Pre-Order Rosemary's Baby (1968) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder (1 Viewer)

Ronald Epstein · Mar 1, 2021

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TravisR · Mar 1, 2021

This is an odd one since Criterion already released it. I guess they're aiming for people that don't want to spend more money on the Criterion disc.

DigniT@DigniT! · Mar 1, 2021

The existing release is excellent!

Trancas · Mar 1, 2021

It looks like Paramount has withdrawn Criterion's blu ray license. This is from Criterion's web page.

Ronald Epstein · Mar 1, 2021

Trancas said:
It looks like Paramount has withdrawn Criterion's blu ray license. This is from Criterion's web page.
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That's very interesting

So, perhaps, these are the exact same transfers since they were probably prepared by the studio.

As Travis has suggested, Paramount is now pricing these for more budget-minded collectors

TravisR · Mar 1, 2021

Trancas said:
It looks like Paramount has withdrawn Criterion's blu ray license. This is from Criterion's web page.
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I looked at that and figured it was just back-ordered due to last week's sale. However, I just now looked at Don't Look Now, and Days Of Heaven and they also have the "Currently Unavailable" designation so I think you're right.

It's weird that Criterion still has the rights to all three on DVD though.

Jake Lipson · Mar 1, 2021

TravisR said:
It's weird that Criterion still has the rights to all three on DVD though.

This is just a guess, but maybe Criterion still has the DVDs in stock because they haven't sold out yet.

I know this isn't an exact comparison, but when Disney used to pull their animated classics out of print, they never recalled copies from the stores. It was just that after whatever date Disney decided to pull the title, they wouldn't provide new copies. Existing copies were available in stores until they sold out.

So perhaps Criterion sold out of the Blu-rays already and still has a handful of DVD copies available until they run out.

Josh Steinberg · Mar 1, 2021

As long as Criterion has been putting out discs, there have been titles that they’ve had non-exclusive rights to. What’s changing here (at first glance) seems to be part of Paramount’s re-entry back into the physical media space after outsourcing their distribution for many years. They’ve lately been throwing a whole bunch of stuff at the wall to see what will stick.

David Norman · Mar 1, 2021

The Criterion.com listing is pretty typical of anything backordered, but the Deep Discount listing is unusual.
Instead of just saying backordered -- "Sold Out - We Don’t Know When Or If This Will Be Available Again."
I'm not sure I've seen that wording before/

Still copies at B&N online and most stores though at full price.
Amazon price still 27.99 and at some stock

I don;t think BBY and Target have had it available is quite a while

Dick · Mar 1, 2021

Ronald Epstein said:
That's very interesting

So, perhaps, these are the exact same transfers since they were probably prepared by the studio.

As Travis has suggested, Paramount is now pricing these for more budget-minded collectors

Except for the majority of us, who wait for B&N half-price and Criterion flash sales.

Thomas T · Mar 1, 2021

I'm assuming the Paramount release of these ex-Criterion titles (Rosemary's Baby, Don't Look Now, Days Of Heaven) will be released without any of the extras on the Criterion (which I assume are the property of Criterion and not Paramount).

darkrock17 · Mar 1, 2021

Thomas T said:
I'm assuming the Paramount release of these ex-Criterion titles (Rosemary's Baby, Don't Look Now, Days Of Heaven) will be released without any of the extras on the Criterion (which I assume are the property of Criterion and not Paramount).

Yes, anything produced for Criterion is retained by them. If any of these Paramount re-releases have any extras it will most likely just be the trailers only.

Lord Dalek · Mar 1, 2021

Criterion hasn't announced any of these titles as going OOP so its possible they're just renewing the licenses. Usually they're pretty forthcoming about what's being semi-permanently discontinued.

haineshisway · Mar 1, 2021

But same transfers - has that been confirmed?

darkrock17 · Mar 1, 2021

haineshisway said:
But same transfers - has that been confirmed?

Nothing is confirmed except there street dates, May 25.

TravisR · Mar 1, 2021

Josh Steinberg said:
What’s changing here (at first glance) seems to be part of Paramount’s re-entry back into the physical media space after outsourcing their distribution for many years. They’ve lately been throwing a whole bunch of stuff at the wall to see what will stick.

To me, it seems like they're trying to get a few more sales out of smaller titles one last time in the physical media era. Their biggest or newer titles will probably come to 4K but, tragically, I don't think Paramount will be releasing My Bloody Valentine on UHD.

PMF · Mar 1, 2021

haineshisway said:
But same transfers - has that been confirmed?

Didn’t want to chance it - transfer wise - so today I picked up “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Don’t Look Now” from Barnes and Noble. Both are no brainers for my library; but I’ve got about a 100 Criterion’s to catch up on. Thankfully, “Days of Heaven” was mine as soon as it came out.

PMF · Mar 1, 2021

TravisR said:
To me, it seems like they're trying to get a few more sales out of smaller titles one last time in the physical media era. Their biggest or newer titles will probably come to 4K but, tragically, I don't think Paramount will be releasing My Bloody Valentine on UHD.

This is the first time that I’ll be disagreeing with you, TravisR; which, I hope, you’ll find to be a good thing.

In terms of Physical Media, Paramount appears to be quite active, these days. Yup, it’s the big classics finding their way to 4K/UHD; such as “The Ten Commandments” and “My Fair Lady”. But then we’ve also got their newer BD program with “Paramount Presents” which had numbered spines; therefore, an indicator of many more, ahead. And then we’ve got the not-exclusive-to-Criterion outputs becoming available, as well; plus surprises like “Bagger Vance”.

For such an ever-rumored Physical Media funeral march, I’m finding it hard to believe that the casket even has an actual corpse in it.

B-ROLL · Mar 1, 2021

PMF said:
This is the first time that I’ll be disagreeing with you, TravisR; which, I hope, you’ll find to be a good thing.

In terms of Physical Media, Paramount appears to be quite active, these days. Yup, it’s the big classics finding their way to 4K/UHD; such as “The Ten Commandments” and “My Fair Lady”. But then we’ve also got their newer BD line with their “Paramount Presents” program; with numbered spines, which is an indicator of many more, ahead. And then we’ve got the not-exclusive-to-Criterion outputs becoming available, as well; plus surprises like “Bagger Vance”.

For such an ever-rumored Physical Media funeral march, I’m finding it hard to believe that the casket even has an actual corpse in it.

The death knell of physical media seems like many things in films - not all it appears to be ...

I can only state that Sony who re-released the film referenced on in the picture in my current post on blu-ray carried over the bonus features that were on the Twilight Time blu-ray of the film. Also, they released Mr. S's Taxi Driver on blu-ray featuring the Criterion commentary.

I doubt Paramount/CBS whatever they call themselves this week would license materials from Criterion not created by Paramount - but you never know. Maybe they could make them an offer they couldn't refuse.

darkrock17 · Mar 1, 2021

B-ROLL said:
I doubt Paramount/CBS whatever they call themselves this week would license materials from Criterion not created by Paramount - but you never know. Maybe they could make them an offer they couldn't refuse.

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