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Metrodome has entered administration and all its releases are being divvied up, some by 101 Films

Soda have taken up UK/Irish rights for The Childhood Of A Leader, which is (still) being released in cinemas today.

(Before anyone asks, I genuinely have no idea what's happening with Personal Shopper or any other Metrodome titles, just that we're releasing this one now.)

Fortissimo Films also went under

JamesF wrote:Soda have taken up UK/Irish rights for The Childhood Of A Leader, which is (still) being released in cinemas today.

(Before anyone asks, I genuinely have no idea what's happening with Personal Shopper or any other Metrodome titles, just that we're releasing this one now.)

I guess there's a slight silver lining in amongst all this bad news then. Will you be picking up any of their catalogue titles as well or are 101 Films taking that particular road? Somebody posited on Twitter that 101 might not be a particularly strong position to acquire everything from Metrodome (or even the majority of their catalogue).

I wonder what will happen with Hollywood Classics. Apparently their staff were also let off at the same time. Will it make things trickier or easier now for UK labels who had been using them regularly (Eureka, Arrow, Second Sight etc)?

JamesF wrote:Soda have taken up UK/Irish rights for The Childhood Of A Leader, which is (still) being released in cinemas today.

(Before anyone asks, I genuinely have no idea what's happening with Personal Shopper or any other Metrodome titles, just that we're releasing this one now.)

That's great news. There's no screenings near me, and I was a bit concerned that it might not make it to home video.

A shame that they are closing and even a bigger shame that 101 Films is picking up some of the pieces - as they don't care about transfers or extras. So much for the Transformers Blu-ray then...

manicsounds wrote:A shame that they are closing and even a bigger shame that 101 Films is picking up some of the pieces - as they don't care about transfers or extras. So much for the Transformers Blu-ray then...

The upcoming 2-disc steelbook release of The Transformers is coming from Manga, not Metrodome...

But yes, a shame 101 Films are diving in there because as you say, they're more likely to botch any future Blu-ray releases of these ex-Metrodome title more than most other UK labels would. I hope they don't have rights to absolutely all of them and instead just bought any they might want to release under their 101 Films label rather than just snapping them all up and holding onto them. There are several that are arguably worthy of MoC or Arrow editions.