Ethan Riley said:ANOTHER cut? MORE unseen footage?
This would make FOUR (at least) cuts of the movie, and still no blu-ray of any of them.
Ethan Riley said:ANOTHER cut? MORE unseen footage?
This would make FOUR (at least) cuts of the movie, and still no blu-ray of any of them.
I'm hoping for no later than a June 30th release, as this would be the last window of opportunity for Sony to release the BD before July 4th weekend...I'm betting it will be either a direct retail release or via Criterion or Twilight Time Entertainment...Rob W said:The home video divisions of the studios seem to be working in tandem with the repertory divisions as they convert their libraries to 2K or 4K DCP for theatrical exhibition . ( Quite logically, given the expense that is required to clean most of them up for digitization.) A huge percentage of the past year's catalogue release from the major studios (and their licensees) were available on blu in the same time frame that the DCPs were made available for theatrical .
I predict an announcement of a 1776 blu within the next two months, once TCM's world premiere has passed.
lukejosephchung said:I'm hoping for no later than a June 30th release, as this would be the last window of opportunity for Sony to release the BD before July 4th weekend...I'm betting it will be either a direct retail release or via Criterion or Twilight Time Entertainment...
Rob W said:If Sony had merely wanted to have 1776 available on DCP for theatrical and repertory bookings they would have simply made a transfer of the official theatrical release. But, somebody saw some value in assembling a director's cut and the funds were allocated to do it in full 4K theatrical quality and not just in consumer video resolution. That budget has to be monetized somehow, and a video release is by far the easiest and most logical way to go.
All signs point to an imminent video release.
I predict an announcement of a 1776 blu within the next two months, once TCM's world premiere has passed.
Rob W said:If Sony had merely wanted to have 1776 available on DCP for theatrical and repertory bookings they would have simply made a transfer of the official theatrical release. But, somebody saw some value in assembling a director's cut and the funds were allocated to do it in full 4K theatrical quality and not just in consumer video resolution. That budget has to be monetized somehow, and a video release is by far the easiest and most logical way to go.
All signs point to an imminent video release.
MatthewA said:Do they mention a running time anywhere? I'm guessing they put back some, but not all, of the laserdisc-only footage.
That is the original Theatrical run-time.Rob W said:Now listed on the TCM website at 142 min.
The 180 minute figure is misleading, most of that difference is the overture etc. the Actual content difference between DVD and LD is around 3 minutes.David Weicker said:That is the original Theatrical run-time.
I doubt that is the version being discussed in the article or that will appear at the Festival.
(LD version is 180, DVD 'Director's Cut' is 166).