Arrow Announcements, Speculation & Wild, Irresponsible Conjecture

[Finch]

Arrow shared the Rollerball theatrical poster with the caption 50th anniversary on their twitter account.

[Orlac]

Creepshow 2 ?

my first thought too, but looks like they already released that; and not sure a 4k upgrade would merit headlining their teaser...

Creepshow 2 was one of several titles where they goofed on the aspect ratio by showing the left-hand side where the soundtrack goes.

[What A Disgrace]

We already know Creepshow 2 is coming out on 4K, they teased it among a few other titles in a trailer.

[rapta]

American Gigolo 4K
Creepshow 2 4K
Lost in Space 4K
Proof of the Man
The Woods
Deadstream

Strangely no standard Blu-ray for American Gigolo (we got one for Witness, so why not this?). Already have the US 4K LE but just curious why they've done that.

Only other title of interest here is Proof of the Man, which I figured might come from Radiance/Eureka but nice to see Arrow are doing some Kadokawa stuff.

[jazzo]

This postcard was in my Dark City set.

I had to look it up, but it’s for Masato Harada’s 2001, Inugami. Sounds pretty interesting, if anyone would like to sell me on it.

[dwk]

Someone at the Blu-ray.com forum said they got a Salem's Lot card in their copy of The Long Kiss Goodnight

[nicolas]

The House with Laughing Windows 4K trailer.

It seems Arrow either did a new restoration altogether or at least a regrade as the French release is said to have a yellow Ritrovata grade

[Finch]

(fake tweet removed)

We know they have House with Laughing Windows for the US. And since it's October, The Sadness 4K could be the UK exclusive. Salem's Lot would also make a lot of sense.

Outside of the horror stuff, they still have: Ms. 45 (4K?), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (maybe November?), The Visitor 4K and UK only 4Ks of Nightbreed, Mona Lisa, To Live and Die in L.A., Rawhead Rex, The Apartment and Rollerball

[dwk]

That is a joke post from the Blu-ray.com forum

[Lowry_Sam]

The Happiness Of The Katakuris has been oop for a while. Does Arrow still have the rights or should we look elsewhere for a 4k upgrade?

[MichaelB]

Why would anyone release a shot-in-HD film in 4K, unless they were cynically trying to fleece gullible punters?

[dwk]

In the US, Katakuris is now with Discotek, who released it on Blu-ray last year.

[Lowry_Sam]

I hadn't realized that. I remembered it being better quality (from rep house screenings in the 90s) than Gozu, Visitor Q & Ichii, and saw some rumblings of Ichii getting a 4k, so I searched on bluray.com which only turned up current blu-rays for Ichi & a phantom page for upcoming Ichi 4k, nothing for the other 3 (except the now oop Arrow of Katakuris).

[beamish14]

I hope Miike’s Izo can finally get a high-quality release

The City of Lost Souls was an acquisition of the American Cinematheque’s under Dennis Bartok’s stewardship. Now that he has Deaf Crocodile, I wonder if he could get it again

[yoloswegmaster]

I hope they can get the rights to Fudoh, since Media Blasters is selling their edition to U.S. customers only.

[Finch]

In The Mouth of Madness is coming. A BR.com user had a postcard for it with his Zombie Flesh Eaters 4K.

[jt938]

A Blu-ray.com user found a postcard for Three...Extremes in their Zombie Flesh Eaters.

[yoloswegmaster]

That's another Tartan title coming back into print. I hope that it includes the longer version of Dumplings.

If there are releasing more Tartan titles in the future, then I hope they get around to Fulltime Killer, The Twilight Samurai, and Breaking News.

[Finch]

Seconding The Twilight Samurai, especially if they can get a new scan.

[Finch]

MifuneFan posted an image from In The Mouth of Madness with Sam Neill's face covered by crosses so that would fit. Also, yet another title leaked via postcards, this time, The Oily Maniac (1976), likely for Shawscope Vol 4.

[Finch]

Turtles won't be happening for October or November. bleedandtrim mentioned this on BR:

James White confirmed it's the trilogy at Cinema Rediscovered's physical media panel today, and Jo Griffin from R3store - who's handling Arrow's restoration - said they finanally (and only just recently) sourced the negative for the original film after first starting the project using an inter-neg and inter-positive as the basis.

Which leaves two UK exclusives for tomorrow, The Sadness 4K and something else, probably the Ms.45 4K.

[jt938]

Someone on Blu-ray.com found a Red Sonja postcard in their Poseidon 4k.

[dwk]

Red Sonja was one of those leaked Scream/Shout Factory titles that ultimately never happened. I assume, at this point, that Scream/Shout Factory is done with new Warner licenses.

[dwk]

Blu-ray.com poster said they got an Excalibur postcard in their copy of Zombie.

[Matt]

Ooh, yeah, I'd buy Excalibur on UHD. Kind of a silly film, but it looks great and was a childhood favorite.