MGM Catalog Releases (2011-2013)
12-22-10 | 01:13 PM
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Seems a lot more likely to me they'd be holding it to release with the Coens' True Grit. 
12-22-10 | 03:10 PM
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12-23-10 | 06:29 PM
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12-23-10 | 06:40 PM
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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'.
12-23-10 | 06:53 PM
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I did ask myself that question. My conclusion was that studios often like to tie movies together from such a marketing perspective and that it seemed a likely choice as a result of that. Disney recently released The Sorcerer's Apprentice the same day as the Fantasia/Fantasia 2000 release. There is little doubt in my mind they did that in order to try and entice some individuals into blind buying that Nicolas Cage flop.
12-23-10 | 09:44 PM
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01-11-11 | 05:09 PM
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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.
01-11-11 | 11:30 PM
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How much do you want to bet that MGM will stick the Midnight Cowboy commentary track (and possibly the extras as well) on a DVD?
01-11-11 | 11:32 PM
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Re: MGM Catalog Releases (Early 2011): Thelma & Louise, Blue Velvet, Rain Man, and mo
I'm in for Blue Velvet, Dead Man Walking, Platoon & Midnight Cowboy - I'll order the UK if the US ones suck.
01-24-11 | 05:41 AM
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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.
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.
01-24-11 | 06:11 AM
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Picked up Four Weddings over the weekend and I'm psyched for Thelma & Louise and Last Tango.
01-24-11 | 10:26 AM
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Great news on Blue Velvet, it sounds like the deleted footage is quite substantial.
01-24-11 | 10:47 AM
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01-24-11 | 11:20 AM
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It would be funny if they only found/used like 15 minutes of deleted stuff, given the original running length before cuts. Hopefully what they found is all or at least almost all of it, and it's in decent enough condition to be presented to us in HD.
01-24-11 | 01:54 PM
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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.
01-24-11 | 03:05 PM
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It's always been part of Lynch's process to overshoot his movies and then weed them down to the essential parts in editing. (At least, until Inland Empire, for which he just threw everything in without any structure or coherency.) His first cut of Wild at Heart was also 4 hours long. A good chunk of the deleted footage from that one can be found on a supplement disc in the "Lime Green Set" DVD box.
01-24-11 | 03:20 PM
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also a few snippets of footage was cut from 'Blue Velvet' to avoid an X-rating.
02-04-11 | 05:46 PM
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Here are the extras for Rain Man:
● Audio Commentary by Director Barry Levinson
● Audio Commentary by Writer Barry Morrow
● Audio Commentary by Writer Ronald Bass
● “The Journey of Rain Man” – A Retrospective Documentary
● “Lifting the Fog: A Look at the Mysteries of Autism”
● Deleted Scenes
● Original Theatrical Trailer
● Audio Commentary by Director Barry Levinson
● Audio Commentary by Writer Barry Morrow
● Audio Commentary by Writer Ronald Bass
● “The Journey of Rain Man” – A Retrospective Documentary
● “Lifting the Fog: A Look at the Mysteries of Autism”
● Deleted Scenes
● Original Theatrical Trailer
03-14-11 | 02:39 PM
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From Blu-ray.com--
I'm in for The Horse Soldiers and Some Like it Hot. For the rest I'm satisfied with my DVD editions.
According to information from retail giant Walmart, 20th Century Fox will follow up its Blu-ray onslaught with a wave of titles from the MGM catalog, including Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) for May 10 and The Hustler (50th Anniversary) (Robert Rossen, 1961) for May 17. Both will carry an MSRP of $34.99 and thus are likely to be presented in special-edition DigiBooks.
The studio will also visit the western, with The Horse Soldiers (John Ford, 1959) on May 10 and The Comancheros (50th Anniversary) (Michael Curtiz, 1961) a week later, and the war genre, with Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986) hitting BD also on May 17, and Tigerland (Joel Schumacher, 2000) on May 24.
And there's more: fans of the Coen brothers will hit the roof when they know that not only is Miller's Crossing coming up, but also is Raising Arizona.
The studio will also visit the western, with The Horse Soldiers (John Ford, 1959) on May 10 and The Comancheros (50th Anniversary) (Michael Curtiz, 1961) a week later, and the war genre, with Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986) hitting BD also on May 17, and Tigerland (Joel Schumacher, 2000) on May 24.
And there's more: fans of the Coen brothers will hit the roof when they know that not only is Miller's Crossing coming up, but also is Raising Arizona.
03-14-11 | 03:33 PM
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Some like it Hot is great news. I was just wondering when we were going to get that the other day. I am in for all upgrades for Marilyn movies.
In for Platoon as well.
In for Platoon as well.