WadeM
Supporting Actor
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Whoever owns it needs to release it. The DVD sucks, to be frank. The film is one of the best of its kind, yet no quality release.
It has been up in full on YouTube for a year. That's a pretty good sign that no company cares about it. No one bothers to send a takedown notice.
The company may not care about it, but we do. Ten years ago, Paramount's home video division didn't even seem to know they owned ONE EYED JACKS until that information from this forum and others was practically forced on them. Now, salvaged from public domain hell, we are about to get what I imagine will be a steller release from Criterion.
As far as a "takedown" from YouTube, there are apparently myriad companies involved in the current ownership of THE CHANGELING, and no one of them probably pays much attention to this title. We need to 1. Find out who actually, currently owns the video rights (which is turning out to be a helluva lot more complicated than I'd thought) and 2. Write to them directly to urge a Blu-ray release. We need to let them know that they are sitting on a very popular cult film, which is languishing in video limbo. This is way-y too good a ghost story (a genre that traditionally does very well on video, especially if well done, as this one is) to be collecting dust somewhere.
Paramount didn't own "One Eyed Jacks", Universal did through an asset transaction with Marlon Brando. Universal had the foresight to make sure it was saved from PD hell.
Paramount didn't own "One Eyed Jacks", Universal did through an asset transaction with Marlon Brando.
It is HBO's call on what is released. Warner acts only as a distributor.
It seems it's coming from Severin!
http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=297909
It's funny, just yesterday I said in a Halloween thread here that I'm looking forward to this film, and then a few hours later it got "announced".
Is that Severin label good?
I'm not familiar with their Blurays.
I'm going with the UK release. I already have the CD and I don't need the other stuff...just want the movie. Too expensive, anyway.