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MoonlitKnight
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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#801 Post by MoonlitKnight » Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:37 pm

^^Agreed. That and "Bugsy Malone" are the Paramount titles I've been waiting on the longest.

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#802 Post by fdm » Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:02 am

Nobody's mentioned Play It Again, Sam, so I will.

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#803 Post by Zot! » Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:34 am

MoonlitKnight wrote:^^Agreed. That and "Bugsy Malone" are the Paramount titles I've been waiting on the longest.
There is a UK blu of Bugsy, not criterion, sure, but lovely to enjoy this fun movie.

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#804 Post by beamish13 » Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:19 am

Robert Benton's Bad Company was mentioned, so I'll toss in his brilliant Nobody's Fool, too.

The Terrence Malick-scripted Deadhead Miles would be phenomenal. It seems like something Olive would poach, but they've never mentioned it on social media.

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#805 Post by MoonlitKnight » Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:25 am

Zot! wrote:
MoonlitKnight wrote:^^Agreed. That and "Bugsy Malone" are the Paramount titles I've been waiting on the longest.
There is a UK blu of Bugsy, not criterion, sure, but lovely to enjoy this fun movie.
... which does me no good here in the States without a region-free player (and no spare funds to get one anytime soon). :-#

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#806 Post by PfR73 » Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:43 pm

Here's some I haven't seen mentioned that I'd be interested in Criterion releasing

The Accused
Bang The Drum Slowly
Black Sunday
Children Of A Lesser God
Citizen's Band
Dead Again
The Duellists (the Shout Factory Blu-Ray is Out Of Print)
Heaven Can Wait
Murder On The Orient Express
Popeye
Real Life
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
The Warriors (a release that includes the original cut)

Paramount also has a whole bunch of other films that definitely wouldn't be right for Criterion, but I wish would get a Blu-Ray release. I wish Paramount would find another strong licensing partner since Olive also hasn't been putting them out.

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#807 Post by PfR73 » Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:43 pm

MoonlitKnight wrote:
Zot! wrote:
MoonlitKnight wrote:^^Agreed. That and "Bugsy Malone" are the Paramount titles I've been waiting on the longest.
There is a UK blu of Bugsy, not criterion, sure, but lovely to enjoy this fun movie.
... which does me no good here in the States without a region-free player (and no spare funds to get one anytime soon). :-#
Also, that release only features a Dolby Digital audio track, so I'd like to see someone release it with a lossless track.

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#808 Post by Noiradelic » Tue Dec 12, 2017 8:30 pm

PfR73 wrote:I wish Paramount would find another strong licensing partner since Olive also hasn't been putting them out.
Don't you think if Olive could license the most popular Paramount movies of the last 30-40 years that aren't available on Blu-ray, they'd do so? The issue's obviously Paramount, not the licensees.
FrauBlucher wrote:He said this [Bristol-Myers Squibb] deal makes it hard to deal with Paramount because they ask a lot for the licensing rights.

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#809 Post by PfR73 » Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:29 pm

Noiradelic wrote:
PfR73 wrote:I wish Paramount would find another strong licensing partner since Olive also hasn't been putting them out.
Don't you think if Olive could license the most popular Paramount movies of the last 30-40 years that aren't available on Blu-ray, they'd do so? The issue's obviously Paramount, not the licensees.
Oh, I wasn't really intending that as a slight against Olive. What I meant was that I wished Paramount would either find a partner they were willing to license the films to, or a partner who might be a better fit for the films I was thinking of (Good Burger, Orange County, & Rat Race aren't necessarily the type of films I imagine Olive releasing).

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#810 Post by Noiradelic » Thu Dec 14, 2017 6:27 am

Olive's put out some lowbrow 80s and 90s movies, so I could actually see them releasing Good Burger, though it'd be a slightly left field move for them. Paramount may be more reluctant to part with more recent films even if they don't intend to to release them themselves in the near future.

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#811 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:01 pm

With Shout releasing a handful of Paramount titles, hopefully that means they have opened their vault. Could that mean A Place in the Sun, Atlantic City and The Elephant Man finally get US bluray releases. Fingers crossed

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#812 Post by kcota17 » Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:02 pm

Hoping for Paper Moon and Roman Holiday as well

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#813 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:15 pm

Criterion has a long history of Paramount licenses. The big deal about the Shout deal is they’re only the second US label to be granted permission to films already released on disc by Paramount (Criterion being the first)

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Re: Criterion Discussion and Random Speculation Volume 7

#814 Post by Cremildo » Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:53 pm

A Criterion release of Hud would be beautiful.

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#815 Post by swo17 » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:00 pm

Jerry. Lewis. Box.

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#816 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:01 pm

swo17 wrote:
Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:00 pm
Jerry. Lewis. Box.
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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#817 Post by swo17 » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:08 pm

Ha! I actually just watched a movie with Jerry Lewis boxing last night, but it wasn't this

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#818 Post by beamish14 » Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:17 pm

I'd be ecstatic to see never-on-home video titles like Gordon Parks' Leadbelly

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#819 Post by The Elegant Dandy Fop » Mon Jul 22, 2019 8:17 pm

What ever happened to Deep End? That was rumored to be coming from Criterion ten years ago, and it’s never been released. It feels over due for rediscovery and in alignment with cinema taste’s today.

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#820 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jul 22, 2019 8:33 pm

The BFI is Region-free, isn’t it?

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#821 Post by cdnchris » Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:48 pm

It is region free

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#822 Post by DeprongMori » Mon Jul 22, 2019 10:25 pm

Just tested it under Region A. The BFI Deep End Dual Format is in fact Region Free (or at least A and B compatible.)

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#823 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue Jul 23, 2019 5:48 pm

This bears watching, as this could lead to another batch of Paramount titles coming to Criterion...

A question to Kino insider on the other forum....
Kino Insider - with Scream announcing 7 Paramount titles at the weekend (and presumably more to come), I was wondering now if you could say more about Paramount finally relenting and licencing out their higher profile titles (i.e., those which they previously released on DVD). Will Kino now try for the same kind of access, if they haven't already? Scream will cover much of the horror side of things sure, but a mammoth Kino deal including westerns, thrillers, war films, some John Wayne, action, a little more horror and much more besides is what we could really do with if the Paramount vaults are now wide open.
His answer...
Yes, they are and we've had discussions with them. They're now willing to license SOME of the "previously released on DVD" titles now.

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#824 Post by captveg » Tue Jul 23, 2019 7:58 pm

KL Insider also stated they are less likely to pick up older comedies and dramas, as those don't sell as well as genre titles (Westerns, Action, Sci-Fi, Noir), which means titles like The Miracle of Morgan's Creek would likely need to come from Criterion or maybe Shout Factory through their Shout Select line.

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Re: Criterion and Paramount

#825 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:00 pm

That’s a shame, one of the few inarguably good things KL has been doing lately is releasing studio era films that are unlikely to be upgrade material from other labels. Now they too are capitulating to an audience that only wants genre works

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