Warner Archive Announcements Thread (4 Viewers)

[Alan Tully]

Yeah! We want some Flynny. It seems like an age since any announcements, well last December anyway.

 

[Arthur Powell]

I most definitely agree about Errol Flynn. Bring on Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk, Charge of the Light Brigade, Gentleman Jim, etc. I have been hoping that WAC will give Flynn the treatment it has shown to Humphrey Bogart. For that matter, I've been dismayed about the lack of pre-1940 classics. In all the years we've been getting WAC blu-rays, I think we've only seen one released (42nd Street). It's definitely time to see a lot more!

 

[Dick]

Damn, these supposed announcements for 2018 are slow in coming! I assume The Archives have good reasons for this. I should have more patience, and maybe within hours of this post new Blu-ray titles wlll be announced, but it really has been a long, long wait...I am thinking DARK OF THE SUN may be one of the next...

 

[dana martin]

maybe we should change the title of the thread, almost March now, January is in the rear view mirror,

 

[atfree]

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[Dick]

maybe we should change the title of the thread, almost March now, January is in the rear view mirror,

Can't do that without admin help. A bunch of DVD's have been announced, but no Blu-rays...?

 

[ahollis]

Or just change it to “While We Wait For Warner Archive Announcements”. That keeps it always in date.

 

[JPCinema]

Getting concerned now.

 

[Dick]

Or just change it to “While We Wait For Warner Archive Announcements”. That keeps it always in date.

Again, good suggestion, but requires admin adjustment.

 

[trajan007]

Again, good suggestion, but requires admin adjustment.

Getting concerned now.

Maybe they are getting ready to announce RYANS DAUGHTER
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[Randy Korstick]

It seems long for the announcements because they announced both January and February in December. But we should be getting March announcements any day now.

 

[JPCinema]

Guessing 4 titles over 2 months...and the they are scaling back. I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Alan Tully]

Maybe it's an

Guessing 4 titles over 2 months...and the they are scaling back. I hope I'm wrong.

Ha, that's what I'm thinking, same again. It's not really a late announcement if it's for March & April.

 

[atfree]

Guessing 4 titles over 2 months...and the they are scaling back. I hope I'm wrong.

My fear as well. Only 1 release in January, 2 in February. Ironic in that Universal just announced a slew of catalog titles, although we'll see if that continues.

 

[AnthonyClarke]

How about some Basil Rathbone or Claude Rains pirate movies. Such as 'The Sea Hawk' and 'Captain Blood'. Those will do for a starter.

 

[Astairefan]

Personally, I think we will still have a fairly full month of announcements (not two months worth). I think what MIGHT be happening is them accounting for fan demands and what they can handle. Last year, their main emphasis was Blu-ray releases. I think they frustrated some of their fans by only re-releasing OOP WHV releases on dvd for most of the year. From my perspective, their blu releases seemed to be coming smoothly until later in the year, when they tried to release more new-to-dvd movies. At that point, it seemed like they had some trouble, with some releases getting delayed a month. I think they realized they can't do new-to-dvd AND new-to-blu at the pace they were trying to do, and pulled back a little on blu releases in order to still give their dvd-only fans what they wanted (since they are the group that WAC was promising to take care of when the program began, and they have admitted that not everything has the elements to do blu only). Again, this is only a theory on what might be happening.
I also think, if we were all really thinking and paying attention, we could have seen the lack of announcements for February releases coming. First, they announced seven titles (again, they had trouble releasing six titles in a month the last few months of 2017). Secondly, they announced a tv-on-blu title (Animal Kingdom season 2), which had already been announced (on dvd) as a February release (and WAC has yet to release their blus prior to their WHV counterpart). Finally, the fact that they didn't start releasing ANYTHING until halfway through January should have been a tip-off (going back to my first point about speed of releases). I will agree to at least a partial surprise, however, that they didn't at least add one more movie for February, but again, I think it might have something to do with them trying to give people more movies on dvd as well.

 

[ahollis]

Warners has always been slow and quiet the first couple of months of the year due to holidays getting past and other holidays during January and February. I expect a good number of titles coming in the next few weeks. I’m not worried.

 

[Konstantinos]

With this delay I'm waiting for something huge to be announced, but I'm sure this won't be the case.

 

[commander richardson]

With this delay I'm waiting for something huge to be announced, but I'm sure this won't be the case.

Ryan's Daughter would be nice and lets face it we all want this BD and even the people who do not want it want it....

 

[dana martin]

With this delay I'm waiting for something huge to be announced, but I'm sure this won't be the case.

i know, this place is packed with ideas, when it does happen, wonder what's on the other side of that door