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dwk · #1276 Post by **dwk** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 1:41 am

Someone in the UK found a The Wolf of Wall Street card.

tenia · #1277 Post by **tenia** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:31 pm

Non-LE of The Vengeance Trilogy for Dec 9th.

tenia · #1278 Post by **tenia** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 1:27 pm

And a 2-BDs LE for The Exorcist 3 (Dec 9th too), with the Legion Cut on a dedicated disc and a 2K resto of the TC.

More details :

Vengeance Trilogy only lose the extra fluff but retains its 4 discs.

Boosmahn · #1279 Post by **Boosmahn** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:20 pm

What happens to those of us who pre-ordered the original Oldboy limited edition?

tenia · #1280 Post by **tenia** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:28 pm

Also, in the US/CA :
- Slaughterhouse-Five (new 4K restoration)
- non-LE Waterworld
- Jake Speed

Boosmahn wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 2:20 pm What happens to those of us who pre-ordered the original Oldboy limited edition?

The Oldboy LE got turned into the Vengeance Trilogy LE. This is what we who pre-ordered the original Oldboy limited edition will get.

This is the Vengeance Trilogy non-LE edition, ie the LE version minus the special packaging "featuring newly commissioned artwork by Matt Ryan Tobin", the 100-page hardbound book featuring new writing by Simon Abrams, Kat Ellinger, and archival articles and the double-sided fold-out poster. I however hope the LE packaging is relatively normal-sized.

I do wonder however, considering the LE just started shipping, why Arrow didn't put this in January, because some will probably cancel their LE to get the regular set.

Boosmahn · #1281 Post by **Boosmahn** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 3:33 pm

Thank you for the clarification. I suppose I got confused due to how I'm used to only LEs getting large boxes.

tenia · #1282 Post by **tenia** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 3:45 pm

It does look like this non-LE of the trilogy will just be the 3 movies in a big outer case, but nothing fancy at all that a LE. But yeah, with all the changes and delays, I understand it can become confusing at some point.

Big Ben · #1283 Post by **Big Ben** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 5:44 pm

Exorcist III is such a strange beast to me. When it works, it really works. But when it doesn't it really, really drags down the whole production. There's a particular sequence inside the hospital involving a bedsheet that's one of the great horror scenes.

rapta · #1284 Post by **rapta** » Sat Sep 28, 2019 6:07 pm

tenia wrote: Fri Sep 27, 2019 3:45 pm It does look like this non-LE of the trilogy will just be the 3 movies in a big outer case, but nothing fancy at all that a LE. But yeah, with all the changes and delays, I understand it can become confusing at some point.

I think what happened was they announced Oldboy LE with the same extras from the Plain Archive release, plus their own, but then it turned out they didn't have rights to those (as they might have been promised by whoever they were licensing from; must have been some miscommunication somewhere along the way). So rather than backtrack on the initial release by either cancelling or rescheduling it, they licensed the other two films in the trilogy and added them to the Oldboy LE - with the Oldboy title intact, since that film is what was advertised (and much of the literature, and indeed the artwork, would have already been produced for this release).

Then, seeing that it sold so well, they have planned a standard reissue of the three films for December, but this time had the chance to produce fresh artwork to acknowledge the films as a trilogy rather than it be an Oldboy-centric package. So basically, the discs are going to be the same but each have different artwork, and the Oldboy LE has a thick booklet and poster added (and at this time of writing, is even £4-5 cheaper than getting The Vengeance Trilogy).

By the way, David Mackenzie reportedly encoded the discs so nothing to worry about on that front!

senseabove · #1285 Post by **senseabove** » Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:00 pm

Another postcard announcement: Meliés' Le Voyage dans la Lune and the Bromberg doc about its restoration. Presumably it will also include the rest of the shorts on the Flicker Alley release?

Ribs · #1286 Post by **Ribs** » Mon Sep 30, 2019 8:45 pm

Feels like it really should be an Academy release, no? Weird it’s included in Oldboy

tenia · #1287 Post by **tenia** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:09 pm

I don't think postcards are only included in their respective branch's releases.
By the way, what's on the other side of these cards ? They usually have a patchwork of smaller artworks.

dwk · #1288 Post by **dwk** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:19 pm

Tenia, I believe the smaller posters are not on this new batch of postcards.

Speaking of them, The Game is apparently the latest postcard found in the Oldboy limited edition.

tenia · #1289 Post by **tenia** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:45 pm

Thanks for the answer. I thought I read something like this, but couldn't find the info again.

dwk · #1290 Post by **dwk** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:52 pm

Here is the post that says they no longer have art on the back

Drucker · #1291 Post by **Drucker** » Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:00 pm

Passion of Darkly Noon with new Philip Ridley commentary on it confirmed.

rapta · #1292 Post by **rapta** » Wed Oct 02, 2019 10:15 pm

Recent postcards confirming upcoming titles:

The Game
Inglourious Basterds
The Wolf of Wall Street
Le voyage dans la Lune (presumably Arrow Academy)
The Exorcist III (since announced)
Southland Tales
Dream Demon
White Fire
The Passion of Darkly Noon (US-only)

Other titles confirmed by BBFC submissions:

The Last of the Mohicans
True Romance
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective / Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (double bill?)

So it seems a lot of the recent 'big' titles are generally from Universal or Morgan Creek. I therefore wouldn't be surprised to see them announce things like Carlito's Way, The Blues Brothers, Casino, Traffic, Out of Sight, The Breakfast Club, Cape Fear, The Frighteners, Clockers, Miami Vice, Uncle Buck and probably an Edgar Wright box set (or even better, a Coen Brothers one; Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Man Who Wasn't There). At this rate too I'd even wonder if they were allowed some Hitchcock (Vertigo? Psycho?) or Spielberg (Duel!), but they might be harder to crack since they're big Universal properties; also unsure if Scarface would be a possibility due to the UHD being released (including the original film in the expensive collector's set).

dwk · #1293 Post by **dwk** » Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:26 am

I got a postcard for some Russian movie from 2018 called Why Don't You Just Die in my copy of The Prey.

FrauBlucher · #1294 Post by **FrauBlucher** » Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:20 pm

Arrow Academy tweeted announcements coming Friday with this

AfterTheRain · #1295 Post by **AfterTheRain** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:38 pm

Since I'm noticing a lot of Cornell Woolrich titles in the picture, I'm guessing that one of the titles will be a film adaptation of one of his works.

Possibilities:
Black Angel
Fear in the Night
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Nightmare
The Bride Wore Black

DeprongMori · #1296 Post by **DeprongMori** » Thu Oct 10, 2019 11:41 pm

I notice that IMDB list 116 films and TV shows based on the writings of Cornell Woolrich under his various noms de plume.

tenia · #1297 Post by **tenia** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:26 pm

Spoiler

Black Angel it is.

tenia · #1298 Post by **tenia** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:07 pm

And... that's actually it !
EDIT : " Brand new restoration from original film elements by Arrow Films". This doesn't help. In what resolution ? From which film elements ? Is it in 2K from an exploitation print or in 4K from the OCN ?

Glowingwabbit · #1299 Post by **Glowingwabbit** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 4:44 pm

After such a sad 2019 slate I didnt think Academy would start 2020 on such a whimper (this is more of a knock on the quantity and dearth of boxsets as I like Black Angel and a few of their 2019 titles).

The purse strings must have been tightened in favor of the Video line which no doubt sells more copies.

tenia · #1300 Post by **tenia** » Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:23 pm

It always seemed to me the Academy branch sells way less than the Video one. The question : does it sell way less or does it also barely sells anything ?

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