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A similar warning plays before Holiday Inn.

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it."

Ain't technology great?

Not so much problems with MODs as problems with players. Some just don't like them.

Boy, do I hear this a lot.

I think I know what you mean now, having perused the interwebs.

WAC is well aware of the requests for Captain Blood and spoke of it back on the old Warner Archive podcast. IIRC, it requires a lot of work to get ready for BD, inclusive of finding the best possible elements.

Let me be the animation enthusiast contrarian here and voice my support for Cats Don’t Dance. The lone Turner Animation theatrical release, directed by Mark Dindal (The Emperor’s New Groove, Chicken Little), with a stellar voice cast and choreography input from Gene Kelly, not to mention great...

Hard to say. MGM licenced the film to another distributor for 25 years, and most discussion of the ONeg references the lost footage from the original 90 minute cut.

Not entirely accurate. WBD did licence both Terminator: Genisys and Terminator: Dark Fate from Paramount, in addition to Judgment Day, for their latest Terminator box.

Warners can’t release them of their own volition, but they do have a distribution arrangement for physical media with MGM. If MGM should decide to release their UA Elvis titles physically, Warners will distribute.

I’ll take daguerreotypes, thank you very much.

Warner's been getting better on the issue of logo erasure.

And this is the rub for both these titles, so accessing the elements has a few layers of complication, and 80 Days is in need of some TLC for sure. WB didn’t originally distribute or produce Raintree County or 80 Days. The same is true of some other titles mentioned. Top Hat (RKO), Gunga Din...

Keep in mind the sale doesn't start until the 23rd. Anything can happen between now and then.

Music clearances are a nightmare. Just ask Sony Pictures re: Heavy Metal [took 15 years to get it out on VHS] or Paramount for Looking For Mr. Goodbar [released on VHS/Beta with replaced music, and never since]. It's only gotten worse in recent years, because music companies and rights holders...

WKRP was released by Shout! Factory and was an MTM title [now owned by Disney thru its acquisition of Fox]. Nothing to do with WAC.

Agreed. Feltenstein said in podcasts postdating the merger [including HTF's own podcast] that he was optimistic about what would happen re: WAC after the merger.

At least he didn't call him Zardoz?

Everyone is going to find something that got missed when the catalogue is as massive as WBs is now. I highlighted Dallas above to point one thing out: Dallas isn't a Warner title; it's Lorimar, later acquired by WB.

Maybe it’s a generational thing. I was 5 when the ‘76 version came out and didn’t see it until it showed up on TV. It’s not a good movie, but it’s never boring. The 2005 Kong? I’ve never been able to stay awake through the whole thing. I have all 3 on disc, but only have the ‘33 on DVD in the...

Different strokes for different folks, but I think we can all agree that either version is preferable to Peter Jackson’s bloated 2005 version.

Exactly; why? The extant elements of King Kong would derive absolutely NO benefit from a 4K UHD master, never mind HDR. The amount of primitive optical effects makes it a poor candidate for 4K.

I think they should've gone with a mirrorball influenced logo and call the new company DiscoWB. :drum:

MGM still was issuing DVDs of the Warner-held titles until 2000, because of a licencing agreement in place with Turner. Some of Warner's DVDs issued following the expiry of that licence were simple represses of the original MGM discs.

I have the Wings Blu-ray, and it is rather lovely.

The Blu-ray does look amazing, but it's the law of diminishing returns the further you go back in time and try to coax more detail out of 35mm nitrate film. The processes really didn't allow for 4K of information to be captured on 35mm at that time. My immediate go-to when it comes to films of...

Seriously? I doubt there's 2K of resolution in the elements, much less 4K, plus HDR will do nothing. NOTHING.

And with good reason. HDR will do next to nothing for b&w films of the era, and 4K is arguably only advantageous for the paltry amount of large format b&w films from the late 20s and early 30s.

Who knows? Maybe there are a handful of WAC diehards clamouring for early Kevin Costner. I'm not, but I'm not going to give anyone grief for wanting them.