Shout! Factory / Scream Factory

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Looking forward to Saturn 3 since the way it was mocked in a Dodie Bellamy novel intrigued me. Those extras for Cat People should be good. The DVD had a commentary track with Schrader so I'm sure that'll get ported over.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Can't wait for Cat People! It's one of the few Universal titles released on HD-DVD but that's never made it onto Blu-Ray. Considering what Shout! Factory has been licensing from Universal, I'll begin making a shrine and praying to the gods for a great release of Matinee.

[colinr0380]

Looking forward to Saturn 3 since the way it was mocked in a Dodie Bellamy novel intrigued me.

It is cheesy but fun, sometimes unintentionally in the whole love triangle angle between looney Keitel, crusty Douglas and pulchritudinous Fawcett.

It also features the only screenplay so far by the novelist Martin Amis! It would be extremely interesting if they could get his thoughts about the experience.

[Orlac]

Saturn 3 - why did they dub over Harvey Keitel?

[EddieLarkin]

I hope something new will be done for Cat People transfer wise, as the HD-DVD is a horribly sharpened mess. I had to sit at twice my usual viewing distance to endure it.

[domino harvey]

Movies 4 You -- Westerns Oct 15

Gunslinger 1956 When Marshal Scott Hood is murdered his wife, Rose, takes his badge and sets out on a personal vendetta to find the killers. Meanwhile, Rose has her hands full with the unscrupulous Erica Page, the saloon-mistress, who is busy buying up local property because she has a tip the railroad is going to make the town a depot stop. In order to get away cleanly, she hires a gunslinger to kill Rose, but the hired gun quickly falls in love with his intended target. Color, 83 Minutes

Man of the East 1972 Following his dying father's last wish, Joe is sent to the Wild West to be turned into a real man. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights, likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers need to shape him into his father s idea of manhood. Joe fights the transformation, until he has to defend himself against Morton, a vicious gunman, who's jealous of Joe's relationship with a rancher s beautiful daughter. Color, 125 Minutes

Pioneer Woman 1973
A homesteading family in 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East. Color, 74 Minutes

Yuma 1971 U.S. Marshal Dave Harmon, Clint Walker, is sent to clean up the lawless western town of Yuma. Harmon is quickly embroiled in a struggle with the powerful Arch King, Morgan Woodward (Gunsmoke) after shooting King s brother. It will take all of Marshal Harmons s grit and determination to stop the violence and bring justice back to Yuma. Color, 73 Minutes

Charles Bronson Double Feature Oct 22

Love and Bullets (1979)
FBI Agent Charlie Congers, Charles Bronson, is assigned to a case involving a gangster's girlfriend, Jill Ireland, who is being coaxed to give inside information to law enforcement that will put mob boss Joe Bomposa behind bars once and for all. In the end, it turns out that the girlfriend doesn't know much of anything useful to the FBI. But Bomposa feels betrayed and wants her dead anyway. Color, 103 Minutes

Russian Roulette (1975)
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, George Segal, learns about a KGB conspiracy to assassinate their Premier while the leader is visiting Vancouver B.C. After becoming involved in the complicated scheme, he must stay alive and race against time to make sure the assassination does not take place. Color, 93 Minutes

Sahara DVD only Oct 1

And the eventual Cabal release will be DVD-only due to most of the missing material coming from a VHS source

[Graham]

Charles Bronson Double Feature Oct 22

Love and Bullets (1979)
FBI Agent Charlie Congers, Charles Bronson, is assigned to a case involving a gangster's girlfriend, Jill Ireland, who is being coaxed to give inside information to law enforcement that will put mob boss Joe Bomposa behind bars once and for all. In the end, it turns out that the girlfriend doesn't know much of anything useful to the FBI. But Bomposa feels betrayed and wants her dead anyway. Color, 103 Minutes

Russian Roulette (1975)
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, George Segal, learns about a KGB conspiracy to assassinate their Premier while the leader is visiting Vancouver B.C. After becoming involved in the complicated scheme, he must stay alive and race against time to make sure the assassination does not take place. Color, 93 Minutes

A double feature, but not a Charles Bronson one - he isn't in Russian Roulette.

[solaris72]

Saturn 3 - why did they dub over Harvey Keitel?

I read somewhere it was because he refused to return to dub his own voice. (who could blame him?)

[Calvin]

Shout signs ITV deal

[domino harvey]

I hope On Golden Pond's cover gets the Scream Factory treatment, with epic-looking painted depictions of Dabney Coleman and Henry Fonda's hat

[Feego]

Brief Encounter???? What does that mean for the Criterion edition?

[Graham]

I didn't realise they'd signed a deal with ITV and was hoping their release of The Eagle Has Landed would be superior to the apparently subpar UK release. Which seems unlikely now.

[domino harvey]

Brief Encounter???? What does that mean for the Criterion edition?

I think they have the Richard Burton one

[Brian C]

Either that or we all have to run out and get our lean cowherd sets while the sale's still going.

[EddieLarkin]

The press release confirms it is the Richard Burton version.

[colinr0380]

Brief Encounter???? What does that mean for the Criterion edition?

I think they have the Richard Burton one

Ah, that's the 70s TV movie remake that takes the romantic beauty of black and white and the age of steam and tries to update it to the blandly functional electrified train just-pre-Intercity125 era, and tries to make up for that problem by throwing in the star power of Richard Burton and Sophia Loren as ostensible everyday suburban folk!

A fascinating curio but a total point-missing disaster of a remake nevertheless!

I can't wait to see what they might put together for Capricorn One though!

[Feego]

Brief Encounter???? What does that mean for the Criterion edition?

I think they have the Richard Burton one

Ah, that clears it up. The fact that the linked article includes a still shot of Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson didn't help matters.

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Anyone thinking of picking up the Bruce Lee set should probably put that out of their mind now:

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Cliff MacMillan says that the masters they got from Fortune Star were HD and that someone at Fotokem agreed "these look like HD masters." Which if true (and that's a big if) means he should get a new Fotokem guy.

Now Fortune Star is in the habit of fobbing off upscales as HD, but every other release of these in the world is also licensed from FS and features superior transfers (excepting Game of Death, which is an upscale everywhere except Japan, where Paramount did their own scan of the Japanese cut). See Kentai's post here for a comparison from The Big Boss.

[rwaits]

Thanks for linking. That's terribly disappointing.

[JamesF]

Shout signs ITV deal

I foresee (and hope for) a Scream Factory edition of The Company Of Wolves...

[domino harvey]

Shout signs ITV deal

I foresee (and hope for) a Scream Factory edition of The Company Of Wolves...

Let's hope they don't use the same master from the UK Blu-ray. Le woof!

[Forrest Taft]

Uhhhh....I ordered the UK BD two days ago. Is it not a very good disc?

[domino harvey]

Uhhhh....I ordered the UK BD two days ago. Is it not a very good disc?

I just watched it-- tons of noise (think Italian masters like Django), probably the most I've ever seen in a Blu-ray. Print is old and un-restored. The subs are small and were presented so low that for some reason they were cut off by my TV, which I've never seen happen. It does contain extras that aren't advertised on the packaging at all-- Neil Jordan commentary, &c. I've sat through way worse presentations on DVD and TV rips and so on, but be prepared in what you're gonna see

[Forrest Taft]

Thanks for the prompt reply. Hadn't shipped yet, so now I've cancelled it. Will wait and see what Shout does with the title.

[dwk]

**IMPORTANT UPDATE on the ALL NIGHT HORROR MARATHON release**

We’re really sorry about the following news but, unfortunately, the ALL NIGHT HORROR MARATHON release has been delayed from its original 8/20 date and is being overhauled due to unforeseen legal issues on one of the films in the set - Schizoid (1971) – which now has to be removed.

The new street date is 10/8.

Schizoid is being replaced by the classic Debbie Reynolds 1971 shocker 'What's the Matter with Helen'.

The Vagrant, The Outing and The Godsend will stay put on the set as originally planned. New artwork as pictured.

ALL NIGHT HORROR MARATHON VOL 2 (The Dungeonmaster, Catacombs, Contamination 7, Cellar Dweller) will still release as planned on 10/29.

We appreciate your understanding and patience. Thank you.