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80% of a miracle is still a miracle in my book. :)

When has Universal sublicensed to Mill Creek?

Even more than the picture quality, I was greatly impressed with Universal's efforts to clean up the audio on films like All Quiet On the Western Front and Dracula. Really made a huge difference in presentation to not have the old static/hiss, especially on Dracula. All of the Paramount Marx...

Spartacus is a far easier film for Universal to market themselves, though.

True. But the cost of putting them out on BD after the restoration/remastering costs have already been spent is minimal. At that point it's a way to recoup the investment to some degree.

Also - re: My Man Godfrey and Shanghai Express. I wonder if these would be handed over to Criterion for the potential BD releases since they did so on DVD?

Excellent news. I was very impressed with their work on Dracula, especially with the audio. A lot of the problems with the Marx Bros films have been the poor quality of the soundtracks, so I'm hoping for good results here.