Coming Soon From Olive Films (2 Viewers)

[Robin9]

June Releases (Olive Films) - More to come...

I love Flame Of Barbary Coast - "with the compliments of the house" - but I never did get around to buying it on DVD. I will definitely, but definitely buy this BRD.

 

[Robin9]

One Touch Of Venus is not by any normal reckoning a good film. It has two major assets. Speak Low is a brilliant song and Franz Planer's photographing of Ava Gardner shows her to be one of the all-time great screen beauties. If this BRD comes from good elements, it will be worth buying just to ogle Ava in high definition.

 

[Peter Neski]

when will we see a Betty Boop set?

 

[borisfw]

Can't wait for Showdown at Boot Hill with Bronson . Also Hanger 18 looks pretty good . Haven't seen either before .

 

[Brandon Conway]

Looking forward to what else in on the June slate.

 

[Doug Bull]

"One Touch of Venus" did get a Republic Pictures Laserdisc release.
It is a good quality disc, so hopefully the blu-ray should look great.

And yes Ava looks really gorgeous in this one.

 

[JoHud]

The two westerns seem up my alley. Despite the likelihood of being a riskier purchase, I can't turn down any of Charles Bronson's early performances.

One Touch Of Venus is not by any normal reckoning a good film. It has two major assets. Speak Low is a brilliant song and Franz Planer's photographing of Ava Gardner shows her to be one of the all-time great screen beauties. If this BRD comes from good elements, it will be worth buying just to ogle Ava in high definition.

I'm also more interested in this one due to Frank Tashlin's co-writer credit and looking for flashes of his comic sensibilities that made it on screen. Otherwise I agree that Ava Gardner is by and far the film's biggest asset, which helped cement her growing reputation at the time as a screen goddess.

 

[MLamarre]

Any update on when RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 and HOME OF THE BRAVE will be released?

 

[JoeDoakes]

What's in Hanger 18?

 

[ahollis]

Changed Mind. Not really on topic. Sorry guys.

 

[MisterLime]

June Releases (Olive Films) - More to come...

 

[TheSteig]

Im interesting in "more to come". Ive got my fingers crossed for some long time wishlists that I have had ever since Olive acquired the rights to the Paramount and Republic library

 

[FoxyMulder]

The last Highlander 2 release was atrocious ( for an HD release ) so i wonder if there is any point to Olive recycling that transfer, i doubt they spent money on a new film scan for it thus if i was Olive i'd not lower my reputation by releasing it, good to see Wake Of The Red Witch and Champion listed.

 

[revgen]

I don't believe that Olive Films has any access to the Paramount Library. Only the Republic Pictures/NTA Films library owned by Paramount. You can read this article for more info on what they can release. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Pictures

Time Warner is the distributor of the Paramount library.

 

[JoHud]

While it does look like Olive taken a break from releasing titles from the main Paramount library, as it's pretty clear they've got their hands full in whittling down that list of upcoming Republic titles announced just last year, Olive had been releasing Paramount titles until November 2012 (and December if counting the two repackaged blu-ray sets)

Also, WB only signed the distribution deal for a select number of Paramount titles (600?) and Olive has responded to this reassuring that Olive is still collaborating with Paramount for future releases.

 

[MisterLime]

While it does look like Olive taken a break from releasing titles from the main Paramount library, as it's pretty clear they've got their hands full in whittling down that list of upcoming Republic titles announced just last year, Olive had been releasing Paramount titles until November 2012 (and December if counting the two repackaged blu-ray sets)

Also, WB only signed the distribution deal for a select number of Paramount titles (600?) and Olive has responded to this reassuring that Olive is still collaborating with Paramount for future releases.

Newly announced titles FILES ON THELMA JORDON and SHANKS are Paramount. Both are being released on 5/28/13

They also released 3 Paramount titles in February - INNOCENT BYSTANDERS, PLAIN CLOTHES and A NEW LIFE

 

[JoHud]

Good to hear the Paramount titles are still coming. Thanks for the correction.

 

[Mark Edward Heuck]

My understanding is that WB's 600-title Paramount deal is covering solely movies that, basically, already got released in some fashion on DVD, but might be debuting in Blu-Ray. It's less of an acquisition deal and more of a replication-and-rackjobbing arrangement. So you won't be seeing any long-unavailable first-time releases from this, just Blu-Ray upgrades and budget packaging releases, such as their double/triple/quad bills pairing Paramount and WB library titles for Wal-Mart.Olive will be the primary place, if at all, we'll be seeing any previously-unavailable Paramount titles. They've been offering a wonderful array of them so far this year, on top of the fine Republic releases.

 

[Keith Cobby]

I would like Olive to release the VistaVision titles (eg Hell's Island) which have not been released on DVD.

 

[Robert Crawford]

My understanding is that WB's 600-title Paramount deal is covering solely movies that, basically, already got released in some fashion on DVD, but might be debuting in Blu-Ray. It's less of an acquisition deal and more of a replication-and-rackjobbing arrangement. So you won't be seeing any long-unavailable first-time releases from this, just Blu-Ray upgrades and budget packaging releases, such as their double/triple/quad bills pairing Paramount and WB library titles for Wal-Mart.Olive will be the primary place, if at all, we'll be seeing any previously-unavailable Paramount titles. They've been offering a wonderful array of them so far this year, on top of the fine Republic releases.

We'll know if titles such as The Joker is Wild or Love with the Proper Stranger are ever released on disc by Warner or Olive.