My guess would be most (other than Sony) are outsourced to whomever. I believe WB replicates via MPI, for example.sampsoninc916 said:
Interesting. With the exception of "The Jungle Book" you had to go way down the list to find a catalog title. I guess that explains why Disney lavishes so much attention on their animated features and all but ignores their live action catalog titles. And Frozen sold 6 million copies without a 3D version in the US. People were saying Disney was shooting themselves in the foot, but I guess not!Simon Lewis said:
And people wonder why studios don't release this or that catalog title on BD. It's simple economics as to why they don't, but yet the studio is the bad guy for trying to maximize their profits. There is no bad guy people, it's just the simple circumstances of today's marketplace for catalog/classic titles on BD.Adam Gregorich said:
In another thread here a distributor indicated that on one title Amazon returned 60% of the copies they had ordered and most titles sold between 200 and 500 units. One that fans had been clamoring for sold so poorly they were asked to discontinue the Blu-ray and keep selling the DVD. There are some catalog titles I can't mention where I was shocked when I was given the actual sales numbers (after returns). One was a popular movie that had never had a widescreen DVD release!Robert Crawford said:
I agree there is no bad guy but, i also think the studio's don't understand some of their catalog titles and fail to market them correctly, there must be a way to get the word out about classic cinema and, i feel sales would be bigger if the marketing team understood the product better. I think part of the problem is that too many people have bought into the myth that older films don't benefit from the HD treatment, i read this all the time online and it's a myth that needs to be destroyed.Robert Crawford said:
IMO, no degree of marketing is going to force retailers here in the states to order larger quantities of catalog titles without the studios taking a financial bloodbath. We have to accept reality that people don't want to buy these discs in large enough quantities to justify the studios marketing and manufacturing expenses in mass marketing these titles.FoxyMulder said:
Social media and online marketing, they shouldn't need to rely on the traditional street retailer anymore.Robert Crawford said:
What do you want them to do in that regard? From what I gather, Warner does a lot of social media and online marketing. Their WA and TCM websites constantly hawk these titles as they use FB and Twitter too.FoxyMulder said:
Target the younger film buying audience and increase sales of catalog titles and instead of licensing to Shout, Twilight Time, Kino and Arrow we get them from the studio's and they are not limited, the older generation is already going to be buying them so don't need to read any advertising, they need to make sales off the people who currently are unaware of some of these releases.Robert Crawford said:
Personally, I think you're fooling yourself to think the younger demographic is interested in buying these titles. Streaming might be another matter, but actually owning them and finding storage for them is not something I think they're interested in, at least, not in great enough numbers to alter the final sales figures much. Anyhow, you and I differ so I'll leave you with the last word on this topic.FoxyMulder said:
I just think it's a really sad day when some of these films can't even sell 10,000 copies each, they struggle at selling a few thousand, there has to be some way to improve that, there has to be a way of marketing them or some sort of incentives they can offer to increase the sales, is there a site out there with accurate figures for checking sales. ?Robert Crawford said:
I lied, I'm back again as I have a few more points I want to state in this thread. Now, this is a generalization so there are definitely exceptions to the opinions I'm about to express here. First off, I'm speaking from the American POV which might be quite different than other parts of the world as I always suspected classic films are more popular among the younger demographic in those locations than they are here in America. I think the younger demographic here never really appreciated B&W films nor movies not filmed in widescreen. During this video age, I'd had numerous conversations with much younger people than I about films and I constantly hear the same kind of apathy towards those kind of films. I feel the same type of disinterest to those younger people that like westerns or war films for example, but refuse to watch such films made beyond the 1960's or even 1970's in some cases.FoxyMulder said:
(As an aside).Robert Crawford said:
