Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[spanky87]

Damn, that $20 USD shipping fee for 4 titles kinda killed the deal a bit.

Got Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, How to Steal a Million, Pretty Poison, and Where the Sidewalk Ends for $98 USD ($133 CAD) with shipping.

So that's about $33 CAD for each title, which some may laugh at, but it's still a deal for us Canadians with this brizutal exchange rate.

There's nowhere else at the moment to get this transfer of Where the Sidewalk Ends, right?

[hammer99]

Just ordered:
TONY ROME / LADY IN CEMENT
TWO FOR THE ROAD
GARDEN OF EVIL
Thanks TT (and SAE).

I may go back for at least INFERNO before the end of the month. Day 1 purchases are out of the question anymore though with all these sales. Something would have to be pretty special for me to jump.

[spanky87]

I didn't know screen archives was also doing the sale since I got the email from Twilight Time and made a quick order through them. Screen Archives only charges $10 to ship 4 titles to Canada. Twilight Time charged me $20.



So just a heads up to Canadians.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by spanky87

I didn't know screen archives was also doing the sale since I got the email from Twilight Time and made a quick order through them. Screen Archives only charges $10 to ship 4 titles to Canada. Twilight Time charged me $20.



So just a heads up to Canadians.

I was just going to order one title direct from TT because I had a $2 off coupon. Shipping was over $11 USD for the one title which is just insane!

[PowellPressburger]

I ended up splurging ... I am so behind on TT Titles.. and I really really wants INFERNO 3D

so I ordered direct from TT

Inferno 3d/2D
Boston Strangler
Pretty Poison
Two for the Road
Kiss of Death
Peyton Place
Panic in Needle Park

I'd also strongly recommend How to Steal a Million I think it looks incredible... and also Violent Saturday great color noir film with an equally informative commentary track.

[RICKBONDOO7]

I ordered Kiss of Death & Violent Saturday I'm a Victor Mature fan Great Prices, Great Movies ! Already have the UK versions also.

[NoirFan]

I'm hoping they have some sort of Sony/Columbia sale next, I've been patiently waiting for a discount on Mad Magician since January!

[bsend]

Originally Posted by erlinmeyer

From the Twilight Time Facebook posts, they also had some updated quantities:

THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN - fewer than 120 copies remaining
BONJOUR TRISTESSE - fewer than 150 units remaining
MINDWARP - fewer than 250 copies remaining
RAPTURE - fewer than 300 copies remaining
FOLLOW THAT DREAM - fewer than 300 units remaining
CONRACK - fewer than 300 units remaining
MISSISSIPPI BURNING - fewer than 300 copies remaining (stock for this title is only available at https://www.twilighttimemovies.com/)
DESIREE - fewer than 350 units remaining
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER - fewer than 350 units remaining
BELOVED INFIDEL - fewer than 350 units remaining
PONY SOLDIER - fewer than 400 units remaining
MISSISSIPPI MERMAID - fewer than 400 units remaining
MAN IN THE DARK 3D - fewer than 400 copies remaining
THE MAN FROM LARAMIE - fewer than 400 copies remaining
BREAKING AWAY - fewer than 400 copies remaining
ROOTS OF HEAVEN - fewer than 450 units remaining
HOMBRE - a few hundred copies remaining (stock for this title is only available at https://www.twilighttimemovies.com/)
FUNNY LADY - listed as low quantity at SAE, number remaining unknown (stock for this title only available at http://www.screenarchives.com)

This makes me feel better. I went out an got Rapture for about $17 since I thought it was OOP a month ago.

[SeanJoyce]

Originally Posted by MassiveMovieBuff

Black Widow has to be one of the most frustrating films ever made for me. I see such great potential for this film that could've made it one of the best and sexiest neo noir thrillers ever but it just didn't have the courage to go through with what it should have between Theresa Russell and Debra Winger unfortunately (which was obviously there) and also completely dropping the male romantic interest in Hawaii. If it would have I would have bought this first thing on it's release date.

Wow, sounds awfully similar to my take back in January:

This movie was terrible; great premise that failed miserably on its execution. This could have been one of the great seductive noir films, in the same conversation as Body Heat and Bound, yet it doesn't even go halfway in its exploration of the sexual dynamics between Winger and Russell.

[78deluxe]

Originally Posted by Aclea

It's variable: some films can cost more because the UK is the largest potential market for them while others are priced out of the market altogether (for years for some inexplicable reason most major Japanese distributors used to charge more for UK rights than US rights). One reason so many back catalogue titles aren't available in the UK when they're widely available in other territories is the licensing costs are unviable for the size of the market.

I'd be curious to see actual statistics for virtually any of these films that the market for the UK is actually larger than the US. Considering the UK is only 20% of the population of the US and a basic look at a few box office numbers seems to suggest those figures are also pretty evenly correlated. Therefore a film having a bigger market in the UK would be a pretty tough pill to swallow for most of these non-UK based films.

Do you have a source? Or is this conjecture? Just curious.

[BwayJ]

Twilight Time has sent out a low quantity alert for these movies on the TT website.

Less Than 100 Copies Remaining:

$14.95
FATE IS THE HUNTER
FROM THE TERRACE
RIFF-RAFF / RAINING STONES (2 BY KEN LOACH)

$9.95
TITUS
SAVE YOUR LEGS!

Less Than 150 Copies Remaining:

$19.95
HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE

$14.95
THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
THE VANISHING
STORMY WEATHER

$9.95
CHE

[SeanJoyce]

Included Charlotte in my order, now I don't feel so guilty about not waiting any longer. Based on all the reviews I've read it seems like this will remain the definitive release of the film.

It looks like Fate is the Hunter has a lot of fans, I wonder if I should jump on it before it goes...

[xxnomad]

is fate is the hunter any good?

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by BwayJ

Twilight Time has sent out a low quantity alert for these movies on the TT website.

Less Than 100 Copies Remaining:

$14.95
FATE IS THE HUNTER
FROM THE TERRACE
RIFF-RAFF / RAINING STONES (2 BY KEN LOACH)

$9.95
TITUS
SAVE YOUR LEGS!

Less Than 150 Copies Remaining:

$19.95
HUSH...HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE

$14.95
THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
THE VANISHING
STORMY WEATHER

$9.95
CHE

Well hell, I hadn't planned on getting anything this time around as I've already spent too much on recent sales but that LQA prompted me to pull the trigger on Charlotte and I picked up Pretty Poison along with it.

[baheidstu]

Hmm, I just realized that LQA is for the TT website, NOT SAE. So who knows what the overall numbers are. Oh well, I guess if numbers are low at TT, then SAE must be getting low too.

[RalphoR]

I'm already set with my TT movies so no need to purchase anything but, wow, these bds are moving fast! Get `em while you can.

[SeanJoyce]

I just know that Kiss of Death will come down to $14.95 on the next sale a la many of those movies, but what the hell, I want it.

[s7e]

Originally Posted by xxnomad

is fate is the hunter any good?

I was blown away by this as a blind buy a couple years ago. I would highly recommend it!

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by 78deluxe

I'd be curious to see actual statistics for virtually any of these films that the market for the UK is actually larger than the US. Considering the UK is only 20% of the population of the US and a basic look at a few box office numbers seems to suggest those figures are also pretty evenly correlated. Therefore a film having a bigger market in the UK would be a pretty tough pill to swallow for most of these non-UK based films.

Do you have a source? Or is this conjecture? Just curious.

I've worked for the international home video division of one of the majors, and there are plenty of fluctuations internationally - some pretty obvious (Reservoir Dogs did more than twice as much as the US gross in the UK, Trainspotting 2 made ten times more in the UK than in the US, Alan Partridge made $9.5m vs $153,000 in the US, Legend - the Krays one - did $28m in the UK where anything about The Krays takes a fortune vs $1.8m in the US). Films and TV shows like The Sweeney, Absolutely Fabulous, Dad's Army, the Carry On films or Dredd that struggle to get much of a release Stateside command high prices from UK distributors (the UK rights for Dredd went for $7m because expectations were so high there: the producers had to underwrite Lionsgate's marketing costs to even get a theatrical release in the US). Much of the StudioCanal library of English language films is virtually worthless in the USA but still has value (albeit diminishing) in the UK.

Of course, that's primarily UK-centric product (though much of it funded by US and Canadian companies), but there's a long history of US studio films that flopped in the US being big hits in the UK, usually based on subject matter: Battle of Britain, Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), Cromwell, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang... The landscape for licensing foreign films is also very different from territory to territory.

It works both ways, of course: there are big US hits that are practically worthless in the UK market (one reason it's been spared Tyler Perry's ouevre to date) and UK films that flop locally but take off in the States (The Crying Game, Croupier). When you're negotiating for rights, the copyright holders will have different expectations for different markets, and for a lot of product on the market the US is regarded as the smallest potential market and priced accordingly.

[Reddington]

Picked up The Boston Strangler and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte from SAE. Both blind buys, but from good directors and look to be strong thematically, and with interesting cinematography. Spurred into action by the Low Quantity alert for the latter (albeit at TT).