"Club Penton" - Ask questions to Hollywood insider "Penton-Man"

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Well, if you like eye candy then check out this superb clip (trailer) ……….
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/thefall/hd/

I downloaded the trailer (shortly after you mentioned it to me), and while I'm still not sure I know quite what I would think of said film, I noticed that DVDEmpire.com has it listed for release on Blu-ray by Sony on September 9th. I may not be sure what I would think of said film, but I do know it should look mighty purty on Blu-ray!

Personally, I'm more excited by Sony's announcement of "Married Life". A film I was disappointed to see announced for DVD on The Digital Bits a couple of months back with no Blu-ray announcement. I even voiced my displeasure in a post about it!

It's really good to see some of these "smaller" films get the Blu-ray treatment by the majors... particularly some upcoming titles like "Redbelt" (1080p trailer), "Married Life" (1080p trailer), and of course the aforementioned title above... and if they look anything like some of Sony's other "indie"/"smaller" releases ("The Lives Of Others", "Black Book", "Saawariya", etc.), hopefully they will get some attention by Blu-buyers because of it!

~Alan

[jopemoro]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Wicky,
I'm sending you a PM about a certain general and a certain Foxy creature.
Be sure to read.

Later

Chacal is coming to Blu-ray???

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Wicky,
I'm sending you a PM about a certain general and a certain Foxy creature.
Be sure to read.

Later

Wanted? AJolies character

[blitz6speed]

Penton

Next time you talk to geek, tell him we miss him!

[tvted]

Originally Posted by Rob Tomlin

Both of those guesses are somewhat far reaching, but man, I would sure as hell love it if either of them turned out to be right!

Re The Third Man

Criterion to begin roll-out in October
http://www.criterion.com/blu-rayannounce.html

ted

[WickyWoo]

OK guys, we loosened up the last few days for fun, but please return to your reguarly scheduled format of Q&A and serious discussion.

[Rob Tomlin]

Originally Posted by tvted

Re The Third Man

Criterion to begin roll-out in October
http://www.criterion.com/blu-rayannounce.html

ted

..

[coolmilo]

Originally Posted by Alan Gordon

It's really good to see some of these "smaller" films get the Blu-ray treatment by the majors... particularly some upcoming titles like "Redbelt" (1080p trailer), "Married Life" (1080p trailer), and of course the aforementioned title above... and if they look anything like some of Sony's other "indie"/"smaller" releases ("The Lives Of Others", "Black Book", "Saawariya", etc.), hopefully they will get some attention by Blu-buyers because of it!

~Alan

Well that's good and all but the crime of the year is In Bruges was not released on Blu-ray. This is one of the best films of the year so far.

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by coolmilo

Well that's good and all but the crime of the year is In Bruges was not released on Blu-ray. This is one of the best films of the year so far.

Yeah I noticed that they have announced it on DVD but not BD. I thought all the studios were going to release all new films on BD and DVD at the same time.

[Kris Deering]

In Bruges was a Focus Films release which would fall under Universal. Since their first day-and-date isn't coming out until the end of July, maybe it missed their window of opportunity, similar to Charlie Wilson's War. We may still see it later though, fingers crossed. I thought it was great, even in the TINY little Mom and Pop theater I saw it in.

[WickyWoo]

OK guys, we loosened up the last few days for fun, but please return to your reguarly scheduled format of Q&A and serious discussion.

since it got lost on the last page

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by JasonR

Penton,

With all these new titles in the works, where is all the FUD about disc production shortages now?

Thanks,

Jason

The production shortages for the items at the very bottom of the page…….
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/shirts.html

could never really keep up with demand.
I suggest that a more meaningful endeavor would be to follow and continuously monitor this grave T-shirt situation.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by blitz6speed

Penton

Next time you talk to geek, tell him we miss him!

Will do.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Alan Gordon

I downloaded the trailer [The Fall] (shortly after you mentioned it to me), and while I'm still not sure I know quite what I would think of said film, I noticed that DVDEmpire.com has it listed for release on Blu-ray by Sony on September 9th. I may not be sure what I would think of said film, but I do know it should look mighty purty on Blu-ray!

Personally, I'm more excited by Sony's announcement of "Married Life". A film I was disappointed to see announced for DVD on The Digital Bits a couple of months back with no Blu-ray announcement. I even voiced my displeasure in a post about it!

It's really good to see some of these "smaller" films get the Blu-ray treatment by the majors... particularly some upcoming titles like "Redbelt" (1080p trailer), "Married Life" (1080p trailer), and of course the aforementioned title above... and if they look anything like some of Sony's other "indie"/"smaller" releases ("The Lives Of Others", "Black Book", "Saawariya", etc.), hopefully they will get some attention by Blu-buyers because of it!

~Alan

^
Speaking of which....................
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news...September/1873

[Deciazulado]

The Fall with pre-order link

[eChopper]

was that winkie to suggest Fall Of The Roman Empire?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

OK guys, we loosened up the last few days for fun, but please return to your reguarly scheduled format of Q&A and serious discussion.

since it got lost on the last page

O.K.
Suppose a Director made a film in which he was never happy with the theatrical presentation.

Given the current topic on the forums by *authorities * on DNR, suppose the original negative was just too grainy for his liking but given the reality of the original shoot there wasn’t really much he (the Director) or the DP could do to alleviate the situation back in the day.

Years later, said film then goes to a post/restoration facility to be “restored” or “remastered” with the intention of an eventual Blu-ray home media release.

If the DP was present during the restoration of the D5 master tape, and directly indicated that he desired some digital grain reduction (given the unhappiness over the original theatrical presentation)…………would you consider it *kosher* that the Blu-ray edition not be *true* to the theatrical presentation (or what everyone considers to be the “original version”) ?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by eChopper

was that winkie to suggest Fall Of The Roman Empire?

No, it was regarding the fact that things discussed on this thread as heads-up bleeding edge news/information…….eventually arrive with *official* press releases.

[WickyWoo]

If the DP was present during the restoration of the D5 master tape, and directly indicated that he desired some digital grain reduction (given the unhappiness over the original theatrical presentation)…………would you consider it *kosher* that the Blu-ray edition not be *true* to the theatrical presentation (or what everyone considers to be the “original version”) ?

If the DP approves it as his desired look at feel, yes. The DP and the director are the authorities over how it should be

[Kris Deering]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

O.K.
Suppose a Director made a film in which he was never happy with the theatrical presentation.

Given the current topic on the forums by *authorities * on DNR, suppose the original negative was just too grainy for his liking but given the reality of the original shoot there wasn’t really much he (the Director) or the DP could do to alleviate the situation back in the day.

Years later, said film then goes to a post/restoration facility to be “restored” or “remastered” with the intention of an eventual Blu-ray home media release.

If the DP was present during the restoration of the D5 master tape, and directly indicated that he desired some digital grain reduction (given the unhappiness over the original theatrical presentation)…………would you consider it *kosher* that the Blu-ray edition not be *true* to the theatrical presentation (or what everyone considers to be the “original version”) ?

This gets into what we mentioned in Robert's thread about having Director's or DP's actually sign off on the video saying it is what they want directly. That may calm nerves a bit, unless of course the director or DP wanted a cleaner look!