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    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    That's not quite correct. It was indeed originally published as simply THE GRACIE MURDER CASE, but when Paramount bought the film rights, they added "Allen" to make sure audiences knew who it was about. The publisher then changed the title to make it a movie tie-in.
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    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    Wow, this is not something I would ever have put on my bingo card. You have the thanks of a grateful nation.
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    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    Actually more like two weeks. LB opened May 25, 1994; SPEED opened 16 days later on June 10.
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    Warner Archive Announcements Thread

    Something that most people here seem to forget or are unaware of: In the old days, release prints were struck from the camera negative. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that the elements for a big hit would ipso facto be in far worse shape than that of a then-minor silent that opened...
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    Your thoughts on Kino-Lorber Blu-rays

    The "Crime Club" series' rights are on the murky side. Believe me, nobody wants to see the three Bill Crane features (based on Jonathan Latimer's lovable drunk P.I.) more than I do.
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    Cocktail Hour (1933) coming from Sony - 3/19/24

    Don't hold your breath for THE MENACE. Columbia lost the rights years ago back to the Wallace estate. As for the others: They had zero interest in putting stuff like this out even 15 years ago when I was there. I tried to set up a sub-license deal with VCI and they shot that down as well. And...
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    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    Is the Stanley Kramer Production Featurette ported over from the Olive release? Because I did that! 🤠
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    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    Please note that this is not a solo commentary; I'm joined by historian Darlene Ramirez. Hopefully this will be fixed quickly.
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    Warner Archive Announcements Thread

    Oh, f'gawdsake, when I said "new" I clearly meant titles not previously released on disc! I may be ignorant, but at least I understand the meaning of words when I read them.
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    Your thoughts on Kino-Lorber Blu-rays

    I'm just an old country doctor, but I seem to recall KL has released a handful of Columbia titles lately.
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    Warner Archive Announcements Thread

    I vote, of course, for SH! THE OCTOPUS.
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    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    We showed this at Cinecon this past September with both Nancy Olson and Peggy Webber Q&As. Astounding that a 72-year-old movie still has two of its adult cast members alive.
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    Colt .45 - The Complete Series - Coming to Blu-Ray on March 12th '24 (Warner Archive)

    77SS and HAWAIIAN EYE still air Sundays (albeit cut for time) on MeTV+.
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    Colt .45 - The Complete Series - Coming to Blu-Ray on March 12th '24 (Warner Archive)

    George has repeatedly said that 77SS and its brethren will never be released because of the staggering costs in clearing the music. (This is also why MURPHY BROWN never got past its first season.) However, I think THE ALASKANS is possible, because like the westerns, it takes place in the 19th...
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    A24 Stop Making Sense Restoration 4K UHD

    But do we know if it'll offer both cuts or merely the theatrical one with the other three numbers as "bonus" material?
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    Your thoughts on Kino-Lorber Blu-rays

    Am I correct in assuming, then, that had those tracks survived you would have used them in the first place?
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    Warner Archive Announcements Thread

    Well, given that WA has barely released anything "new" in years, I'm thrilled that they're giving us "Colt .45" and I'm going to buy it! So there. 🤠
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    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    It's been eight months since this announcement. Any update?
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    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    Is LADY AND THE MONSTER the full 86-minute version or the more common 58-minute reissue?
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Road to Hong Kong – in Blu-ray

    One of my all-time favorites is in BOWERY BATTALION. The film ends with the Bowery Boys being locked in the brig, and their sergeant (Donald MacBride) turns to the camera and snarks, "This is the greatest finish of any picture I've ever seen."
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Road to Hong Kong – in Blu-ray

    Oh, for everyone! Groucho, Oliver Hardy, W.C. Fields, George Burns, Olsen and Johnson, the Bowery Boys, Bugs Bunny, ad infinitum. I love doing it because it invites the audience to become co-conspirators in the zaniness.
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Road to Hong Kong – in Blu-ray

    Thank you, kind sir. Interesting anecdote: While rewatching it for the first time in eons of your Earth years to prepare, I was struck by how much it resembled the new movie I just shot this year, ROCK AND DORIS (try to) WRITE A MOVIE. The gag cameos, the pop culture references, the constant...
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    Blu-ray Review Unman, Wittering and Zigo (Limited Edition) – Blu-ray Review

    The film was produced by Gareth Wigan, who was Vice Chairman of Sony when I met him shortly after starting to work there. He was shocked that I'd even heard of the film and even more so when I told him I had a 16mm print of it. (The guy who sold it to me had never heard of it--he'd acquired it...
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    Kino-Lorber Insider Announcement Thread (Read Guidelines Post #3)

    She was a Paramount contract star; Astaire was a loan-out from MGM. I'm sure he had no problem being second.
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    One From the Heart: Reprise 4K UHD

    The original release was wonderful. The re-edit was terrible. I don't know if this third cut will be any better, but I'll be buying it for the original on disc 2.
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    Blu-ray Review A Haunting in Venice Blu-ray Review

    The intimate nature of the film, including what looked like GoPro closeups of Branagh as he was going down the stairwell, pretty much demanded smaller, lighter cameras. It looked swell.
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