Paramount's 100th Anniversary In 2012 Any Surprises Coming To Blu ?

Barbarella!

"Who's Minding the Store?" with Jerry Lewis!

Last time it came out on home video was on VHS, was not released on dvd.

WINGS

nuff said, come on Paramount, more to follow when i have time

We're getting "The Ten Commandments" isn't that enough for one year?

No.  Provided the attention to quality is there, I'd love to see the pace of catalog releases speed up with more resources devoted to that category of Blu-ray release.

The title I most want from Paramount is:  Once Upon A Time In The West.  Hope I don't have to wait until 2012.  

As far as speculation goes, maybe.- The President's Analyst, Harold and Maude, Bang The Drum Slowly, Death Wish, Marathon Man, Heaven Can Wait, Dragonslayer; to name a few titles that I hope make it to Blu-Ray from Paramount.

- Walter.

Paramounts 100th really calls for it to step up to the plate, unfortunatly a lot of the back catalog is at Universal, but let's see we have Wilder (Stalag 17, Sunset Blvd,) Hitchcock ( To Catch A Thief) Stevens (Shane) Pal (War Of The Worlds) Numorous titles with Audrey Hepburn, John Wayne . And while i know it wont happen, when will we ever see an official release of Betty Boop 

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isn't that enough for one year?

 

The title I most want from Paramount is:  Once Upon A Time In The West.  Hope I don't have to wait until 2012.  

  

- Walter
 

 agreed

Rosemary's Baby would be fantastic. They missed the film's 40th anniversary a few years ago, so maybe Paramount's 100th will be a better excuse....

My guessed be a massive, expensive box set full of never before released titles which, conveniently enough, are not available separately... ;)

I think it would be a surprise if they actually released anything.  If they were to I would guess films like Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Odd Couple, To Catch a Thief, Airplane!, Ordinary People, Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, Roman Holiday, An Officer and a Gentleman, Flashdance, Terms of Endearment, The Greatest Show on Earth, Urban Cowboy, Marathon Man, Wings, War of the Worlds, Harold and Maude, Serpico, Breakfast at Tiffany's and some more John Wayne titles would be considered.  This is a partial list of Award Winners and box office hits they own.  The Pre-1950 films Universal owns.

I'd personally like Nashville, Hud, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Seconds and Wonder Boys.  They seem like Criterion titles in my opinion.

I know it's a long shot for blu-ray release ...ever... but, I would love to have "Li'l Abner" on Blu-ray.  The DVD looks really great, but the colors on the Vista Vision release would pop on blu-ray like never before!

"We want's to broaden our horizons" - "Your horizons are broad enough.....especially yours"! 

I'll go lowbrow and say that I want to see the rest of their Friday The 13th movies. I'd also like to see a number of better movies that have already been mentioned (especially Sunset Boulevard).

I'd love "A Place in the Sun".

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I'd love "A Place in the Sun".

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.... PLEASE.

How about this ?

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/19138/jerry-lewis-comedy-remakes-galore

Most of these have already been mentioned, but the titles I want the most are Once Upon a Time in the West, Indiana Jones trilogy (Raiders, Temple of Doom & Last Crusade), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Chinatown, Funeral in Berlin, Rosemary's Baby, The War of the Worlds, Marathon Man, Gallipoli, Stalag 17, Sunset Boulevard, The Dead Zone, The Duellists, Last Train from Gun Hill, Shane. 

But I'm not holding my breath for any of them to come out this year.

Since it's now part of the National Film Registry:

AIRPLANE!

Bluray special edition please...  (but not in a wretched digibook)

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I'd love "A Place in the Sun".

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.... PLEASE.

Let's hope it happens, Michel! It's a big title for them and now out of print on DVD. It's also the only film of hers that Elizabeth Taylor participated in the bonus material.

Good Burger

Hawks

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My guessed be a massive, expensive box set full of never before released titles which, conveniently enough, are not available separately... ;)

Or even worse, a massive box set full of already-released films with a couple of never before released titles included that, annoyingly enough, will never be released separately.  (all together now: MGM/Fox Musical Collection......"Whoopee" "Kid Millions"...)

well they released The Italian Job (1969) in the UK, would be nice to get it in the states as well

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well they released The Italian Job (1969) in the UK, would be nice to get it in the states as well

Would also be nice if they did a new transfer/encode sans the DNR.  I probably would've imported the UK version (at a pretty good price) if not for that.

_Man_

I expect that we would have less new titles from Paramount that Fox has given us for their annaversery.  And that would be none.

Paramount's DVD sales are way down, so I don't imagine we'll be getting anything in the way of extensive restorations anytime soon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/business/media/04viacom.html?src=busln

In the quarter, which ended Dec. 31 and was the first of Viacom’s fiscal year, revenue from home entertainment — the bulk of which is DVD sales — dropped 44 percent, to $638 million.

I thought most of Parmount's DVDs were, ahem, "out of print".  That might account for their DVD sales being down.  Am I wrong?  I know that every one I've looked up on Amazon or anywhere else within the past few months has been unavailable new.

What I'd like to see on Blu-ray are the passel of John Wayne films that Paramount has out on DVD. So far it's just "True Grit," which came out only because of the (successful if inferior except for the casting of La Boef) remake.

Yes, I too wish Paramount would release more John Wayne Movies on BLU-Ray .  I want all of their Major John Wayne movies on Blu-Ray.  The seven I want the most:

1. Rio Lobo

2. Big Jake

3. Hatari!

4. El Dorado

5. MCCLINTOCK

6. The Sons Of Katie Elder

7. Donovan's Reef

If Paramount is serious about increasing BLU-Ray sales on classic films they should release these John Wayne Movies and his other movies on BLU-Ray soon.  John Wayne movies sell!

Take Care!

Robert

The only thing that Paramount releases are recent titles and re-releasing old titles. That really doesn't say anything. Even their output on blu-ray is minimal at best. If we could get Hollywood to re-make all of John Wayne's films then maybe we would get them.