Warner working on Scorcese & Streisand box sets (1 Viewer)

[Scott_MacD]

Patrick : Except for those under United Artists/MGM. Which is why the Bonds do not belong to Warner, and likewise so will Raging Bull.

Steve : No. It's non-anamorphic 1.85:1, windowboxed a bit.

 

[Patrick McCart]

Patrick : Except for those under United Artists/MGM. Which is why the Bonds do not belong to Warner, and likewise so will Raging Bull.

I was referring only to the MGM "module" of the company. Actually...WB has a handful of UA titles. Some of the Saul Zaentz Company titles and a few others. They also own the United Artists TV package (which is how WB got back the pre-1950 Warner films) of stuff older than 1986. Oddly enough, UA somehow kept some titles such as The Outer Limits.

Don't you love rights tangles?

 

[Roger Rollins]

Patrick,

Your intentions are good, but your information is skewed.
WB does not own "UA-TV titles".

When Ted Turner purchased MGM/UA and sold back UA to Mr. Kerkorian in the process, the rights to certain properties once owned by UA such as the pre'49 WB titles, Gilligan's Island, and the Popeye cartoon library were transferred to the MGM portion of the library that Turner bought in that complex transaction. Otherwise, the United Artists television library (like THE OUTER LIMITS) remained property of United Artists Corp. Turner later sold the name "MGM" back to Kerkorian, and UA re-named itself MGM.
All of this back and forth happened in 1986.

FYI, since UA was mostly a distribution company, and not a studio in the traditional sense of the word, many films originally released by them reverted to the original producer. Examples of this are Lorimar's BEING THERE (Lorimar was subsequently purchased by WB), or Zoetrope's APOCALYPSE NOW.

Hopefully this clarifies the situation for you.

 

[Patrick McCart]

Oh ok..

I assumed Turner only gave back a few of the titles, instead of just taking a few for his own company.

 

[Andrew_Sch]

Any news on the subject of this thread?? I'm really looking forward to owning Raging Bull and upgrading Goodfellas.

 

[ScottR]

Does anyone know if Taxi Driver will be re-released soon? I have held off buying the current disc.

 

[Phil L]

The current Taxi Driver is a re-release. I wouldn't expect another for quite some time.

 

[Rob Tomlin]

Cept for Cape Fear and Bringing out the Dead, I have always held back on Scorsese titles... now I cannot wait.

With the addition of Taxi Driver (which is a pretty decent disc)to the above, I have also held of on Scorsese titles due to the lack of quality (anamorphic) transfers.
This is great news. I also hope the fifth title is Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

 

[Matthew_S]

there's no way they'd participate in a boxed set with Warner (remember the Kubrick collection sans PATHS OF GLORY, etc.)?

or the Oliver Stone Box Set sans Salvador and Platoon? I read an article with Stone where he said that MGM and Warner were really at each other's throats about the whole thing.

 

[Chris Bardon]

Ron's King of Comedy review reminded me about this thread-any chance that the Scorcese box set will contain more than the 5 films in the release (they did it for Stone, Scorcese deserves at least the same!).

 

[Kevin Leonard]

If the Scorsese box is anything like the Oliver Stone box set, that means we might be seeing contributions from other studios. This makes me hopeful for Buena Vista to toss in a Special Edition of Kundun; I don't think it'd require much effort from them--a non-R1 SE of Kundun already exists (w/ documentaries, photo galleries, DTS, and more).
MGM is already working on their own SE of Raging Bull, and didn't the Digital Bits or DVDFile report that New York, New York would be coming out later next year? So I'd guess the box set would contain either Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (as Jay said), or the SE of Kundun.
By the way, there ARE some other decent Scorsese DVD's already available: The Last Waltz, The Last Temptation of Christ, Boxcar Bertha, The Age of Innocence and A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies are all fine discs.

 

[oscar_merkx]

Has a release date been mentioned for this release, if not we can expect it around the same time when Gangs of New York hits dvd

 

[Anthony Thorne]

If Scorsese is doing new commentaries, you'd think Universal would grab him to do a CASINO chat. Their BORN ON THE 4TH was included in the Oliver Stone box, updated with the sole addition of Stone's commentary. I'd love to see something similar happen with CASINO and Warner's box, but I'm doubtful it will. GOODFELLAS will be pretty special, though.