Homeboy (1988) coming from Shout Select April 14th 2020

[DukeTogo84]

https://www.shoutfactory.com/product...eBJWWYN2oqFCKE


Never heard of this, but it has Christopher Walken and Mickey Rourke. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[SeanJoyce]

The pet project Rourke turned Rain Man down for...fool.

[willo007]

Not in the top 10 Mickey Rourke films to own, but I'll take it! (I remember it was very slow drama) , but it does have a young pre 10 time Academy Award winner Stephen Baldwin in it!

[FlyBry]

We have a new contender for worst Shout cover. Jesus Christ, look at his head!

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by FlyBry

We have a new contender for worst Shout cover. Jesus Christ, look at his head!

Haha. To be fair they are using the Lionsgate cover from 2009 from the DVD. However, yes, it does look pretty bad.

[English Patient]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Never heard of this, but it has Christopher Walken and Mickey Rourke. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

I really liked it - saw it way back in the early 90s on VHS and have the DVD. It's not a great movie, but it's quirky, often funny, and pretty understated. Christopher Walken steals the movie as an incompetent but arrogant thief - he's got a couple of hilarious little monologues, including one about how the dinosaurs went extinct. Rourke is very understated and says little in this movie, but it's still a good performance.

[DukeTogo84]

So, I watched this today and it starts off with the Lionsgate intro. I think that's the first time I've ever seen that happen on release not done by Lionsgate.

[TripleHBK]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

So, I watched this today and it starts off with the Lionsgate intro. I think that's the first time I've ever seen that happen on release not done by Lionsgate.

Now that is interesting. There were rumblings that someone had cracked the lionsgate vault last year and that they may had obtained a few films but no one ever seemed to have information in regards to who it was and the topic sort of faded away. This would seem to indicate Shout Factory were the ones to snag some titles. One has to wonder what if anything else they were able to snag and whether or not this deal has the potential to open the door to future deals/releases.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

Homeboy was one of the Carolco titles Lionsgate had from the IVE/Live Entertainment ownership. Supposedly, Lionsgate's rights lapsed and reverted back to StudioCanal (Carolco catalog owner), which explains where Shout licenced it from.

I suspect with the LG logo appearing, that Shout used whatever HD master StudioCanal provided them which was the same one that appeared on the LG 2009 DVD and streaming prints.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by SpaceBlackKnight

Homeboy was one of the Carolco titles Lionsgate had from the IVE/Live Entertainment ownership. Supposedly, Lionsgate's rights lapsed and reverted back to StudioCanal (Carolco catalog owner), which explains where Shout licenced it from.

I suspect with the LG logo appearing, that Shout used whatever HD master StudioCanal provided them which was the same one that appeared on the LG 2009 DVD and streaming prints.

For a brief moment I was hopeful. Still waiting for a Shadow of the Vampire Blu-ray.

[NeMo_ET]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

So, I watched this today and it starts off with the Lionsgate intro. I think that's the first time I've ever seen that happen on release not done by Lionsgate.

But...What about Vestron?

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by TripleHBK

Now that is interesting. There were rumblings that someone had cracked the lionsgate vault last year and that they may had obtained a few films but no one ever seemed to have information in regards to who it was and the topic sort of faded away. This would seem to indicate Shout Factory were the ones to snag some titles. One has to wonder what if anything else they were able to snag and whether or not this deal has the potential to open the door to future deals/releases.

Criterion and Arrow licensed a couple of Lionsgate titles before (Kicking and Screaming, Shivers, Rabid)

[UniSol GR77]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

https://www.shoutfactory.com/product...eBJWWYN2oqFCKE


Never heard of this, but it has Christopher Walken and Mickey Rourke. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Terrific movie. Intense and compelling. Rourke at his best.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by NeMo_ET

But...What about Vestron?

Haha. I wouldn't count that, as Vestron is Lionsgate and owned by them.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

Criterion and Arrow licensed a couple of Lionsgate titles before (Kicking and Screaming, Shivers, Rabid)

All of that was in the UK. As far as I know (and I could be wrong) they have never licensed anything out in the US.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

All of that was in the UK. As far as I know (and I could be wrong) they have never licensed anything out in the US.

Kicking and Screaming is Lionsgate, but was an odd exception as Noah Baumbach pushed LG to licence it to Criterion, even though LG could care less about it and still weren't licencing titles to anyone else.

Lionsgate owned the catalog of Canadian company CDFC, and they held worldwide rights to Shivers but only international rights to Rabid (US rights were owned by Sommerville House). Lionsgate's UK operations functioned differently than the US one, so they were more open to licencing out select titles to Arrow in the UK which explains their releases of Shivers, Rabid, and 1996's Bound (a Spelling Films/Paramount title, which Lionsgate got international rights to by the ownership of distributor Summit Entertainment).

Lionsgate's rights to Shivers expired, while international rights to Rabid is probably with Sommerville which explains the 101 Films BD of that and Black Christmas.

[#Darren]

Nobody is talking about the Eric Clapton soundtrack. IMO the soundtrack on this movie is powerful and beautiful - it really lifts the movie to a much higher level.

[#Darren]

Eric Clapton - Homeboy ( Homeboy OST 1988 ) - YouTube

[#Darren]

Originally Posted by FlyBry

We have a new contender for worst Shout cover. Jesus Christ, look at his head!

AS the other poster said, it is the same as the Lionsgate DVD.

The Laserdisk version however did have a nice cover imo and it's a shame they didn't use it.

[MarioG280]

If I remember the story right, this is the film Freddie Roach trained Rourke for and launched Roach's career as a gym owner and trainer.