I'm on Warner's online fan focus-survey group, and--even if I weren't under NDA for the content--you don't wanna KNOW some of the test-balloon sales pitches we've been asked, as Warner tried bravely throughout the 10's to bail digital/Ultraviolet's sinking ship. By the end, we heard true...
BECAUSE
THE
ARCHIVE
IS
NOT
THE
RETAIL
DIVISION.
The retail WHE has been one of the most flat-out neurotic disk-studios of the past 10 years, some say almost deliberately trying to orchestrate the "death" rumors of physical-disk singlehandedly since '11 while promoting the doomed Ultraviolet...
Well, WHE's mainstream paranoia that "Nobody's buying retail disks, so why bother to sell them vintage catalog they've never heard of?" is partially correct in that retail disk isn't really for sale anywhere anymore.
Big-box retail has pretty much cleared off their shelves, except for...
Aside from Unforgiven and GoodFellas, anyone notice that Warner's "Best of 90's" is almost entirely New Line?
Be fair, Warner DID corner the market on the Best Pop-Iconic Movies of the 80's, just like Paramount did with the 70's and Fox did with the 60's.
While Universal keeps trying to push...