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Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 10:02 pm
by FrauBlucher
According to Robert Harris on HTF, many more blu rays are coming from WAC. That sounds good and hopeful.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 4:20 pm
by sir_luke
FrauBlucher wrote:According to Robert Harris on HTF, many more blu rays are coming from WAC. That sounds good and hopeful.
Is there any chance that WAC would be interested in upgrading any of their existing DVD titles? For instance, I would really love to see The Loved One and Brewster McCloud on Blu (though I doubt either of them are huge sellers, so I'm not optimistic).
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 5:17 pm
by Lowry_Sam
sir_luke wrote:For instance, I would really love to see The Loved One and Brewster McCloud on Blu (though I doubt either of them are huge sellers, so I'm not optimistic).
I was really hoping Criterion would have picked up
The Loved One in whatever deal they made with Warner. It's an MGM/United Artists title, so that would make it more likely I suppose. Perhaps Criterion could have done for it what it did for the far less funny
IAMMMMW (ie. maybe recreate the roadshow version with all the unused footage/deleted scenes or incllude the
4 hour work print as a bonus). I'd love to see some of the outtakes that didn't make the theatrical release, particularly for those (ie. Ruth Gordon) who ended up entirely on the cutting room floor.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:21 pm
by Feego
sir_luke wrote:Is there any chance that WAC would be interested in upgrading any of their existing DVD titles?
There is sort of a precedent set already with the original
Get Carter, which was demoted to MOD status and then released on Blu-ray by WHV (rather than WAC). I for one would love to see
Victor/Victoria get a Blu upgrade.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 8:50 pm
by Noiradelic
Feego wrote:sir_luke wrote:Is there any chance that WAC would be interested in upgrading any of their existing DVD titles?
There is sort of a precedent set already with the original
Get Carter, which was demoted to MOD status and then released on Blu-ray by WHV (rather than WAC).
You could argue that's a precedent for avoiding upgrading WAC titles as WAC Blus. I imagine it'll happen sooner or later, but it almost seems like they're going out of their way to dodge it right now.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:54 pm
by FrauBlucher
I suspect that WAC will release Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which I've been waiting impatiently for.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:01 pm
by Drucker
WAC 101 Question: these blu-rays (namely Out Of the Past) are on pressed disc? Which differs from the DVD-R DVDs?
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:02 pm
by domino harvey
Yes, they're pressed Blu-rays just like any other non-Archive Warners release, they're just distroed under the WA banner
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 11:30 pm
by Drucker
Great! So I hope for more of that, then, I guess!
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:30 am
by sir_luke
Lowry_Sam wrote:I was really hoping Criterion would have picked up The Loved One in whatever deal they made with Warner. It's an MGM/United Artists title, so that would make it more likely I suppose.
Oh, I'd definitely prefer it came from Criterion, too! In fact, I've emailed several times suggesting just that. But I eventually regarded it as a lost cause because of Warner's refusal to work with other labels. If that's not necessarily the case, I will start up my crusade again!
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:43 pm
by Askew
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:22 pm
by John Doe
The Great Race - 9/9
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:47 pm
by captveg
Out of the Past now has an official release date of 8/12/14
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 1:30 am
by domino harvey
John Doe wrote:The Great Race - 9/9
I feel like Warners is literally trolling all of us with these releases
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 1:39 am
by knives
Or more likely our tastes reflect a minority a bit like how by our standard that Kramer film would not have flown off the shelves in that manner.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 4:06 am
by captveg
The Great Race is the exact right type of title for WA - a catalog title that has its die hard fans that will most definitely purchase it, but not exactly a title of mainstream appeal.
The individuals of this message board won't line up to buy it necessarily, but it will definitely be a good seller for WA. Especially since the DVD is 12 years old now.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 2:14 pm
by Stephen
According to the latest Warner Archive Podcast, Out of the Past has already received 4 re-pressings & more noirs are promised the same restorative treatment.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 3:47 pm
by Gregory
That's great news. Any other details revealed in the podcast?
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 3:55 pm
by tenia
Stephen wrote:According to the latest Warner Archive Podcast, Out of the Past has already received 4 re-pressings
Are they doing 200 discs each time ?
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:27 pm
by Gregory
Doubt it, and I hope this means that they will not just consider it a sign of demand for more noir but also for more Tourneur on Blu-ray.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:40 pm
by domino harvey
I think 500 is a minimum run, so about 2000 sold sounds about right
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:19 pm
by felipe
Is 2000 copies good for classic titles? I assumed these titles were selling more...
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:19 pm
by domino harvey
That is my lowball estimate, but for a Blu-ray catalog title that's been out for less than a month and only at some online retailers, yeah, I'd say so
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:04 am
by Stephen
Gregory wrote:That's great news. Any other details revealed in the podcast?
Not around upcoming titles but the entire episode is given over to an Eddie Muller Interview.
Re: Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays
Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:50 pm
by rockysds
Yankee Doodle Dandy forthcoming.
Special Features: Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1942 with Casablanca trailer, 1942 newsreel, Warner Bros. short "Beyond the Call of Duty", Warner Bros. vintage cartoon "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid"; James Cagney in wartime short "You, John Jones"; Yankee Doodle Dandy theatrical trailer; Let Freedom Sing!: The Story of Yankee Doodle Dandy documentary; audio commentary with Warner Bros. historian Rudy Behlmer; "John Travolta remembers James Cagney" featurette; audio-only extras – radio show and pre-recording session outtakes/rehearsals; vintage Warner Bros. cartoon "Yankee Doodle Daffy". *Note: animated cartoons presented in 1080p HD*