I've always interpreted the price of the LE as being reflective of High licensing fees from Warner Bros and nothing to do with restoration or the limited number. Those fees haven't changed by the sudden appearance of an additional 5000 copies. Its very possible that Warner was paid a second fee for the additional copies, or that they get a percentage of the sale price for each LE sold. As stated, the collectors edition is standard price, meaning all the extra costs are coming from the Theatrical cut. Cutting the price now likely would only hurt Scream Factory. Scream is certainly going to make money on this set, but isn't that what we want? No one person is going to pocket the money, if anything it gives them a bigger budget to roll into future title acquisitions.
I get being upset about this not being so limited anymore, I really do, but hasn't just about every scream fan complained about the lack of a retail presence and how hard it is to find some of these releases. Things like this are what help convince bigger studios to roll out more titles, and if we're lucky, for retailers to maybe stock their shelves. Don't like spending $80? Buy it from Amazon. We worry and complain about how everything is going to the limited print run model, yet when a company most of us are grateful for ups their print run people freak the **** out. I long for the days of DVD where every title prints up 100000 or more copies. I shouldn't have to worry about buying expensive sets or limited releases during a pre-order window just to secure a copy of a movie in HD.
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