I hope that, if such an award exists anywhere, Columbia-TriStar will win for Most Degraded Studio of 2003 (or at least tie with Universal). Not even Lawrence of Arabia: Superbit can redeem them for what they've done.
Besides the aforementioned things, they have also INTENTIONALLY applied...
Well, Gulliver is in the public domain, and none of those DVDs are official. Currently, Artisan has the DVD rights to Gulliver's Travels and Mr. Bug Goes to Town...and they haven't been doing spit with any of Republic's animation holdings. When the rights revert to Paramount (who own...
This is a somewhat stupid move; they seem to think that the enthusiasts who care about OAR will always buy the unrated version. It is like that in some cases...but not all.
This is going to be an R1 disc as well, and is coming from SOFA Entertainment / Goodtimes. (Don't worry, SOFA owns the rights to the show, so it's not a bootleg/public-domain release.)
I'm sure Paramount will get around to releasing season sets sometime in the future. If they're doing Lucy and Honeymooners, who's to say they won't do Andy?
You know what? I can't think of any remakes of original (non-adaptation) movies that are better than the originals...which just proves my point, that no matter what, if you try to remake an original movie, you'll never match up to the original.
Wow, I didn't know that. This is probably the best explanation, and it makes the most sense. Though this could mean that Weaver could be holding back the release of this disc for quite a while...
...it could be like True Lies: SE, where it won't come to DVD until someone believes it's not in...