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When did you buy it? It's possible that the first pressing contained the downmix and later pressings included the corrected disc. (The initial set DEFINITELY had the downmix.)

On other boards, I've seen some people note that on the restored mono, Eli Wallach's voice sounds deeper in the Extended Version scenes, and there is speculation that Chace lowered the pitch. That's actually not the case. When the 5.1 mix was made, the low and high ends were cut off the Extended Version scenes, thinking that this would make the new material blend better with the old. For the new mono restoration, the Extended Version scenes were totally rebuilt from scratch, with the original ADR mixed with the mono music and effects track for those scenes. During the 2014 mono restoration, it was decided not to degrade the audio as severely as the 2003 mix, so what viewers are hearing now in the Extended Versions scenes is Wallach's natural voice as it was recorded with significantly LESS processing than before.

I bought my boxset on July 6, 2014, to be exact.

When you say "Initial Set", do you mean the 2010 boxset with this artwork?



Or do you mean the one I posted earlier?
I bought the new boxset a month after release date.

I was referring to the set that came out May of 2014 (the first photo you posted) with the 4K restoration. People started complaining online about the incorrect mono when it first streeted, so Fox must have have gotten the corrected disc out fairly quickly and just never made a public statement.

This corrected, standalone MGM release in the US with the mono mix: is it region free or region "A" locked?

It's region free. I checked.

Thanks - I'm glad I held off from ordering the European edition!

A 20th Anniversary edition of The Usual Suspects just went up for pre-order. Hopefully it has everything from the special edition DVD (and the easter eggs as well).

flyonthewall2983 wrote:A 20th Anniversary edition of The Usual Suspects just went up for pre-order. Hopefully it has everything from the special edition DVD (and the easter eggs as well).

Nope, just a repackage.

Fucking hell.

Because we needed a new edition?

manicsounds wrote:Because we needed a new edition?

Probably nothing more than a repackage of the existing disc so that there's a new SKU for cross promotion with the new Star Wars later in the year.

It has Digital HD codes!!!

Also being repackaged with Digital HD -



MGM is busy licensing to other studios, so it doesn't have time to make new releases of their own. More than you can say about other studios...

Don't know if this is the right forum for this, but I thought I would mention that The Cotton Club is getting a director's cut treatment with the cut footage reinstated for an upcoming Blu-ray release. Whether the Blu is coming from MGM or another company or the release date for this was announced I don't know.

AfterTheRain wrote:Don't know if this is the right forum for this, but I thought I would mention that The Cotton Club is getting a director's cut treatment with the cut footage reinstated for an upcoming Blu-ray release. Whether the Blu is coming from MGM or another company or the release date for this was announced I don't know.

Do we know if it is still owned by MGM, or is this another FFC film that reverted to American Zoetrope? If it's the latter the BD should be coming from Lionsgate.

captveg wrote:

AfterTheRain wrote:Don't know if this is the right forum for this, but I thought I would mention that The Cotton Club is getting a director's cut treatment with the cut footage reinstated for an upcoming Blu-ray release. Whether the Blu is coming from MGM or another company or the release date for this was announced I don't know.

Do we know if it is still owned by MGM, or is this another FCC film that reverted to American Zoetrope? If it's the latter the BD should be coming from Lionsgate.

MGM still holds rights, but probably made some sort of deal with Coppola to allow him to make this version.

Poltergeist III (1988) on 5/19/25, as double feature with the already-released Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). Nothing like remakes to get older films in a series out.

Sergio Leone Anthology Blu-ray set is now listed for a May 05, 2015 US release. I am guessing a repackaging.

I am not sure if this is the right place for it, but I would really appreciate some insight. I recently placed an order for the Target exclusive digibook packaging of West Side Story Blu-ray packaging (3-discs edition), which was originally released in Nov, 2011. I remember distinctively that there was some trouble with the blu-ray discs and MGM came out with a replacement discs scheme. Now, I can't remember what was the trouble exactly and whether I will still be able to get the replacement discs. Can somebody help me with this? Thanks a million, in advance.

Embarrassingly for them, they didn't fix anything. They changed one erroneous color change to another erroneous color change.

So, I guess I shouldn't care much for a replacement disc! Thanks guys.

captveg wrote:Poltergeist III (1988) on 5/19/25, as double feature with the already-released Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). Nothing like remakes to get older films in a series out.

Poltergeist III will also have an individual release now instead of just being on a double feature release.

Another repackage in June...

There were a couple of these up on FoxConnect when they had the sale, though I can't recall the other titles. I just remember the red cases

Not sure if this is the right thread for this, but apparently MGM has lost the rights to She's Gotta Have It, according to my university library (I license the film for streaming in one of the classes I teach). Fingers crossed that a Blu-ray might be in the works, perhaps inspired by the new TV series?