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Originally Posted by drees5761
Some very good points Pro basoonist, but i think its crazy, if true, that Fortune Star doesn't have a single true HD scan of any of their older films. If this is so then we should boycott them until its sorted out.
With the current climate i do wonder if anyone is going to take up these films in the west, with Dragon Dynasty virtually gone and in the UK, Cine Asia are very quiet with releases, its doubtful.
Makes you wonder how companies like Criterion keep going and presumably make money as some of there titles are very obscure, i for one would pay Criterion prices if the products were good enough.
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I don't know what else to tell you. Awhile ago I spoke with someone in Hong Kong to find out exactly what masters were going to be used for the Japanese releases of the
A Better Tomorrow trilogy. Let's put it this way: The answers I received were pretty strange.
Honestly, I think that you are expecting way too much from the HK distributors. They are definitely not operating as, say, Criterion does.
In the West, things have been streamlined for years. During the DVD era my communication with HK distributors was rather sporadic, but my impression was always that things are quite loose there.
This being said, I am pretty sure that if someone came up with the right amount of money, you would be seeing some rather impressive catalog releases. That someone isn't around yet.
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Originally Posted by drees5761
With the current climate i do wonder if anyone is going to take up these films in the west, with Dragon Dynasty virtually gone and in the UK, Cine Asia are very quiet with releases, its doubtful.
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Unfortunately, I could not agree more. Like I said earlier, this is why my take on the whole situation has been: buy whatever you can and want. I honestly don't think you will see the type of Renaissance you are seeing with major western classics here in the U.S. and in Europe. Hong Kong is a very different market.
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Originally Posted by OldPangYau
I've said it before, but at this point, our only hope is that another company will get the rights from Fortune Star, just as Fortune Star obtained them from Media Asia. Media Asia was great for Golden Harvest on VHS, Fortune Star was great for Golden Harvest on DVD... but we've yet to see a company be great for Golden Harvest on blu-ray.  |
Also agreed
A distributor like Wild Side in France would be right.
Pro-B