Criterion and Paramount

[beamish14]

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz is still with Paramount in North America. Talk about a brilliant film that has never gotten a proper home video release
(I thought the VHS was edited a bit).

[FrauBlucher]

Great to see Criterion has jumped on the new wave of Paramount licensing with The War of the Worlds.

The understanding is that Paramount licenses out in batches, so a label goes to them and requests some titles and then that's it, whereas I believe a studio like Universal does an on-the-go approach. If you look at Paramount licenses you'll notice there are big gaps in time when they release a batch of them. The last batch appears to have been Moonrise, Virgin Suicides, and Election. So when people say "new deal" they mean that Paramount is licensing out another batch to Criterion.

War of the Worlds, The Elephant Man and now The Parallax View all getting announced within 8 months. Hopefully there will be more considering Paramount has opened their vault to themselves as well

[Blutarsky]

I do hope that with Paramount titles being loaned we can get Von Stroheim’s Queen Kelly and The Wedding March. But, seeing how great Silent blu ray sales are, it is just wishful thinking

[beamish14]

One of these days, Deadhead Miles...one of these days

[justeleblanc]

I imagine any Paramount deal would also include Real Life.

[Roscoe]

I'd be on board for Criterions of von Stroheim, damn right. There's a new restoration of FOOLISH WIVES that I can't wait to check out.

[FlickeringWindow]

Paramount only owns The Wedding March - Foolish Wives was a MoMA restoration, Queen Kelly is owned by Kino

[captveg]

With The Furies getting a Blu-ray upgrade that just leaves White Dog as the lone DVD-only Paramount licensed release.

[domino harvey]

Just so we keep discussion confined to one thread, multiple Paramount titles have gone OOP out of nowhere. We are discussing this over here for now. Please do not use this thread to discuss the OOP titles

[Matt]

I was really hoping we’d get a Criterion edition of A Place in the Sun someday. I refuse to settle for that gray-on-gray Imprint release.

[Finch]

I emailed Jon Mulvaney specifically about the Sternberg silents and The Furies, and got a reply from Justin at Criterion:

While we do not typically disclose titles that are going out of print in advance, I can assure you that there are no additional titles in our catalog that are going OOP in the near future. That said, if there are titles you've had an eye on for your next purchases, it's always a good idea to purchase it sooner than later, since we do not announce upcoming OOP or packaging changes.