When are MGM going to start releasing catalogue titles again!

[EVERYONE LIES]

MGM has been gone for almost 40 years. The are just a holding company for UA and some smaller studios. They will sell their catalog to WB in the next few years.

[bigbadwoppet]

Originally Posted by EVERYONE LIES

MGM has been gone for almost 40 years. The are just a holding company for UA and some smaller studios. They will sell their catalog to WB in the next few years.

The worst thing that could've happened to UA was to be bought by a shite studio like MGM. Sad.

[ParamountChris]

Originally Posted by bigbadwoppet

The worst thing that could've happened to UA was to be bought by a shite studio like MGM. Sad.

MGM was actually great, it went downhill alongside UA.

[GeoffOliver]

MGM is such a license-happy studio (with deals with Shout Factory, Kino, Criterion, Arrow, Olive, Vinegar Syndrome, MVD, Twilight Time, etc), they really don’t NEED a distributor when they could easily just license the films to different labels. The Kino Insider says that they’re willing to license any film from their catalog except films in the Bond and Rocky franchises (and films with legal issues). It seems pretty pointless for them to pay a major studio to handle their home video releases, unless it was just for new titles.

[bigbadwoppet]

Originally Posted by ParamountChris

MGM was actually great, it went downhill alongside UA.

MGM was great ages ago. They had been going downhill for the best part of a decade when they bought UA. Since then, the only thing they can come up with is sequels and remaks of films from the catalogues they've acquired, since their own classic titles no longer belong to them.

[TravisTylerBlack]

Originally Posted by EVERYONE LIES

MGM has been gone for almost 40 years. The are just a holding company for UA and some smaller studios. They will sell their catalog to WB in the next few years.

Would rather their catalog be in the hands of WB than a disc hating tech giant like apple.

[Nailwraps]

I'm guessing by the announcement of Vikings Season 6, Volume 1...Warner is MGM's new home video distributor.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/actio...6538#gs.9v8xac


Together again, huh?

[Geoff D]

Nice. Doesn't mean MGM are any more interested in releasing stuff than they were five minutes ago (as mentioned above, they're one of the most license-happy studios out there) but at least we've got answer as to who's taken over the video distribution.

[Nailwraps]

True, but still if this is right, it'll be nice to see the pre and post 86 libraries (or all of MGM in this case) under one roof again even if its just for short time.

I mean can you imagine a Poltergeist Trilogy pack or a MGM 100th Anniversary set?

[SammymeBlu]

Originally Posted by EVERYONE LIES

MGM has been gone for almost 40 years. The are just a holding company for UA and some smaller studios. They will sell their catalog to WB in the next few years.

Better WB than Disney! At least WB will not hold back releasing titles like Disney will/is with the FOX buyout. I suspect only the most popular titles will be released with Disney either because of ongoing franchise or remake/reboots. Everything else in between,will more than likely only be released via online streaming Disney subscription.

Long live physical media!

[captveg]

MGM/UA would still be making the decision on what to license to 3rd parties or release, not WB. This is closer to the deal WB has with Viz or BBC.

[Nailwraps]

After seeing some recent MGM reissues on Amazon just now it's official...Warner is MGM's new distributor!


The entire MGM library...(for now) TOGETHER AGAIN!!!

[Hydra Spectre]

Here are the possible timelines:
- Best Timeline (A): MGM's distributor will be Warner Bros., uniting the (almost) complete MGM library under one roof once again, all the previous Fox/MGM releases would go OOP but we have some higher chances of actual physical releases than with Disney and there is no perfect timeline
- Okay Timeline (B): MGM goes back to Disney for distribution only and MGM would still have full control over what they will release. This is okay since most Fox/MGM releases won't go out-of-print unless Disney and/or MGM make it so
- Bad Timeline (C): MGM will go with Universal, since they distributed some of their latest films including The Addams Family (2019) and No Time to Die, bad because all the previous Fox/MGM releases would go OOP
- Worse Timeline (D): Disney buys MGM and gains full control over the MGM library, meaning less Blu-ray releases except for James Bond and Rocky. This would also bring Disney closer to becoming a monopoly
- Worst Timeline (F): MGM gets bought by a digital-only company like Apple or Netflix and none of their films will ever be released physically ever again, plus all previous releases (particularly with Fox) will be OOP

I love Disney and many of their recent films but they just aren't the best in the physical media game thanks to how reluctant they are on supporting it, and not to mention gimping the quality of their discs (Endgame and the Star Wars films not being on BD-100, no Dolby Vision and/or HDR10+ for most of their films).

In an ideal world, Disney would still be an avid supporter of physical media for everything and MGM would still be with Disney, even for stuff that doesn't fit their brand. They would also have top-notch releases that would even put botique distributors to shame.
Hell, this ideal world might also have them releasing Disney+ Originals in 4K and/or Blu-ray one year after they initially debuted on streaming, regardless if it did well or not.
Disney would also make gigantic James Bond, Rocky, RoboCop and Terminator box sets in 4K.

[Member-222782]

Originally Posted by Nailwraps

I'm guessing by the announcement of Vikings Season 6, Volume 1...Warner is MGM's new home video distributor.

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/actio...6538#gs.9v8xac


Together again, huh?

Does this have any bearing on third party licensing? Warner has traditionally been stingy with letting boutiques borrow titles. They're a bit more open now but since Shout has been unable to pick up a few choice Warner titles, this tells me they're not as license happy as MGM. The lion studio has been great so far with regards to licensing so it would be a shame if that stopped or lessened now that WB distributes them.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

Does this have any bearing on third party licensing? Warner has traditionally been stingy with letting boutiques borrow titles. They're a bit more open now but since Shout has been unable to pick up a few choice Warner titles, this tells me they're not as license happy as MGM. The lion studio has been great so far with regards to licensing so it would be a shame if that stopped or lessened now that WB distributes them.

As said just a few posts above, Warners will have no say on what gets licensed to who, that's still MGM's call. Warners will still get a credit on those licensed titles as technically it's going through them, just as Fox Home Entertainment was routinely mentioned on the previous MGM stuff that was rented out, but they do not make the decisions themselves. They're there to do what MGM tells them to do, so unless something has changed at the top w/ref to MGM's attitude to physical media then it'll continue like it did before: lots of stuff licensed out, a few dribs and drabs of new titles, utterly minimal in-house UHD support etc.

[LMFAObros]

i am wondering, will this be like the regency titles that Warner released and then Fox repressed with the same discs but with MGM titles having their Fox encodes being rereleased by Warner, or will warner be doing their own encodes/remasters of MGM titles.

[Member-222782]

Why does MGM need a distributor?

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by LMFAObros

i am wondering, will this be like the regency titles that Warner released and then Fox repressed with the same discs but with MGM titles having their Fox encodes being rereleased by Warner, or will warner be doing their own encodes/remasters of MGM titles.

Depends on how much effort Warners want to put into it. When Disnee re-released the first few MCU movies on BD with their own branding (as they were Paramount originally) they literally just repressed the Paramount discs with new art.

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by Cinema84

Why does MGM need a distributor?

Becuz they can't be bothered/have no money to do it themselves, they're a zombified husk of a studio that's been shambling along for years, propped up by the occasional Bond movie. They've never really had much of a home video operation either, they've been partnering with one distributor or another for decades.

[Mikezilla3k]

Looks like Warner Bros will be the main distributor now for their older titles:


Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/dvdcollecti..._distribution/