before a 25% off coupon (RNFS), $20.96 afterwards. They don't ship outside the U.S. though.

souvenir wrote: Warner Bros. online store have both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, for 27.95 each before a 25% off coupon (RNFS), $20.96 afterwards. They don't ship outside the U.S. though.

Is "RNFS" the coupon code?

denti alligator wrote:

souvenir wrote: Warner Bros. online store have both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, for 27.95 each before a 25% off coupon (RNFS), $20.96 afterwards. They don't ship outside the U.S. though.

Is "RNFS" the coupon code?

Yes, supposed to be valid until the end of September.

souvenir wrote:

denti alligator wrote:

souvenir wrote: Warner Bros. online store have both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, for 27.95 each before a 25% off coupon (RNFS), $20.96 afterwards. They don't ship outside the U.S. though.

Is "RNFS" the coupon code?

Yes, supposed to be valid until the end of September.

This *is* the 5-disc edition, right? Why does it say "media quantity: 1"?

Ah, I know why I fucked this up: I was looking at the price of the briefcase edition. Thanks for clearing that up, souvenir. Is the Complete Collector's Edition really just one disc?

It says "Five Disc Collector's Edition" on the box pictured at amazon.

This should definitely be the five-disc release because the only other HD and Blu-Ray versions are the briefcase varieties. The picture on the WB store matches the Amazon version exactly so I'm sure the "media quantity: 1" is some sort of mistake. Here's the Amazon page with all the upcoming Blade Runner releases.

eez28 wrote:For the right price I would love to get [the UK 5-disc set] since I really don't have any need for the suitcase.

It's currently at a £29.99 RRP, with all the on-disc features of the R1 briefcase set. I've seen it for £17.99 at Play.com and it's not even in any sales yet.

Was the Criterion laserdisc of BR given to them by Warner's?

Narshty wrote:

eez28 wrote:For the right price I would love to get [the UK 5-disc set] since I really don't have any need for the suitcase.

It's currently at a £29.99 RRP, with all the on-disc features of the R1 briefcase set. I've seen it for £17.99 at Play.com and it's not even in any sales yet.

For those of us that don't want the crappy tin lunchbox and happy-meal toys, I think this is as good as it's going to get. I can't see this 5-disc version getting any cheaper in the next 6 to 12 months. Time to pre-order...

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Was the Criterion laserdisc of BR given to them by Warner's?

No. It was licensed from Embassy/Nelson Home Entertainment. Warner has never licensed any properties to Criterion.

Jeff wrote:

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Was the Criterion laserdisc of BR given to them by Warner's?

No. It was licensed from Embassy/Nelson Home Entertainment. Warner has never licensed any properties to Criterion.

What about the films Turner purchased back in the day? King Kong, Citizen Kane, The Adventures of Robin Hood? I thought they were WB property after they were purchaed by billionaire Ted.

Jeff wrote:

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Was the Criterion laserdisc of BR given to them by Warner's?

No. It was licensed from Embassy/Nelson Home Entertainment. Warner has never licensed any properties to Criterion.

So, I'm to assume that WB gave Blade Runner to Embassy/Nelson at some point, or is it something more complicated?

dx23 wrote:What about the films Turner purchased back in the day? King Kong, Citizen Kane, The Adventures of Robin Hood? I thought they were WB property after they were purchaed by billionaire Ted.

The Turner/WB merger happened in 95-96, which I'm guessing is before those releases were put out.

Embassy had home video rights to Blade Runner for at least a decade after it was released. The production history, ownership rights, and legal issues with the film are convoluted, and I don't pretend to understand them all. What I do know is that the film was co-produced by The Ladd Company (distribution deal with Warner), Tandem Productions, and Run Run Shaw. Tandem was the partnership between Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin. Lear also owned Embassy at that time, and they were granted home video rights as part of Tandem's investment in the film. At some point in the early 90s, Warner actually bought the rights (from the dying Embassy) to create a home video "Director's Cut" of the film, but have only acquired the rights to release the original theatrical version and to create new versions within the past year or so.

Citizen Kane, King Kong, and Robin Hood were all owned by either RKO, MGM, or a pre-Warner Ted Turner at the time of their licensing to Criterion.

My step-mother worked at Embessy for Norman Lear and she was partially in charge of marketing home video releases, this, of course, was one of them. I think we still might have some one-sheets for the home video release (as well as several Godard films and even one for Welles' The Trial).

From The New York Times: A Cult Classic Restored, Again

I attended the NYFF screening of the Final Cut last night, and I can report that the restoration indeed looks absolutely amazing. It was like watching Blade Runner for the first time all over again. When this hits the hi-def formats it will be a stunner.

ranaing83 wrote:I attended the NYFF screening of the Final Cut last night, and I can report that the restoration indeed looks absolutely amazing.

How did the final cut compare to the previous cuts?

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I was at the Saturday showing, too (all the way up in the balcony, rail blocking my view... >%^<)

It's been a while since I saw Blade Runner, but I thought that the first scene in past versions was the floating ad blimp, not Leon's interview. It's not until Decker's getting the particulars that we see Leon's bit. (I admit I could be way off on this - like I said, it's been a while.)

lady wakasa wrote:I was at the Saturday showing, too (all the way up in the balcony, rail blocking my view... >%^<)

It's been a while since I saw Blade Runner, but I thought that the first scene in past versions was the floating ad blimp, not Leon's interview. It's not until Decker's getting the particulars that we see Leon's bit. (I admit I could be way off on this - like I said, it's been a while.)

That sounds about right.

I've always seen it with the interview first (though I've only ever seen the '93 "director's" cut). The camera flies through the smokestacks, and up to a Tyrell Building window, where the interview is taking place.

And Philip K. Dick's daughter was pretty hot.