Twilight Time Discussion Thread

[MikeZ.]

Originally Posted by Jaymole

I'm looking through past pages and can't find the post with the 10% off code.

Would somebody mind directing me or posting it again?

Thanks

Read 4 posts above yours.

[krasnoludek]

Originally Posted by Jaymole

I'm looking through past pages and can't find the post with the 10% off code.

Would somebody mind directing me or posting it again?

Thanks

It was posted 6 pages back originally. It's so far back because TT announced the Nov/Dec 2014 releases and that generated a lot of discussion recently.

[Jaymole]

Originally Posted by MikeZ.

Read 4 posts above yours.

Thanks

[Jaymole]

Originally Posted by krasnoludek

It was posted 6 pages back originally. It's so far back because TT announced the Nov/Dec 2014 releases and that generated a lot of discussion recently.

Thanks...I guess I missed out on it. Stupid vacations!!

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by Joeyseven

Also does anyone know when the next sign copy Twilight Time's release goes on sale,and what movie?

There will not be a signed promo with the September pre-orders on August 20th. They've said that there will be one with the October pre-orders, which should be happening in late September.

They've not said what the title will be. They rarely announce what the signed titles will be very far in advance. Cynics would probably say that they don't want people to pass on buying the titles in anticipation of winning a signed copy later on. That wouldn't be an unreasonable stance on their part.

[dvdwatcher]

Originally Posted by jayembee

There will not be a signed promo with the September pre-orders on August 20th. They've said that there will be one with the October pre-orders, which should be happening in late September.

They've not said what the title will be. They rarely announce what the signed titles will be very far in advance. Cynics would probably say that they don't want people to pass on buying the titles in anticipation of winning a signed copy later on. That wouldn't be an unreasonable stance on their part.

How much diferance in price are these sighned copies usually? Ive never seen any of these yet.

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by dvdwatcher

How much diferance in price are these sighned copies usually? Ive never seen any of these yet.

The difference in price is generally around $29.95.

Seriously, they are, quite literally, priceless. On the days when pre-orders are up for the next month's titles, they will offer signed copies (only one per customer while supplies last) for people who order $100 worth of Twilight Time product (not including shipping fees) from Screen Archives Entertainment (or, more recently, from Twilight Time themselves).

On edit (2015 01 12): For The Blob, the minimum purchase is $149.75 worth of Twilight Time product (not including shipping fees). It's not clear as of this writing whether this will be the new standard, or is a one-time for this particular title.

On edit (2015 02 11): For Heaven & Earth, the minimum purchase is $119.80, which is exactly the cost of four $29.95 titles. According to TT in the Facebook announcement of this promo: "The purchase requirement has been held in one place for 4 years - going forward the signing promotions will be tiered based on availability, etc.

On further edit (2015 03 02): For the reissue of Fright Night, the minimum purchase is at $149.75. It would appear that the minimum purchase will now vary depending on the title they offer.

The signed promo is free, but it's not automatically added to your order. You have to add it to your cart before check-out. The trouble is that you need to be quick about it. There are usually only 100-150 signed copies available, and they seem to typically run out within about 3 minutes of pre-orders going live.

A bit ago, totally from abstract interest, I went through all the replies in this thread looking for mentions of the signed promos, and made up a list. Here's what I came up with. If anyone knows of any others, please post.

The list has date (the pre-order date that the signed copies were available as promos), title, number of copies available, and who signed them.

2011 12 16 Fright Night 100 Tom Holland see note 1
2012 04 13 Journey to the Center of the Earth 100 Pat Boone see note 2
2013 03 08 Christine ??? Keith Gordon
2013 07 03 Hard Times 100 Walter Hill
2013 07 24 The Only Game in Town 100 George Stevens Jr
2013 08 21 The Disappearance 150 Stuart Cooper
2013 11 20 Mindwarp 160 Steve Barnett
2013 12 26 Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger 160 ? Patrick Wayne
2014 01 22 Royal Flash 120 Malcolm McDowell
2014 02 19 The Driver ??? Walter Hill
2014 03 19 The Front 150 Andrea Marcovicci
2014 04 23 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ??? Gordon Dawson
2014 05 21 Used Cars ??? Bob Gale
2014 06 18 Fate Is the Hunter 100 Nancy Kwan
2014 07 23 Brannigan ??? Judy Geeson
2014 09 24 The Buddy Holly Story ??? Steve Rash
2014 10 22 Salvador 110 Oliver Stone
2014 11 12 Che! 100 Lalo Schifrin see note 3
2014 11 19 La Bamba ??? Lou Diamond Phillips
2014 12 03 Audrey Rose 100 Susan Swift see note 3
2014 12 23 Under Fire ??? Ron Shelton
2015 01 14 The Blob 100 Chuck Russell
2015 02 11 Heaven & Earth ??? Oliver Stone
2015 03 04 Fright Night [reissue] ??? Tom Holland
2015 04 01 Breaking Away ??? Dennis Christopher
2015 04 22 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 100 Pamela Franklin
2015 05 13 To Sir, With Love 100 Judy Geeson
2015 06 10 U Turn ??? Michael Medavoy
2015 07 01 Fright Night [reissue] 60 no signature see note 4
2015 07 08 Journey to the Center of the Earth [reissue] 100 Diane Baker
2015 08 05 April Love ??? Shirley Jones
2015 09 02 U Turn ??? Oliver Stone
2015 10 14 State of Grace ??? Phil Joanou
2015 11 20 The Fantasticks ??? Jean Louisa Kelly
2016 01 13 The Fabulous Baker Boys ??? Steve Kloves
2016 02 17 Summer Lovers ??? Randal Kleiser
2016 03 09 Broken Lance ??? Earl Holliman
2016 04 06 10 to Midnight ??? Pancho Kohner and John Crowther
2016 04 20 Harlock: Space Pirate ??? Shinji Aramaki, Yoshi Ikezawa, & Joseph Chou
2016 07 11 10 Rillington Place ??? Judy Geeson
2016 08 17 I Could Go On Singing ??? Lawrence Turman
2016 09 14 Cat Ballou 100 Elliot Silverstein
2016 11 09 At Close Range ??? James Foley
2016 12 14 Murphy's Law 100 Angel Tompkins
2017 02 15 Runaway Train ??? Eric Roberts
2017 04 12 Murphy's Law 100 Kathleen Wilhoite
2018 01 10 Wild Bill ??? Walter Hill
2018 03 07 Wuthering Heights 100 Ian Ogilvy
2018 04 04 Doctor Dolittle 100 Leslie Bricusse

Notes:

(1) Holland signed an additional 16 copies of Fright Night that he offered for sale/bid on eBay.

(2) Journey to the Center of the Earth wasn't a free/giveaway promo, but was offered for sale on the same day that the regular edition was up for pre-orders, and at the same price as the unsigned copies.

(3) Special offer not associated with any pre-order. Starting with the Audrey Rose promo, the signed copies will no longer be associated with pre-orders, but will be offered at other times, so that more people will have a better chance to get one.

(4) This was a special promotion by Twilight Time in honor of their establishing their own website from which one can order their releases:

as a special opening day gift, the first 60 aficionados to purchase all 5 of the new titles from the new site will receive a FREE promotional copy of FRIGHT NIGHT: 30th Anniversary Edition - these are the last 60 promos held back for emergencies, and we feel there is no better way to allocate them than to give them away on our own site.

They were unsigned.

[popeflick]

If you dig in their Facebook page around mid February I recently found mention that Walter Hill signed 140 copies of the Driver according to their post. Perhaps that can be verified by someone else but I was curiuos myself a while back and went digging.

This is a GREAT list and frankly should be edited into the OP. Why this hasn't already been done is amazing and I commend you for it sir!


ETA - you might want to asterisk in an additional 16 copies of Fright Night that Tom Holland signed in a batch and sold for 250 each on eBay.

Originally Posted by jayembee

The difference in price is generally around $29.95.

Seriously, they are, quite literally, priceless. On the days when pre-orders are up for the next month's titles, they will offer signed copies (only one per customer while supplies last) for people who order $100 worth of Twilight Time product (not including shipping fees) from Screen Archives Entertainment.

The signed promo is free, but it's not automatically added to your order. You have to add it to your cart before check-out. The trouble is that you need to be quick about it. There are usually only 100-150 signed copies available, and they seem to typically run out within about 3 minutes of pre-orders going live.

A bit ago, totally from abstract interest, I went through all the replies in this thread looking for mentions of the signed promos, and made up a list. Here's what I came up with. If anyone knows of any others, please post.

The list has date (the pre-order date that the signed copies were available as promos), title, number of copies available, and who signed them.

2011 12 16 Fright Night 100 Tom Holland
2012 04 13 Journey to the Center of the Earth 100 Pat Boone
2013 03 08 Christine ??? Keith Gordon
2013 07 03 Hard Times 100 Walter Hill
2013 07 24 The Only Game in Town 100 George Stevens Jr
2013 08 21 The Disappearance 150 Stuart Cooper
2013 11 20 Mindwarp 160 Steve Barnett
2013 12 26 Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger 160 ? Patrick Wayne
2014 01 22 Royal Flash 120 Malcolm McDowell
2014 02 19 The Driver ??? Walter Hill
2014 03 19 The Front 150 Andrea Marcovicci
2014 04 23 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ??? Gordon Dawson
2014 05 21 Used Cars ??? Bob Gale
2014 06 18 Fate Is the Hunter 100 Nancy Kwan
2014 07 23 Brannigan ??? Judy Geeson

[jayembee]

Originally Posted by popeflick

If you dig in their Facebook page around mid February I recently found mention that Walter Hill signed 140 copies of the Driver according to their post. Perhaps that can be verified by someone else but I was curiuos myself a while back and went digging.

This is a GREAT list and frankly should be edited into the OP. Why this hasn't already been done is amazing and I commend you for it sir!

ETA - you might want to asterisk in an additional 16 copies of Fright Night that Tom Holland signed in a batch and sold for 250 each on eBay.

Thanks for mentioning the number of copies of The Driver.

I'd thought about including those extra copies of Fright Night, but as they weren't being offered as promo copies by Twilight Time, it didn't seem quite right.

[dvdwatcher]

So you have to make a 100.00 dollar purchase and the signed item is free?

[MikeZ.]

Y'all are welcome to mine, should I ever become eligible for one.
Not an autograph person.

[krasnoludek]

Originally Posted by dvdwatcher

So you have to make a 100.00 dollar purchase and the signed item is free?

Of Twilight Time product only (other SAE items don't count). The $100 is pre-shipping, so unless you combine some of the $34.95 titles, you usually need 4 TT titles to qualify. They're great promos, but as people have said, you have to be quick!

[baheidstu]

Wouldn't it be something if they got Barbra to sign some copies of the Way We Were for the Yentl / Funny Lady pre-orders?

[krasnoludek]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

Wouldn't it be something if they got Barbra to sign some copies of the Way We Were for the Yentl / Funny Lady pre-orders?

That would be great, but quite a stretch. The fantastic idea that I think might be a little more possible is some Oliver Stone signings. They already know him well enough to get him to persuade WB to release Heaven and Earth, so what's a few autographs on top of that? Fingers crossed!

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by krasnoludek

That would be great, but quite a stretch. The fantastic idea that I think might be a little more possible is some Oliver Stone signings. They already know him well enough to get him to persuade WB to release Heaven and Earth, so what's a few autographs on top of that? Fingers crossed!

Yeah, I was just kidding around with my comment, but the Oliver Stone thing might actually be plausible for the reasons you cite. I think it's great that they are able to get all of those people to autograph the blus, but the only one so far that I would call "A List" is Malcolm McDowell.

[Tns49]

I am surprised by the number of major titles that Twilight Time has in their announcement for the rest of the year. Are the studios beginning to dump most of their back catalogs to TT, Olive, Kino, etc.


La Bamba
BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
YENTL
FUNNY LADY
INHERIT THE WIND
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

[klauswhereareyou]

Anybody who didn't do the preorders for August but snagged the Brannigan promo get their order yet?

[lemonski]

Originally Posted by Tns49

I am surprised by the number of major titles that Twilight Time has in their announcement for the rest of the year. Are the studios beginning to dump most of their back catalogs to TT, Olive, Kino, etc.


La Bamba
BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ
JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
YENTL
FUNNY LADY
INHERIT THE WIND
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

I hope so. The catalog titles, from TT and Kino especially, are starting to come at a good pace. TT seems to be keeping the transfer quality quite high at the same time.

[cakefactory]

Originally Posted by krasnoludek

Of Twilight Time product only (other SAE items don't count). The $100 is pre-shipping, so unless you combine some of the $34.95 titles, you usually need 4 TT titles to qualify. They're great promos, but as people have said, you have to be quick!

So like, is it just a thing that displays on the preorder page as a normal item with no cost that you can add to your cart? And it simply won't let you check-out unless you buy 100 bucks worth of stuff at the same time? Or is it something that shows up during checkout as an option to add to your order then if you start to checkout with 100 bucks worth of stuff in your cart?

[NoirFan]

Originally Posted by krasnoludek

They're great promos, but as people have said, you have to be quick!

Sometimes you literally only have a few seconds.