It's been so slow with classic movie news!! (1 Viewer)

[BethHarrison]

Forgot about the Forbidden Hollywood Vol 2 Collection - my most anticipated DVD release of 2007!!

 

[Corey]

Hopefully Eleanor Powell is coming in December, too.

 

[Thomas T]

Well, Warners just made their first new announcement ..... due out January 8, 2008! Their director series 3 with The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, The Ritz, Personal Best, Tell Me A Riddle, Payday. Can one assume the 2007 releases have all been announced?

 

[Corey]

I don't think they're finished. Blade Runner can't possibly be their only catalog release. No Forbidden Hollywood, Dark Shadow Movies or nothing.

 

[Corey]

Egg on my face. I can't believe all they announced was the Director's Showcase for which I'm so not interested in.

 

[RafaelPires]

Yes, it's very hard to believe we got no announcements from WB, regarding pre-1959 movies in November and December (I'll cry tomorrow was the only movie announced)...
I wonder if they are having a hard time with the sales figures or it's just an expected hiatus, just for them to come back woth tons of classic releases.

 

[BethHarrison]

There seems to be huge demand for Forbidden Hollywood, Bonnie and Clyde, The Candidate and Cool Hand Luke. Would make marketing sense to have them available for Christmas, but I guess my bank account will be glad of a break!

 

[Corey]

This is like the 4th week in a row i've been let down.

 

[Corey]

Tomorrow better be the day.

 

[ReggieW]

Do you think Eleanor Powell will show up before Spencer Tracy or Jean Harlow?

 

[Corey]

Well WB said they would try to have it out by the end of the year and hopefully it's true.

 

[BethHarrison]

Scuttlebutt is that Jean Harlow won't be available until early 2008. So you would expect Tracy and Powell to be released beforehand.

 

[Richard M S]

My guess is that Warners is finished with new announcements of classic films releases in 2007, haven't we already seen one for January 2008?

While I quite honestly hope I am mistaken, if they add something now for November or December they already will have missed inclusion in the upcoming DVD announcements in various newspaper and magazine September "Fall Preview" issues.

 

[CineKarine]

Whenever they do come, I will be ready for those Harlow, Eleanor Powell and Sinatra sets!!!

 

[Corey]

It wouldn't make sense just to forget about December. Why in the hell do you think Blade Runner would be the only thing people would buy?

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

Any speculation as to the Spencer Tracy films that are likely to be included in the eventual Signature Collection?

(PS - This new forum format is making it confusing to read posts with the Re: thread title showing up in each response right above the text as though it were part of the post... kind of annoying.)

 

[Corey]

I heard about The Actress, Test Pilot, and Northwest Passage.

 

[Charles H]

The last couple of pages seems a bit fixated with WB, but perhaps more dispiriting is the absence of anything approaching a classic in December from Paramount and Columbia. I'd give Fox a pass for their massive "Ford at Fox" collection and I wouldn't be surprised if they brought out Charlie Chan #4 and another wave of Film Noir (BLACK WIDOW, DANGEROUS CROSSING, DAISY KENYON) box-arted in Chan #3. But no Screen Legends, Franchise Collection, or Universal Cinema Classics, which we might rightfully expect have been abandoned? My guess is that if "Forbidden Hollywood" #2 does not show up by year's end, it would be because of print condition problems. The tv forum is doing much better with ROUTE 66, SUSPENSE #2, TALES OF TOMORROW #3, CHECKMATE, LAREDO, CIMARRON CITY, THE TALL MAN, THE RESTLESS GUN, RIVERBOAT, and MANNIX.

 

[Corey]

Fox gets a pass, but Universal's record this year with classics has been unacceptable.

 

[MarcoBiscotti]

Save for the 3 Fox Cinema Classics releases this year, it's been especially slow for WESTERNS...