I thought the last we heard from Image - regarding their batch of the OOP titles (Time Bandits, Blood for Dracula, etc) - was that "Yeah, Criterion can have them again, but thus far they haven't asked us." I can't think of any other reason why Image wouldn't let them go.Gregory wrote:I recently sent a Mulvaney e-mail to ask if this was indeed going to become available again. The reply was that it was OOP because they lost the rights...If we should ever recover the rights to any of our out-of-print titles, we will happily rerelease them. However, to the best of my knowledge, at this time we have no plans to rerelease any of our out-of-print titles.
Speaking of which, has Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein had their rights situation change? They show up on Westchester's website (along with things like Quadrophenia, Breaker Morant, Hoop Dreams, etc). So it might appear that the chance for a Criterion edition is much more likely than ever.