Boba Fett

No commentary, no sale.

jjcool

Day one purchase for me.

Anubis2005X

Agreed, saw it twice in theaters, great movie...

biglou114

Why are you surprised of the lack of commentary on here. The Coens have done a total of One commentary (The Man Who Wasn't There), and you can tell on the track how much they disliked the process. I highly doubt we'll ever get another one with the two of them.

Also: DAY ONE for ME!

whotony

Why?

TomOpus

Hallie gets nominated for an Oscar, they put her on the cover but she's not good enough to have her name on the cover?

Anubis2005X

That's why she looks so pissed off on the cover...

Josh Z

The presence and order of names in the poster and video art is mandated by contract. These things are locked down before the movie is even made. The girl is 14 years old and this was her first significant film role. She did not have the pull to rate an above-the-title listing.

With her Oscar nomination, that will certainly change for the next movie she makes.

Pizza

Very true. I always find it funny when they shoot poster art and the actors are flipped, such as Grease, and their names are in contract order so the wrong name is above the star. Always looks stupid.
If Hallie had gotten that Oscar I bet they would have at least slapped a sticker on that cover with her name and the win.

Mr. Salty

But I bet if they had put her name on the cover they would have spelled Hailee correctly!

TomOpus

See? That's how upset I was! I'm gonna pick up the blu-ray just to show my support for Haley.

Josh Z

I wouldn't count on it. I just received a screener for The Fighter, and the sticker on the cover only mentions the movie's Oscar nominations, not its two wins.

TheMovieman

I'm sure those were made up before the Oscar telecast and since it shipped not long after, they didn't have the chance to make new stickers and put them on the covers. There's still another three months until True Grit's release which would've been more than enough time.

Of course, she didn't win so it doesn't really matter, but that's why The Fighter didn't have the stickers advertising its wins on screeners (by the release day Tuesday, they might've made new ones for store shelves).

GoldenJCJ

No stickers hastily slapped onto the outside of the shrinkwrap = no sale!

Josh Z

Fair enough.

Travis McClain

If you were Paramount, and you knew the remake was going to sell well, why would you risk having to pay a lot more royalties on the original version for each sale of the remake? Yes, you're going to move x amount of product, but the original version has its own Blu-ray release for those who are interested. You would essentially be forcing fans of the new one to force you to pay royalties on the original film. Better to give each film its own release and let the buyers decide for themselves.

TomOpus

I was essentially talking about offering a combo release with both movies along with individual releases. Give consumers a choice. As it is, I'll probably only buy the new movie.

dino88

They don't package other remakes with the original. I'm not sure why True Grit would be any different.

jjcool

Wasn't there a release of Scarface that had the original included?

Adam Tyner

Happens sometimes. The Truth About Charlie came packaged with Charade, there's the Scarface example above, the silent and Technicolor remake of The Ten Commandments...

dino88

Yes, I'm sure there are exceptions, but it's rare. I was just going off some of the expectations in this thread, where it seemed that people felt including the original with the remake was the norm.

TomOpus

Yes there is. I have it too.
Who said it was the norm? I just figured since they just released the original on blu it would make a nice package.

PopcornTreeCt

I never thought it was the norm but I thought it would be cool.

animefan

Just adding to the list

- Tron Legacy / Tron
- You've Got Mail / Shop Around the Corner
- Fantasia 2000 / Fantasia
- The Day the Earth Stood Still / Original
- Mirrors 2 / Original Asian movie

I like this practice, as long as we get a choice or get it absolutely Free (Not like Fantasia, which costs more and we don't get a choice)

Edit - Actually Tron & Fantasia is a sequel rather than remake, so ignore those - since these sequels took so long, it just seemed to fit in this discussion at first

gryffinmaster

Damn, I didn't know that. Shows what I get for paying no attention to that release. Very cool.