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Originally Posted by Bcolon
Never heard of The Lives of Others. Looks like it made about 6.5 million in the USA if this is the correct movie: http://imdb.com/title/tt0405094/
Also worth noting that The Lives of Others nearly tripled Layer Cake's domestic box office take, and it's on par with Running with Scissors's gross. I'd imagine I could find more examples if I kept digging. Putting out a title like this on Blu-ray is hardly unprecedented for Sony.
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Originally Posted by Adam Tyner
It was also exclusively in limited release -- 259 theaters with an extremely healthy per-screen average of $23,732. It shouldn't be painted as any sort of failure, financially or critically.
Also worth noting that The Lives of Others nearly tripled Layer Cake's domestic box office take, and it's on par with Running with Scissors's gross. I'd imagine I could find more examples if I kept digging. Putting out a title like this on Blu-ray is hardly unprecedented for Sony.
Also worth noting that The Lives of Others nearly tripled Layer Cake's domestic box office take, and it's on par with Running with Scissors's gross. I'd imagine I could find more examples if I kept digging. Putting out a title like this on Blu-ray is hardly unprecedented for Sony.
Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson, and hot soft core porn staring Denise Richards are far more of a sure thing.
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Originally Posted by Bcolon
No, but it does not sound like a movie that is going to sell a whole lot of discs or players.
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No, but it does not sound like a movie that is going to sell a whole lot of discs or players.
This is an Oscar-winning best picture that is currently #87 on the IMDb top 250. It has a whopping 95% Fresh rating over at Rotten Tomatoes. Obviously there are people out there that would enjoy it.
I think it *would* sell discs. At least to those who are looking for something other than the usual fare with big stars or shit that blows up.
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One of the "insiders" at AVS is saying that the Ghostbuster movies are being prepped for release. I still remember the excitement over the long delayed release of Ghostbusters on DVD here back in 99, I think. Then the outrage that followed when Reel.com took weeks to fulfill all of the orders with the people who preordered the earliest getting them last. Ah, the good old days...
This should be a pretty big hit for BD.
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Originally Posted by Bcolon
One of the "insiders" at AVS is saying that the Ghostbuster movies are being prepped for release. I still remember the excitement over the long delayed release of Ghostbusters on DVD here back in 99, I think. Then the outrage that followed when Reel.com took weeks to fulfill all of the orders with the people who preordered the earliest getting them last. Ah, the good old days...
This should be a pretty big hit for BD.
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Originally Posted by Skoobooz
It's Beatboy77...take it with a salt mine. The true insider at AVS, Paidgeek, said that they're looking at them...which they're doing for their entire library. I'd love to see both Ghostbusters movies on BD this year, but I doubt it.
Yeah, I know about Beatboy, but then I read this post by Paidgeek in the insiders forum:
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To paidgeek:
First, thanks for your continuing contribution to this forum.
There has been some speculation here about several possible upcoming BD releases, and I would like to ask if you can verify whether the following are in the works/scheduled for release in the near future:
Lawrence of Arabia
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (one of my all-time favorite movies)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (ditto)
Ghostbusters 1 & 2
Thanks in advance for any information you can share!
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All of these titles are in the works, but I can't comment any further on them until they are closer to their street dates.
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All of these titles are in the works, but I can't comment any further on them until they are closer to their street dates.
Originally Posted by paidgeek
All of these titles are in the works, but I can't comment any further on them until they are closer to their street dates.
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Originally Posted by Josh Z
"In the works" is industry-speak for "Yeah, we've thought about it. Maybe some day. Eventually".
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Originally Posted by Bcolon
One of the "insiders" at AVS is saying that the Ghostbuster movies are being prepped for release. I still remember the excitement over the long delayed release of Ghostbusters on DVD here back in 99, I think. Then the outrage that followed when Reel.com took weeks to fulfill all of the orders with the people who preordered the earliest getting them last. Ah, the good old days...
This should be a pretty big hit for BD.
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Sorry. Don't buy that. I believe all of these titles will be released within the year and probably by the end of 2007.
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I'm not saying this so-called "insider" is correct, but if the Ghostbuster movies' HD quality is anything like it was when I saw them via Comcast On Demand a few months ago, then they'll end up being TERRIBLY disappointing.
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I wonder who processed them, and what the compression rate was. I've seen the HD masters and while Ghostbusters needs some clean up work, Ghostbusters 2 looked pretty good. (You have to factor in the age of these flicks... They are both nearly 20 years old now...)
I worked with an attrocious 4x3 SD master for Comcast's VOD a few months back, and due to their compression limitations it created a whole special level of problems...
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I worked with an attrocious 4x3 SD master for Comcast's VOD a few months back, and due to their compression limitations it created a whole special level of problems...
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I'm not saying this so-called "insider" is correct, but if the Ghostbuster movies' HD quality is anything like it was when I saw them via Comcast On Demand a few months ago, then they'll end up being TERRIBLY disappointing.
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Originally Posted by sumdeus
I started watching "Ghostbusters II" in the HD OnDemand section and it was really not that much better, if any better, than my standard DVD upconverted through my HDA1. I agree with you that it would be disappointing.
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Originally Posted by Bcolon
Can you really compare Comcast HD with Blu Ray or HD DVD?
It could be a case of Sony providing Comcast with an older HD master, but the eventual Blu-ray release could be culled from something more recent or from a transfer that hasn't even been done yet. A random example would be Silence of the Lambs; when it first aired on HDNet Movies, it was using a much older HD master than the one used for the as-of-then most recent MGM DVD release, and it reportedly looked pretty awful.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
I think we'll see Bram Stoker's Dracula this Fall.
this release screams out for a deluxe edition. Given how much supplements were not given by Columbia/TriStar to Criterion's laserdisc of 'Close Encounters' I know there is a treasure trove of extras that could be beneficial to a new SE of 'Dracula'
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