As I reported in the OOP thread a month or two ago:drdoros wrote:No, that was a David Shepard discovery and release. Unfortunately, Image let a lot of DVDs go out of print....knives wrote:Was Regeneration Milestone?
David Shepard wrote:Image Entertainment has worked out an MOD scheme with amazon along the lines of Warner Archive to bring back 46 (!) Film Preservation Associates titles which they allowed to go out of print.
We no longer own the rights, but our version of TABU was indeed the original release by Paramount in 1931 and was cut by Murnau, two hired women (I never found their names) and with the advice of Hilliker and Caldwell who telegrammed that they didn't like the shark scene but Murnau wrote in a telegram back that he spent too much money to take it out. The German/MOC material was found in the German archives -- I believe by Enno Patalas -- and I suspect it was done after the American cut. I wouldn't say one was more authentic than the other -- I just hope one day that the 10+ hours of Austrian negative outtakes will prove that the original camera neg is in there somewhere.videozor wrote:If you have rights to Taboo it makes sense (at least to me) to issue a better edition tan the current one.
As I understand there are 2 cuts - Paramount (used in old Milestone) and pre-Paramount (used in MoC DVD)
DVD with both cuts and keeping the commentary and other extras from old Milestone could be a definitive edition of this movie (which MoC edition never became)...
$100 to see Spiderman Turn Off The Dark?perkizitore wrote:$30 for a DVD-R???
Per disc they are more expensive, but you only have to buy 100 of them instead of 1000. Also you don't have to pay for the authoring/compression costs.perkizitore wrote:I can't understand the reason for DVD-R if they are costing you more than factory pressed discs.
Oh, man. That's fine if you like Transformers (the movie and the Happy Meal toy).mfunk9786 wrote:$4.29 for a Big Mac seems pretty worth it to me
Apparently Milestone is planning a release next year. In the meantime, this will be released:swo17 wrote:Good news! Does this mean Phantom of the Opera will be coming back in print?
I might as well tell the world that we are just completing production on a new edition of that old warhorse, POTO, for release through Image Entertainment in early October.
This will be Blu-Ray, mastered at Movietone aperture from much better 35mm material than we have ever used before. There will be two complete runs of the 1929 version: one at 24 fps with a new score by the Alloy Orchestra and an optional score on theatre pipe organ by Gaylord Carter, previously issued in monaural but now in stereo from the original master stereo recording; the second run at 20 fps with orchestra/soprano score by Gabriel Thibadeau and an optional new audio essay by Jon Mirsalis. Both runs will include the Technicolor sequence mastered from our 35mm YCM labs negative and hand colored scenes on the opera roof and in the scene of "intolerable heat." The program will also include a standard definition transfer of the original 1925 edit from a tinted 16mm print in the usual deplorable quality but with a superb new score by Frederick Hodges. Extras will include (as still images) set construction and production stills, publicity stills, original advertising art, frames from a stencil-colored French release, and the complete script.
Who owns the rights now? On your website you state "DVDs of "TABU" will be back on sale by June 1, 2011".drdoros wrote:We no longer own the rights, but our version of TABU was indeed the original release by Paramount
We will be selling off our last inventory of TABU but the rights went back to Murnau Stiftung.masterofoneinchpunch wrote:Who owns the rights now? On your website here: http://www.milestonefilms.com/movie.php/tabu/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; you state "DVDs of "TABU" will be back on sale by June 1, 2011".
Last month I was quite stoked to find a used copy of South: Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition (and several other Milestones). Too bad that is OOP as well.
If we can pull off what we're attempting to do, the Milestone release will be very cool.captveg wrote:The Phantom of the Opera news is fantastic! Can't wait to pick that set up.
Do you mean THE CAMERAMAN'S REVENGE (which is now with Image and not us) or ERC, VOLUME 3. The latter can't be redone, I don't believe. Getting those prints were a one-shot deal.videozor wrote:I see both Prince Achmed and McCay are getting new editions... What about your early disc of Vladislav Starevich? That the one which could really be benefited by upgrade