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post #31 of 506
12/6/07 at 1:34pm

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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post #32 of 506
12/6/07 at 5:03pm
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Re: Speculation for Warner Bros. 85th Anniversary Celebration

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Originally Posted by MarcoBiscotti
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
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post #33 of 506
1/1/08 at 7:44am

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Well it's January now! Anybody have an idea when the first annoucement will be?
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post #34 of 506
1/1/08 at 8:29am

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Originally Posted by ReggieW
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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post #35 of 506
1/1/08 at 11:15am

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Originally Posted by rich_d
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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post #36 of 506
1/1/08 at 2:23pm

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Originally Posted by rich_d
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.
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post #37 of 506
1/1/08 at 3:28pm

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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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post #38 of 506
1/1/08 at 8:46pm

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

Waterloo Bridge
Esther Williams Collection, Volume 2
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post #39 of 506
1/2/08 at 7:11am
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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.
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post #40 of 506
1/2/08 at 9:52am

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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.
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post #41 of 506
1/2/08 at 10:48am

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LionsGate owns MAGIC TOWN.
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post #42 of 506
1/2/08 at 2:33pm

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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.
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post #43 of 506
1/2/08 at 3:25pm

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Originally Posted by Ken Koc
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.





Crawdaddy
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post #44 of 506
1/2/08 at 4:08pm

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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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post #45 of 506
1/2/08 at 7:07pm

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I hope we finally see Zabriskie Point this year...
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post #46 of 506
1/2/08 at 8:21pm

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

Andy
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post #47 of 506
1/2/08 at 11:16pm
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I want that Lana Turner set and more Greer Garson, please.
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post #48 of 506
1/3/08 at 5:13am

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HOW THW WEST WAS WON
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post #49 of 506
1/3/08 at 7:16am

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All the musical box set annoucement all I really want is more Ginger Rogers, Greer Garson, and Norma Shearer.
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post #50 of 506
1/3/08 at 4:51pm

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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post #51 of 506
1/3/08 at 5:53pm

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Originally Posted by Frank M
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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post #52 of 506
1/3/08 at 8:37pm

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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.
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post #53 of 506
1/3/08 at 9:21pm

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Originally Posted by DanMel
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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post #54 of 506
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.
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post #55 of 506
1/4/08 at 3:49pm

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Originally Posted by rich_d
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)
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post #56 of 506
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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post #57 of 506
1/6/08 at 4:34am

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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.
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post #58 of 506
1/6/08 at 4:54pm

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Still waiting for:

Raintree County
All This And Heaven, Too
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post #59 of 506
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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post #60 of 506
1/7/08 at 9:10am

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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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