Arrow Announcements, Speculation & Wild, Irresponsible Conjecture

[swo17]

They're all the original ones, except for Dark City, which Arrow already did before

[Maltic]

I was trying to be funny by referring to the Negulesco Road House, but forgot about the most recent one with Gyllenhaal.

[swo17]

Ah yes, that's a good one!

[dwk]

Curious to see if the Paramount deal is just UK ports of stuff they've released in the US or if there will be any UK exclusives of titles licensed to others in the US?

[dwk]

Cliff hinted that there will be UK exclusives in the Paramount deal. He also said they are on their 4th deal with WB (as usual, I hope these unannounced WB titles are more Dark City and less Swordfish.)

[rapta]

Really hoping Arrow can fill in some of these big gaps with regards to Paramount in the UK. Namely Days of Heaven, which is begging for a 4K disc, and hasn't even had a Blu-ray. Come on, Arrow, you can do it!

PS: Part of me a little peeved had to pay through the nose to import Witness, The Warriors, American Gigolo and A Simple Plan...but also happy to see them come out here and will save people a lot of money and faff. Why this couldn't have been done sooner, I guess we'll never know (probably something bureucratic at Paramount's end, to be fair to Arrow). Wonder if Arrow will have first dibs on anything Paramount-related for the UK, or other labels will be able to break through with them (namely Eureka, who used to work quite closely with them).

[Maltic]

Witness, The Warriors, American Gigolo and A Simple Plan.

The other US-exclusive Paramount titles I count were The Shootist, Unman, Wittering and Zigo, and The Tin Star.

Any other? And do we think they'll all be released by Arrow UK now?

[eerik]

I wonder if Arrow has any interest in putting out the American Ring collection to compliment their Japanese Ring collection. They have worked with Shout before, so porting over the work they did for their set would be a good start.

[sabbath]

Witness, The Warriors, American Gigolo and A Simple Plan.

The other US-exclusive Paramount titles I count were The Shootist, Unman, Wittering and Zigo, and The Tin Star.

Any other? And do we think they'll all be released by Arrow UK now?

The Desperate Hours
The Scarface Mob
Red Line 7000
The Assassination Bureau
Barbarella 4K
Murphy's War (Indicator released it in the UK, using a different master)
Fear is the Key
The Day of the Locust
Black Sunday (1977)
Fighting Back
Night Falls on Manhattan
Friday the 13th (2009) 4K

[Maltic]

Nice

I have a few of those that I misremembered as Kino et al

[ryannichols7]

would be stunned if they didn't put out The Assassination Bureau, way more a title that would sell in the UK than it would in the US

[Marwood]

These are all the US only Paramount releases from Arrow as far as i know. Hope we get some of these in the UK too.

2023
Barbarella LE (Blu-ray) OOP
Barbarella LE (4K) OOP
Warriors LE (Blu-ray) LE both cuts OOP
Warriors LE (4K) LE both cuts OOP
Witness LE (Blu-ray) OOP
Witness LE (4K) OOP
The Desperate Hours LE (Blu-ray)
Day of the Locust LE (Blu-ray)
The Assassination Bureau (Blu-ray)
Unman, Wittering and Zigo LE (Blu-ray)
Borsalino LE (Blu-ray)
Murphy's War LE (Blu-ray)
Black Sunday (Blu-ray)
Fighting Back (Blu-ray)

2024
Barbarella REG (Blu-ray)
Barbarella REG (4K)
Warriors REG (Blu-ray) (1 disc just theatrical)
Warriors REG (4K) (1 disc just theatrical)
Night Falls on Manhattan (Blu-ray)
Fear Is The Key (Blu-ray)
Red Line 7000 LE (Blu-ray)
The Scarface Mob LE (Blu-ray)
The Tin Star LE (Blu-ray) OOP
The Shootist LE (Blu-ray) OOP
Friday the 13th LE (4K)
Americn Gigolo LE (Blu-ray)
Americn Gigolo LE (4K)
A Simple Plan LE (Blu-ray)
A Simple Plan LE (4K)

*OOP means that it is no longer sold on Arrow’s site. May still be avaliable at other resellers like Amazon

[Maltic]

would be stunned if they didn't put out The Assassination Bureau, way more a title that would sell in the UK than it would in the US

A real "roast chicken and apple crumble" film.

Reminded me of this review from the user onethink at rateyourmusic.com:

In the first half of the 1970s, when I was a young and mid-teenager, films were still central to television programming. On Sunday night BBC1 would always show a film. They would tend to be new films, but, because of the five year rule that meant there had to be a five year gap between the cinema release and the first showing of a film on TV, they would be films from the 1960s. Not Bonnie and Clyde or Easy Rider, but films that were supposed to appeal to a broader audience. Our household was a broader audience: Sundays were a day of routine: after my grandfather died my grandma would come around, we would have a big Sunday lunch (chicken, always roast chicken), at some point I would do my homework, we would have tea in the early evening and then watch the film on the TV. And, as the years went by and my grandma's hearing got worse, the TV would get louder, everything sounding like a Christopher Nolan film. Of course there were good films - I think it was on a Sunday night that I first saw Hell in the Pacific which blew my teenage mind - but most were stodgy and a bit dull. I don't remember watching The Assassination Bureau, but it would be typical of the sort of films shown. An adventure film that sprawls in a slightly aimless way. A black comedy with characters trying to kill each other in amusing ways: there's the sense that it is trying to be sophisticated, but it is a little charmless and flat. It was put together by the veteran British director-producer team Basil Deardon and Michael Relph: they had been working together since the 1940s and it feels as though they are trying to concoct something a bit trendy and hip to fit the new tastes of the 1960s, but it feels as though they were a bit lost, trying to have some fun but never quite managing it. It can be compared to Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes that came out around the same time: Wilder's film does have symptoms of aimlessness, but Wilder is confident in making an old fashioned film, Deardon and Relph are too intent on being trendy...the result is something closer to Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang. It's watchable, it will make your Sunday evening pass by if you are still stuffed with roast chicken and apple crumble, but it is immediately forgettable.

[rapta]

I wonder if Arrow has any interest in putting out the American Ring collection to compliment their Japanese Ring collection. They have worked with Shout before, so porting over the work they did for their set would be a good start.

Don't know if Paramount would willingly license out The Ring (2002) as they only just released the 4K disc in the UK.

Spoiler

These are all the US only Paramount releases from Arrow as far as i know. Hope we get some of these in the UK too.

2023
Barbarella LE (Blu-ray) OOP
Barbarella LE (4K) OOP
Warriors LE (Blu-ray) LE both cuts OOP
Warriors LE (4K) LE both cuts OOP
Witness LE (Blu-ray) OOP
Witness LE (4K) OOP
The Desperate Hours LE (Blu-ray)
Day of the Locust LE (Blu-ray)
The Assassination Bureau (Blu-ray)
Unman, Wittering and Zigo LE (Blu-ray)
Borsalino LE (Blu-ray)
Murphy's War LE (Blu-ray)
Black Sunday (Blu-ray)
Fighting Back (Blu-ray)

2024
Barbarella REG (Blu-ray)
Barbarella REG (4K)
Warriors REG (Blu-ray) (1 disc just theatrical)
Warriors REG (4K) (1 disc just theatrical)
Night Falls on Manhattan (Blu-ray)
Fear Is The Key (Blu-ray)
Red Line 7000 LE (Blu-ray)
The Scarface Mob LE (Blu-ray)
The Tin Star LE (Blu-ray) OOP
The Shootist LE (Blu-ray) OOP
Friday the 13th LE (4K)
Americn Gigolo LE (Blu-ray)
Americn Gigolo LE (4K)
A Simple Plan LE (Blu-ray)
A Simple Plan LE (4K)

*OOP means that it is no longer sold on Arrow’s site. May still be avaliable at other resellers like Amazon

Think you forgot Narc and Hugo, but yeah this is most of them. As someone pointed out on the other forum, some of these have different rights in the UK - Murphy's War is with HandMade Films (currently Indicator have the rights), some think A Simple Plan may still be with Fremantle Media here, and Hugo was an EiV release in the UK so not sure if it's still with them or has reverted back to Paramount.

Otherwise, the rest should be able to be ported over here AFAIK, and I'm guessing those with 4K options - The Warriors, American Gigolo, Barbarella, Narc, Friday the 13th - will take priority over some of the regular Blu-ray releases, but we'll see. I particularly wanted to import Black Sunday, Night Falls on Manhattan, The Day of the Locust, The Shootist, The Tin Star and Unman, Wittering and Zigo but balked when I found out they were region locked.

[eerik]

Don't know if Paramount would willingly license out The Ring (2002) as they only just released the 4K disc in the UK.

That is true, but they also released it in the US, just seven months after Shout's boxset. Would they care if they'd allow Arrow (or Shout) only to release them in a boxset while retaining themselves the right to release standalone versions? Anyways, I will probaby pick up Shout's US release at some point if there's no news or hints of a potential Arrow UK release. Feeling eerily nostalgic for some of the late 90s/early 00s stuff lately. I guess I'm getting old.

[Finch]

[hearthesilence]

All right, finally, G.I. Joe: The Movie.

[Buttery Jeb]

I assume we'll soon be seeing a supplemental feature with pizza experts discussing the best way to cut pizza with scissors.

[Gregor Samsa]

All right, finally, G.I. Joe: The Movie.

Including the poignant three-hour original documentary Wasssss A Mannnnn: The Traumatic Transmogrification of Cobra Commander.

[hearthesilence]

Kind of nuts that Burgess Meredith would have these two films out in 1987: G.I. Joe: The Movie and Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear.

[Finch]

Could be snakes on a plane. New Line/WB. Another Sam Jackson title.

[DeprongMori]

Could it be a clue for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, with a reference to “the Golden Fang”?

[flyonthewall2983]

Guesses on Instagram were particular towards Cobra

[beamish14]

Guesses on Instagram were particular towards Cobra

Another WB/Stallone pick-up. I’d love to see its legendary rough cut, even if it’s from a VHS

[dwk]

Completing the trilogy