Paramount/Universal (Transformers, Sweeney, Gangster, Beowulf, etc.) release dates?

[Alan Gordon]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

I have this conspiracy theory:

Paramount's top 3 selling DVD titles for the first half of 2008 will be Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood, and Cloverfield. They don't want to lose out on these sales because of people waiting for the Blu release.

They're keeping their Blu-Ray plans quiet until after these three high selling films hit DVD, and when they feel enough DVD owners (and impatient Blu owners) have bought these films on DVD, then they will announce Blu support.

That's why I don't think we'll be hearing anything from them until probably mid May at the soonest.

I don't really believe this, but unfortunately, the only way I could be proved right would be for Paramount to announce prior to next Tuesday ("Cloverfield" release date)... so I'll just leave it alone... other than two comments/questions:

Paramount could announce several titles, but simply leave out "Cloverfield" without affecting sales of "Cloverfield".

Paramount will sell plenty copies of "Cloverfield" on DVD... but their Blu-ray release won't sell as much... so it would be smarter for them to go ahead and announce the Blu-ray release. As most Blu-ray people would probably wait for a Blu-ray release, the only sales lost would be people who were too impatient to wait for the Blu-ray release, buy the DVD and not care enough for the film to re-purchase it on Blu-ray... which wouldn't be a sale anyway should Paramount decide to announce it later.

Who ever said "Cloverfield" will be one of Paramount's first releases?

Also:

Originally Posted by Bill Hunt

Keep in mind, in the case of Paramount, the studio is painfully aware that they have now pissed 100% of their high-def customer base. And as Wicky said, they want to make a splash when they announce.

If Paramount wanted to be careful to not PO their HD customer base further, announcing a Blu-ray release of "Cloverfield" PRIOR to next Tuesday would certainly be a better way of going than to wait until AFTER.

~Alan