The Exploitation Cinema Collection was a Best Buy exclusive that came out around Christmas. Drive In Classics 4 is out this week too.

See rareoopdvds web site for more info on Exploitation Cinema Collection.

Thanks for the info.

I still have to pick up Vol. 1-3 of the "Drive-In Classics"

Not really. People like having tangible stuff in their hands, such as DVDs and BDs. Downloading may take some consumers away from the DVD market but they aren't going to have a huge impact in the near futre. Remember that most people prefer losing one DVD instead a of a hard drive full of films. BCI is just another casualty of the sad economic state we are all in.

You won't have to worry about losing a hard drive full of films because they'll either be streamed or just expire after a few days

Thanks to elsanto for giving me the heads up on the "Exploitation Cinema Collection". Picked up the last (maybe their only one) copy at my local Best Buy.

Have to order Drive-In Classics Vol. 4 soon, as I just picked up Vol. 1-3.

EDIT: Wow, I didn't realize the set I bought contained all of the "Welcome To The Grindhouse" Double Features BCI originally released (prior to changing the moniker to "Exploitation Cinema"). Great deal

I ordered BCI's disc of Kurosawa's Quiet Duel from DVD Planet, and it's currently listed as out of stock. Hopefully it's not going to go out of print just yet.

Seriously, do I need to stock up on titles I put off on buying here? Are they going to go out of print?

I would like to know about the OOP status too. I wanna get the rest of there Grindhouse/Explotation double features and Savage Streets if they are going OOP soon

Wow. That is a cool deal. I've bought them all individually. How are they packaged in this set? Are they in their 10 original keepcases? Slimcases? One big custom case?

They come packaged in 2 custom cases that hold 5 DVD's a piece. Problem is a durability, as both of my cases came with shattered spindles. Luckily for me one of them is fine, the other will not hold a 5th disc

Hmmm. I guess I don't regret buying the individual releases then. And I got 9 of them for less then $4 each.

Big question: will the 2 scheduled for 1/27 still come out? The Galaxina release is probably a lost cause.

I hope Navarre stick with their shaw titles. I already picked up opium and the kung - fu master on BD. Looking to get Life Gamble when released o the 27th of this month. I hope that more shaw titles follow from the celestial remasters on blu.

For those He-Man fans, Best Buy has a new exclusive box set of the 2002 series. It contains all 3 volumes, as well as a exclusive forth volume that contains some new artwork cards, and a Skeletor key chain. Its a nice set, but it has its own spine with He-man on it, and does not connect with the mural. I picked it up, and I can provide some pics if anyone wants to see.

Not to derail here, but can you list the films...I wanted to get these, but I think I have them all already.

Dragon Princess/Karate Warriors
Superchick / Hustler Squad
The Bodyguard/Sister Street Fighter
The Teacher and the Pick-Up
Don't Answer the Phone/Prime Evil
Black Candles and Evil Eye
The Beach Girls/Coach
Las Vegas Lady / Policewomen
The Hellcats/Chain Gang Women
Malibu High / Trip With the Teacher

Thanks, I appreciate it. Is this in Volume 1?

Those are all the films in the set.

BCI Released 20 films under the moniker Welcome To The Grindhouse and the box set is a collection of all these films.

They were forced to change the moniker to Exploitation Cinema, they so far have released 3 under that moniker with 2 more coming this month.

Ok thanks. I have the 10 "welcome to the grindhouse" releases already. But I see the Drive-In sets have them scattered across those sets. Either way, thanks for the info...I got to get these.

Here's the other two, if anyone's interested:

Horror High/Lurkers
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001H3KNF6/

and

Nightmare In Wax/Blood of Dracula's Castle
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015U42G2/

Damn. I missed this story last month.

That's really bad news - BCI did a great job with their Japanese movies. Hell, they took more care with many of their releases (including various US TV cartoon titles) than some of the major studios would have done.

From the sound of things part of the cost cutbacks will be to NOT license marginal titles (in terms of demand) in the future.

Maybe the Cliff MacMillan will start his own company. He did a great job with Adness and BCI. Of course, that may take another year or two as it will be extremely hard to come up with startup capital in this economy.

Did these ever come out? My pre-order from Borders for each of them was just cancelled.

This finally shipped. Also, this was just posted in the "Out-of-Print Titles" thread: I'm hoping Derby will still be released as planned next month.

All BCI titles went OOP print, so plan accordingly.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-talk/52...-thread-7.html

One super crappy side effect of this is that they were in talks to put out several titles including I myself having been dying for. I'm not saying the name, but I will say it's a Tarantino favorite for which he named a distribution company for. Work leaked out by someone saying something they shouldn't on another board, but was quickly deleted from the site.