Finally had a chance to research my above latest titles and added those that reviews suggested one way or another. The rest remain unknown if anyone else happens to have access to any of the titles and wishes to check.

First of all, thank you kindly for the info on those three. Second, IGN lists Broken Flowers as coming with an insert. Error on their part?

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/680/680947p1.html

I just picked up two concert dvds used, and neither had inserts - Something Corporate: Live at the Venutra Theater and Nightwish: From Wishes to Eternity. Does anyone know if they originally came with anything?

hmmm... i dunno. i didn't buy mine when it first came out. i know in some cases later pressings just kinda drop the inserts, but i'm not sure if that's the case with this film. i would put a question mark on that until someone else can check and confirm either way...

ETA: my version of layer cake was the original packaging where the entire cast is on the cover, not the newer pressings where they changed the cover to craig looking bond-like with only sienna and him on the cover. dunno if the change in artwork also resulted in dropping the insert.

On an off chance, I decided to write a couple of the distributors asking for the info. Allumination Film Works, Kino, Koch and Palm Pictures offered quick replies letting me know whether or not their titles did.

Edit: Buena Vista replied with the info on whether their titles did or not also.

Sony Pictures responded with a generic thank you for your feedback, we don't replace inserts and therefore can't reply to your inquiry.

Spider-Man 3?

Mine didn't come with an insert.

Yeah, just a blu-ray ad and a papa johns coupon in mine.

They've beaten me: I now do not expect to see an insert inside any DVD unless it specifically says there is a booklet, and I don't bother to check when there isn't one. I'm pleasantly surprised when I see one. What's next? We open the package to find that the front of the DVD is just plain silver with no label? R.I.P. DVD Inserts

I've always enjoyed getting inserts, booklets, etc with my dvd movies. I feel like your buying the movie with a special treat inside. That's just me. Today slipcovers and alternate covers are the new inserts if you even get those. I always thought Universal had the best inserts because it usually involved pics from the movie, production notes, actor/director quotes, etc.

We Don't Live Here Anymore is a late 2004 release from Warners (and has the proof-of-purchase tabs on the back), so that doesn't have an insert.

I can confirm that the current printings of New Line's LOTR EE sets (the ones with a free Golden Compass movie pass included) still include the booklets with chapter listings and extras index. At least my copy of Fellowship does.

Hi all, was wondering if both Pan's Labyrinth (2DSE) and V for Vendetta (2DSE) came with inserts. Thanks.

Anyone know if Exorcist: The Beginning has one?

hi folks, i just got a copy of Mulholland Falls for the holidays, and wondered if it has a chapter insert/booklet? mine did not come with any.

New Line / Warners = No.

Should we start a new thread? The stuff in the first post is horribly out of date. I'd be happy to do it.

- Shadow Panther

Yes. The original pressing from 1999 came with a chapter listing. The 2005 re-release does not. Taking it a bit further the two disc special edition for the original (2005) had a slipcover.

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"Equilibrium" did in fact have an insert, chapter listing. I'm still trying to get that one.

Okay... Not sure if anyone is still watching this thread... but I recently went through my collection and made note of movies that I am missing some materials from... My local used DVD place gave me the clear to look through their collection and take the inserts I need for a small price but I wanted to see if any of these in my list actually did not come with an insert so I don't waste my time looking for them...

So... Did these movies come with a paper chapter insert or other insert materials??

I tried to label which edition each DVD is but they are all widescreen... Thanks!

**Update - Labeled ones I have found with *Got it* and ones that have been verified to not have one with *No*

21
*Batteries Not Included
12 Angry Men
12 Monkeys ------------------------------------------*Got it*
2 Fast 2 Furious --------------------------------------*Got it*
A Scanner Darkly
Animal House Double Secrect Probation Edition
AVP Requim ------------------------------------------*Got it - just an advertisement*
Batman Begins Two Disc Deluxe Edition -----------------*No*
Batman Mask of the Phantasm -------------------------*No*
Batman The Movie ------------------------------------*No*
Be Cool ----------------------------------------------*Got it*
Beowulf
Blazing Saddles ---------------------------------------*No*
Blood Diamond
Broken Arrow
Caddy Shack -----------------------------------------*No*
Casablanca Two Disc Special Edition -------------------*No*
Casino
Cinderella Man
Cliffhanger -------------------------------------------*Got it*
Collateral
Dances With Wolves
Dead Poets Society ----------------------------------- *Yes - Need it*
Defiance
Derailed
Desperado -------------------------------------------*Got it*
Disturbia
Duplicity
Edge of Darkness
Edward Scissor Hands
Enemy at the Gates ----------------------------------*Got it*
Escape from Alcatraz
Evolution
Excalibur *No*
Fast + Furious
Ferris Bueller: Bueller Bueller Edition
Forbidden Kingdom
Forest Gump -----------------------------------------*Yes - Need it*
Freedom Writers
Frost Nixon
Galaxy Quest ------------------------------------------*Yes - Need it*
Gattaca
Gettysburg --------------------------------------------*No*
Glory Road
Gone with the Wind 70th Anniversary Edition ------------*No*
Good Night and Good Luck -----------------------------*Got it*
Goodfellas ---------------------------------------------*No*
Harts War ---------------------------------------------*Got it*
Harry and the Hendersons
Howard the Duck
Hudson Hawk ------------------------------------------*Got it*
In Bruge
Invincible
Jerimiah Johnson ---------------------------------------*No*
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ------------------------------------*No*
Kiss the Girls
K-Pax -------------------------------------------------*Got it*
Last Man Standing
Law Abiding Citizen
Lawrence of Arabia
Michael Clayton
Midnight Run
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Movie
Million Dollar Baby --------------------------------------*No*
Mr. Brooks
Mr. Roberts
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Munich
Mystery Men
Next
North by Northwest 50th Anniversary Edition
October Sky ------------------------------------------- *Yes - Need it*
Outlander
Panic Room
Patch Adams
Paycheck
Perfect Stranger
Philadelphia
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Planet of the Apes 1968
Precious
Pride of the Yankees
Radio Flyer
Rain Man ----------------------------------------------*Got it*
Rainmaker
Raw Deal
Red Eye
Road House Deluxe Edition
Robin Hood Men In Tights
Rudy --------------------------------------------------*Got it*
Sahara
Scent of a Woman
Serenity
Shanghi Nooon ----------------------------------------*Got it*
Short Circuit
Shaun of the Dead
Shooter
Silverado
Simon Birch
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Slumdog Millionare
Sneakers
Spaceballs
Starship Troopers
State of Play
Striking Distance
Sugerland Express
Sunshine
Taken
Taking of Phelam 123
Te Karate Kid
Tears of the Sun
The Aviator -------------------------------------------*No*
The Blind Side -----------------------------------------*No*
The Body Guard ---------------------------------------*No*
The Bucket List ---------------------------------------*No*
The Chase
The Departed -----------------------------------------*No*
The Edge
The Express
The Generals Daughter --------------------------------*Got it*
The Ghost in the Darkness
The Great Debaters
The Great Outdoors
The Hunt for Red October
The Island -------------------------------------------*Got it - Just an advertisement*
The Jackal -------------------------------------------*Got it*
The Last Samuria -------------------------------------*Got it*
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The Mexican
The Patriot
The Peacemaker
The Professional
The Professionals
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Sandlot
The Shawshank Redemption 10th Anniverary Edition ------*No*
The Sixth Sense
The Terminal
The Terminator
The Truman Show
The Untouchables
The Vanishing
The War
Tombstone
Tootsie 25th Anniversary
Total Recall
Trading Places
Two For the Money
Uncle Buck
Valkyrie
Wall Street 2
Waterworld
We Are Marshal
What Dreams May Come
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Willow
Witness -------------------------------------------------*No*
Wyatt Earp ----------------------------------------------*No*


Disney:
Alice in Wonderland Un-Anniversary Edition
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Pocahantas 10th Anniversary
Te Rescuers Down Under
Oliver + Company 20th
The Black Cauldron
The Rescuers
Robin Hood Most Wanted Edition
Princess and the Frog
Hercules
The Hunchback of Notre Dam -----------------------------*Got it*

I can't help much with individual titles, but in the past have asked questions like this myself and done some solo research. Here are two tips that may reduce your list by maybe 20%...

1) Warner Brothers never released inserts. They went straight from snap packs with a chapter list and photos on the inside from cover to keep case with no inserts. Yes, their DVD's sometimes have stuff inside: time-limited mail order offers or contests, ads for Turner Classic Movies, etc., but never anything like liner notes or chapter lists. I have two WB DVD's that came with mini comic books (the Batman Begins and Constantine 2-disk Deluxe Editions), but these are separate entities altogether. So you can scrub titles like Batman Begins, Mask of the Phantasm, and Casablanca.

2) Paramount included chapter listings (and possibly nothing more), but only for a relatively short time. Using my collection and Amazon's release dates as a guide, they stopped somewhere between November 2003 and October 2004. Any Paramount title with proof-of-purchase marks on the back did not originally ship with an insert. But a new, sealed DVD lacking proof-of-purchase marks doesn't necessarily have an insert either. (Apparently they were sloppy on matching artwork, DVD, case, and insert.) But at some point it did. This would scrub titles like Sky Captain and Witness, if it's the Collector's Edition.

For Edward Scissorhands, the "Widescreen Anniversary Edition" did originally have a 4-page insert. Caveat: this version (same as the "10th Anniversary Edition") has been re-released a number of different ways, so it's hard to say exactly which releases (i.e. the steelbook, a different cover, etc.) had it and which didn't.

Hope that helps!

Addendum: for anybody reading this, I have a separate thread (http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-talk-co...og-titles.html ) for information on Columbia/Sony catalog titles. I'm also on the cusp of asking about Image Entertainment/Wade Williams classic sci-fi/horror titles with liner notes or inserts.

Izurawski,

I checked the titles that I have from your list, and I found that the following had inserts:

Dead Poets Society
Forrest Gump
Galaxy Quest
October Sky

I believe that the versions I own of these were all the first release on DVD.

Thanks so much rbrown498 and thetao... I really appreciate the help!

Being able to take a few of this list will be a great help!!

Anyone have conformation on any others?

I don't think this is true.

Troy (theatrical version) two disc widescreen came with a 4 page chapter insert and movie info. This is a Warner Brothers release.

I know because I have it.

I don't know if the one disc with just the movie came with an insert.

I should add that I don't know if the Troy Director's Cut comes with an insert.

I originally got that tip from this site, probably a thread in this forum. I don't buy lots of new releases, but it's held true for me so far. I do own the Batman Begins 2-disk Special Edition (with only an 8-page mail order catalog and a coupon for Norton Internet Security), the Casablanca 2-disk Special Edition (digipak in slipcase, no inserts), and Mask of the Phantasm (keep case, no inserts), so can vouch for at least those titles. I would have to track down the original post, but still think the above is a good rule of thumb, possibly excluding blockbuster new releases.

THX 1138 was Warner and the single disc version had an insert.

Does anyone know if The X-Files: I Want to Believe (Three Disc Ultimate X-Phile edition) came with a chapter insert or booklet?

I ask because I know that The X-Files: Fight the Future DVD came with a chapter insert/booklet.