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04-04-2003, 08:17 AM
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Will there be a new release of Halloween? Also DUNE & An American W in London Quest.
Does anyone know if there will be a new release of Halloween? I thought I heard there will be a new SE Anniversary edition soon...
Also, what are the chances for a better version of David Lynch's DUNE coming out - I'd like to see a double disc SE with both the theatrical cut and extended version with some extras.
Is there just one version of the An American Werewolf in London CE? I ask because deepdiscount and has one cover scan without gold bars at the top and bottom while the cover scan at the digital bits reviews has the gold bars...are these the same disc?
Thanks!
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04-04-2003, 08:58 AM
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There will be a 25th Anniversary Edition of Halloween this year. It will have the AMC Backstory special if I recall correctly, as well as the Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter commentary from the Criterion LD. I am assuming they will be using the same transfer and audio from the 20th Anniversary relese.
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04-04-2003, 09:16 AM
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There is only 1 version of American Werewolf in London and there has not been any walk of a new version of Dune. Many years ago in a chat with Universal, they said it may happen but there has been nothing since then. David Lynch probably will not participate because he had a very bad experience with Dune and had his name removed from the Extended version of the film.
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04-04-2003, 09:28 AM
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This is what is on Anchor Bay's site regarding Halloween:
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HALLOWEEN 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - Fall 2003
It has been 25 years since Michael Myers first returned to Haddonfield. Now he returns to DVD for this special anniversary edition. Extras are still being determined, but expect a plethora of new goodies (i.e. audio commentary, etc.) for this exciting release. Expect more announcements in the coming months, and please note all features at this point are tentative and subject to change. Closed Captioned for the Hearing Impaired.
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04-04-2003, 09:53 AM
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Now I'm glad I didn't pick up the 2 disc LE way back - that blurb on Anchor Bay must be fairly recent - I didn't see anything about Halloween on there last month.
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04-04-2003, 09:57 AM
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It's been there for quite awhile actually. I'm wondering if there is any progress for AB acquiring the rights to some of the sequels
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04-04-2003, 10:40 AM
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There is only 1 version of American Werewolf in London
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That is not quite correct. There was a non-SE edition, but it has long been out of print. I got a pretty penny for mine on eBay before the SE came out.  |
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04-04-2003, 01:15 PM
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...actually, I seem to recall a Universal chat where they indicated that they 'would be interested in revisiting' that title in the future.(DUNE)
kind of non-commital, but jeez,
why not give us a 16x9 now and be done with it....
looking to the STARGATE example (and Im sure we've NOT seen the last version of THAT title)
Uni could put out a 16x9 version, and then if they or Lynch ever get their act together for an SE-people will handily snap that up also...
after watching Sci Fi's admittedly admirable gesture at a complete DUNE, along with its cheezy sets, I still wonder what a good 4-5 hour Lynch DUNE could be like-assuming the elements still exist....
maybe he will change his mind one day...soon.
"He who panics first gets at least some of his money back." -KD
"He who panics first gets at least some of his money back." -KD
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04-04-2003, 01:24 PM
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 Why would Criterion loan Anchor Bay their 1994 Halloween commentary now when they were so against the possibility in 99'? I didn't see anything in that announcement that supported this notion.
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04-04-2003, 02:19 PM
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Dune's extended edition is an "Alan Smithee," meaning that David Lynch never approved it.
However, it would make sense if Universal did a two-disc edition with Lynch's version (theatrical) remastered on disc one. Then, they can put all the deleted scenes on the second disc.
David Lynch appears to be a fan of personally approving transfers (The Elephant Man, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet: SE), so this could be a nice disc if the effort was put into it.
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