Anyone know when or if Annie (the original version) will be re-released?

This was my fav. movie when I was a lil kid and now I wanna pass it on to my 2 year old niece..

any help would be great..

Thanx

From DVDFile:

You can bet your bottom dollar that the sun will come out tomorrow...as will endless DVD reissues and repackagings. Just in from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment is their January 13th lineup of new and catalog releases. Getting the special edition treatment at last following a disappointing movie-only edition released two years ago is the 1982 musical flop Annie. This new reissue inculdes only a 4:3 full screen transfer (yes, really), Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 surround tracks, the "My Hollywood Adventure with Aileen Quinn" featurette, an exclusive msuical performance of "It's the Hard Knock Life" by the pop group Play (be very afraid), "The Age of Annie" trivia game, sing-along and act-alongs (don't ask me) and theatrical trailers. Retail is $24.95.


DTS =

Full screen =

Well, I won't be buying this one. Does anyone know if they ever fixed the framing on the widescreen transfer on the old release and how to tell which is the correct one?

I've mentioned this before, but Annie has one of the most glaring examples of a poorly framed full screen transfer and the advantages of widescreen. During the scene where Annie and Daddy Warbucks are swimming together in the pool, all you can see for pretty much the whole scene are their feet. They are swimming on their backs and are facing opposite directions, so their feet are in the center of the frame.

As I mentioned in another thread, this has to be one of the lamest double-dips in recent memory. Maybe ever.

Even ignoring that it is fullscreen only... do those 'extras' appeal to anyone? Anyone?

I'll stick w/ my current one.

That REALLY sucks!!!

I really like this movie (Carol Burnett cracks me up as Ms. Hannigan). What's the deal with skipping the WS? And the extras?!?!? You're right, bboisvert, I just don't see who it is they are marketing this to . . .

NO OAR=NO SALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I must admit that this is the most disappointed I have ever been on a release of a DVD. Annie is one of my favorite movies, but it is also the most glaring example against FS/Pan and scan. The aforementioned swimming scene excluded, trying to keep up with the Panning and scanning have made my VHS copy unwatchable. Was looking forward to upgrading with the 20th Anniversery DVD. Now I will be avoiding this DVD like the plaugue. How can anyone call this DVD a "Special Edition" when there isnt even a WS/FS option.

I read here that there was matting problems in the original DVD release. Is the original DVD WS? What were the problems? I would search for a copy of the original DVD just to be able to watch Annie again.

Wasn't there an alternate version of "Easy Street" that wasn't used in the final cut? I seem to recall when the movie first came out in theaters, TV reviewers showed a musical number with dozens of people dancing in the street, but Columbia used (reshot?) a version that had Burnett, Curry and Peters wandering around an office while they sang.

Come on, studio guys... Where's the widescreen??