Magnolia Pictures - Blu-ray Forum

jrchisholm · 02-09-2007, 06:20 PM

Does anyone know much about Magnolia Pictures? http://www.magpictures.com

Who distrubutes their releases?
I have seen a picture in an issue of Home Media magazine that shows their movies as BD and HD-DVD. The BD is in frot and sticking out from behind is HD-DVD version. Are the really neutral or is this a mistake?

I think the titles they have out currently are:
1. Shuttle Discovery's Historic Mission
2. War Within
3. One Last Thing
4. Bubble
5. Bikini Destination
6. ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Also, shown in the photograph are:
1. World's Fastest Indian
2. District B13
3. Lost City
4. Architect

Polyh3dron · 02-09-2007, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jrchisholm

Does anyone know much about Magnolia Pictures? http://www.magpictures.com

Who distrubutes their releases?
I have seen a picture in an issue of Home Media magazine that shows their movies as BD and HD-DVD. The BD is in frot and sticking out from behind is HD-DVD version. Are the really neutral or is this a mistake?

I think the titles they have out currently are:
1. Shuttle Discovery's Historic Mission
2. War Within
3. One Last Thing
4. Bubble
5. Bikini Destination
6. ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Also, shown in the photograph are:
1. World's Fastest Indian
2. District B13
3. Lost City
4. Architect

Magnolia Pictures is a new independent movie studio owned by Mark Cuban. I believe his company does their own distribution which would explain the very limited exposure/availability of these films.

One interesting thing Magnolia has been doing recently with Stephen Soderbergh's "Bubble" and "The Architect" is giving their films simultaneous theatrical and home video releases. They release on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and to order any of their titles you can go to hd.net.

I just ordered District B-13 from there myself.

Deciazulado · 02-10-2007, 01:34 AM

Here you go for faster transfer

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goodstuff · 02-10-2007, 02:18 AM

I got One Last Thing from DVDEmpire when it first came out and the PQ is amazing. I just ordered District 13 from Hd.net directly.

andyn1080 · 02-10-2007, 04:33 AM

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LFletcher · 02-10-2007, 08:31 AM

Anyone know if any of these 3 are available anywhere instead of the HD store as they want to charge $75 for international shipping

World's Fastest Indian
District B13
Lost City

goodstuff · 02-10-2007, 01:03 PM

Amazon.com U.S. has District 13 and World's Fastest Indian up for order, if that helps. Not sure how they handle international shipping.

xberserker · 07-17-2007, 03:48 PM

Most of the movie is great. But in some of the darker scenes, it gets really grainy. So on the grainy part I tried switching from 720p to 1080i on the PS3 no difference, still grainy. So I switched back to 720p. Still grainy. Kinda annoying, but at least it was just a few minutes of the movie.

Anybody else have this issue?

WriteSimply · 07-17-2007, 03:50 PM

If the film itself was grainy, then changing from 1080p to 720p won't make it look better. 480p however...

Don't sweat about the grain.

fuad

Deciazulado · 07-17-2007, 10:11 PM

Fast film used on low light has more grain. That's one explanation why some dark scenes in movies are grainier that shot-in-the desert at full blast-sunlight ones.

The alternative (which I've seen in several smoothies) is to blur the image and filter it to hide the grain. So if you're watching a smoothed night scene and it looks soft, and kind of not sharply focused on a disc, and it has no grain, and then it goes to daylight or studio shots and they are back to sharp, now you might know why.

I prefer the grain to be left in with whatever sharpness the film stock has intact .

02-09-2007, 06:20 PM	#1
jrchisholm Expert Member Top contributor Member since:Jan 2007 Location:USA 4K collection:349 Blu-ray collection:4226 Trading Score:78	Magnolia Pictures Does anyone know much about Magnolia Pictures? http://www.magpictures.com Who distrubutes their releases? I have seen a picture in an issue of Home Media magazine that shows their movies as BD and HD-DVD. The BD is in frot and sticking out from behind is HD-DVD version. Are the really neutral or is this a mistake? I think the titles they have out currently are: 1. Shuttle Discovery's Historic Mission 2. War Within 3. One Last Thing 4. Bubble 5. Bikini Destination 6. ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room Also, shown in the photograph are: 1. World's Fastest Indian 2. District B13 3. Lost City 4. Architect

02-10-2007, 04:33 AM	#5
andyn1080 Active Member Member since:Feb 2007 Blu-ray collection:910 Blu-ray reviews:2	netflix lottery edit Last edited by andyn1080; 02-10-2007 at 04:40 AM.

07-17-2007, 03:48 PM	#8
xberserker Active Member Member since:Oct 2006 Home Theater Gallery:6 Blu-ray collection:24 Blu-ray reviews: 1	World's Fastest Indian - Image Quality .... Most of the movie is great. But in some of the darker scenes, it gets really grainy. So on the grainy part I tried switching from 720p to 1080i on the PS3 no difference, still grainy. So I switched back to 720p. Still grainy. Kinda annoying, but at least it was just a few minutes of the movie. Anybody else have this issue?

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02-10-2007, 02:18 AM	#4
goodstuff Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:Oct 2006 4K collection:509 Blu-ray collection:6535 Blu-ray reviews: 85 Trading Score:6	I got One Last Thing from DVDEmpire when it first came out and the PQ is amazing. I just ordered District 13 from Hd.net directly.

02-10-2007, 08:31 AM	#6
LFletcher Active Member Member since:Oct 2006 Location:UK 4K collection:2127 Blu-ray collection:10282 DVD collection:183 iTunes collection:1907 Trading Score:18	Anyone know if any of these 3 are available anywhere instead of the HD store as they want to charge $75 for international shipping World's Fastest Indian District B13 Lost City

02-10-2007, 01:03 PM	#7
goodstuff Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:Oct 2006 4K collection:509 Blu-ray collection:6535 Blu-ray reviews: 85 Trading Score:6	Amazon.com U.S. has District 13 and World's Fastest Indian up for order, if that helps. Not sure how they handle international shipping.

07-17-2007, 03:50 PM	#9
WriteSimply Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Sep 2006 Location:Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	If the film itself was grainy, then changing from 1080p to 720p won't make it look better. 480p however... Don't sweat about the grain. fuad

07-17-2007, 10:11 PM	#10
Deciazulado Site Manager Top contributor Member since:Aug 2006 Location:USiberia Home Theater Gallery:6 4K collection:1159 Blu-ray collection:7044 DVD collection:4040	Fast film used on low light has more grain. That's one explanation why some dark scenes in movies are grainier that shot-in-the desert at full blast-sunlight ones. The alternative (which I've seen in several smoothies) is to blur the image and filter it to hide the grain. So if you're watching a smoothed night scene and it looks soft, and kind of not sharply focused on a disc, and it has no grain, and then it goes to daylight or studio shots and they are back to sharp, now you might know why. I prefer the grain to be left in with whatever sharpness the film stock has intact .

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