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Monterey Jack wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 4:30 am I'd like to believe that, but this is Disney we're talking about, who tend to sweep flop movies under the rug and forget they even existed.

If we're wishing, though, I'd love to see the original cut of Watcher In The Woods as well.

Matt wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:16 am If WALL-E isn’t a one-off Disney license, I could see Criterion releasing this.

sabbath wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:16 am

Matt wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:16 am If WALL-E isn’t a one-off Disney license, I could see Criterion releasing this.

Apparently it was, at the request of director Andrew Stanton.

We’re proud to announce our first collaboration with Disney and Pixar: WALL•E (2008), directed by Andrew Stanton, enters the Criterion Collection on 4K UHD this November!

beamish14 wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:04 am According to NZPete, who runs the absolutely fantastic Matte Shot blog and maintains close friendships with a lot of old school VFX people, Disney sent out invites in November for crew members who worked on Something Wicked This Way Comes to watch Jack Clayton’s original cut. Clips of this iteration also screened a number of years ago at a film music conference, but I strongly suspect they’re testing the waters and moving towards releasing this version.

Matt wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 5:55 pm Disney really does need to cash in on the Gen-X nostalgia market while they still can, getting out top-notch, complete editions of Something Wicked This Way Comes, the Witch Mountain films, The Watcher in the Woods, and The Black Cauldron. There’s money to be made there, which might help make up for all their current Marvel flops and money-pit Star Wars TV series.

Stefan Andersson wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 10:04 am

beamish14 wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 2:04 am According to NZPete, who runs the absolutely fantastic Matte Shot blog and maintains close friendships with a lot of old school VFX people, Disney sent out invites in November for crew members who worked on Something Wicked This Way Comes to watch Jack Clayton’s original cut. Clips of this iteration also screened a number of years ago at a film music conference, but I strongly suspect they’re testing the waters and moving towards releasing this version.

This version presumably has the unused score by Georges Delerue:
https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id. ... egory=-113

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TechnicolorAcid wrote: Mon Jan 01, 2024 6:28 am Not sure where exactly to put this but with Steamboat Willie getting out of copyright today does that mean we can expect bootlegs to start popping up everywhere in a incomplete state since those iconic opening notes appearing in the trademarked company logo? Just something interesting I’d thought I should ask.

Matt wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 5:55 pm Disney really does need to cash in on the Gen-X nostalgia market while they still can, getting out top-notch, complete editions of Something Wicked This Way Comes, the Witch Mountain films, The Watcher in the Woods, and The Black Cauldron. There’s money to be made there, which might help make up for all their current Marvel flops and money-pit Star Wars TV series.

Not to piggyback on a year old post with no response, but...

Captain Paranoia wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:07 pm

Matt wrote: Fri Dec 22, 2023 5:55 pm Disney really does need to cash in on the Gen-X nostalgia market while they still can, getting out top-notch, complete editions of Something Wicked This Way Comes, the Witch Mountain films, The Watcher in the Woods, and The Black Cauldron. There’s money to be made there, which might help make up for all their current Marvel flops and money-pit Star Wars TV series.

Not to piggyback on a year old post with no response, but...

I recall that Anchor Bay were licensed the rights to several of their live-action films between the end of the 1990s/start of the 2000s, including Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Watcher in the Woods (the latter containing the alternate ending from the film's initial cut that saw a limited release before being pulled for reshoots, its inclusion being a compromise after Disney vetoed Anchor Bay's attempt to restore the original cut). Ideally, Disney would license this stuff out to Arrow or Kino Lorber (I feel like there was opportunity missed to license those films to Kino as they did with several Hollywood/Touchstone titles).

cdnchris wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:46 pm My only concern with this is that Mill Creek will almost certainly be using crummy masters for most of the releases, packing them on single-layer discs. Still, at this point, I'm happy that Disney is very open to licensing now, with this and then Criterion getting Fox titles and Wall-E of all things. But if Mill Creek doesn't release Ruthless People so I can retire my non-anamorphic DVD, I will be super-pissed.

dwk wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 7:56 pm Tombstone UHD coming in April

domino harvey wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 10:17 pm I recently picked up Mill Creek’s reissue of Dick Tracy on Blu and it appeared to be a direct port of the existing release, complete with coming attractions for films new when it was originally released, so I think they’re just putting their logo on new pressings of the same discs

dx23 wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:36 pm

domino harvey wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 10:17 pm I recently picked up Mill Creek’s reissue of Dick Tracy on Blu and it appeared to be a direct port of the existing release, complete with coming attractions for films new when it was originally released, so I think they’re just putting their logo on new pressings of the same discs

For all the trouble that Warren Beatty goes through to keep the film/TV rights for the character, I still wonder why he's never worked with either Disney or Criterion to release a deluxe 4K/BD edition of the film including all the shorts he's done to preserve the rights. So many things already there that can be tagged to this movie like the Behind the Badge documentary, Madonna music video, TV toy commercials, McDonald's Happy Meal Commercials to start with, Dick Tracy should have had already a Buena Vista series release by now. Who's holding this back? Beatty?

beamish14 wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 11:36 pm He’s been adamant about the theatrical release constituting exactly what he wanted, so no long-rumored extended cut

Coincidentally, today is his character’s intended date of death in Heaven Can Wait