Dick
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Universal could not have any idea how successful their 3-D release of CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON was. It was originally, and for over a year I think, available only as part of an 8-title monster series box set, and the 3-D version was actually a bonus feature! And after it's individual release, they wouldn't be able to guage the success of this title, as anyone who was a 3-D fan had already bought it in the box set, having no idea whether it would come out as a single. My suspicion is that the individual release was probably a bust.
I think IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, REVENGE OF THE CREATURE and anything thing else they own from the classic 3-D era would do quite well. Not gangbusters, like a recent action thriller, but damn, I wish these executives had among them at least one true classic film fan who would advocate for these titles. The two I mention would go a long distance toward filling in the classic 3-D gaps on Blu-ray. If only they would produce a sci-fi box set similar to their monster set, and include Blu-rays of INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THIS ISLAND EARTH, MONOLITH MONSTERS, TARANTULA, THE LAND UNKNOWN, plus these two 2D/3D titles, I can't imagine they would go broke. Did the monsters set die a horrible retail death? I didn't get that impression.
I think IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, REVENGE OF THE CREATURE and anything thing else they own from the classic 3-D era would do quite well. Not gangbusters, like a recent action thriller, but damn, I wish these executives had among them at least one true classic film fan who would advocate for these titles. The two I mention would go a long distance toward filling in the classic 3-D gaps on Blu-ray. If only they would produce a sci-fi box set similar to their monster set, and include Blu-rays of INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THIS ISLAND EARTH, MONOLITH MONSTERS, TARANTULA, THE LAND UNKNOWN, plus these two 2D/3D titles, I can't imagine they would go broke. Did the monsters set die a horrible retail death? I didn't get that impression.