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7/16/08 at 9:23am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I've been really enjoying the tribute to Roz Russell so far and it would be great if Warner released more of her films, as they actually own enough to make a set and she's well known enough to actually sell.

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-They Met in Bombay
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-The Feminine Touch

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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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7/17/08 at 10:17am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

From Tom Weaver at the CHFB,

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Originally Posted by Tom Weaver
... a little birdie tells me:
WORLD WITHOUT END/SATELLITE IN THE SKY
WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH/MOON ZERO TWO
BATTLE BENEATH THE EARTH/THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR

Double features exclusive to Best Buy will be out on 7/29. All 16x9 transfers...original art on covers...$19.97 SRP.

Best Buy exclusives? Oh dear god...
So many films, so little time...
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7/17/08 at 12:32pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.

Well the woman does seem to have her charms

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7/17/08 at 1:39pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

do Best Buy ship to the UK ?

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7/17/08 at 2:04pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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do Best Buy ship to the UK ?

'Fraid not osc.
So many films, so little time...
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

oh well you can't buy everything

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7/18/08 at 5:34am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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Great for those who likes westerns but how about Horror, Sci-Fi, and Action Classics? Not to mention the long awaited War and War-Musical films?

Eric


I also like war movies. I wonder when Warner will release Darby's Rangers, Breakthrough, and a few other titles I can't think of right now.
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7/18/08 at 7:18am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

And... "This Is The Army" isn't it past due now for release as part of the War Musical package?
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7/18/08 at 7:23am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Weaver
... a little birdie tells me:
WORLD WITHOUT END/SATELLITE IN THE SKY
WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH/MOON ZERO TWO
BATTLE BENEATH THE EARTH/THE UNKNOWN WARRIOR

Double features exclusive to Best Buy will be out on 7/29. All 16x9 transfers...original art on covers...$19.97 SRP.

Geezzz... I just spend a wad on those $3 MGM and SONY specials at Big Lots for my birthday (which is 7/29) and now have to consider this too...

Eric
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7/18/08 at 7:32am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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I think the next time I buy Casablanca will be the Blu-ray.

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Which is exactly what Warner should be doing with those titles.

Until Blu-ray players come down to $20 and discs can be bought for $9.99, I will stick to my standard DVDs. I am not double dipping just for the sake of Blu-ray. "IF" it comes down to a title is offered only in that format... then I may consider Blu but until then.

Eric



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8/31/08 at 12:23pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

Kind of off topic but is Warner still planning on releasing a new DVD of Gypsy and Splendor in the Grass?

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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8/31/08 at 12:49pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

Irv over at Movies Unlimited claims that the Natalie Wood Collection as been pushed back to the 1st quarter of 2009.

I've also been thinking about something else.......

We are probably taking it for granted that Warner will be celebrating the MGM 85th in the same manner in which they celebrated the WB anniversary. Perhaps they WON'T, since MGM is actually still around as a studio and it might make for an awkward situation. They haven't made an announcement yet either way, but I would not be surprised if WHV opted to be alittle more low key with their MGM celebration - if there is one at all. They may simply release many of the MGM/RKO titles we've been waiting for without there being any kind of formal celebration for MGM.

Just a thought.


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9/14/08 at 1:22pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

Is there a list of 85th anniversary "celebration" titles that WB released?
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9/14/08 at 6:22pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I dont know about anyone else, but this years' releases dont seem to add up to a celebration. Unless they come through with something impressive in November/December, (really hoping a Forbidden Hollywood will show up) I will be a little disappointed.

Most Wanted on DVD: The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929), Strangers May Kiss (1931), Paid (1930), The Letter (1929),  Letty Lynton (1932), Honor Among Lovers (1931), While the City Sleeps (1928), So's Your Old Man! (1926), The Trespasser (1929), Her Wedding Night (1931), Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise...

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9/15/08 at 7:15am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

Still nothing about a DVD release of "You Must Remember This The Warner Bros Story". It airs next week on PBS.
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9/16/08 at 5:41am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I just read the companion book by Richard Schickel, and there are some glaring errors (I didn't know Bette Davis won a third Oscar for All About Eve!), and some persons/films weren't given enough attention (more on Hal Wallis, Michael Curtiz, and Bette Davis' and Olivia DeHavilland's lawsuits against Jack Warner, and why so little on What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?, Kings Row and the 1954 and 1976 versions of A Star Is Born?). On the other hand, the pictures are nice.
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9/16/08 at 6:33am
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Still nothing about a DVD release of "You Must Remember This The Warner Bros Story". It airs next week on PBS.

WHV appears to be in a Bogart cliche rut as there already is a Warner Bros Studio documentary HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, WARNER BROS.
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9/16/08 at 7:47pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I saw the book at Borders and looked through it. Nice pictures but agree that it appears some actors/films were glossed over. For kicks I looked up who was arguably Warners' most notorious male pre-code star in the index: Warren William. He gets a once sentence mention in the entire book and it was basically a footnote that he appeared in "The Mouthpiece".

I don't expect a whole chapter on him, but he was a big part of their early history and we've already had books upon books written about Bogart, Cagney Casablanca et al. How about digging a little deeper and giving us a wider perspective of Warner history? To me, the huge appeal that classic Warner films have is the great stable of character actors they had.

To be clear, I'm not condemning Mr. Schickel's book. I'm sure that reading it from cover to cover would be a very enlightening experience and I fully realize that, for commercial reasons, it has to appeal to the widest audience possible. Film history buffs are probably better served elsewhere.
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9/17/08 at 8:39am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I wonder if TCM's 15th anniversary will be celebrated via DVD releases next year? Sounds like a good idea for certain collections.
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9/17/08 at 5:31pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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I saw the book at Borders and looked through it. Nice pictures but agree that it appears some actors/films were glossed over. For kicks I looked up who was arguably Warners' most notorious male pre-code star in the index: Warren William. He gets a once sentence mention in the entire book and it was basically a footnote that he appeared in "The Mouthpiece".

I don't expect a whole chapter on him, but he was a big part of their early history and we've already had books upon books written about Bogart, Cagney Casablanca et al. How about digging a little deeper and giving us a wider perspective of Warner history? To me, the huge appeal that classic Warner films have is the great stable of character actors they had.

To be clear, I'm not condemning Mr. Schickel's book. I'm sure that reading it from cover to cover would be a very enlightening experience and I fully realize that, for commercial reasons, it has to appeal to the widest audience possible. Film history buffs are probably better served elsewhere.

ICAM! Also, I would've loved to see pieces on Jack Carson and Claude Rains. How could Schickel write about the Warner 'glory years' and not make special mention of cameramen Ernest Haller, James Wong Howe and Sol Polito, not to mention scenic genius Anton Grot and the costumes of Orry-Kelly!
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9/17/08 at 8:58pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

I was expected a flurry of new classic catalog films for the end of the year to celebrate "85 Years".....nope WB is quiet. It does not bode well for their 86th.. Is WB going the way of Paramount? very sad.

Ken

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9/18/08 at 6:39am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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I was expected a flurry of new classic catalog films for the end of the year to celebrate "85 Years".....nope WB is quiet. It does not bode well for their 86th.. Is WB going the way of Paramount? very sad.

Yes, it's Warner's 85th Anniversary this year and yes, we all thought that they would celebrate it a bit bigger with more catalog titles for everyone but it was nevertheless a good year:
We got two Gangsters Collection, Forbidden Hollywood Vol. 2, Bonnie and Clyde SE and UCE, Joan Crawford Vol. 2, Bette Davis Vol. 3, the new Dirty Harry Set, the Sinatra DVDs, those Western DVDs (Errol Flynn, Western Box Set, HTWWW) and two Musical Sets. And in November there will be two more collections. We hadn't had any catalog titles in December last year, like now.
To my mind there is no reason for negative visions about Warner ignoring their catalog in the future. Sit back, relax. We have no idea, what's going on behind those walls and yes, they announced some titles, that didn't came out this year but we don't know, whether there were some problems or not and I do believe, we will see some announcements this year for 2009. Until this date will come, I'll buy other stuff from my wishlist, because there are still plenty of movies missing in my collection, that are already available.
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9/18/08 at 9:54am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

2 musical collections??

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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9/18/08 at 10:14am
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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2 musical collections??

Actually I can think of 3: Classic Musicals 3, Busby Berkeley 2 & the upcoming Homefront collection. And that's not even counting the Sinatra sets. Loving musicals as much I do, I think we have been really blessed this year.
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2 musical collections??
Classic Musicals from Dream Factory Volume 3
Busby Berkeley Volume 2
Warner Bros. and the Homefront Collection
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9/25/08 at 10:19am
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Has anybody heard plans for releasing "You Must Remember This: The Warner Brothers Story" on DVD?

I've watched about 30 minutes of this the last few nights in between running errands. I have it on Tivo, but if a DVD is imminent I may wait to watch it.

Of the bit that I watched, I was amazed at the number of movies featured that are not currently on DVD. Hopefully this means good things for those particular films.
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