CardiffGiant

I will definitely purchase the Criterion Blu-ray of BB, as I really liked the film. I've been very pleased with their decisions lately.

And, I think, at the worst, the 2-Disc BD is going to be around $29 on Amazon and $32 on Criterion's website. That's what it has been with most $39.99 releases.

Thanks for the info, dx.

fitprod

It's because of David Fincher, most likely. Criterion and Fincher have had a solid working relation ship since the LD days. He must have finally convinced Paramount to work with Criterion.

I think the main reason all of his films have not been under the Criterion label is due to studios relations ships with Criterion. Sony's (Panic Room) relationship went south with Criterion years ago, and Fox (Alien 3 & Fight Club) has never been a big supporter of third party releases.

New Line's SE of Seven was a re-purpose of the Criterion SE, and to this day we haven't gotten the SE of The Game on DVD, which is probably due to some type of haggling between Criterion and Universal, I think that who distributes it now... Hopefully, that will get resolved one day.

fitprod

Giles

^ Fox is very controlling of it's films, they are as tight and closed like a nun's va-jj.

pro-bassoonist

I am unsure this is news...for now.

Pro-B

GenPion

I might get this. I might not. I still haven't even seen the movie.

Mr. Cinema

DVD Active already has the DVD artwork up and it shows BB with a Criterion cover and spine #476.

tofferman

Great news and a pleasant surprise, as I would have purchased it regardless.

NiCK Crush

I forgot to add the (if true) part...

PopcornTreeCt

That's amazing for Criterion!!

Can't wait to pick this one up.

bluetoast

Surprising news (at least to my ears) but good for Criterion on a big title.

steebo777

Awesome confirmed news!

rexinnih

Good to see Criterion attaching it's name to new releases. Now I just need to actually see BB....

Shagrath

I don't think this has been posted yet, but.

islandclaws

Nice cover. Very classy. I (foolishly) missed this in theaters, so a Day One buy for me.

Shannon Nutt

The above is the DVD cover...I'm pretty sure the Blu-ray is going to have the current Criterion Blu-ray packaging, meaning no hard case.

Doctorossi

I hope they'll use the proceeds to do something good.

MBoyd

If that happens, that would be a mistake of colossal proportion.

Shannon Nutt

Why, don't you want all your Criterions to match?

MBoyd

None of my Criterion's really match anyway. Old logos, new logos, cardboard slipcases, plastic slipcases, no slipcases.

Anyway, I didn't care about the cases at first. After seeing them I think they are cheap and flimsy, but I am not going to make a big issue out of it. Now a Benjamin Button CC Blu Ray is going to attract buyers who have never bought the other CC Blu Rays and thus generate a bunch of complaints. Not a great way to treat a major release fresh from the theaters.

slop101

Yeah, they already don't match. So why does it matter? I'd ask you why you even care if they match or not - a spine is a spine is a spine...

I asked this before and got no response, but I just don't understand this obsession with matching packaging/spines.

Shannon Nutt

All six of the current Blu-ray releases match in terms of size, packaging and the way the Criterion logo is placed on the spine. Unless you guys have seen other versions - because all of mine look like that.

Giles

^ get the rights from Paramount to release 'Good Burger' ??

GenPion

I don't get this. Is that a running joke? I've seen people mention Good Burger and Criterion together a lot over the years.

I am definitely going to pick this movie up now as a blind buy. I wasn't even sure I wanted to see it, even with my love for most of David Fincher's films, but Columbia House added it to their club (along with Valkyrie) so I have another worthwhile order when they do another B1G1.

Dan Average

Fox and Criterion have a relationship these days, but they didn't at the time Fight Club came out. Fincher won't have anything to do with Alien 3, so I doubt Criterion would handle that, even in the unlikely event Fox licensed it out.

Criterion have already said they plan to switch to plastic cases for Blu as soon as they get some custom ones lined up (they refuse to use the standard blue cases), so it's going to happen sooner or later.

HumanMedia

Me neither. And who would be storing all of their titles by production company anyway?

I can understand storing titles by genre, director, by year or even alphabetical, but by the production company for the home video release?