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domino harvey wrote:Many many Warner boxed sets, including Katharine Hepburn, Loy and Powell, Thin Man, Lucille Ball, Homefront, Gary Cooper, Frank Sinatra Golden, Bette Davis Vol 3, Doris Day Vol 2, James Stewart, Marx Bros, Twisted Terror, Western Classics

In the Mike Movie's Mayhem post a lot of these say "old version" after them.

The Norman Mclaren boxed set

From their Twitter feed:

Oscilloscope Labs wrote:Andrea Arnold's #WutheringHeights is very close to going OUT OF PRINT on Blu-ray & DVD! Get yours while you can!

dadaistnun wrote:From their Twitter feed:

Oscilloscope Labs wrote:Andrea Arnold's #WutheringHeights is very close to going OUT OF PRINT on Blu-ray & DVD! Get yours while you can!

Bizarre since it just came out. Don't know about the blu, but the DVD is 50% off in the Barnes & Noble art house sale right now.

OOP from Oscilloscope = many many remaindered copies at Half Price Books

Near Dark (All formats)

I mentioned some time ago that Anchor Bay lost the rights to Romero's Dawn of the Dead and that I suspected that Shout/Scream may have picked the film up. Turns out that the owners of the film have spent a few million doing a 3D conversion of the film and are shopping the rights looking for a distributor who's willing to commit to a theatrical run for the 3D version. Wouldn't be surprised if it wound up at IFC/Magnolia/Radius.

That'll teach me to read this forum without a bucket on me.

Damn you, James Cameron.

Artificial Eye's release of Come and See is now OOP

Calvin wrote:Artificial Eye's release of Come and See is now OOP

Dersu Uzala and Cranes are Flying too.

Hundreds of Sony/Columbia titles have gone OOP

Impossible to give a short list of worthy titles, but some of the bigger MIAs:

An Education Blu-ray
Bad Girls of Film Noir Vols 1 and 2
Cary Grant Boxed Set
the Fall Blu-ray
Both Film Noir Sets
Frank Capra Boxed Set
Gilda
Golden Boy
Half Nelson
Husbands
Identity Blu-ray
In the Company of Men
Jack Lemmon Collection
Julie and Julia Blu-ray
Kim Novak Collection
Kramer vs Kramer Blu-ray
the Last Frontier
the Last Hurrah
the Last Picture Show / Nickelodeon
Rachel Getting Married Blu-ray
Redbelt Blu-ray
Rita Hayworth Boxed set
Samuel Fuller Collection
sex lies and videotape Blu-ray
Single White Female
Sleuth (remake) Blu-ray
Stranger Than Fiction Blu-ray
Suddenly, Last Summer
Torture Garden
Twentieth Century
Volver Blu-ray
Whatever Works Blu-ray
the White Ribbon Blu-ray
Youth in Revolt Blu-ray
Youth Without Youth Blu-ray

Jesus Christ, that's insane. I'm certainly going to have to buy some of these now, like Kramer vs. Kramer and Sex, Lives, and Videotape.

But, I think the real question is ultimately: Why? The older DVDs that aren't selling well I can somewhat understand, but so many of these titles are pretty recent, especially many of the Blu-Ray titles. And it's not like they all could've been licensed to Criterion or another company, unless Sony is pulling a Paramount and going to eventually sign a similar distribution deal to the one Paramount signed with Warner Bros.

The Paramount deal came years after their great DVD purge and many of those titles remain out of print and fetching ridic marketplace seller prices. I mean, of course someone is going to pick up some of the more visible titles, but I'd grab anything that looks interesting, especially if you don't have the boxed sets, as the odds of them being grouped together again by another company are non-existent

Yeah, I think I'll need to place a mass order sometime soon.

It's possible that some of the Blus are just old editions. McCarver announced that the Some Like It Hot and The Getaway (1972) Blus among others were going OOP and they stayed available. The box sets on the other hand....

You can look up any title individually and see if there's other editions, there most likely are not

I'm just sayng that I rushed and bought Some Like It Hot and a few others (Blus that didn't seem like the most likely OOP candidates to begin with) after MMM OOP announcements and they never seemed to ever go OOP.

Somehow I just can't see all of these titles staying out of print for long from Sony, particularly the more recent titles (hello, Hostel and Julie and Julia?) and some of the higher profile classics (the Harryhausen Blu-rays). But I'm certainly going to be snatching up Suddenly Last Summer, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Twentieth Century, Husbands, and the Sam Fuller Collection before it's too late. Thankfully, for me at least, there aren't as many that I'm missing this go-round as there were with the Paramount purge.

Since no one has mentioned Mountain Patrol: Kekexili yet, I thought that I'd throw it in as another must own before it disappears.

Edit: Also Chinese Film Classics Collection: Crossroads / Daybreak, Watermelon Man, The Front, Robin and Marian, It Could Happen to You, Metropolis (anime), Winged Migration, Autofocus, Talk to Her, House of the Flying Daggers, , Cache, Vacancy, Boris Karloff Horror Collection, Our Man in Havana, Junebug, Persepolis, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Jimmy Carter: Man from the Plains, Tyson, Standard Operating Procedure, Frozen River, Waltz with Bashir, Chloe, Piranha 3-D

I'm not saying that all of these are masterpieces, but I do think that your film library is stronger with them included.

AutoFocus is out via Mill Creek already
Junebug is out via region-free Blu-ray from Eureka
Cache is out via region-free Blu-ray from Artificial Eye

Also, the Blob remake and all of the Urban Legends movies (all formats) are out of print as well-- considering how good the second-hand market is for horror films, these are prob safe investments

domino harvey wrote:AutoFocus is out via Mill Creek already
Junebug is out via region-free Blu-ray from Eureka
Cache is out via region-free Blu-ray from Artificial Eye

Thanks. I didn't know about AutoFocus, but I was well aware of the two region 2 titles. I included them simply for those that are region locked.

It's a good sentiment, but the Blu-rays aren't region locked. I think all of the "Midnight Movies" line are OOP as well, and most are available cheap fulfilled by Amazon already, so now might be the best time to snatch them up before the resellers realize they're OOP

domino harvey wrote:It's a good sentiment, but the Blu-rays aren't region locked. I think all of the "Midnight Movies" line are OOP as well, and most are available cheap fulfilled by Amazon already, so now might be the best time to snatch them up before the resellers realize they're OOP

Yes, they are. Aside from Our Man in Havana (another fine Graham Greene/Carol Reed production) are there any others in this series worth picking up?

I actually have either seen every title in the series or have them already-- Unfortunately most of them are still in my unwatched pile! But of what I've seen I thought Gumshoe was great (There's a writeup of it somewhere in the 70s thread). Model Shop is already available via the French Demy set and now that it's OOP I could see Criterion pairing it with Lola since it's a sequel of sorts. The Anderson Tapes is already available via Mill Creek. I guess not all of the Martini Movies are OOP though, as the worst one I've seen, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, is still around! But every other title I've checked is, so it's probably going soon anyways!

Looks like I finally have to bite on Roxanne.