Is there any hope for Lionsgate and Paramount catalog titles?

[UltraMario9]

Paramount:
The Tenant
Bringing Out The Dead
Hard Eight
The Golden Child
Harlem Nights
Another 48 Hrs
Eddie Murphy: Raw
The Distinguished Gentleman
The Weather Man

Lionsgate:
Little Odessa
The Ninth Gate remastered
Peaceful Warrior

[greenth1ng]

My wishlist for Paramount:
- Beavis & Butthead Do America
- Rat Race
- The Rugrats Movie
- Rugrats in Pairs: The Movie
- SpongeBob SquarePants: Seasons 1 - 4

[homevideogeek]

Originally Posted by leguigui

I would love Paramount to start releasing more blu-ray !!

Also, isn’t the fault of Paramount if no Dreamworks Animation movies are yet released? I think I have read that Paramount distributed Dreamworks movies, isn’t it ?

Paramount hasn't distributed DWA titles (at least theatrically) since Rise of the Guardians in 2012. From The Croods through Captain Underpants last year, Fox has distributed them. Now DWA is wholly owned by Comcast so Universal is distributing them going forward, starting with the new How To Train Your Dragon 3 next March.

Universal is now re-issuing most (if not all) of DreamWorks Animation on DVD and Blu-ray. In my area, you still see some Fox-branded DWA titles on the shelf alongside the new Universal releases (in their horrible big character on solid color background cover art). The Fox releases are a couple bucks more expensive but have Blu-DVD-Digital HD whereas it seems the Universal ones have just Blu+Digital HD. Would love to see Universal upgrade a few of the older titles to Blu-ray finally (ie. Wallace & Gromit Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Chicken Run, etc). They've started to do a couple like Bee Movie, so maybe there's hope.

[Michael24]

One older Paramount title I'd love to see on Blu-ray is Secret of the Incas with Charlton Heston from 1954. Basically the precursor to Indiana Jones, right down to Heston's costume. I believe it was never even released on VHS. Only ever seen it once, over ten years ago on AMC, but really enjoyed it.

A Blu-ray of The Saint would be great, too, especially if it included the original cut before the third act was drastically altered.

[bigbadwoppet]

Thankfully, I haven't got too many Paramount titles on my wishlist:

Alfie
Funeral in Berlin
The Italian Job
Catch 22
Murder on the Orient Express
The Tenant
The Dead Zone
Beavis and Butthead Do America

[Andrew354]

Originally Posted by leguigui

I would love Paramount to start releasing more blu-ray !!

Also, isn’t the fault of Paramount if no Dreamworks Animation movies are yet released? I think I have read that Paramount distributed Dreamworks movies, isn’t it ?

On that note The Prince Of Egypt is being released in Germany in October...

https://www.amazon.de/Der-Prinz-Von-...bluraycom04-21

... it's being released through Universal so should be region free and have English audio / subtitles.

[Kill Bren]

I would kill for a blu-ray release of Michael Mann's The Keep (1983) from Paramount.

[DNSK]

I would have definitely thought Breakdown would have been released by now.

[Deadguy2322]

Originally Posted by MagellanvsHimself

yes. Ditto for all of these.

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Not sure what his problem is. It's not a great film, but it's not as horrible as he makes it seem. Would love to see this get a release.

Basically, due to studio shenanigans and budget cuts, it never had a chance to be the movie he intended to make, so he’d rather it never be seen again.

[KMR]

Originally Posted by Matt89

It's Michael Mann for sure. The reason the Kino (or was it Olive?) didn't happen is because Mann apparently caught wind of it and prevented it from being released. There was a lot of studio intervention on that movie and the end result was not the film Mann wanted to make.

If the cutting of The Keep was taken away from Mann, I find it incredibly difficult to believe he would have the power to hold up a video release. The suggestion of music rights being the sticking point seems the most plausible.

[bigbadwoppet]

Originally Posted by KMR

If the cutting of The Keep was taken away from Mann, I find it incredibly difficult to believe he would have the power to hold up a video release. The suggestion of music rights being the sticking point seems the most plausible.

Music clearance is only an issue when a movie uses music not recorded for the film. Tangerine Dream's score was recorded expressly for the film. There are no issues with other of their scores, such as Sorcerer and Legend.

[rocknblues81]

Originally Posted by UltraMario9

Paramount:
The Tenant
Bringing Out The Dead
Hard Eight
The Golden Child
Harlem Nights
Another 48 Hrs
Eddie Murphy: Raw
The Distinguished Gentleman
The Weather Man

Lionsgate:
Little Odessa
The Ninth Gate remastered
Peaceful Warrior

Paramount seems to be too lazy to put hardly anything out now.

[traths]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Roman Holiday yet. When will Paramount release that one?

[ScottDS]

I'm sure the speciality labels would love to license some of these titles... surely someone at Paramount must see the value in this. And all it takes is one person - Paramount used to never license their music library to speciality labels, but since 2009 La-La Land Records, Intrada, etc. have released dozens and dozens of complete, remastered scores from the Paramount catalog.

Some Paramount requests:
-The Naked Gun 2 1/2
-The Naked Gun 33 1/3
(both of these were released near the end of the period when WB was distributing Paramount titles but they dropped the extras and used older transfers... a set with all three Naked Gun films and new extras would be even better!)

-Brain Donors
-Top Secret! (with the DVD easter egg of the bookstore scene as it was originally shot)

-The Parallax View
-Catch-22
-Bringing Out the Dead
(I hope Criterion gets these)

-Black Sunday (Frankenheimer)
-Big Top Pee-Wee
-The Dead Zone
-The Weather Man
-more Jerry Lewis films (The Bellboy, Cinderfella, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, The Patsy, The Disorderly Orderly, The Family Jewels, and The Stooge)

[jeffarent]

Originally Posted by ScottDS

I'm sure the speciality labels would love to license some of these titles... surely someone at Paramount must see the value in this. And all it takes is one person - Paramount used to never license their music library to speciality labels, but since 2009 La-La Land Records, Intrada, etc. have released dozens and dozens of complete, remastered scores from the Paramount catalog.

Some Paramount requests:
-The Naked Gun 2 1/2
-The Naked Gun 33 1/3
(both of these were released near the end of the period when WB was distributing Paramount titles but they dropped the extras and used older transfers... a set with all three Naked Gun films and new extras would be even better!)

-Brain Donors
-Top Secret! (with the DVD easter egg of the bookstore scene as it was originally shot)

-The Parallax View
-Catch-22
-Bringing Out the Dead
(I hope Criterion gets these)

-Black Sunday (Frankenheimer)
-Big Top Pee-Wee
-The Dead Zone
-The Weather Man
-more Jerry Lewis films (The Bellboy, Cinderfella, The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, The Patsy, The Disorderly Orderly, The Family Jewels, and The Stooge)

How about Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy, and Jade

[mca213]

Originally Posted by UltraMario9

Paramount:
The Tenant
Bringing Out The Dead
Hard Eight
The Golden Child
Harlem Nights
Another 48 Hrs
Eddie Murphy: Raw
The Distinguished Gentleman
The Weather Man

Lionsgate:
Little Odessa
The Ninth Gate remastered
Peaceful Warrior

Paramount had nothing to do with Hard Eight... Its owned by Sony

[KMR]

Originally Posted by bigbadwoppet

Music clearance is only an issue when a movie uses music not recorded for the film. Tangerine Dream's score was recorded expressly for the film. There are no issues with other of their scores, such as Sorcerer and Legend.

There can be a number of different issues regarding music clearance, even when the music is recorded specifically for the film. In the matter of The Keep, reportedly it contains some pre-existing music by Tangerine Dream. (And here I'm talking of stuff created fully by TD, not that based on pre-existing works by other composers.)

[Gargus]

Originally Posted by Kill Bren

I would kill for a blu-ray release of Michael Mann's The Keep (1983) from Paramount.

Never seen it but that gif makes me want to see it.

[ParamountChris]

Originally Posted by mca213

Paramount had nothing to do with Hard Eight... Its owned by Sony

It's a Rysher Entertainment title that Samuel Goldwyn Company released theatractically, Sony released the DVD in 1997, 2 years before Paramount inherited Rysher, this explains why the Blu Ray of Kingoin comes from Paramount instead of MGM/Fox even though it was an MGM/Rysher co-production, Paramount owns that now. A Criterion Hard Eight wouldn't sound too bad either

[Fred Sliman]

The bulk of my major wish list, the top portion in the signature, is caught in this Paramount “already released on DVD” clause. We know Criterion is exempt with releases even recently (Election, Virgin Suicides, Etc.) but is there anyone around who knows the reason or logic behind this limitation? I can only imagine how many of these and scores of others would have been done by now from Kino and Olive if not for it.

I keep hoping to see likelier possibilities like Hud, Ordinary People and perhaps even Black Sunday and The Parallax View pop up in the CC announcements every month but as we know there are only so many of those coveted spots to go around. But I would really like to know more about the rationale behind the clause and hope that it loosens up for whatever reason down the line soon.