Jeff Adkins
Senior HTF Member
I was able to attend a 2 hour presentation by Universal to retailers the other night. Most of the time was spent talking about upcoming new releases. However, they did spend about 5 minutes talking about their plans to focus heavily on catalog product next year on DVD.
They showed some pie charts and spoke about how catalog is such a large share of the DVD market, unlike VHS. They mentioned reissues of Scarface, Sixteen Candles, Midnight Run, Monty Python's Meaning Of Life, and Animal House all for the first half of next year. Anyway, the news of most importance to me was that between January and June of 2003, they will release 115 titles on DVD from their back catalog. This should come close to MGM's output of 2000 if I remember correctly.
Jeff
They showed some pie charts and spoke about how catalog is such a large share of the DVD market, unlike VHS. They mentioned reissues of Scarface, Sixteen Candles, Midnight Run, Monty Python's Meaning Of Life, and Animal House all for the first half of next year. Anyway, the news of most importance to me was that between January and June of 2003, they will release 115 titles on DVD from their back catalog. This should come close to MGM's output of 2000 if I remember correctly.
Jeff