Echo Bridge Takes On Miramax DVD Titles
 

Echo Bridge Entertainment, a leading worldwide distribution company, and Miramax announced today that they have entered into a domestic distribution deal. Under the long-term deal, Echo Bridge will distribute 251 titles from the distinguished Miramax film library via DVD and Blu-ray to retailers around the country utilizing Echo Bridge’s unique merchandising and distribution techniques. Miramax titles under the new partnership include such films as the From Dusk Till Dawn trilogy, award-winning dramas such as Music of the Heart, Marvin’s Room, Tsotsi and Becoming Jane, and select titles from the Hellraiser, Halloween, Pokemon and Children of the Corn franchises.

“These Miramax titles are fabulous additions to our home entertainment offerings,” said Michael Rosenblatt, Chairman, President and CEO of Echo Bridge. “We’re elated to partner with Mike Lang and the new Miramax team. We are all very excited about bringing these Miramax titles - many of which have tremendous star power and are cult classics - to audiences for their discovery and enjoyment.”

“We are very pleased to partner with Michael Rosenblatt and the team at Echo Bridge on these titles, which in many cases have never been fully exploited,” said Mike Lang, CEO of Miramax. “Our goal at Miramax is to work with the right partners to fully maximize every asset in our extraordinary film catalog across all platforms. We believe the Echo Bridge team will bring the right experience, execution and a strong entrepreneurial approach to our business, along with our other home entertainment partners.”

http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/echo...s/#more-107321

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Are they going to release the 251 titles on 10 five-disc sets?

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Give Echo Bridge a little credit, the DVDs will probably be around 62 different 4-5 movie per disc titles. ;)

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I thought it was Lionsgate releasing the Miramax titles. What is going on here?

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Yea, first there was a partnership with Starz, then Lionsgate, now Echo Bridge? Are they splitting the catalog out or something?

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That's a shame. Echo Bridge DVDs never have closed captioning or subtitling, which are important to some of us.

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Doesn't Miramax own the US rights to one of the Godzilla flicks? Is this more or less likely to help that show up?

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Isn't Echo Bridge a public domain distributor?

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It's nice to be on a movie-geek board :D

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Coming soon to a Wal-Mart bargain bin near you:

Artsy-Fartsy Crap, Vol. 1 (four movies on one disc!)
Cosi
Wings of the Dove
A Price Above Rubies
Life is Beautiful


Artsy-Fartsy Crap, Vol. 2 (four movies on one disc!)
Playing by Heart
House of Yes
Like Water for Chocolate
Velvet Goldmine


Artsy-Fartsy Crap, Vol. 3 (four movies on one disc!)
Holy Smoke
Malena
Chocolat
Of Love and Shadows


Artsy-Fartsy Crap, Vol. 4 (four movies on one disc!)
Sirens
Cider House Rules
Kate and Leopold
Ready to Wear


Artsy-Fartsy Crap, Vol. 5 (four movies on one disc!)
Amelie
Il Postino
Enchanted April
City of God

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I hope they will actaully do something decent for these movies on bluray, the only bluray I have seen has been Mega Pirahana in the 5.00 dump bin at Best Buy. I better be able to buy From Dusk til dawn and not have to buy the shitty DTV sequels.

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Didn't the Weinstein brothers retain the rights to some of the Miramax titles? I'm hopeful that we'll get a BluRay or anamorphic DVD of EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU.

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Has Miramax really fallen this hard? Or has Echo Bridge suddenly gotten better?

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Disney sold Miramax to an investment group called Filmyard Holdings last year. Filmyard has been licensing the catalog out to other companies, notably Lions Gate, which will handle A-list titles like Pulp Fiction and the Scream franchise, and Echo Bridge, which will apparently be getting most of the Dimension horror franchises and some of the lesser known Miramax movies.

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here is the first batch announced.

*4-12-2011*

Gordy
The Human Stain
My Boss's Daughter (PG-13)
Don't Be A Menace (R)
The Crow 2: City of Angels
Duplex
Becoming Jane
Pokemon Heroes
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (R)
From Dusk Till Dawn
Jersey Girl

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^^^Dvd or bluray?

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DVD only right now, I haven't seen any pre-orders for anything on Blu-Ray yet

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Crap, I was looking at the list and assuming Blu-ray. Ah well, hopefully soon.

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directors cut of Jersey Girl? Finally anamorphic From Dusk Till Dawn?

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Not the most exciting lineup.

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I won't be surprised if they just recycle the old discs to fill the cheap bins at Walgreen's.

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The only must-have title on that list, of course, is POKEMON HEROES!

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The next must-have, of course, will be HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE (since I directed it!) ;)

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The Monster Box is the only way to go, with that one.
http://www.eightyfour-entertainment....nsterbox_a.jpg

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hellraiser bloodline is one of my favorite hellraiser movies....i had the dvd but it looked bad on my hd tv...it was formated to fit the screen

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So I guess we can kiss the possibility of a producer's cut release of "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers" goodbye? I wonder if they'll even give Halloween 6 and 7 anamorphic transfers? Or just recycle the old non-anamorphic Dimension DVDs?

Also, which studio holds the rights to Black Christmas (2006)? Vivendi was going to release it on BD last October, but it never happened.

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Art is up for many on Amazon and it looks like they're recycling Miramax's art. I'm gonna guess these are all the same discs, or worse.

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Children of the Corn II has new artwork.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NwF42dQQL.jpg

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Wasn't Children of the Corn II one of the ones that was never previously on DVD?

Other bad news: The From Dusk Till Dawn art they used was the single-disc artwork.

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Here they have listed FDTD, FDTD2, FDTD3, and "Full Tilt Boogie" Says in the description that it's 1-disc. :eek:

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Amazon lists the following for From Dusk Till Dawn:
From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn with bonus feature Full Tilt Boogie
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
From Dusk Till Dawn Series: From Dusk Till Dawn / Full-Tilt Boogie / From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money / From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter

I think it's safe to say the disc count on that last one is wrong.

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It was on DVD, but OOP and expensive.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ACLsJsJLL.jpg

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Except we are still talking about Echo Bridge :)

Wow, only 19.99 list price?

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I wouldn't be shocked if it is one FLIPPER disc:

SIDE A: From Dusk Till Dawn and Full Tilt Boogie
SIDBE B: From Dusk Till Dawn 2 and 3

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The sad part is I believe Shout! Factory attempted to get these titles. Several of these would have probably been given special editions (a la the Corman Collection).

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Some of these discs came in to my kmart this week. All titles were 5.00 except for a few triple features such as movies from the Hellrasier series. I picked up From Dusk til Dawn out of curiousity, and it shows they rushed these titles for release. The only good news is that it is anamorphic, bad news is the picture quality isn't that great, only 2.0 audio, and no extras. I have the 2-disc CE and will still hold on to it. But I want it on bluray, I might have to import it from Canada .

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You picked up the new single disc version, correct? It's still possible that the new version that includes full tilt boogie retains the special features.

http://www.amazon.com/Dusk-Till-Dawn...9809705&sr=1-4

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Its a single disc version of From Dusk til Dawn. I bet that release will just include FTB on an extra disc.

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i did buy the canadian blu ray at f.y.e for 10 bux,im in ny...they sell some canadian blu rays...im talking about from dusk till dawn it looked good.....i want to check out my nearest kmart to see if the prophecy and hellraisr bloodline are out yet...i want enhanced versions

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2.0 Audio in 2011?

People really need to quit giving the Weinstein's money for anything they're involved in. I've never seen a bigger "studio" botch so much (DVD releases, marketing, butchering foreign releases) so often.

Don't blame Echo Bridge either, it's obvious this is the best they've been provided with.