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It sounds just like Columbia, but with removing special features instead of the Widescreen side like Columbia does. Now I am really worried that CTHE will get the MGM library since they both seem to have similar business models.
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Wow, that's horrible.
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Jeez, what's the point of this??? While it's not as bad as removing the actual movie (like Columbia), it still doesn't seem fair. Valley Girl's been out for less than a year fergawdsakes! (Will they at least reinstate the missing Men At Work song on the reissue?)
Oh well, someone will be glad to sell illegal copies of the missing extras for those who still want them.
They should at least mark them as "Limited Editions" if they're going to pull this crap a few months later.
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But Valley Girl was already only $14.99, wasn't it?
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first FOX
then COLUMBIA
now MGM
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I thought that this breakdown from Daily Variety (12/24/03) would be of interest:
Homevid Economics 2002
VHS
Average wholesale price $12
Costs:
Marketing $2.75
Duplication $2.25
Packaging $0.75
Distribution $0.90
Total $6.65
Video Gross
Profit/Unit $5.35
DVD
Average wholesale price $16
Costs:
Marketing $2.75
Duplication $1.00
Packaging $0.90
Distribution $0.80
Total $5.45
DVD Gross
Profit/Unit $10.55
Source: Jessica Reif Cohen, Merril Lynch
Now, seeing that this is from a late last year Variety these Averages were probably from the most recent statistics covering the 2002 year. I have a feeling by now profits have most likely improved.
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I guess I'm lucky that I decided to go to Best Buy
yesterday. I got the 3 for $20 deal on Valley Girl,
the Sure Thing and A Beautiful Mind WS. There was only
1 copy of The Sure Thing left.
Pretty please, with sugar on top,
clean the f**king car.
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We're getting something a bit like this in r4, although it's a bit different.
I think here MGM titles were often distributed by a different company. But now MGM has taken over and is replacing old special editions with downgraded extras.
At best, we have two disc sets reduced to one disc sets. At worst, we have excellent one-disc sets released without extra (save a trailer if you're lucky). We lost excellent special editions of Fargo, A Fish Called Wanda, and Misery, among many others . (In the case of Misery, we even lost the 5.1 mix)
AFI Top 100 lists:100 Movies,
100 Thrills - Completed
100 Laughs - 24 to go - last seen:
The Freshman100 Passions - 39 to go - last seen:
Breakfast At Tiffany's100 Heroes & Villains - 10 to go - last seen: Tom Powers in
The Public Enemy100 Songs - 44 to go - last seen: "When You Wish upon a Star"...
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Absolutely - the special edition cover of Misery was very good. Snow white background, a few small blood spatters, and great image of Paul Sheldon in a wheelchair being pushed by Annie. Unsettling, but subtle.
Now we get a lowest common-denominator cover with Annie holding a sledgehammer. Awful.
AFI Top 100 lists:100 Movies,
100 Thrills - Completed
100 Laughs - 24 to go - last seen:
The Freshman100 Passions - 39 to go - last seen:
Breakfast At Tiffany's100 Heroes & Villains - 10 to go - last seen: Tom Powers in
The Public Enemy100 Songs - 44 to go - last seen: "When You Wish upon a Star"...
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This...is ridiculous. I really can't see the purpose here. Even if they only have to press one side of the disc, they still have to rearrange the content and design disc art. I don't see how this is saving them that much money, especially if they're lowering the prices.
Just re-promote it, why spend even more money to change the disc? At least they're retaining the widescreen version of the movie, but still...why do anything? There's just no point, except that you piss your customers off when they find out.
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And, unless I'm wrong, isn't their new non-SE release of Dances With Wolves pan'n'scan only?
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