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Ok so "The Thing," "Halloween" and the SE of "Assault on Precinct 13" are the only John Carpenter films currently on Blu-Ray correct?
Who here owns them and what do you think of the picture quality? Significant upgrade?
"Ghosts of Mars" comes out March 31st, by the way.
Any rumors about the rest of his work?
Universal has: They Live, Prince of Darkness and Village of the Damned
Sony has: Starman, Christine and Vampires
Warner Brothers has: Memoirs of an Invisible Man and the TV movie "Someone's Watching Me"
VCI has: Dark Star
MGM has: Escape from New York and The Fog
Paramount has: Escape from L.A.
Elvis: The Movie? Still don't know who owns that, waiting on Dick Clark Productions to finally work something out.
FOX has: Big Trouble in Little China
Who owns his 'Masters of Horror' films "Cigarette Burns" and "Pro-Life"? Starz?
What else am I missing here? Anyway that's a lot of Carpenter not in HD yet!
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Oh forgot, New Line has "In the Mouth of Madness" but didn't Warner officially close them out (New Line I mean) so i guess that's a WB title now. Still not on Blu-Ray.
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Eric, heck I'd be happy if they just had that commentary with Carpenter & Piper included.
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Which only bodes well for a SE release......
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I want all of JC's stuff on Blu, and I want it NOW.
You guys neglected to mention Vampires, which is also a Sony title. I really wish they were releasing that instead of Ghosts of Mars, but oh well...
Universal, please release Streets of Fire on Blu-ray.
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MGM has: Escape from New York and The Fog
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These were released on BR in the UK, but IIRC were later proven to be upconverts.
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"Cigarette Burns" is on the MOH Volume 1 Blu-ray from Season 1. "Pro-Life" is part of Season 2, which hasn't been released on Blu-ray yet.
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Put me down for the entire John Carpenter catalog.
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Interesting but an odd way to announce the release....
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While I feel that JC's talent has waned over the years give me everything up to
They Live on BD.
I have
Halloween on BD and IMO it's excellent even though they seemed to have used the DIVIMAX master which of course isn't the Dean Cundy approved version.
Still there's no denying that this BD is the best the film has ever looked at home.
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Escape From LA needs an anamorphic release. 
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AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Universal, please release Streets of Fire on Blu-ray.
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And a Carpenter/Russelll commentary!
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AMEN AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

Please, Paramount! Give us a Carpenter/Russell commentary track for Escape from LA. Please!
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So "Big Trouble in Little China" AND "Starman" have been announced for BD release this August!
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Prince of Darkness is a strange duck for me, I don't fully understand what happens in the film but yet it disturbs the hell out of me lol.
Particularly the recurring dream of the dark figure emerging from the church, it gives me the willies.
Wouldn't mind a BD of that one,
Christine as well, but keep all the extras from the SE DVD. Nothing I hate more than when they release a film on BD and dump all the great extras from the DVD, it forces me to keep the DVD around when I could just as well sell it to make room for more BD's.
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