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12/6/07 at 1:34pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

That's too bad... I'd especially like to see TIC released and I was under the impression that somehow Warners had that one, but I guess not. Wasn't their discussion on this very forum a couple of years back about the possibility of it?
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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BTW, it sounds to me like this 85th Anniversary promo is going to be more than just a string of box set announcements and star focus on the release calendar...

It seems like WHV are going to be presenting new marketing concepts as far as their classic catalog titles are put out and perhaps some brand new series to go along with it... I can't wait to find out more.

I'm thinking:

-Andy Hardy
-Dr. Kildare
-Maisie
-Abbott & Costello

Corey's most wanted R1 dvds:

Little Darlings (1980), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Born to Be Bad (1950), Ivy (1947), Reckless (1935), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), The Barretts of Wimpole Street

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1/1/08 at 7:44am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

Well it's January now! Anybody have an idea when the first annoucement will be?

Most Wanted on DVD: Little Nellie Kelly (1940), Bachelor Mother (1939), Tin Pan Alley (1940), Mother Wore Tights (1947), Easy to Love (1953), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), Penelope (1966), The Opposite Sex (1956), Lovely to Look At (1952), Naughty...

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1/1/08 at 8:29am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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85th anniversary celebration?

Has WHV commented that they would be doing something special for this? So far, it seems 2008 won't be any different than any other Warner year.

I'm with you. 85 years ... when did that become a meaningful milestone? Oh, I'm sure Warner will try to leverage the 'event', but every year Warner puts out films and box sets that reflect their impressive catalog.

Do I expect WHV to put out releases to honor their 85 year history regardless of whether they are money-makers? Nope. So just another year, same process.
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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85 years ... when did that become a meaningful milestone?
Just for the sake of marketing, it seems like every year ending in '5' or '0' is now meaningful milestone.
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1/1/08 at 2:23pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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I'm with you. 85 years ... when did that become a meaningful milestone? Oh, I'm sure Warner will try to leverage the 'event', but every year Warner puts out films and box sets that reflect their impressive catalog.

Do I expect WHV to put out releases to honor their 85 year history regardless of whether they are money-makers? Nope. So just another year, same process.

If I don't see the long overdue Jean Harlow Collection this year, I could personally care less about any anniversary.


More Harlow on DVD Now! - Red Dust, Bombshell, Hold Your Man, Saratoga, The Iron Man, Goldie, The Secret Six, Beast of the City, Three Wise Girls, Reckless, Personal Property, Riff-raff, Suzy & Girl from Missouri
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1/1/08 at 3:28pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I don't care if this celebration is due to marketing purposes, since they releases more and more classics, it's excellent for me.
Well, so far we got a Joan Crawford Collection, more gangster and pre-code and, for me the best yet, the musicals box set.
Well for 2008, and in celebration of its 85 anniversary I hope WB announces the highly antecipated Jean Harlow collection and:

Andy Hardy Movies
John Garfield collection
a Ginger Rogers collection (what a great box set this could be)
a Robert Taylor collection
a second volume for Clark Gable
a second volume for Gary Cooper (specially an official version for Meet John Doe. Today We Live, Task Force and Saratoga Trunk wouldn't hurt either)
a Spencer Tracy Collection
a Lana Turner Collection
the mentioned second volume for Busby Berkeley
a large promotion for Bette Davis centennial
5 specifics Barbara Stanwyck titles (His Brother's Wife, The Gay Sisters, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Cry Wolf, B.F.'s Daughter)
more Cagney, Bogart, De Havilland, Flynn, Sheridan and Garbo
a 5th volume for the film noir collection
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Human Comedy
Night Must Fall
Barrets of Wimpole Street
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1/1/08 at 8:46pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

All of Raphael's wish list (which matches mine completely) along with

Waterloo Bridge
Esther Williams Collection, Volume 2
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1/2/08 at 7:11am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I hope the Bette Davis promotion has at least 10 films:

-Beyond the Forest
-Dangerous
-The Great Lie
-In This Our Life
-All This, And Heaven, Too
-The Old Maid
-The Corn Is Green
-Juarez
-A Stolen Life
-Watch on the Rhine

It can be a big centennial set like Garbo's.

Corey's most wanted R1 dvds:

Little Darlings (1980), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Born to Be Bad (1950), Ivy (1947), Reckless (1935), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), The Barretts of Wimpole Street

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1/2/08 at 9:52am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I expect a second volume for James Stewart for his centennial in May. It could include Carbine Williams, Malaya, Magic Town, No Time for Comedy, The Mortal Storm, The Shopworn Angel and other films from the 1930's.
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1/2/08 at 10:48am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

LionsGate owns MAGIC TOWN.

Charles Hoyt

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1/2/08 at 2:33pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

The way it has been going, I'm concerned that 85th Anniversary will be celebrating "silence" ...I just can't get my hopes up....especially when they did get to 200 catalog titles as promised. "Goodbye Mr Chips" was supposed to be early 2007...now they've announced up to March ( no Chips or QUO VADIS) or a promised Natalie Wood Collection for late 2007 or early 2008.

Ken

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1/2/08 at 3:25pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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The way it has been going, I'm concerned that 85th Anniversary will be celebrating "silence" ...I just can't get my hopes up....especially when they did get to 200 catalog titles as promised. "Goodbye Mr Chips" was supposed to be early 2007...now they've announced up to March ( no Chips or QUO VADIS) or a promised Natalie Wood Collection for late 2007 or early 2008.
Which is why studios don't like doing chats and announcing titles with a targeted release date because if a particular title doesn't come out in that timeframe they'd targeted, we have people complaining that the studio is not coming through with their promises regarding titles and release dates.





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1/2/08 at 4:08pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I can't complain of Warners. Pratically everything they promissed us they released, something not right on scheduled, but it was worth the waiting. Even the Eleanor Powell set that they said they "hoped" would be released by the end of last year (which I didn't feel that sure about) was remarketed as part of the classic musicals box set due next april (for me the best announcement so far).
As for Quo Vadis, it was been said to be undergoing an extensive restoration, so maybe they will get it ready for Easter Time.
And their annual chat is, for me, THE MOST ANTECIPATED DVD EVENT, every year. I hope they will be with us again in 2008.
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1/2/08 at 7:07pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I hope we finally see Zabriskie Point this year...
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1/2/08 at 8:21pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I just want more ELIZABETH TAYLOR--and RAINTREE COUNTY in particular!

Andy
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1/2/08 at 11:16pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I want that Lana Turner set and more Greer Garson, please.

Corey's most wanted R1 dvds:

Little Darlings (1980), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), Born to Be Bad (1950), Ivy (1947), Reckless (1935), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), The Barretts of Wimpole Street

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1/3/08 at 5:13am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

HOW THW WEST WAS WON

Ken

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1/3/08 at 7:16am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

All the musical box set annoucement all I really want is more Ginger Rogers, Greer Garson, and Norma Shearer.

Most Wanted on DVD: Little Nellie Kelly (1940), Bachelor Mother (1939), Tin Pan Alley (1940), Mother Wore Tights (1947), Easy to Love (1953), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), Penelope (1966), The Opposite Sex (1956), Lovely to Look At (1952), Naughty...

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1/3/08 at 4:51pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

Speculation!
They will repackage some already released some titles with 85th anniversary covers and no remastering (like the John Wayne anniversary discs).
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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I expect a second volume for James Stewart for his centennial in May. It could include Carbine Williams, Malaya, Magic Town, No Time for Comedy, The Mortal Storm, The Shopworn Angel and other films from the 1930's.

Ditto... I especially want Carbine Williams to finally get released, but any Stewart's always good!
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1/3/08 at 8:37pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I want to see more released on:

Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Bette Davis and Jean Harlow. Also, I didn't get into Cary Grant until Notorious was out of print from Anchor Bay and Criterion and not sure what movie company owns the rights to this RKO title now. If it is WB then this is my number one re-release title for 2008 as I just bought 39 of Cary Grant's other titles and this is the only missing dvd that I care to own of his movies.

Test Pilot with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy needs to be released in some kind of box set or on it's own soon. It's a 30's mgm title so I think WB owns the rights to this title and should release it as soon as possable as it is one of the best movies that Gable, Tracy and Loy ever did. I would like to see it in a Clark Gable Vol 2 set or a Spencer Tracy Vol 1 set.
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1/3/08 at 9:21pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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I want to see more released on:

Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Bette Davis and Jean Harlow. Also, I didn't get into Cary Grant until Notorious was out of print from Anchor Bay and Criterion and not sure what movie company owns the rights to this RKO title now. If it is WB then this is my number one re-release title for 2008 as I just bought 39 of Cary Grant's other titles and this is the only missing dvd that I care to own of his movies.

Test Pilot with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and Myrna Loy needs to be released in some kind of box set or on it's own soon. It's a 30's mgm title so I think WB owns the rights to this title and should release it as soon as possable as it is one of the best movies that Gable, Tracy and Loy ever did. I would like to see it in a Clark Gable Vol 2 set or a Spencer Tracy Vol 1 set.

I also like Test Pilot.

I have the Criterion Notorious ... quite frankly, it's nothing to write home about. The elements just look like they've been through a lot. You can always tape it off of TCM or a Korean version is supposedly pretty decent that you can get fairly cheaply used on Amazon marketplace.

Amazon.com: Notorious (DVD) - 1946 - Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant (Import): DVD: Ingrid Bergman; Cary Grant,Alfred Hitchcock
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1/4/08 at 3:29pm
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I hope we'll see a 3rd Controversial Classics Set and a 5th Film Noir Set but every other classic release is fine with me, too.
Recently bought: Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Coll.,  Sabrina (Centennial Coll.), Gunga Din, Merril's Marauders, Stalag 17, Do the Right Thing (Blu-ray), Miracle in the Rain
Pre-Order:  Film Noir Collection Vol. 2, Rita Hayworth Coll., Desert Fury (German DVD), The Dark Mirror (German DVD),...
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1/4/08 at 3:49pm
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I also like Test Pilot.

I have the Criterion Notorious ... quite frankly, it's nothing to write home about. The elements just look like they've been through a lot. You can always tape it off of TCM or a Korean version is supposedly pretty decent that you can get fairly cheaply used on Amazon marketplace.

Amazon.com: Notorious (DVD) - 1946 - Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant (Import): DVD: Ingrid Bergman; Cary Grant,Alfred Hitchcock

The first reel looks a little dupey, but the rest looks fantastic.

Like the rest of the Selznick library, it's owned by Disney as part of the ABC Films catalog. MGM/Fox has had distribution rights for several years, but they haven't done anything with it yet.

(Also, I'm willing to sell my DVD if so interested)

Tell The Weinstein Company to release Richard Williams' animated masterpiece The Thief and the Cobbler on DVD in Panavision widescreen and uncut! See and hear what you're missing from their Bitsy Award winner of Worst Standard Edition DVD of 2006 on YouTube!
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1/5/08 at 10:01pm
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Just be grateful for that they do realise.

Warners do a bloody good job.

My wallet will be busy for the first few months this year alone.
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1/6/08 at 4:34am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I want
QUO VADIS
How the West was won as Special Edition
Many Westerns in general
AND
Audio commentaries for all their classic relaseses.
I'm still sad to have Gregory Peck's Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. without a commentary.

This is the result of my addiction
--> http://www.invelos.com/dvdcollection.aspx/Opi

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Still waiting for:

Raintree County
All This And Heaven, Too
Bring "The continuing story of PEYTON PLACE" home on DVD: the one that started it all- from Dallas and Dynasty to Desperate Housewives and Gossip Girl!!! Starting this May, see the legendary saga starring Mia Farrow, Ryan O'Neal, Barbara Parkins, and Oscar-winner Dorothy Malone on DVD thru Shout!...
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1/6/08 at 5:59pm
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The first reel looks a little dupey, but the rest looks fantastic.

I agree! I just watched this a few weeks back and thought it looked excellant. I was planning to sell it off after this last viewing, but enjoyed it so much I didn't want to give it up.

It is amazing that Warners first big 'celebratory act was alienating tens of thousands recent HD DVD converts. Can't wait to see what further celebrations they have planned.
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1/7/08 at 9:10am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

Just announced "The Bette Davis Collection Vol 3" for 4/1 six disc set includes :

In This Our Life
The Old Maid
The Great Lie

Don't know the other films and specific extras are not mentioned
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