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Feego wrote:Well I'm excited to see Beyond the Valley of the Dolls being confirmed for an eventual Blu release, but I wonder by which company. We all know Criterion was going to handle the DVD release before Fox released it themselves, but the rep says the Blu release will be tied to a 50th Anniversary edition of Valley of the Dolls -- something I have a hard time seeing Criterion release.

ianungstad wrote:Valley of the Dolls is considered a cult/camp classic just like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. The two films couldn't be more different but they both have a significant following.

There was speculation when Beyond the Valley of the Dolls went OOP that Criterion would be getting it, but now it's not looking hopeful. I too can't see Criterion releasing Valley of the Dolls, regardless of its cult status.

Jameson281 wrote:

captveg wrote:Currently Fox licenses to three labels: Criterion, Twilight Time, Anchor Bay/Starz.

Fox has licensed to Shout Factory; see, for example, the TALES FROM THE CRYPT/VAULT OF HORROR double bill on Scream Factory, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, DAMNATION ALLEY, etc.

Good point. I had forgot about those.

Feego wrote:Also, am I reading correctly that someone asked about the Pink Panther film series and the rep gave a response about the TV series?

Yes. I read that as being unable to talk about the film series. But they are MGM titles, not Fox. Also, MGM sitting on them for tie-in to the upcoming feature animated film due out next year is pretty obvious at this point.

According to Blu-ray.com several Regency titles that were distributed by Warner Bros. theatrically and since on home video will be released by Fox on August 11th, including titles like Once Upon a Time in America, Heat and L.A. Confidential.

I wonder if there's any chance for upgrades for any of those titles? Heat could really do with an upgraded blu-ray.

There was a 20th Anniversary edition planned to come out this year by WB, whether or not it was an upgrade (likely not because it's WB) isn't clear. My first guess is since it's coming out in 6 weeks, probably not because the announcement would have been made by now with that release date.

I wonder if Fox will just buy Warners' existing stock and slap their own UPC over it, ala Echo Bridge and the first wave of Miramax licenses

Honestly, I'm skeptical about this info until there's a press release. One of the titles, Empire Records, barely came out from WB just two months ago.

EDIT: However, if the Regency titles are all being consolidated with Fox being the distributor that's fine. Fox hasn't exactly been rocking it on catalog titles recently, either. At least for themselves without sub licensing.

domino harvey wrote:I wonder if Fox will just buy Warners' existing stock and slap their own UPC over it, ala Echo Bridge and the first wave of Miramax licenses

Warner itself did the same thing with a lot of the Paramount titles at the start of their deal.

As some of the Regency WB titles are being reported as OOP this might be the case.

In that case though Paramount still owned the films with Warner just distributing. This appears to be a change in ownership, so would Fox use Warner's disc programming?

I wonder which titles from that library might get snatched for Criterion? The Fountain seems the obvious one to me.

Holy shit: the New Age, never even released on DVD, is coming out on Blu next month

EDIT: Also Breaking Up, Carpool, Dangerous Beauty, Goodbye Lover, Made in America, Second Best, the Sunchaser, and That Night. Fox just doubled their yearly back catalog output in one release day!

The New Age is one I had been hoping for. I haven't seen it since it was released on VHS, but I recall my high school self liking it and wanted to revisit it. Figured it would be an Archive release at least.

So, as it stands, the full new-to-blu list on 8/11/15 appears to be the following 14 titles:

Bogus (1996)
Boys on the Side (1995)
Breaking Up (1997)
Carpool (1996)
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
Goodbye Lover (1998)
Made in America (1993)
The New Age (1994)
North Star (1996)
The Nutcracker (1993)
The Power of One (1992)
Second Best (1994)
The Sunchaser (1996)
That Night (1992)


I'm still quite curious as to how the re-issued/re-authored titles will turn out.

The Macaulay Culkin Nutcracker? No thank you. Any day I'd rather watch the Carroll Ballard–directed one, based on the Pacific Northwest Ballet production designed by Maurice Sendak (which has been relegated to the MGM MOD line).

Glad to see them upping the back catalog output, but all from one decade?

This all looks to be Regency Enterprises' initiative rather than Fox's outright.

Fox is rereleasing all the Die Hards again, this time inside the Nakatomi Plaza



However, as dumb as this, allegedly the set will finally contain the Unrated version of Live Free or Die Hard on Blu for the first time

Hopefully will include the DVD extras that were left off too...

Not that anyone cares because it is terrible, but isn't that a little spoiler for the fifth movie's villain?

The card for the fifth movie's villain should be a picture of whoever greenlit the film

Or whoever gave John Moore the reigns.

Heaven Can Wait, restored by The Film Foundation, screens at this year´s Venice Film Festival:
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Per MifuneFan on blu-ray.com, some of the Regency re-issues are starting to show up at foxconnect.com.

domino harvey wrote:Holy shit: the New Age, never even released on DVD, is coming out on Blu next month
EDIT: Also Breaking Up, Carpool, Dangerous Beauty, Goodbye Lover, Made in America, Second Best, the Sunchaser, and That Night. Fox just doubled their yearly back catalog output in one release day!

Anyone know what the deal is with this slate of titles? I preordered The New Age from Amazon, which was supposed to finally be shipping this week, and it seems like it's been delayed again indefinitely, relegated to the limbo of "currently unavailable" without having yet been officially canceled or rescheduled.

I suspect a lot of these were simply Fox re-issues of DVDs incorrectly listed as BDs.