The Dark Crystal

[WickyWoo]

That'll be a long wait, as latest news is that Genny's movie has run out of investments, and they're stuck in limbo until they can raise the cash to finish it--
And whether they'll get it is looking shakier all the time.

Well, I'm no fan of Samurai Jack myself, but I can tell you this: They haven't even finished the script, and Brian Froud's been drawing. If they ran out of money there wasn't much to begin with because they haven't even started seriously building puppets as of a couple months ago.

(And when I said "Guess which Sony family titles will be first", was thinking more along the lines of "Take a big fat guess... "

It's the 25th Anniversary of a continually good selling title. They did the DVD edition, there's got to be a reason. I've sent emails to my friends at Henson, but they're performers who know nothing about video whatsoever ("how would they be able to make it HD? It's so old!")

But they're the exclusive distributor, as the deal was signed long before things got confusing. It's theirs to play with.

Definately not. Sony can say "we'd like to do this", but everything is up to Henson. Doing Superbit was trivial, it's just another encoding parameter set of the existing telecine. Doing HD, evne if they cleaned it up nicely for the new DVD still very expensive. To many people confuse "distributor" with someone with real power. They take a fee for handling advertising, replication, authoring, shipping and production.