Scream Factory Blu-ray Discussion Thread

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by demonknight

The Jaws sequels have been deemed precious cargo by Universal.

Why? Have they seen them?

[bizarre_eye]

Considering Arrow were forced to lock their release of Big Trouble in Little China to region B (especially when the existing US Fox Blu release is region free) I wouldn't be surprised to see a re-release of this one from Shout.

[demonknight]

Originally Posted by Buscemi

I think Warner Bros. has House IV, as it was released by New Line.

According to Warner Archives on the subject of House IV & Alligator II, they lost one and were about to lose the other. This was last year.

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye

Considering Arrow were forced to lock their release of Big Trouble in Little China to region B (especially when the existing US Fox Blu release is region free) I wouldn't be surprised to see a re-release of this one from Shout.

The disc from Fox looks good, has a decent amount of extras, and is currently $5. IMO, SF shouldn't waste their time.

[benricci]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye

Considering Arrow were forced to lock their release of Big Trouble in Little China to region B (especially when the existing US Fox Blu release is region free) I wouldn't be surprised to see a re-release of this one from Shout.

I don't see the point. The current U.S. disc looks and sounds great, has plenty of extras and is dirt, dirt cheap.

I'd rather have these home video companies focus on titles that don't already have good releases as opposed to an endless parade of the same handful of "safe" titles that get re-released as naseum over the years.

I mean seriously, do we really need another release of BTILC? Or The Fly?

[bizarre_eye]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

The disc from Fox looks good, has a decent amount of extras, and is currently $5. IMO, SF shouldn't waste their time.

Agreed. However, I'd be far from surprised if SF were to re-release this one.

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

The disc from Fox looks good, has a decent amount of extras, and is currently $5. IMO, SF shouldn't waste their time.

Shout shouldn't waste their time with Army of Darkness. The market is flooded with 4 or 5 different editions, all of which are still easily available, plus there are various international versions, mostly region-free . But I do agree with you on "Big Trouble In Little China". It's been done

[benricci]

Originally Posted by cine74

Shout shouldn't waste their time with Army of Darkness. The market is flooded with 4 or 5 different editions, all of which are still easily available, plus there are various international versions, mostly region-free . But I do agree with you on "Big Trouble In Little China". It's been done

There hasn't been a good release of that one in America yet, so at least it sort of makes sense.

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by cine74

Shout shouldn't waste their time with Army of Darkness. The market is flooded with 4 or 5 different editions, all of which are still easily available, plus there are various international versions, mostly region-free.

AOD is different, because the US hasn't received an edition yet (BD or DVD) with a good transfer of the director's cut.

[szagski13]

Any word on a possible Summer of Fear sale? I'm really hoping they'll start something tomorrow, or at least sometime in the next 2 weeks

[dsman71]

Originally Posted by cine74

Shout shouldn't waste their time with Army of Darkness. The market is flooded with 4 or 5 different editions, all of which are still easily available, plus there are various international versions, mostly region-free . But I do agree with you on "Big Trouble In Little China". It's been done

We need a good collectors edition in the USA. Look at what France and Germany got , why cant we ?

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by szagski13

Any word on a possible Summer of Fear sale? I'm really hoping they'll start something tomorrow, or at least sometime in the next 2 weeks

When asked about it at the beginning of the month, SF's response was something like "the summer is still young". It would be nice if they gave us some advance notice so people can have their funds ready.

[omahajon]

Dark Delicacies in LA is having the director of Howling II sign the upcoming Blu-ray and cast signing for Robot Jox for those interested. I don't livein LA but order copies via their site, darkdel.com

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally Posted by jcole8882

To those of you who said they won't release the original Evil Dead from shout because it's anchor bay.. well the halloween blu ray set is from shout.. and halloween is anchor bay.. so they can do evil dead and evil dead 2 if they want.... I think they could pretty much do any movie with good reasons...

Lionsgate now has Evil Dead II.

[k_huntington]

Originally Posted by zbinks

MGM/UA:

Carrie (1976)
Lady in White (1988)

Fox:

Warning Sign (1985)
The Fly II (1988)

Universal:

The Car (1977)
Ghost Story (1981)
Village of the Damned (1995)
Cherry Falls (2000)
Session 9 (2001)
Slither (2006)

why is everyone saying slither? i just bught an hd-dvd player a few months ago for that title (among a few others), don't make my efforts worthless! :P

[TripleHBK]

Originally Posted by szagski13

Any word on a possible Summer of Fear sale? I'm really hoping they'll start something tomorrow, or at least sometime in the next 2 weeks

There are/were no plans for a summer of fear sale this year... If we're lucky we'll see a month long sale during October this year. They've gone back and fourth on the sales events the last few years. No summer sale opens the door for an October Sale/event.

[StingingVelvet]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

The disc from Fox looks good, has a decent amount of extras, and is currently $5. IMO, SF shouldn't waste their time.

Yep. We need to stop with this "Scream should release every genre movie ever so I can get a cool slipcover for it" stuff. The Fly and Big Trouble are last on my list of movies needed re-releases. Like literally dead last.

[dsman71]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Yep. We need to stop with this "Scream should release every genre movie ever so I can get a cool slipcover for it" stuff. The Fly and Big Trouble are last on my list of movies needed re-releases. Like literally dead last.

Same here.. unless its SUBSTANTIALLY better, I dont need a release because of new artwork or a slip(wasteofmoney)cover

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by StingingVelvet

Yep. We need to stop with this "Scream should release every genre movie ever so I can get a cool slipcover for it" stuff. The Fly and Big Trouble are last on my list of movies needed re-releases. Like literally dead last.

I've already got an awesome slipcover for Big Trouble in Little China, since I picked up the Special Edition Fox Blu-ray a few months back. The picture quality on this existing Blu-ray looks great to me.

[jshaide]

I'm personally hoping for the "missing" Vincent Price MGM titles to be given a mention at Comic Con since it doesn't look like they'll be out this October (unless there is a surprise announcement sometime this week).