Kino Lorber Studio Classics

[AKORIS]

I’m super excited about this deal but I gotta say it would be a real shock to me if Paramount leases out titles like Saturday Night Fever, Chinatown, and Death Wish to Kino as opposed to releasing them themselves….

[jedidarrick]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

We'll be announcing the first 4KUHD title this Sunday.

Hey, that's my birthday!

No pressure or anything, but I hope it's a really solid announcement.

[EVOLVIST]

Any chance of some Three-strip Technicolor films in this new KL cache?

[DonB45]

Originally Posted by whiteberry

Another never on DVD Paramount title from the 80s is Martha Coolidge’s Joy Of Sex (available in HD digitally).
Joy of Sex 1984 TV trailer - YouTube

I've only "rented" one movie from Amazon in my life, and it was this movie. Never thought it would made it to physical media. I love Colleen Camp and wanted to see her as a cop pretending to be a high school student trying to get information on a drug dealing student. It was a very small side story in the movie. Wasn't a great film, but I'd purchase it for Collen Camp!

[ParamountChris]

Originally Posted by SpaceBlackKnight

Astral only had home video rights in Canada on loan from Paramount.

Someone on YT uploaded clips from a Spanish dubbed HDTV cap of Charlotte's Web and that had modern Time Warner Shields at the beginning and end replacing the Paramount logos. That would indicate Warner owning international rights since it was a HB co-production (Heidi's Song was another Hanna Barbera co-production that Paramount released in the US, but they had let their distribution rights expire and were assumed by Warner).

That’s actually pretty interesting. I have to see this for myself.

After seeing the mention of Sunburn, I thought Paramount retained NA rights while MGM got international.

[Midway30]

Paramount I want on 4K

Artificial Intelligence
Addams Family Values
American Beauty
Black Rain
Breakdown
Escape from Alcatraz
Faceoff
From Dusk till Dawn
Ghost
Major League
Minority Report
Narc
The Ring
Scrooged
Tropic Thunder
Truman Show
Warriors
Wayne's World
Zodiac

[ukulelemonster]

Any chance Lemon Drop Kid could get a reissue with SDH? I just put this disc on, only realize I'm unable to watch it.

[SanCarolina59]

From HTF, when someone posted a very long wishlist of 1950s-1960s films that have not been released on DVD before (quoted below), the KLI said this:

[Show spoiler]About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
Alaska Seas (1954)
Amorous Adventures Of Moll Flanders (1965)
Beau James (1957)
Birds And The Bees (1956)
Black Spurs (1965)
Bliss Of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
Botany Bay (1953)
Buster Keaton Story (1957)
Five Branded Women (1960)
Girl Rush (1955)
Hell's Island (1955)
Here Come The Girls (1953)
Hostile Guns (1967)
Hot Spell (1958)
Joker Is Wild (1957)
Judith (1966)
Kid Rodelo (1966)
Let's Dance (1950)
Lucy Gallant (1955)
Mambo (1955)
Mating Season (1951)
My Six Loves (1963)
Oh Dad Poor Dad Mama's Hung You In The Closet (1967)
Omar Khayyam (1957)
Peking Express (1951)
Pleasure Of His Company (1961)
Proud And The Profane (1956)
Rat Race (1960)
Sad Sack (1957)
Sebastian (1968)
Secret Of The Incas (1954)
September Affair (1950)
St. Louis Blues (1958)
Sylvia (1965)
Tempest (1959)
That Certain Feeling (1956)
That Kind Of Woman (1959)
3 Ring Circus (1954)
Thunder In The Sun (1959)
Touch Of Larceny (1960)
Wild Is The Wind (1957)
Wives And Lovers (1963)

We have three of the titles from the above list and asked for a fourth one that wasn't available.

They also mentioned that from the list, 3 Ring Circus (1954) is not available due to music clearance issues, and not on the list, But Not For Me (1959) has similar music issues as well. It's also worth noting that the KLI denied on here one of the titles on the list (Beau James) for likely poor sales, and another one from the list (Secret Of The Incas) has just had a Blu-ray release announced from Imprint. The Mating Season was mentioned on here a while back as well as not having legal issues per the KLI, but no word on interest was stated.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

Originally Posted by BudtheChud

Don’t know the rights situation but that is a bootleg. MGM limited stopped putting out releases a while prior to 2020 (2016 I think).

Hmmm... That does look a bit suspect since that eBay listing is the only known source, and if it's a boot it's a really good one!

Originally Posted by ParamountChris

After seeing the mention of Sunburn, I thought Paramount retained NA rights while MGM got international.

I do remember seeing Sunburn in HD on the Amazon Prime Epix channel a few years ago and it had an MGM logo up front. There's even a YT copy ripped from an NTSC DVD that had the MGM logo up front. Paramount did release it on VHS, but it's suspected their rights had long expired since.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

Originally Posted by cloudnine

Paramount may own WELCOME TO ARROW BEACH. I have an uncut copy from a cable channel with a Paramount logo in the beginning. It would be a huge seller.

It was a Brut Production with Warner distributing, and ironically it's back with Warner now (Turner Entertainment purchased Brut's film catalog in the late 80s and as we all know, Turner became part of Warner Bros in 1996). Viacom owned TV rights to the Brut Productions library and Paramount later inherited them from the Viacom purchase, explaining why your copy opens with the Paramountian.

[Benoit Blanc]

Originally Posted by SpaceBlackKnight

Astral only had home video rights in Canada on loan from Paramount.

Someone on YT uploaded clips from a Spanish dubbed HDTV cap of Charlotte's Web and that had modern Time Warner Shields at the beginning and end replacing the Paramount logos. That would indicate Warner owning international rights since it was a HB co-production (Heidi's Song was another Hanna Barbera co-production that Paramount released in the US, but they had let their distribution rights expire and were assumed by Warner).

I knew production rights could expire but didn't know distribution rights could also.

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

I'm leaving for the weekend and will answer this, just this one time. We asked for the BD rights and it was not available, we don't think this film is big enough to release on UHD.

I cannot confirm or deny titles, but did it this one time.

And this one time.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

Originally Posted by Benoit Blanc

I knew production rights could expire but didn't know distribution rights could also.

Distribution rights can expire if they party fails to renew or the main producer blocks renewals.

[gpn]

Originally Posted by Mose Harper

I've wanted to pick up WWC and Naked Jungle but I always thought the former had a decent chance of a less expensive domestic release by Paramount themselves, and the latter is supposed to sport a very dated, unattractive transfer.
I hope Kino releases both.

While I would say they didn't receive top-of-the-line restorations like War of the Worlds, both When Worlds Collide and Naked Jungle look really nice for the most part and are way better than the DVDs. If Kino doesn't release them, I'm still satisfied with the Imprint releases.

[NeilZ]

I hope Kino goes all out with a "heavy" for their first UHD announcement on Sunday. Should help set the stage.

[JakeTaylor7]

Sorry if I missed it, but any word on how the PQ is for Last of the Dogmen coming up in June?

[mca213]

Hopefully ‘Red Eye’ is one of the 2000 titles

[BluPat]

Originally Posted by Midway30

Paramount I want on 4K
Zodiac

I forgot about ZODIAC! Maybe that's one of the 4Ks!

[Zygmunt22]

Originally Posted by BobSimms

The Possession of Joel Delaney would be great; I’d love to not import the Imprint release (which incidentally is not fully uncut as Imprint claimed).

I wonder if Paramount won't allow the uncut version to be licensed. The Legend Films DVD was also cut. Or perhaps the removed footage was tossed?

If the uncut version isn't available, I also question if Kino would be willing to pick it up?

[whiteberry]

Originally Posted by Kino Lorber Insider

No, but some of my all-time favorite movies are part of this deal and all of them will be released for the first time on 4KUHD. And some great first time on Blu-ray titles, some first time in the U.S. and some first time anywhere.

Originally Posted by Torgon

Long-time lurker, first-time questioner:
KLI, what are some of your all-time favorite movies from Paramount?

[RCRochester]

Originally Posted by iamnoone

I wonder if it's another Bristol Meyer "Stepford Wives" etc. type situation, and Brut has it and doesn't care about licensing or asking too much. Wait, is Brut even still around??? Sorry, I don't use aftershave. It's not a great movie, but no one ever seems to ask for it these days, and I doubt it's with Warner still. But who licensed it to Magnetic 40 years ago???(

Interesting that you should mention Brut. I watched Bubba Ho-Tep about a week ago and there was a funny story in the bonus features from Bruce Campbell about Elvis and Brut. Anyone who has that blu-ray should check it out.