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Seen a few of these at my local Target this pass week for $7.50 each.
So YMMV

Funny Face and Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paramount Centennial ) are the only two in store.


At Target.com these are the only 2 listed at this price too,the others are $13+.

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I picked up Breakfast At Tiffany's yesterday for $7.50 at Target as the above user mentioned. I really hope the post about Wings and The African Queen are true. I'm trying to get all the Best Picture Winners as well as both AFI lists and those are a couple of tough ones to locate.

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Maybe Polanski's arrest was marketing for the new Chinatown dvd...

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Ooh - an insert in a non-Criterion dvd - I miss those...

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So does anyone have a clue as to why Paramount ditched those classy looking cases for Chinatown and just left it with the standard cover?

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What do you mean? This cover looks to be in the same classy design that the others are.

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I realized I made a "boo-boo" in my last post.

I should has asked: "So does anyone have a clue as to why Paramount ditched those classy cardboard slipcovers for Chinatown and just left it with the standard cover?"

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Just got my copy of Chinatown from wherehouse.com and it also didn't come with a slipcover.

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Just bought the older editions of Liberty Valance and El Dorado too.

Oh well. At least they were cheap.

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In the 1980's Paramount released VHS titles from their
silent era period.

These included Running Wild with W.C. Fields as well as
classics Wings and The Covered Wagon.

Most of Paramount's silent era output has vanished;
victims of studio fires and willful neglect.

Movies thought lost have turned up since the VHS
releases.

Beyond The Rocks with Gloria Swanson and Rudolph
Valentino is an example.

At least Wings should be given a release in the
Centennial Collection if they decide to ditch
the rest of the silent era.

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But remember that most of pre-1950 Paramount titles were sold off to Universal.

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Paramount still owns their silent output. I'm pretty sure Criterion has confirmed that they are releasing several silent titles licensed from them.

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These two images lead me to believe that the first image was the outer slipcover and the second image was the cover on the DVD case itself. That's 100% not the case, and they decided to release this without a slipcover? For continuity's sake, that's ridiculous, and I'm not even a guy who likes slipcovers that much.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ectedimage.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ctedimage2.jpg

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.ph...id=71078#thumb

If you click this link, you can even see that it appears to be set up that way. I'm confused now.

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Scored Roman Holiday from Wal-Mart for $3.

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thanks for bringing that up! i had already asked the question about slipsleeve in the slipsleeve thread :)
so you can definitely confirm that the retail version in stores does not come with a sleeve!?

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I've only seen it in one store and it did not have a slip cover.

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When I picked up my copy of Chinatown there were 2 copies and neither had the slipcover. I had mine laid out by spine number and it looks weird now.

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Which cover does it have then? The one that matches the slipcover, or the one that matches the normal DVD cover?

P.S. Fuck you, Paramount.

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The normal dvd cover. It's the 2nd picture from post 133.

But honestly, it disappoints me that it doesn't have the slipcover like the other ones do, but if they are going to keep putting things out under this banner and keep the prices as low as they've been, I won't get too upset.

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That's really weird. Especially since it has been advertised everywhere with the other picture. Hmmm...

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That's a shame. Granted, the disc content is what's most important, but I liked the sort-of classy feel that the slipcovers gave the releases.

Also, not to bring this up again, but who else is upset that the release of The African Queen didn't come to pass yet again?

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I'm disappointed about the African Queen, but I am glad that I didn't dump my Castaways dvd of it when it was announced. Even though it's a Chinese bootleg.

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I'm disappointed. I want The African Queen and Wings!

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Wasn't "Sorry, Wrong Number" supposed to be in the same wave with "Chinatown", as well?

I'm disappointed that this line's release rate seems to have dropped off after starting with such promise. They put out about two titles every couple of months, from November to May, then a sudden 5-month hiatus just to bring us only one title and hint at three others. The Centennial Collection had such great potential, I just hope Paramount didn't lose interest in it this quickly.

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My DVD arrived 2 days ago. I bought it from Amazon.
I was really upset because it didn't have the cover. Now those spine numbers don't look so good anymore. I have 9 goodlooking boxes and one boring DVD case.

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I don't know about them, but I have. Normally, I couldn't care less about slipcovers; I usually throw them away. But in this case, no slipcover = no sale.

Rob

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What three others?

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I know that the retail prices dropped not too long after they started (the MSRP was originally about $24.99, they dropped rather quickly down to $16.99, and that's not taking into account various sales that other places have had for them; Target's $7.50 pricing for Breakfast At Tiffany's and Funny Face, for example), so it's not entirely out of the question.

It also brings to question the future of these films on Blu. I know that it was said that Chinatown would be coming next year, but if this version doesn't sell, it's possible that plans for that could be out...

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"Sorry, Wrong Number", "The African Queen", and "Wings". All mentioned in relation to the Centennial line at some point.

edit: #102 in this thread has a digitalbits.com link stating intentions for the first two. "Wings" may have only been speculation within this thread, though I'd swear I read something about a planned DVD release somewhere on this board.

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I was in my local Wal-Mart on October 16th.

They had the Centennial Collection editions of "Sunset Boulevard", "Roman Holiday" and I believe the above version of "Chinatown". I bought the first two.

Price? $3

:)

They might have had other titles, but I'm not very familiar with the Centennial Collection.

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There $4 now and the " #7 The Odd Couple" was another one offered

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I take it these didn't sell so well. Bummer.

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If they didn't, we only have Paramount to blame. I've bought all of them and they are excellent editions but most of them are triple dips within the span of a only a few years. In the last two years, I've owned three different versions of most of the Audrey Hepburn titles. Most people have more sense/less money than I do so I'm not suprised that they might not sell so well. I understand they are popular films but why they didn't try to offer something new is beyond me. Surely Paramount has more than a mere dozen truly classic films in their archives...

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I'm sure many collectors, myself included, may have held off on some/all of these titles because we were waiting for them to be announced on Blu. From the beginning, Paramount should have made this an exclusive line for classic BD titles. I'm sure there aren't too many people who are fans of Sunset Blvd., Breakfast at Tiffany's or Chinatown that don't already on it on DVD.

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So is this collection already done? I don't understand why they would start it and stop so soon. I'm disappointed about the slipcovers being eliminated also.....just looked classy for the classic films. So is there any hope for a Wings or African Queen release?

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Well, I was going to wait for the Blu, but at that price (or at the $4 the next poster mentioned), I'll double dip on Chinatown.

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I picked up The Odd Couple for $4 at Wally World. Didn't see any of the others. YMMV, as usual.

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Well DVDAF now lists Chinatown as OOP. Must be the end of this collection. Seems it ended before it really even started.

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According to Amazon, as well: "This item has been discontinued by the manufacturer." Yet, they still have at least "Sunset Boulevard" available. Did they make fewer pressings of "Chinatown" in this collection than the other titles, anticipating their dwindling interest in continuing the line?

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It seems that way. People were reporting it as OOP very soon after the release date. They may have done only one pressing, over and out.