And later...Lionsgate diversifies with Studio Canal catalog
INDIE FILM GUIDE: Hitchcock box set first release in multi-year deal
By Susanne Ault 1/8/2007
Lionsgate's Hitchcock box set streets Feb. 6.
JAN. 8 | Lionsgate will formally kick off its Studio Canal catalog deal with the Feb. 6 release of the Hitchcock Box Set.
The studio scored 2,000 Studio Canal films in a multi-year pact in July and has been eager to diversify its offerings with classic content.
Sounds like a PAL->NTSC port and a lot of other valuable material including JLG will now be out of bounds to Criterion/Eclipse...The studio will next prepare box sets themed around actress Bridgette Bardot and directors Jean Renoir and Jean-Luc Godard. These sets will street in the first half of 2007.
Lionsgate hopes to release 10 to 12 Studio Canal box sets annually.
Yes, it would. The dollar is very weak against the pound, and this 7-film set (which can be had for $22.16 which is about £11 GBP) would work out cheaper than a single MoC release of *just NANA*. We can't compete with that, and we're trying whenever possible to shy away from films that are already released with English subtitles (be they from Italy, France, Germany or the USA).GringoTex wrote:Would a Region 1 release cut into your market that much?
This is a sobering thought considering I don't usually buy more than one Criterion each month.peerpee wrote:This Lionsgate deal could see a lot of Criterion discs going OOP when their individual licences end.
Well, I assume these wont be as good as Warner or Criterion, but then because newer and better prints now exist since Fox Lorber released DVDs, I also assume these will be better than Fox Lorber. Sorry for speculating, I'm guessing on par with New Yorker, give or take quality concerns for individual prints.GringoTex wrote:Because that Renoir set is so cheap, you wonder how much effort they'll put into these. I guess we'll find out in April.
I'll be excited for any release of previously unavailable Godard titles, but the pricing on this has me skeptical about quality. I'm not expecting Criterion level here but I really hope they do a decent job and avoid PAL-NTSC issues. I wonder what films exactly we're talking about -- we know that Pierrot Le Fou and Two or Three Things are going to be eventual Criterions, so those are probably out of the running. So My Life to Live? Petit Soldat? Made in USA? Maybe some later films? Nothing terribly exciting or shocking, I'm guessing. I wonder if they're going to break up these boxes at all, though. I'd buy a good-quality single-disc of My Life to Live or a few others, but any Godard set like this is likely to duplicate a lot of stuff I already have from R2 Optimum and Raro.justeleblanc wrote:EDIT: Any relation to this box set?
