The Official Twilight Time Blu-ray Thread
04-04-13 | 10:18 PM
#726
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I don't think the audience for AGAIG is a small cult following that would know about TT and pay their $30+ prices per movie. It is a mainstream movie that should had shown up at Target and Walmart during a mother's day promotion for $9.99, and sold 10s of thousands or more.
What, exactly, is in it for the studio to do this?
04-07-13 | 12:05 AM
#728
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I'm not sure what your point is. AGAIG was huge box office hit and even won a couple oscars. I believe it would have sold many times more copies if released in retail stores at catalog pricing. Fright Night and Christine, good TT choices, but this is just preventing people from owning the movie by releasing it this way.
04-07-13 | 02:23 AM
#729
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What, exactly, is in it for the studio to do this?
04-07-13 | 03:41 AM
#730
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I'll bet all three fans of "Hudson Hawk" were extremely disappointed.
04-07-13 | 11:48 AM
#731
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"We've all made mistakes in life." - Bruce Willis on Hudson Hawk
04-07-13 | 06:20 PM
#733
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There were a slew of issues with a lot of the first two wave of Mill Creek and Sony Blu-ray releases. The Hostel and Hollow Man double features both had issues with their respective 5.1 tracks.
04-12-13 | 08:05 PM
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So TT will be releasing Philadelphia in a couple of months. It'll have special features and such. I'm too lazy to link right now, though.
04-13-13 | 12:58 PM
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04-13-13 | 03:57 PM
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04-14-13 | 09:37 AM
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Looks like Oliver! will be coming later this year:
I know it's not exactly universally loved, but it's been a favorite of mine since childhood. Certainly one of the relatively few cases where I'll be willing to shell out $35 for a film.
Originally Posted by Twilight Time
We're very happy to say this is scheduled on TT for later this year. One of our all-time favorites!
04-14-13 | 02:32 PM
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Re: The Official Twilight Time Blu-ray Thread
Looks like Oliver! will be coming later this year:I know it's not exactly universally loved, but it's been a favorite of mine since childhood. Certainly one of the relatively few cases where I'll be willing to shell out $35 for a film.
04-14-13 | 03:51 PM
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Your statement was missing some qualifiers. And if As Good As It Gets was one third the price, they easily would have sold more than three time the number they have, even without being in physical stores. I think they (and other niche companies) will recognize this and adapt accordingly. If you've got a title that 5,000 people really, really want, it makes sense to limit it to 3,000 copies and charge a premium. If you've got a title ten times that number people kind of want, make more and charge less. AGAIG is running $50 on Amazon. No casual movie fan is going to pony that up when the norm has dropped to $10 - $20. Hell, I enjoy the movie quite a bit, have a huge collection and have dropped $50 on a handful of hard to get titles, but wouldn't even consider dropping that much on AGAIG.
However if Twilight Time released the original Andromeda Strain or Colussus the Forbin Project, I would probably bite. Two of my all-time favorite sci-fis. Otherwise I'll live with DVD resolution.
04-14-13 | 04:08 PM
#741
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I wish they would get the rights to release Somewhere In Time. I would pay 50 bucks or a HD release of it.
04-14-13 | 06:34 PM
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I asked awhile ago about ANDROMEDA STRAIN... Someone on this forum said it was in the pipeline for a 2012 release, which never happened. As it's a Universal title, I do not think TT would be licensed to release it, I thought they only had titles from the Sony catalog. I would pay the $35 for it...
Yeah, THE FORBIN PROJECT would be a holy grail on Blu! We don't even have a version of it in 'scope in the US. Overseas, there is a good release on DVD, but I didn't get it because I hate the PAL speedup. I paid $49.95 for the laserdisc of FORBIN PROJECT (which *is* in its correct 2.35:1 OAR) back in the day!
Yeah, THE FORBIN PROJECT would be a holy grail on Blu! We don't even have a version of it in 'scope in the US. Overseas, there is a good release on DVD, but I didn't get it because I hate the PAL speedup. I paid $49.95 for the laserdisc of FORBIN PROJECT (which *is* in its correct 2.35:1 OAR) back in the day!
05-18-13 | 06:45 AM
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https://www.screenarchives.com/title...RD-TIMES-1975/
and also for The Only Game in Town:
http://www.screenarchives.com/title_...-IN-TOWN-1970/
05-24-13 | 05:14 PM
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05-24-13 | 06:51 PM
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The only thing that has sold out real fast so far are the horror films.
Hard Times is gonna be on TCM in the next week. I have my recorder set. I get the HD version so I'll take a look first.
Even The Fury is stil available. I thought that would sell out by now when it came out at the same time as Christine. Probably if their prices weren't like they are it would happen more often.
Hard Times is gonna be on TCM in the next week. I have my recorder set. I get the HD version so I'll take a look first.
Even The Fury is stil available. I thought that would sell out by now when it came out at the same time as Christine. Probably if their prices weren't like they are it would happen more often.
Last edited by g; 05-24-13 at 06:57 PM.