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beamish14 wrote: Thu Oct 30, 2025 5:43 pm

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Thu Oct 30, 2025 5:18 pm

mfunk9786 wrote: Thu Oct 30, 2025 2:56 pm I appreciate that Arrow has a balance to strike, and can see the appeal in releases of stuff like The Mask and Spawn, but who in the world was/is looking for a Snakes on a Plane UHD?

Really great film to recall the uselessness of the internet as a metric to a film’s success. It was the first big meme movie with unfunny Redditors laughing about it, and then no one went to see it. Sony tried the same with Morbius and no one gave a shit then either. Under Siege at least has some camp value and is one of the few fun Seagal movies, though I would’ve preferred John Flynn’s Out for Justice where Seagal does the worst Italian-American accent documented in a movie.

In a way, Snakes on a Plane laid the groundwork for bullshit like Zach Snyder’s cut of Justice League, as petitioners begged LionsGate to make it an R-rated film when it was shot with a PG-13 in mind

domino harvey wrote:That’s not a name I associate with being canceled. My guess would be Kevin Spacey

domino harvey wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 6:46 pm Isn’t this just a new case for the existing release?

Maltic wrote: Wed Aug 20, 2025 3:22 pm

beamish14 wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 12:30 am

colinr0380 wrote: Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:41 pm
Excellent, with Nicol Willamson as a dirty realpolitik Merlin! Interestingly Alex Cox in the 1994 Moviedrome introduction to the film mentions that apparently Boorman really wanted to do an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (which was presumably around the same time that Ralph Bakshi was doing his 1978 animated adaptation of the first half the story), but did this as an alternative to it.

Boorman’s would have been produced in the 60’s, I think, when Tolkien was still alive.

He and writer Rospo Pallenberg had an interesting creative partnership. I still really like Pallenberg’s script for an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand that George Romero was slate to make around 1979

I heard the version of the story Alex Cox tells, but always thought Excalibur would be more up Boorman's alley anyway, given the Arthurian themes in his other movies: Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory...

Similar to Joe Dante making an actual Looney Tunes movie, and Minnelli making that film about drapes.

Maltic wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 8:48 pm

Maltic wrote: Wed Aug 20, 2025 3:22 pm

beamish14 wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 12:30 am



Boorman’s would have been produced in the 60’s, I think, when Tolkien was still alive.

He and writer Rospo Pallenberg had an interesting creative partnership. I still really like Pallenberg’s script for an adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand that George Romero was slate to make around 1979

I heard the version of the story Alex Cox tells, but always thought Excalibur would be more up Boorman's alley anyway, given the Arthurian themes in his other movies: Point Blank, Hell in the Pacific, Deliverance, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory...

Similar to Joe Dante making an actual Looney Tunes movie, and Minnelli making that film about drapes.

A follow-up here: According to Boorman authority Brian Hoyle, Boorman had been working on a script for an Arthurian film since the late 1960's. The Lord of the Rings project was indeed just "the next best thing" for him.

Boyle also talks about a well-regarded documentary Boorman did in his early BBC days on D.W. Griffith (the epic Griffith of Intolerance more so than the dramatic Griffith of Broken Blossoms, apparently). If only that would be included as an extra by whomever releases the Excalibur UHD....

dwk wrote: Thu Oct 30, 2025 5:36 pm Cliff mentioned in an interview that they had licensed three titles featuring a cancelled actor. Could have been Seagal, so I definitely think that Out for Justice and Marked for Death are likely Arrow titles.

Maltic wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 8:48 pmBoyle also talks about a well-regarded documentary Boorman did in his early BBC days on D.W. Griffith (the epic Griffith of Intolerance more so than the dramatic Griffith of Broken Blossoms, apparently). If only that would be included as an extra by whomever releases the Excalibur UHD....

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Fri Oct 31, 2025 4:43 pm Are you referring to Shanghai Blues or Peking Opera Blues? I thought it was the former.

nicolas wrote: Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:00 pm Peter Hyams’ 2010 4K release coming soon.

sabbath wrote: Thu Nov 06, 2025 2:26 am

nicolas wrote: Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:00 pm Peter Hyams’ 2010 4K release coming soon.

May I ask the source, nicolas?

But for my money, Peter Hyams’s 2010: The Year We Make Contact is his best science fiction film. And the good news is, Arrow has licensed that from Warner Bros. too. So if they do as good a job with 2010 in 4K Ultra HD (look for it to arrive on disc sometime next year), I will be happy indeed.

sabbath wrote: Thu Nov 06, 2025 2:26 amMeanwhile, Arrow teased Save the Green Planet! (2003) on their X account on Nov 3rd (reddit link). Some say it's for Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996), but no, the teaser says "Coming Soon" in Korean first, then in English. And I can't think of any other UFO-related Korean film that Arrow might have picked.

Finch wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 4:57 pm That's one of my two wishlist titles ticked off, then. Hoping for Peking Opera Blues on 4K with proper subs (perhaps a HK double bill with all three Chinese Ghost Stories on BD, maybe the first in 4K like the French did?), and maybe a Warner title I'm interested in (The Getaway, The Iron Giant). Titles they teased for last year and still not announced are Mona Lisa, Nightbreed and To Live and Die in L.A. (none of which I care about). Maybe a MGM title like Alfredo Garcia or Miracle Mile on 4K.

dwk wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 5:36 pm I dont think Kino ever said they were going to release Miracle Mile on UHD.