The Fog (1980) 4K UHD mini review (1 Viewer)

[Worth]

They might get a domestic release through Lionsgate, which handles North American distribution for Studio Canal. But who knows?

 

[Bryan^H]

When it comes to the actual discs do the standard editions omit the special/bonus feature disc or just the soundtrack CD?

Poster, soundtrack and booklet are missing. Bonus content on disc remain. But remember the BD (with special features) itself is locked in region B. If you're buying this for all region you are only getting the 4K disc in that department.

 

[Derrick King]

They might get a domestic release through Lionsgate, which handles North American distribution for Studio Canal. But who knows?

MGM has the US home video rights to The Fog, while the US home video rights to They Live and Prince of Darkness are with Universal.

 

[Worth]

MGM has the US home video rights to The Fog, while the US home video rights to They Live and Prince of Darkness are with Universal.

Ah, right, forgot about that. I saw The Fog and Escape From New York theatrically recently, and they opened with the Studio Canal logo.

 

[darkrock17]

The Fog is an AVCO Embassy Pictures production.

This section from Wikipedia explains who owns what.

Library ownership and property rights
Today, the Embassy corporation, its divisions and film and television holdings, are split. The underlying rights to a majority of the Embassy library are currently held by French production company StudioCanal, with individual media rights leased to other companies. The theatrical rights to the Embassy film library were previously managed by Stuart Lisell Films, and are now serviced by Rialto Pictures.

Home entertainment rights (DVD, Blu-ray) were previously divided among Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, and Anchor Bay Entertainment, via separate output deals. Currently, the majority of the best-known Embassy titles are controlled by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer due to previous VHS or DVD releases through their inheritance of PolyGram's “Epic” film library, with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment handling distribution for MGM, and in turn sublicensed to other video companies for its prestige titles packaged as special collectors’ editions. Any other remaining titles are handled by Lionsgate Home Entertainment, due to their longtime relationship with StudioCanal over their Carolco library.

Sony Pictures Entertainment retained the television rights to most of the Embassy theatrical library and the Embassy logo, names, and trademarks through its subsidiary ELP Communications.[16]

 

[FanboyZ]

long time thread bump, but the pitch issues on this thread are very troubling. I don't have it anymore but was the Scream disc's 5.1 pitched wrong too?