Olive Films

[pointless]

For June 9th: Jack Hill's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), Bruce D. Clark's Hammer (1972), Arthur Marks' Friday Foster (1975), and Susan Seidelman's She-Devil (1989).

[Cinephrenic]

Nice more Blaxploitation.

[smokes]

7/28/15

Roar (1981)

i watched this last weekend and it was a trip. when i originally saw the trailer i refused to believe that was really tippi hedren and melanie griffith in the film- but it was. absolutely unbelievable that this was produced. it's like the most dangerous jackass experiment mixed with swiss family robinson and 100 wild animals.

olive films and drafthouse really did a bangup job with the transfer as the film now looks gorgeous

[Ashirg]

Also, it's been delayed til October 6.

[Orlac]

For June 9th: Jack Hill's Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), Bruce D. Clark's Hammer (1972), Arthur Marks' Friday Foster (1975), and Susan Seidelman's She-Devil (1989).

Funny...that's the second film called She Devil that Olive has released!

[captveg]

More June titles:

Fled (1996)
The Mean Season (1985)
Johnny Be Good (1988)
Soul Plane (2004)
Stone Cold (1991)
The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
Thrashin' (1986)

[ccfixx]

More June titles:

Thrashin' (1986)

This was the best news my childhood self could have read this morning when I first saw that it was announced! Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, Bones Brigade skaters, Per Welinder, Red Hot Chili Peppers performing Blackeyed Blonde, and Meatloaf's title song are all ingredients for a successful trip down memory lane that I like to frequent quite often.

[vidussoni]

Working on Saul Bass' Phase IV

[britcom68]

Working on Saul Bass' Phase IV

If this is true my already lousy weekend just was officially ruined. Phase IV deserves better than Olive. I don't know who can do it better justice, but at least not a barebones. Might as well give it to StudioCanal!

[solaris72]

If they can restore the original cut, or at least the original ending, I'll be happy with Olive releasing it.

[Calvin]

I have my fingers crossed that MoC will release it in the UK. I'd love Bass' short films to be included, along with the original ending, and I have little faith in Olive to deliver on that account but here's hoping.

[pointless]

July titles

Ned Kelly (Tony Richardson, 1970)
Street Smart (Jerry Schatzberg, 1987)
Criminal Law (Martin Campbell, 1988)
Roller Boogie (Mark L. Lester, 1979)
Wild Thing (Max Reid, 1987)
King of the Gypsies (Frank Pierson, 1978)
Baby, It's You (John Sayles, 1983)
Hell's Five Hours (Jack L. Copeland, 1958)
Adventures of Captain Fabian (William Marshall, 1951)
The Eternal Sea (John H. Auer, 1955)
Man of Conquest (George Nichols Jr., 1939)

Relentless Justice (2014) - DVD Only
Dark by Noon (2013) - DVD Only

[domino harvey]

So Olive has the Paramount titles previously with Legend

[kneelzod]

July titles
Baby, It's You (John Sayles, 1983)

My guess, though I'd love to be wrong, is that BABY IT'S YOU will retain the "rescored for home video" soundtrack that existed on the Legend DVD and previous Paramount home video iterations.

[captveg]

Now remaining from the older Paramount/Republic deal(s) (11):

The Adalen Riots (1969)
Beware, My Lovely (1952)
A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950)
The Invisible Monster (1950)
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974)
No Man's Woman (1955)
Outrage (1950)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
The Sound of Fury (1950)

DVD-only released, Blu-ray upgrade pending (6):

The Buccaneer (1938)
The Lawless (1950)
No Man of Her Own (1950)
Pony Express (1953)
Something to Live For (1952)
Tropic of Cancer (1970)

[Jameson281]

If they can restore the original cut, or at least the original ending, I'll be happy with Olive releasing it.

Posted on blu-ray.com:

Hey there. I wrote The Moving Image article but honestly have no idea what Olive Films has planned. When I heard they had licensed the film for Blu-ray, I reached out to them, alerting them to the other available outtake material, and asked if I could mention in the article that they were working on it. They said yes, and that they would be in touch, but have been unresponsive since then. I expect they will merely add the montage ending as a bonus, or incorporate it into the theatrical cut (which would not represent a true version of the film). This would be the easiest thing for them, as the work has already been done by the Academy in cooperation with Paramount, and reinstating the preview version would require a lot more than what Olive is willing/can afford to do. But like I said, they don't return my emails anymore, so maybe they'll surprise us!

[theflirtydozen]

7/28/15

Roar (1981)

So my amazon pre-order for this was canceled today "due to a lack of availability." Anybody know what's going on with this?

[captveg]

7/28/15

Roar (1981)

So my amazon pre-order for this was canceled today "due to a lack of availability." Anybody know what's going on with this?

It got delayed to the Fall.

[captveg]

8/25/15

The Babysitter (1995)
Daniel (1983)
The Last American Virgin (1982)
The Sender (1982)
The Singing Detective (2003)
Student Bodies (1981)

[Perkins Cobb]

Student Bodies is one of the Paramount titles that Legend Films released on Blu-ray, so is this just a reissue? It would be hilarious if Student Bodies gets not one but two Blu-ray transfers!

[captveg]

September titles (via Pro-B on bluray.com forums):

Antitrust (2001) (via MGM) (BD only)
Black Caesar (1973) (via MGM) (BD/DVD)
Blumenthal (2013) (BD/DVD)
Deuces Wild (2002) (via MGM) (BD only)
Dirty Work (1998) (via MGM) (BD only)
Fatal Instinct (1993) (via MGM) (BD only)
For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983) (BD/DVD)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) (via Paramount) (BD/DVD)
The Invisible Monster (1950) (via Paramount / Republic Library) (BD/DVD)
King of the Hill - Season 12 (2008) (via Fox) (DVD only)
Mad Dog Time (1996) (via MGM) (BD/DVD)
Madhouse (1990) (via MGM) (BD/DVD)
Mannequin (1987) (via MGM) (BD only)
Mannequin Two: On the Move (1991) (via MGM) (BD only)
The Mighty Quinn (1989) (via MGM) (BD only)
The Mod Squad (1999) (via MGM) (BD only)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987) (via MGM) (BD/DVD)
S.F.W. (1994) (via MGM) (BD only)
Slaughter (1972) (via MGM) (BD/DVD)
Some Kind of Hero (1982) (via Paramount) (BD/DVD)
The Woods (2006) (via MGM) (BD only)

[pointless]

Cover art for many of the aforementioned September titles.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Olive going balls out to maximise their presence in the worst covers thread.

[repeat]

Boy, I sure hope all this will in some mysterious way end up contributing to making those upcoming Widerberg discs as luxurious as possible :-"

[domino harvey]

Olive is really testing my love for the Mannequin movies by not pairing them together for their upgrades