When are MGM going to start releasing catalogue titles again!

[CobraVerde]

Well, they just botched the 4K remaster of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, so I'd rather TT, KINO and Shout handle the bulk of their titles, now that Olive is (thankfully) out of the catalogue business.

[The Fallen Deity]

Originally Posted by CobraVerde

Well, they just botched the 4K remaster of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, so I'd rather TT, KINO and Criterion handle the bulk of their catalogue.

A Criterion release of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly...

Now that would be something.

They'd probably have the decency to include the Theatrical Cut & the original mono audio.

[CobraVerde]

Originally Posted by The Fallen Deity

A Criterion release of The Good, The Bad And The Ugly...

Now that would be something.

They'd probably have the decency to include the Theatrical Cut & the original mono audio.

Not sure they'd touch it not that MGM has released it twice. Criterion turned down their request for a blu-ray of Silence of the Lambs, because all their extras had been used on the previous MGM release.

Looking through my MGM DVDS, there are quite a few titles I'd like to see:

Darling
Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (Criterion double feature?)
Mississippi Burning
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Nomads (could see that going to Scream factory)
CQ
Small Change
Salvador
Falcon & The Snowman
Rhapsody in August
Rush (Jason Patric)
Live Flesh
Last American Virgin
The Long Goodbye (Criterion?)
Juggernaut
Undertow
The Sure Thing
Valley Girl
Pride of the Yankees
Cotton Club
Bull Durham (remastered)

Not to mention all the John Sayles films they have -
Return of the Secaucus Seven
Lianna
Brother From Another Planet
Casa de los babys
Eight Men Out

Originally Posted by Brad1963

MGM would have provided the transfer to TT, Shout or Kino. So it wouldn't have made a difference.

It might have, because there's nothing wrong with the new scan. It's the mastering/color timing MGM did themselves that ruined it. So if they just gave whoever the original master without all their "fixes", then it definitely would've made a difference. If MGM was going to license it out, then I doubt they would've spent their own money on a "restoration" and therefore wouldn't have ruined it with the yellow/teal tint and ungodly contrast boost.

[Markgway]

Salvador
The Sure Thing

+1

[thismightbezach]

I loved the two genre collections they had: MGM World Films and MGM Avant-Garde Cinema.

Suture is one title from the Avant-Garde collection I could see Criterion releasing.

Liebestraum is one of my guilty pleasures.

[madmojo]

River's Edge
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Phantasm I & IV
Pink Panther films
Hotel New Hampshire

[UseY0ur1llusi0n]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Salvador

+1

Get the German blu-ray! It's fabulous

Originally Posted by madmojo

River's Edge
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Phantasm I & IV
Pink Panther films
Hotel New Hampshire

This would be nice, though I don't have a lot of faith in MGM recently, seeing how they just let the last of The Alamo's elements become industrial waste.

[Brad1963]

Originally Posted by CobraVerde

Well, they just botched the 4K remaster of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, so I'd rather TT, KINO and Shout handle the bulk of their titles, now that Olive is (thankfully) out of the catalogue business.

MGM would have provided the transfer to TT, Shout or Kino. So it wouldn't have made a difference.

[baheidstu]

Originally Posted by CobraVerde

Well, they just botched the 4K remaster of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, so I'd rather TT, KINO and Shout handle the bulk of their titles, now that Olive is (thankfully) out of the catalogue business.

Wait, what? When was this announced?

[lilboyblu]

Originally Posted by baheidstu

Wait, what? When was this announced?

No kidding. I think he's mistaken...

Olive Films Announces July Blu-ray Releases

Independent distributors Olive Films have announced that they will release a number of exciting classic films on Blu-ray in July. Amongst them are Max Ophuls' Caught (1949), Irving Pichel's Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948), Lewis Milestone's Armored Attack! a.k.a. The North Star (1943), and André De Toth's The Other Love (1947).

Olive Films and Cult Epics Team Up

Olive Films has entered into an exclusive multi-year distribution agreement with Cult Epics, the independent label known for its catalog of cult classic horror, art-house and erotica titles from the 1920s to the present.

[CobraVerde]

Originally Posted by lilboyblu

No kidding. I think he's mistaken...

Olive Films Announces July Blu-ray Releases


Olive Films and Cult Epics Team Up

Dunno, just what I heard through the grapevine. They obviously have things still in the pipeline.

Frank Tarzi moved from Olive to KINO, and oddly enough, now KINO is releasing a bunch of catalog titles.

[oildude]

Is this supposed to be an "official" MGM studio thread? I would suggest a name change if it is going to be located in the Studio and Distributor sub-forum. If it is a MGM (and Olive apparently) b*tch thread then it should be in the main forum.

[steve_dave]

Originally Posted by CobraVerde

Dunno, just what I heard through the grapevine. They obviously have things still in the pipeline.

Frank Tarzi moved from Olive to KINO, and oddly enough, now KINO is releasing a bunch of catalog titles.

The term "catalog title" does not mean all older movies.

Its a studio's/distributor's title that they have in their catalog of films. For example: Nebraska is a catalog title for Paramount despite being released a few months ago simply because it is part of Paramount's catalog of films.

For MGM, their catalog titles include the 1976 & 2013 versons of Carrie, the 1967 & 2006 versions of Casino Royale, Honeymoon in Vegas, and The Alamo (1960).

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It seems that even though MGM chooses which titles are released on Blu-ray, Fox may not want to spend the money on producing the Blu-ray for them. Especially if the DVD didn't sell as many copies as desired or simply didn't move as quickly. So MGM has to go with another distributor to get these titles out.

[AgentOrange]

Originally Posted by steve_dave

The term "catalog title" does not mean all older movies.

Its a studio's/distributor's title that they have in their catalog of films. For example: Nebraska is a catalog title for Paramount despite being released a few months ago simply because it is part of Paramount's catalog of films.

For MGM, their catalog titles include the 1976 & 2013 versons of Carrie, the 1967 & 2006 versions of Casino Royale, Honeymoon in Vegas, and The Alamo (1960).

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It seems that even though MGM chooses which titles are released on Blu-ray, Fox may not want to spend the money on producing the Blu-ray for them. Especially if the DVD didn't sell as many copies as desired or simply didn't move as quickly. So MGM has to go with another distributor to get these titles out.

I think for purposes on here, catalog title means titles that have not yet been released on blu-ray, but were already in their "catalog" on other formats (or maybe never released to home video at all). Could be a film from 2000's, or 1950's. Not necessarily to do with age, but I think at some point a release is so new you don't refer to the film as a "catalog title".

Obviously going forward, anything they own home video rights to is in their "catalog". But if Paramount did a different packaging of Nebraska next week, I doubt many would refer to that release as a "catalog title", even if that were technically correct.

[Stratton]

1) Mississippi Burning
2) Diner
3) No Way Out
4) Last American Virgin

[slasherdisc]

Just give me Mannequin and Valley Girl on Blu-ray and i'll be happy

[CouncilSpectre]

Originally Posted by visualsynth

Just give me Mannequin and Valley Girl on Blu-ray and i'll be happy

Mannequin needs to be on Blu......

[Quicksilver]

I would like to see Hackers on blu-ray.

[Bk_Tan]

You either hope that they become successful again or totally go under.

Otherwise, they'll be crawling like this forever and as we know, the longer time goes on, the less likely anything will or can happen.

[grrrarg]

Originally Posted by visualsynth

Just give me Mannequin and Valley Girl on Blu-ray and i'll be happy

Mannequin looked flawless on cable in HD last year!