Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection - January 29, 2013

[ArrestedDevelopment]

Originally Posted by Akijama

A massive 50-film boxed set is planned for Blu-ray this January.

In an early announcement to retailers, Warner Brothers is readying 'Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection' for Blu-ray on January 29.

The Largest-Ever Blu-Ray Collection. 50 Movies Including 16 of Warner Bros. Library’s Best Picture™ Winners on 52 Discs, Presented in Book Style Premium Packaging. Plus two all-new documentaries: Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot and The Warner Bros. Lot Tour. With hours of commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more on select films. Also includes a limited edition 27” x 40” poster, plus a postcard series of Warner Bros. movie posters designed by legendary Bill Gold. Look for these movie-poster titles on DVD.

*Best Picture™ winner

1. Grand Hotel* (1932)
2. Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935)
3. Gone with The Wind* (1939)
4. Wizard of Oz (1939)
5. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
6. Citizen Kane (1941)
7. Mrs. Miniver* (1942)
8. Casablanca* (1942)
9. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
10. American in Paris, An* (1951)
11. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
12. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
13. Gigi* (1958)
14. Ben-Hur* (1959)
15. North By Northwest (1959)
16. How the West Was Won (1962)
17. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
18. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
20. Bullitt (1968)
21. Dirty Harry (1971)
22. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
23. Clockwork Orange, A (1972)
24. Exorcist, The (1973)
25. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest* (1975)
26. Superman, The Movie (1977)
27. Shining, The (1980)
28. Chariots of Fire* (1981)
29. Risky Business (1983)
30. Amadeus* (1984)
31. Color Purple, The (1985)
32. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
33. Lethal Weapon (1987)
34. Driving Miss Daisy* (1989)
35. Goodfellas (1990)
36. Bodyguard, The(1992)
37. Unforgiven* (1992)
38. Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut) (1994)
39. Matrix, The (1999)
40. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
41. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
42. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
43. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (2003)
44. Million Dollar Baby* (2005)
45. Departed, The* (2006)
46. Dark Knight, The (2008)
47. Blind Side, The (2009)
48. Hangover, The (2009)
49. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
50. Inception (2010)

Rofl at Sherlock making the list. That movie was a total piece of shit.

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by ArrestedDevelopment

Rofl at Sherlock making the list. That movie was a total piece of shit.

Agreed.To pic Sherlock over The Big Sleep is utterly disappointing to see.Fail.

[Yojimbo68]

Originally Posted by Akijama

Agreed.To pic Sherlock over The Big Sleep is utterly disappointing to see.Fail.

Sherlock Holmes is an okay movie but it really does not belong with most of the movies in this set. I think the Lord of the Rings is way over represented too. One movie from the trilogy would have been enough.

[benricci]

Does this mega-set really appeal to anyone? I mean, we're talking about 50 unrelated titles whose only commonality is the studio that controls their home video rights.

And considering these are all readily available on their own, I give it a big "meh." I just don't see the market for this, especially considering it's gonna be hella expensive. Who is this for?

[Nailwraps]

The set should not include ANY MGM, New Line, or Turner owned (Citizen Kane) films at all! Why was I not surprised this would happen? Incidentally I guessed 18 of the films that are going to be in the box set!

[cavesailor]

Originally Posted by benricci

Does this mega-set really appeal to anyone?

And considering these are all readily available on their own, I give it a big "meh." I just don't see the market for this, especially considering it's gonna be hella expensive.

+1 I already have 25 and will be getting another 5 shortly and I have no interest in the other 20.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by Akijama

Agreed.To pic Sherlock over The Big Sleep is utterly disappointing to see.Fail.

There's no question The Big Sleep will be coming sooner or later (and my guess is we'll see an announcement in the next couple months) but releasing it as part of some massive mega-set would have been a terrible move.

I can wait a little longer for a really nice UCE (featuring multiple cuts, let's hope) or the first of what we can hope is many noir box sets.

[octagon]

I wonder if the inclusion of GoodFellas and Unforgiven means there won't be any 'newly remastered Warner's 90th Anniversary' editions heading our way.

[dlevine]

What a cumbersome set... I find it strange that Warner Bros. wouldn't want to stick with material that starts with their own logo. Even though I'm not a fan of it, don't you think The Life of Emile Zola should be there? It's the studio's first Best Picture winner after all.

[benricci]

Originally Posted by dlevine

Even though I'm not a fan of it, don't you think The Life of Emile Zola should be there? It's the studio's first Best Picture winner after all.

Considering there's little to no demand for that title, I'm not surprised they aren't bothering with it at this point in time.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by dlevine

What a cumbersome set... I find it strange that Warner Bros. wouldn't want to stick with material that starts with their own logo. Even though I'm not a fan of it, don't you think The Life of Emile Zola should be there? It's the studio's first Best Picture winner after all.

This is a set entirely made up of existing releases that Warner has the rights to currently (regardless of whether they also had them). They have the rest of the year to release new titles

[Brad1963]

Amadeus and Cuckoo's Nest are not really Warner films. They are licensing them for Home Entertainment from Saul Zaentz, Citizen Kane and Kong are really RKO releases and a big chuck of films Oz, 2001, Gone With the Wind etc are MGM films owned by Warner through the Turner purchase of the late 90's.

If it were a TRUE Warner Bros film set it would have these films, since they produced and distributed under the WB shield.

This would be the Warner Bros 50 film box set

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Dial M For Murder
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Tresure of Sierra Madre
Batman (1989)
Superman (1978)
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Drving Miss Daisy
Empire of the Sun
The Shining
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
The Hangover
Happy Feet
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone
The Matrix
A Star Is Born
Blazing Saddles
Camelot
A Clockwork Orange
Inception
The Exorcist
GoodFellas
Gremlins
JFK
Malcolm X
Lethal Weapon
The Goonies
National Lampoon's Vacation
Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's 11
Training Day
A Streetcar Named Desire
Purple Rain
Mystic River
Dirty Harry
"300"
All The President's Men
Cool Hand Luke
Deliverance
The Color Purple
What's Up Doc?
Unforgiven
The Town
Dog Day Afternoon
Million Dollar Baby
The Music Man
Bulllitt
The Outlaw Josey Wales

[bluskies]

Just what I was expecting they would do, but am surprised they included titles from other studios. Oh, well...sigh...I guess we shoulld be happy they didn't include 9 new titles and then have them split over Walmart, BB, and Target.

[MifuneFan]

The MSRP for this is $597.92, so with Amazon's usual 30% off discount it'll be around $418.55, or roughly $8.37 a movie.

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by octagon

There's no question The Big Sleep will be coming sooner or later (and my guess is we'll see an announcement in the next couple months) but releasing it as part of some massive mega-set would have been a terrible move.

Very true.But i was expecting to see at least 20 new titles in this box (with individual releases being issued later this year).Alas,Warner has different plans...