Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt (Post 10556225)

So Criterion isn't releasing Blue Velvet? :/

Originally Posted by kefrank (Post 10556794)

I find that hard to believe, given the posted picture of donuts. ;)

Originally Posted by Josh Z (Post 10558302)

Donuts don't have anything to do with Blue Velvet. That's Twin Peaks.

Originally Posted by GreenVulture (Post 10556576)

You might want to ask yourself what the point would be of delaying a Blu Ray release of a movie in order to piggyback on its foreign remake that made virtually no impact whatsoever in the US.

Originally Posted by gryffinmaster (Post 10558319)

:lol: That's a carry-over joke from the Criterion thread. They posted a picture of doughnuts on their Facebook page, and it got speculative brains a-goin'.

Originally Posted by The Digital Bits

While we're talking Rumor Mill-worthy developments, our sources are also telling us that 20th Century Fox and MGM are preparing new Blu-ray versions of Platoon and Midnight Cowboy. Platoon is currently slated for release in the U.K. on 5/16, with Midnight Cowboy due on 5/2. Expect U.S. street dates to be announced soon for a similar release timeframe.

Originally Posted by blu-ray.com

During a recent radio interview, David Lynch revealed that the deleted scenes from his 1986 masterpiece Blue Velvet, which for a long time were thought to be lost forever, had recently been found "somewhere up in Seattle." Lynch said that "hopefully" some of those scenes will end up in an upcoming Blu-ray, although he also noted that some of them "aren't worth putting back together"). It will also feature a brand-new 5.1 mix supervised by Lynch and his sound engineer Dean Hurley.

As explained on the Blue Velvet special edition DVD released in 2002, the original cut of the film as assembled by Lynch had a running length of around four movies. However, his contract with producer Dino De Laurentiis obligated Lynch to deliver a two-hour movie so he had to perform extensive cuts, deleting whole scenes and subplots.

During the interview, Lynch said that he had been seeking out all that deleted material, "because some of these scenes on their own would be beautiful to see again." However, he found out that De Laurentiis's company had been sold to other companies and neither the producer (who passed away in November 2010) nor anybody else knew where the unused and deleted footage was. So it is a stroke of luck that such a treasure trove has been unearthed.

At the moment, Blue Velvet is still unannounced on Blu-ray in the US; it is coming out in France on February 16.

Originally Posted by riotinmyskull (Post 10605256)

holy. fucking. shit.

Originally Posted by Suprmallet (Post 10605935)

Good god, the original cut was how long? I think we may discover that Lynch always needed a good editor to keep him in check.