Since some found my "Catch up titles" thread helpful, and since I'm a bit under the weather and have some time to spare, I thought another helpful thread would be to analyze the catalog releases by each of the significant studios.
I'm gonna split the lists by studio, and within each studio there will be two types of catalog listings: films that are between 11-20 years old (1989-1998), and films that are 21+ years old (-1988). My reasoning is that there seems to be a certain "break" between the types of catalog titles that get released before and after the 20 year barrier. As for the catalog titles of films less than ten years old, there's simply so many that there's no real need to track them and make comparisons.
The list will include titles already released and those officially announced with a street date.
But first, before the compiled lists, the raw numbers (as of 1/7/09).
Studio - Total # of releases - # of releases of 21+ years old catalog films - % of catalog films that are 21+ years old
Disney - 10 - 3 - 30%
Fox - 43 - 28 - 65%
Image - 4 - 4 - 100%
Lionsgate - 15 - 5 - 33%
MGM - 20 - 16 - 80%
MPI - 4 - 3 - 75%
Paramount/DreamWorks - 23 - 10 - 43%
Sony - 38 - 13 - 34%
Starz - 6 - 5 - 83%
Universal - 3 - 1 - 33%
Warner/New Line - 90 - 59 - 66%
As one can see, of the major studios, Fox and Warner are especially good about releasing true older catalog titles, with 65% and 66% being 21+ years old. Warner is especially noteworthy because they have released twice as many catalog titles as Fox, the second most prolific studio.
Sony releases a decent amount, but only 34% of the 21+ years titles. Universal still needs to get the ball rolling, while Disney, MGM and Paramount/DreamWorks simply need to release more in general, though MGM has an exceptionally high percentage in the 21+ years category.
The smaller distributors - Image, Lionsgate, MPI, and Starz - are doing rather well considering their small catalog libraries.
Now for the full list by title:
Disney (10)
-1988 (3)
Pinocchio (3/10/09)
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (10/6/09)
1989-1998 (7)
Con Air
Crimson Tide
Enemy of the State
G.I. Jane
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Nixon
Pretty Woman (2/10/09)
The Rock
Fox (43)
-1988 (28)
Batman: The Movie
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Commando
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Damien: Omen II
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Die Hard
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The Fly
The French Connection (1/20/09)
French Connection II (2/24/09)
Hoosiers
Jewel of the Nile
The Longest Day
The Omen
Omen III: The Final Conflict
Patton
Planet of the Apes
Predator
The Robe (3/17/09)
Romancing the Stone
The Sand Pebbles
South Pacific (3/31/09)
Vanishing Point (2/24/09)
Wall Street
Young Frankenstein
1989-1998 (15)
Broken Arrow
Chain Reaction
Courage Under Fire
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Edward Scissorhands
Home Alone
Independence Day
Jingle All the Way
Kingpin (3/3/09)
Mrs. Doubtfire
Point Break
Rising Sun
Speed
The X-Files: Fight the Future
Image (4)
-1988 (4)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2/3/09)
Breaker Morant
Caligula
Short Circuit
Lionsgate (15)
-1988 (5)
Dirty Dancing
First Blood
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo III
Young Guns
1989-1998 (10)
Basic Instinct
Belly
Black Mask
The Doors
King of New York
Reservoir Dogs
Stargate
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Total Recall
Universal Soldier
MGM (20)
-1988 (16)
The Amityville Horror
Battle of Britain
A Bridge Too Far
Carrie
Dr. No
For Your Eyes Only
From Russia with Love
The Last Waltz
Live and Let Die
The Pink Panther (1/27/09)
Raging Bull (2/10/09)
RoboCop
Rocky
The Terminator
This is Spinal Tap (3/17/09)
Thunderball
1989-1998 (4)
Ronin (2/24/09)
The Silence of the Lambs (3/3/09)
Species
The Usual Suspects
MPI (4)
-1988 (3)
Becket
Faces of Death
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1989-1998 (1)
Baraka
Paramount/DreamWorks (23)
-1988 (10)
Coming to America
Friday the 13th (2/3/09)
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Reds
Top Gun
Trading Places
U2: Rattle and Hum
The Untouchables
The Warriors
1989-1998 (13)
Black Rain
Clear and Present Danger
Days of Thunder
Event Horizon
Face/Off
Ghost
The Godfather Part III
The Hunt for Red October
Mission: Impossible
Patriot Games
Primal Fear (3/10/09)
Tommy Boy
The Truman Show
Sony (38)
-1988 (13)
20 Million Miles to Earth
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Gandhi (2/17/09)
Ghostbusters (6/16/09)
In Cold Blood (2/17/09)
It Came from Beneath the Sea
Kramer vs. Kramer (2/17/09)
Monty Python's Life of Brian
A Passage to India
The Professionals
1989-1998 (25)
The Big Hit
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Can't Hardly Wait
The Devil's Own
Donnie Brasco
La Femme Nikita
A Few Good Men
The Fifth Element
Flatliners
Gattaca
Groundhog Day (1/27/09)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Immortal Beloved
In the Line of Fire
Jerry Maguire
Men in Black
The Replacement Killers
Revenge
Rudy
Run Lola Run
Seven Years in Tibet
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Starship Troopers
Urban Legend
Wildthings
Starz (6)
-1988 (5)
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Evil Dead II
Halloween
Hellraiser (4/28/09)
1989-1998 (1)
Heathers
Universal (3)
-1988 (1)
The Thing
1989-1998 (2)
Casino
Street Fighter (2/10/09)
Warner/New Line (90)
-1988 (59)
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: The Year We Make Contact (4/7/09)
Above the Law (4/7/09)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Amadeus (2/10/09)
An American in Paris (3/31/09)
Battle of the Bulge
Beetlejuice
Being There (2/3/09)
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Body Heat
Bonnie and Clyde
Bullitt
Casablanca
A Christmas Story
A Clockwork Orange
Cool Hand Luke
The Cowboys
The Dead Pool
Deliverance
The Dirty Dozen
Dirty Harry
Dog Day Afternoon
The Enforcer
Enter the Dragon
Every Which Way But Loose
Full Metal Jacket
The Gauntlet
The Getaway
Gigi (3/31/09)
GoodFellas
How the West Was Won
Interview with the Vampire
Jailhouse Rock
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same
Lethal Weapon
The Lost Boys
Magnum Force
The Omega Man
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pale Rider
Poltergeist
Purple Rain
Quo Vadis (3/17/09)
Rio Bravo
Risky Business
The Road Warrior
The Searchers
The Shining
Sudden Impact
Superman: The Movie
Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut
That's Entertainment
That's Entertainment Part 2
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Viva Las Vegas
The Wild Bunch
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music (7/28/09)
1989-1998 (31)
American History X (4/7/09)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Batman (3/10/09)
Batman and Robin (3/10/09)
Batman Forever (3/10/09)
Batman Returns (3/10/09)
Dark City
Dumb and Dumber
Eraser
Falling Down (5/26/09)
The Fugitive
JFK
L.A. Confidential
Lethal Weapon 2
The Mask
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Natural Born Killers
Out for Justice
Outbreak
The Pelican Brief (2/10/09)
Point of No Return (4/7/09)
The Shawshank Redemption
Tango & Cash (4/7/09)
That's Entertainment III
A Time to Kill (2/10/09)
Twister
Under Seige
Under Seige II: Dark Territory
Unforgiven
The Wedding Singer (4/7/09)
Wyatt Earp
I'm gonna split the lists by studio, and within each studio there will be two types of catalog listings: films that are between 11-20 years old (1989-1998), and films that are 21+ years old (-1988). My reasoning is that there seems to be a certain "break" between the types of catalog titles that get released before and after the 20 year barrier. As for the catalog titles of films less than ten years old, there's simply so many that there's no real need to track them and make comparisons.
The list will include titles already released and those officially announced with a street date.
But first, before the compiled lists, the raw numbers (as of 1/7/09).
Studio - Total # of releases - # of releases of 21+ years old catalog films - % of catalog films that are 21+ years old
Disney - 10 - 3 - 30%
Fox - 43 - 28 - 65%
Image - 4 - 4 - 100%
Lionsgate - 15 - 5 - 33%
MGM - 20 - 16 - 80%
MPI - 4 - 3 - 75%
Paramount/DreamWorks - 23 - 10 - 43%
Sony - 38 - 13 - 34%
Starz - 6 - 5 - 83%
Universal - 3 - 1 - 33%
Warner/New Line - 90 - 59 - 66%
As one can see, of the major studios, Fox and Warner are especially good about releasing true older catalog titles, with 65% and 66% being 21+ years old. Warner is especially noteworthy because they have released twice as many catalog titles as Fox, the second most prolific studio.
Sony releases a decent amount, but only 34% of the 21+ years titles. Universal still needs to get the ball rolling, while Disney, MGM and Paramount/DreamWorks simply need to release more in general, though MGM has an exceptionally high percentage in the 21+ years category.
The smaller distributors - Image, Lionsgate, MPI, and Starz - are doing rather well considering their small catalog libraries.
Now for the full list by title:
Disney (10)
-1988 (3)
Pinocchio (3/10/09)
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (10/6/09)
1989-1998 (7)
Con Air
Crimson Tide
Enemy of the State
G.I. Jane
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Nixon
Pretty Woman (2/10/09)
The Rock
Fox (43)
-1988 (28)
Batman: The Movie
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Commando
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
Damien: Omen II
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Die Hard
Escape from the Planet of the Apes
The Fly
The French Connection (1/20/09)
French Connection II (2/24/09)
Hoosiers
Jewel of the Nile
The Longest Day
The Omen
Omen III: The Final Conflict
Patton
Planet of the Apes
Predator
The Robe (3/17/09)
Romancing the Stone
The Sand Pebbles
South Pacific (3/31/09)
Vanishing Point (2/24/09)
Wall Street
Young Frankenstein
1989-1998 (15)
Broken Arrow
Chain Reaction
Courage Under Fire
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Edward Scissorhands
Home Alone
Independence Day
Jingle All the Way
Kingpin (3/3/09)
Mrs. Doubtfire
Point Break
Rising Sun
Speed
The X-Files: Fight the Future
Image (4)
-1988 (4)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2/3/09)
Breaker Morant
Caligula
Short Circuit
Lionsgate (15)
-1988 (5)
Dirty Dancing
First Blood
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rambo III
Young Guns
1989-1998 (10)
Basic Instinct
Belly
Black Mask
The Doors
King of New York
Reservoir Dogs
Stargate
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Total Recall
Universal Soldier
MGM (20)
-1988 (16)
The Amityville Horror
Battle of Britain
A Bridge Too Far
Carrie
Dr. No
For Your Eyes Only
From Russia with Love
The Last Waltz
Live and Let Die
The Pink Panther (1/27/09)
Raging Bull (2/10/09)
RoboCop
Rocky
The Terminator
This is Spinal Tap (3/17/09)
Thunderball
1989-1998 (4)
Ronin (2/24/09)
The Silence of the Lambs (3/3/09)
Species
The Usual Suspects
MPI (4)
-1988 (3)
Becket
Faces of Death
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1989-1998 (1)
Baraka
Paramount/DreamWorks (23)
-1988 (10)
Coming to America
Friday the 13th (2/3/09)
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Reds
Top Gun
Trading Places
U2: Rattle and Hum
The Untouchables
The Warriors
1989-1998 (13)
Black Rain
Clear and Present Danger
Days of Thunder
Event Horizon
Face/Off
Ghost
The Godfather Part III
The Hunt for Red October
Mission: Impossible
Patriot Games
Primal Fear (3/10/09)
Tommy Boy
The Truman Show
Sony (38)
-1988 (13)
20 Million Miles to Earth
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
Gandhi (2/17/09)
Ghostbusters (6/16/09)
In Cold Blood (2/17/09)
It Came from Beneath the Sea
Kramer vs. Kramer (2/17/09)
Monty Python's Life of Brian
A Passage to India
The Professionals
1989-1998 (25)
The Big Hit
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Can't Hardly Wait
The Devil's Own
Donnie Brasco
La Femme Nikita
A Few Good Men
The Fifth Element
Flatliners
Gattaca
Groundhog Day (1/27/09)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Immortal Beloved
In the Line of Fire
Jerry Maguire
Men in Black
The Replacement Killers
Revenge
Rudy
Run Lola Run
Seven Years in Tibet
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Starship Troopers
Urban Legend
Wildthings
Starz (6)
-1988 (5)
Dawn of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Evil Dead II
Halloween
Hellraiser (4/28/09)
1989-1998 (1)
Heathers
Universal (3)
-1988 (1)
The Thing
1989-1998 (2)
Casino
Street Fighter (2/10/09)
Warner/New Line (90)
-1988 (59)
2001: A Space Odyssey
2010: The Year We Make Contact (4/7/09)
Above the Law (4/7/09)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Amadeus (2/10/09)
An American in Paris (3/31/09)
Battle of the Bulge
Beetlejuice
Being There (2/3/09)
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Body Heat
Bonnie and Clyde
Bullitt
Casablanca
A Christmas Story
A Clockwork Orange
Cool Hand Luke
The Cowboys
The Dead Pool
Deliverance
The Dirty Dozen
Dirty Harry
Dog Day Afternoon
The Enforcer
Enter the Dragon
Every Which Way But Loose
Full Metal Jacket
The Gauntlet
The Getaway
Gigi (3/31/09)
GoodFellas
How the West Was Won
Interview with the Vampire
Jailhouse Rock
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same
Lethal Weapon
The Lost Boys
Magnum Force
The Omega Man
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pale Rider
Poltergeist
Purple Rain
Quo Vadis (3/17/09)
Rio Bravo
Risky Business
The Road Warrior
The Searchers
The Shining
Sudden Impact
Superman: The Movie
Superman II - The Richard Donner Cut
That's Entertainment
That's Entertainment Part 2
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Viva Las Vegas
The Wild Bunch
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music (7/28/09)
1989-1998 (31)
American History X (4/7/09)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Batman (3/10/09)
Batman and Robin (3/10/09)
Batman Forever (3/10/09)
Batman Returns (3/10/09)
Dark City
Dumb and Dumber
Eraser
Falling Down (5/26/09)
The Fugitive
JFK
L.A. Confidential
Lethal Weapon 2
The Mask
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Natural Born Killers
Out for Justice
Outbreak
The Pelican Brief (2/10/09)
Point of No Return (4/7/09)
The Shawshank Redemption
Tango & Cash (4/7/09)
That's Entertainment III
A Time to Kill (2/10/09)
Twister
Under Seige
Under Seige II: Dark Territory
Unforgiven
The Wedding Singer (4/7/09)
Wyatt Earp
