Spottedfeather

The 10th Anniversary Director's cut of the first movie has a commentary with the director and one of the producers.

RocShemp

If you mean this release, it does indeed have the commentary. It was the same commentary that was on the DVD. What it doesn't have is the documentary found on the UK steelbook.

Spottedfeather

That release does NOT have the commentary from the 10th Anniversary Director's cut. The Anniversary commentary has the director, Russell Mulcahey and producers Peter Davis and William Panzer. The commentary on the blu-ray is newer solo commentary from just the director.

RocShemp

I decided to check my copy of the BD and it turns out you are right. No big loss for me since I have the older commentary on the DVD. However, it's a bit odd that it wasn't ported over. I guess Republic Pictures (do they still exist?) must own the rights to the old commentary. Although, didn't the DVD also bear a new Studio Canal logo as did the Immortal Edition DVD? Lemme check.

RocShemp

It seems Anchor Bay released the Immortal Edition whereas Lionsgate released the BD.

Interestingly enough, the first DVD release by Republic Pictures begins with the original Lumiere logo,

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although the audio of the logo sequence was replaced with that of the Republic pictures logo.

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You could still hear the original logo audio by listening to the Mulchahy-Davis-Panzer commentary on the original DVD release by Republic Pictures. However, that portion of the audio commentary audio was removed from the same commentary when ported over to Anchor Bay's Immortal Edition.

The Immortal Edition replaced both with a Studio Canal logo.

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The American BD has a brand new Studio Canal logo

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followed by an old school Cannon Films logo.

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The rights for the first movie have been all over the place it seems.

Josh Z

Republic Pictures was acquired by Viacom. The Republic catalog is now controlled by Paramount, which has little interest in doing anything with it and often licenses Republic titles out to Olive Films. However, if the rights to Highlander the movie have moved to Studio Canal, it seems very unlikely that Paramount would ever choose to do anything with the audio commentary track on its own.

RocShemp

Which begs the question of how did Anchor Bay get a hold of the group commentary for their DVD release?