Shout! Factory signs ITV Studios deal

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by Monroville

Is there any way to get to Cmac to request using a bit of CGI to digitally erase the tow cable connected to the Fed car on the tarmac when the lear jet hits it?

You can see it at 1:45:

[Show spoiler]Capricorn One Trailer

I don't think you were supposed to see that...

Well, you can try here https://forum.blu-ray.com/member.php?u=187672

He's very responsive

[Eusthenopteron]

Wonder if Shout will do some of ITV's TV series? Would love to see Inspector Morse on Blu-ray. ITV certainly have no plans to release it here in the UK. They told me so yesterday.

[DMRI2006]

RAISE THE TITANIC -- can't wait. Does Shout have access to the movie's discarded prologue sequence involving the sinking of the ship? Would love to see it.

[bondfooll]

Originally Posted by Eusthenopteron

Wonder if Shout will do some of ITV's TV series? Would love to see Inspector Morse on Blu-ray. ITV certainly have no plans to release it here in the UK. They told me so yesterday.

Maybe. They've already rereleased Sapphire and Steel on DVD.

[Maggot]

Originally Posted by DMRI2006

RAISE THE TITANIC -- can't wait. Does Shout have access to the movie's discarded prologue sequence involving the sinking of the ship? Would love to see it.

This is coming to the States! Awesome! Guilty pleasure for me.....

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by DMRI2006

RAISE THE TITANIC -- can't wait. Does Shout have access to the movie's discarded prologue sequence involving the sinking of the ship? Would love to see it.

That reportedly ended up in the hands of a private collector (reports vary on whether he's willing to release it and whether he's done work on some of the BBC's Dr Who DVDs). Extras have always been thin on the ground for this one: the Swedish release has a teaser trailer comparing the film to the Wright Brothers' first flight and man landing on the moon:

Raise The Titanic Rare 1980 Promotional Trailer - YouTube

one of the UK DVDs has the excellent three minute trailer, but the spoor news documentary that can be found on Youtube:

Raise The Titanic 'Making Of' - Part One - YouTube

Raise The Titanic 'Making Of' - Part Two - YouTube

or the ITV children's TV show Clapperboard special on it have never appeared on any edition.

Personally I'm delighted they're releasing The Cassandra Crossing, even if it is double-billed with the dull Domino Principle. It's probably too much to hope for the trailer and original making of featurette (which was fairly widely available on Super 8mm):

THE CASSANDRA CROSSING (Behind The Scenes Featurette) - YouTube

[Akijama]

Cover art. Due January.

[Member-222782]

Looking forward to both releases. Great artwork for RTT.

[Ray_Rogers]

I'll be interested in buying:

The Eagle Has Landed, Capricorn One, The Boys from Brazil, The Cassandra Crossing, and Saturn 3. Possibly On Golden Pond.

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Akijama

Raise The Titanic (1980) Blu-ray is coming on January 21.

I've always wanted to see Raise the Titanic. The prequel that James Cameron directed several years ago was pretty good, but I never got around to seeing the original film.

The Cassandra Crossing and The Domino Principle seem to be more up my alley, though.

Great announcements!

[DMRI2006]

THE DOMINO PRINCIPLE is one seriously AWFUL film...one of the worst of its decade. Can't imagine why they're releasing it...but anyway...lol.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I've always wanted to see Raise the Titanic. The prequel that James Cameron directed several years ago was pretty good, but I never got around to seeing the original film.

There are a surprising number of similarities between the two, and even more with the novel, which has a lot more action and intrigue which was dropped from the script to (oh the irony) keep the budget down...

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by DMRI2006

THE DOMINO PRINCIPLE is one seriously AWFUL film...one of the worst of its decade. Can't imagine why they're releasing it...but anyway...lol.

It is incredibly dull, but it has one of the most bonkers openings of any conspiracy thriller, with a lengthy and truly surreal paranoid rant delivered in voice over by a stern Patrick Allen sounding for all the world like the managing director of a ball bearings firm who's been slipped a peyote LSD chaser and handed a script written by an out-of-his head Dennis Hopper after reading too much Franz Kafka as captions reading `ASSASSINATION' (in several languages) and 'WHAT AUTHORITY DO THEY REPRESENT? are intercut with photos and stock footage of murders, state buildings, Vietnam and prison to underline the point that we're all part of a giant conspiracy. You almost expect him to end it with "I'm not wearing any trousers and I've got a gun." It's like something out of an Ed Wood film that even Bela Lugosi wouldn't read:


"Do you believe you decided to come to this theatre today? That it was your own idea? Of your own.. free will? Whether we know it or not, we're all manipulated. It's getting almost impossible to think or even act for ourselves anymore. We're manipulated. Programmed. Brainwashed. Right from the start. Right from the day we're born. By family, by press, by radio, by television. And more and more we know less and less of who THEY are. Who could they be? Is it the boss we work for? Who tells him what to do? Is it the government? Whoever's in power, it seems just the same. So, who's behind THEM? It's reached a point when they could take an ordinary man and so manipulate him that they could get him to kill the most important person in the world. Like the hero of a book written by Franz Kafka fifty years ago, we feel ourselves powerless, unable to control anymore what really happens to us. Perhaps we're all the victim of some appalling conspiracy. What authority could they represent? Listen to me. I want you to watch what happened to this ordinary man. He lived in a country with a legal constitution. All the laws were in force. Like many of his generation he was sent to fight in Vietnam. He survived, fell in love, got into trouble, wound up in jail. Then THEY really started to work on him. He fell victim to what they call the Domino Principle. The irresistible force of chain reaction..."

[ScorpionReleasing]

Originally Posted by Aclea

It is incredibly dull, but it has one of the most bonkers openings of any conspiracy thriller, with a lengthy and truly surreal paranoid rant delivered in voice over by a stern Patrick Allen sounding for all the world like the managing director of a ball bearings firm who's been slipped a peyote LSD chaser and handed a script written by an out-of-his head Dennis Hopper after reading too much Franz Kafka as captions reading `ASSASSINATION' (in several languages) and 'WHAT AUTHORITY DO THEY REPRESENT? are intercut with photos and stock footage of murders, state buildings, Vietnam and prison to underline the point that we're all part of a giant conspiracy. You almost expect him to end it with "I'm not wearing any trousers and I've got a gun." It's like something out of an Ed Wood film that even Bela Lugosi wouldn't read:


"Do you believe you decided to come to this theatre today? That it was your own idea? Of your own.. free will? Whether we know it or not, we're all manipulated. It's getting almost impossible to think or even act for ourselves anymore. We're manipulated. Programmed. Brainwashed. Right from the start. Right from the day we're born. By family, by press, by radio, by television. And more and more we know less and less of who THEY are. Who could they be? Is it the boss we work for? Who tells him what to do? Is it the government? Whoever's in power, it seems just the same. So, who's behind THEM? It's reached a point when they could take an ordinary man and so manipulate him that they could get him to kill the most important person in the world. Like the hero of a book written by Franz Kafka fifty years ago, we feel ourselves powerless, unable to control anymore what really happens to us. Perhaps we're all the victim of some appalling conspiracy. What authority could they represent? Listen to me. I want you to watch what happened to this ordinary man. He lived in a country with a legal constitution. All the laws were in force. Like many of his generation he was sent to fight in Vietnam. He survived, fell in love, got into trouble, wound up in jail. Then THEY really started to work on him. He fell victim to what they call the Domino Principle. The irresistible force of chain reaction..."

I actually like this film, and wished I was able to release it on Blu.

a bit of trivia, that opening is not in the U.S Theatrical prints, or subsequent TV airing. it was I believe for the International version, and the old vhs and LD used the UK master. Guess the U.S Distributor must have realized this segment would have had theater audiences in uproar!

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by ScorpionReleasing

I actually like this film, and wished I was able to release it on Blu.

a bit of trivia, that opening is not in the U.S Theatrical prints, or subsequent TV airing. it was I believe for the International version, and the old vhs and LD used the UK master. Guess the U.S Distributor must have realized this segment would have had theater audiences in uproar!

It's on the Australian DVD, which uses the original title (despite being made by a British company, the film was shelved in the UK for two years after it was screened for a few critics and heavily panned, before turning up as The Domino Killings on the wrong half of a double-bill with Love and Bullets). It's never been released on DVD in the UK under any title, though it was briefly released on VHS by a budget label.



Stanley Kramer didn't have much luck with ITC: he only lasted a couple of weeks of shooting on Raise the Titanic before walking off because of that old chestnut, 'creative differences.'

[Laserguy]

Originally Posted by ScorpionReleasing

I actually like this film, and wished I was able to release it on Blu.

a bit of trivia, that opening is not in the U.S Theatrical prints, or subsequent TV airing. it was I believe for the International version, and the old vhs and LD used the UK master. Guess the U.S Distributor must have realized this segment would have had theater audiences in uproar!

I like this film too. It's hackneyed, yes, but it has its points of interest. Hackman is very good in the film, and there's some first rate villainy from Richard Widmark.

I was surprised when I saw that opening for the first time on the original DVD release. I had been familiar with the Avco Embassy cut of the movie that had played on HBO during the late 1970s. That version, as you note, had removed it completely.

[Laserguy]

If anything can be described as "bonkers" it's the plot of The Cassandra Crossing, a film which I love in a guilty-pleasure sort of way. Can someone explain, since the screenplay never bothers to, why

(1) the US military is conducting bio-weapons research in the Geneva WHO headquarters, of all places;

and (2) how a US general is able to re-route a train containing numerous US security personnel into Poland, a communist country? Have the writers never heard of the Cold War or the Iron Curtain?

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Laserguy

If anything can be described as "bonkers" it's the plot of The Cassandra Crossing, a film which I love in a guilty-pleasure sort of way. Can someone explain, since the screenplay never bothers to, why

(1) the US military is conducting bio-weapons research in the Geneva WHO headquarters, of all places;

and (2) how a US general is able to re-route a train containing numerous US security personnel into Poland, a communist country? Have the writers never heard of the Cold War or the Iron Curtain?

Yes, but it's deliriously bonkers - The Domino Killings takes itself so deadly seriously that you'd never catch Gene Hackman trying to airlift a Bassett into a helicopter before a train hits a tunnel or not warning a nun to avoid the trifle after seeing Lou Castel heaving up over it, let alone doing a headstand in his Y-fronts while Ava Gardner claps. By contrast, that Domino Principle opening is like being stuck next to a looney on a bus who takes this stuff very, very seriously and desperately wants you to believe that every word is true.

[hasslein]

I like Domino Principle too. Will definitely purchase. Now if I can get the extended version of March or Die I will be really happy.

[donidarko]

The Cassandra Crossing!!!!! YES!
.....also all in for Raise the Titanic, The Boys from Brazil, On Golden Pond, Saturn 3, Capricorn One.....

Does anyone know if Shout got the rights to TIMES SQUARE, you know that weird punk rock movie that was all over the place. A fascinating film about 2 young runaways roaming the decrepit 1980s neighborhoods of lower Manhattan.
I'm pretty certain it is an ITV property, but I could be mistaken.

One weird movie, but it has a kick ass soundtrack and of course, Tim Curry.

hope this one is on the horizon?