Columbia/MGM July Releases...Some more DDs for ya!
 

July 4-
Charlie's Angels: Complete Season Three
I Dream of Jeannie: Complete Second Season

July 11-
Edison Force
Road House: Deluxe Edition
Road House 2 (yikes!)

July 18-
The Cavern
Some Like It Hot: Collector's Edition

July 25-
Covert One
Hudson Hawk: Special Edition

Road House Deluxe Edition?

I can't stand studios doing these constant double dips, but sorry - I'm there!

Anyone know more about this?

Did they get Kevin Smith to do a commentary track for Road House?

Hopefully SLIH will be 16x9 this time, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it still won't be.

I can confirm a 2 disc Anamorphic release of "SLIH"

And, yes, "RH" has 2 audio commentaries, one with Rowdy Herrington and the other with Kevin Smith & Scott Mosier.

How many more times must I buy Some Like It Hot? :) Glad it will be anamorphic and 2 discs though.

Hudson Hawk SE!?! One of my favorite guilty pleasures and a disc I certainly never envisioned would get a rerelease. What the hell, if it's even remotely decent, I'll upgrade.

What is Kevin Smith's connection to Road House?

He just likes the movie. On the Clerks X DVD, he and Mosier talk about how they should do a fan commentary for it.

Good to see Some Like It Hot being upgraded. The "special edition" has way too much DVNR and is non-anamorphic. None of this 1.66:1 bullshit... it's actually 1.75:1. MGM didn't have a problem making The Manchurian Candidate 16x9 1.75:1 on its SE.

Will Roadhouse 2 have anyone from the original in it ?

I don't understand why after merging two of the biggest film libraries, MGM/Columbia releases dwindle down to almost nothing. There's a ton of stuff out there I want on DVD!

Nope, which says a lot when you can't even get Swayze back given the state of his career right now.

More evidence that Sony is the worst studio bar none!

Un-fucking-believable!!!!!! A Hudson Hawk SE and not a Dracula SE! WTF!!!!

I put Road House: Deluxe Edition and Hudson Hawk: Special Edition on my list, thanks :)

More info on Road House here:

http://www.davisdvd.com/news/news.html

holy shit,. I'm fuckin there. i wonder if someone at sony watched the clerks lost cut dvd, and because of the introduction at the begining of hte movie, gave them the task to do this.

News on HUDSON HAWK is now up.

Hudson Hawk and Road House are two of the worst movies ever, what the fuck is going on here?

Hudson Hawk was a monumental box office flop and it get's a 15th anniversary dvd and a movie I love, 1492: Conquest Of Paradise which flopped just as bad can't even get released onto dvd by Paramount and almost 10 years have gone by since dvd was first released. That is my wtf of the day!

I bought Hudson Hawk in the $5.50 dump bin at Wal-Mart. That is all I will ever need of this film.

Total. Market. Saturation.

Bring on high definition! :)

Yeah, why is garbage being released in a SE and not Coppola's DRACULA? I have been waiting for this for years. That's pure crap!

I used to fuck guys like you in prison.

Not really true; there are LOADS of titles languishing in the archives that Sony acquired by Columbia Tri-Star and MGM that have had no release at all - some of them not even on VHS.

There is a large enough DVD owning population to make it worth releasing these.

What the DVD market is saturated with is re-releases of re-releases of stuff.

Sony seem to be obsessed with trying to get buyers to shell out for yet another copy just because it's "Collectors" or "special" edition.

Sadly, the advent of HD will make things worse; I can see Sony focussing all their time and money on releasing HD editions of stuff they've already released to death ("great, we can release our fourth copy of something cos we can market it under the HD banner"). Espescially if they get desperate to prop up Blu-Ray should that format start to lose out to HD-DVD.

Warner have the right approach; they realise the importance of the up and coming HD market, but they also realise there is a gigantic market of people who already own a DVD player who will snap up releases of films that have never made it to the home video market at all. I think Warner stated that only about 1700 titles in their archive of over 4000 has seen a VHS/DVD release. There is, as they rightly put it, plenty of life in the DVD market. Tens or hundreds of millions of people who would rather have a DVD of something never before released than an HD of something they already own.

It fills me with sorrow to see Sony sit on their vast, untapped film library while they jerk around with putting out an SE of the film they released last year, and will probably keep right on sitting on that archive next year while they release the HD edition of the SE...

Just why the f!ck did Sony buy Columbia and MGM and then do nothing with the material they bought?

They act like some spoilt selfish rich brat who sits on a hoard that they don't want to share.