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Originally Posted by JBlacklow

No, it looks like the information is real. The Blu-ray.com "official" distro news guy (Moretonbay) just confirmed M&C has been delayed indefinitely.

Insiders: As of today, we've had 4 discs (1/5th the total) from the Fox/MGM announcement removed or never given to retailers, and two with specs reduced. Is Fox going to pull everything yet again? If you can get word, I'd rather hear it now rather than the day before like the CES announced titles. I'm tired of Fox's tactics, and if their "response" to Paramount was never intended to actually happen, then it's time they stop deceiving us.

I think Fox's announcement of the 30 or so titles was premature and ONLY came about due to the Paramount announcement. I think they may have just "bit of more than they can chew" and they may be having issues on the production side of things and they have to line up which titles get run on which days and they simply are not going to be able to do everything they wanted in time for the holidays.

This would also answer the question "why are all these other titles getting delayed?"

I think the studios are taking up most, if not all, of their "line space" in order to replicate enough quantity of the "big-gun" titles like Die Hard, POTC, Spider-Man 3, Harry Potter, the list goes on.

Not tryin' to pee in anybody's Cheerios, it just seems like the only real answer. It's not that big of a deal to me if I have to wait a little longer for Life of Brian or Master and Commander as these titles are NOT that important to me. But, they will be released, eventually.