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Yeah and going by the number of times it's been in financial trouble i would say not very good accountants at that.

I don't know, those iPhones are getting bigger. ;)

From your description above it sounds like a high quality release, who needs proper restoration getting in the way.* :D *Yep this is sarcasm aimed squarely at MGM executives. There is a sure fire way to please everybody but they won't do it.

If it was only a few hundred thousand dollars, i believe Mr Harris stated $1.5m dollars. I would add that if the blu ray release of the roadshow version doesn't look that good then it's up to the reviewers all over the net and in the daily rags and monthly magazines to call them out and tell...

I have never heard of it, had to look it up, apparently there was also a British version of it.

Stupid question on my part but what is WML short for. ?

I agree with your first point but as far as i am aware cinema is all digital now, nowhere to show a 70mm film print to a capacity crowd so it would be 4K digital, the preservation would allow for future 8K for large format and 8K digital shot films are coming. I believe Mr Harris was impressed...

Technology always improves. Studio's think short term these days and should be thinking long term. If they do the restoration work on the 70mm elements they are preserved so this means when 8K projection* hits cinemas, and trust me it will come, they can have a pristine 8K digital version, i...

I see that Cheryl got voted back in as President of AMPAS, one of their goals is preservation, i guess they have no influence with MGM to preserve the 70mm roadshow edition of The Alamo but might i suggest a new Oscar category, the film studio that has done the most work to preserve their films...

I have a feeling most of us are going to end up disappointed by whatever comes out.

It's not so much that, i just have to wonder whether they always use the best that is available to them. I know it was discussed in The Quiet Man thread and how they could have asked for access to the 4K restoration that was done, if restoration is the right word here, i forget who did that, i...

Coming out from Olive later in the year, i hope they do a better job on it than The Quiet Man and a few of their other releases.

It's probably just as well that Warner own most of their original classic library, shame the asking price for buying MGM is too high or i would have got my credit card out and bought them last week and then authorised a restoration of The Alamo.

I'll take my glasses off, you can point me in the direction of the screen, then put a VHS copy on, it'll still look good to me. :D I hope you checked that laserdisc for rot, come to think of it i should unpack some of my old VHS tapes from the eighties and early nineties and check if they...

Go cold turkey and get your John Wayne fix by picking up Chisum and The Sands Of Iwo Jima instead.

I don't have Mad World so i'm not sure what to expect. I just don't think i want to give MGM my money for an inferior product when they could save the film and have a superior product and archive the 70mm for future generations, of course it's maybe got to the point where it cannot be saved...

I misread the earlier posts then, that's not good at all, they are not getting my money for whatever they do put out.

If it isn't then i wouldn't buy it, i mean it's a dvd from an old master right. ? I assume we are talking about a new film scan from 35mm elements of the roadshow version of The Alamo that will produce a very good looking blu ray.

No, it will be from 35mm elements, it will be good for a blu ray. They just won't spend the money needed to save the 70mm elements for future generations. ( EDIT: see Mr Harris post below, not good news )

To also quote Bartholomew J Simpson..... "You're Damned if you do and you're damned if you don't"

Give them some time to work on it first, they don't have the genie from Aladdin available so they can't just click their fingers and it's done, i also doubt we'll get that genie out of hiding so he'll be no help, he just disappeared after seeing what Disney was doing to it's animated classics...

It's John Wayne, it would sell, even today Mr Wayne is popular and a well known name, i'd buy it even though it's not my favourite Wayne film by a long shot, i have never seen the roadshow version so for that reason alone i would buy it. It's a shame that it seems the actual restoration of the...

Mr Harris works in mysterious ways, it could be code for something else. ;)

I would bet there are a lot of things going on behind the scenes that we are not privy to and i wouldn't give up hope yet.

Ryan's Daughter deserves all the frills, a new 8K film scan should be the basis for this but i would settle for at least a 4K scan, it's David Lean so i have hope it might get first class treatment, i think the others are more problematic from a financial perspective.

John Landis directed Oscar for sure but hey he also directed An American Werewolf in London and Trading Places. I wish people wouldn't get personal when they disagree with another person's point of view, no need to use words like scum, just argue your point and say what you want to say without...

Yeah...too many. I'm not giving information to yet another one, Ron Epstein said they studio's read the forum so to MGM i say this, i support the restoration of The Alamo, do it now before it's too late to be saved, i will never again give out all my personal information online, it is not a...

I went over to sign it but it wants my street address, no thanks, i find i get so much junk delivered to my home, never mind the email junk spam i get, thus i will not sign something which asks for my home address, i am prepared to give my name, my email, even the name of the town i live in but...

I don't think all films cost millions, i have read a quote of about $20,000 for a top rate 4K film scan, it's the additional work afterwards that might require a lot of time and money, i have read anywhere between $250,000 to $1.5m for restoration costs, i do mean restoration and not just...

Could be any of the studio's since most of them are now letting their classics out to smaller labels and Warner hasn't put much out since last year, i don't think Disney have made much of an effort at all for live action classic titles, same goes for Paramount.