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Quite the barrel scrape release schedule for 9/15/20

Battlefield Earth (2000) (via Morgan Creek/Sony)
Big Bully (1996) / Wrongfully Accused (1998) - Comedy Double Feature (via Morgan Creek/Sony)
The King and I (1999) (via Morgan Creek/Sony)
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) (via Universal)

And more Ultraman

I distinctly remember going to see that King and I adaptation in theaters with my grandparents, but I couldn’t tell you anything about it other than I knew at age six it was bad.

Snow White: A Tale of Terror looks mildly intriguing, I suppose I can afford the $4 now that I’m saving $50 on the Manchester Morgue steelbook!

soundchaser wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:25 pm I distinctly remember going to see that King and I adaptation in theaters with my grandparents, but I couldn’t tell you anything about it other than I knew at age six it was bad.

I was about to say I saw this when it came out and, if not very good, was still preferable by far to the Yul Brynner version - and than it clicked that I was thinking of Anna and the King which came out the same year. I'd completely forgotten about the animated version which I've never seen...

I’m glad you said that, because I was thinking that was the movie they’re releasing too

As promised, here is the bed we’ve all made

10/13/20 BD releases

Diabolique (1996) / Incognito (1997) / The In Crowd (2000) Triple Feature - via Morgan Creek/Sony
Imaginary Crimes (1994) / Silent Fall (1994) Double Feature - via Morgan Creek/Sony
The Pledge (2001) - via Morgan Creek/Sony

Inner Sanctum Mysteries: The Complete Film Series (1943-1945) is delayed again to 9/22/20

Some really random double and triple features, there.

A couple of multi-film Blu-ray sets have popped up
Hammer Film - Ultimate Collection (20 films on 10 discs):
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1963)
These Are The Damned (1962)
The Old Dark House (1963)
The Gorgon (1964)
The Snorkel (1958)
Maniac (1963)
Die! Die! My Darling (1965)
Scream of Fear (1961)
Stop Me Before I Kill! (1961)
Never Take Candy From A Stranger (1960)
Cash On Demand (1961)
The Stranglers of Bombay (1960)
The Terror of the Tongs (1961)
The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)
The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
Creatures the World Forgot (1971)

Rita Hayworth - Ultimate Collection (12 films on 6 discs):
Music in My Heart (1940)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Down To Earth (1947)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Salome (1953)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1954)
Fire Down Below (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
They Came to Cordura (1959)

I see a forthcoming DVD set for the Rita Hayworth, but no Blu-ray.

DeprongMori wrote: Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:35 am I see a forthcoming DVD set for the Rita Hayworth, but no Blu-ray.

It’s not listed on Amazon yet, but the artwork for the 6 disc Blu Ray set was upped to the Blu-Ray.com forum

These are mostly not very good movies, though

The Rossen is worth the set though.

It’s already sold separately from Mill Creek on Blu with the Man From the Alamo

In that case this set really is useless.

I mean, there’s a lot of Blu-Ray premieres in it (including I think the entire Rita Hayworth box Sony put out minus the only good movie in it, Cover Girl, plus some OOP titles), the problem is that I’ve seen all of them except the Rossen and outside of the Welles (Which everyone already has on Blu-Ray from someone), none of these films are good. And a lot of them are legit awful (Especially Down to Earth, the sequel to Here Comes Mr Jordan no one ever talks about, and for good reason— the much-maligned loose remake Xanadu is Lady From Shanghai compared to the original). But if you’re into them, it’s a good deal.

You haven’t seen the Rossen? I could have sworn you said you’ve seen it before?

There is more than one title in this box alone that I only realized I’d seen from checking Letterboxd, so it’s possible! But I don’t think I ever got around to it because the original DVD was subject to Sony’s idiotic practice of repressing double-sided DVDs as single sided versions and my copy was cropped because they only kept the side with the full-frame version of the Scope film. But I wouldn’t be shocked to discover I had seen it if I said I did, given how little I’ve retained of some of these titles that I know I did see!

Amazon has a listing for The Freshman (1990) (via Sony licensing) for 1/12/21. I imagine a few more for that date will pop up soon.

Crossroads (1986) and a solo release of Blind Fury have also popped up on Amazon.

And here are the special features for their Hammer set

* 12-Page Movie and Feature Guide Booklet

* Hammer Film Featurettes and Retrospectives:
* “Hammer at Columbia Pictures”
* “The Actors of Hammer Film”
* “The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Retrospective”
* “The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Retrospective”

* Audio Commentaries:
* The Revenge of Frankenstein
* Commentary with filmmaker/film historian Constantine Nasr and author/film historian Steve Haberman

* The Old Dark House
* Commentary with The Monster Party Podcast featuring James Gonis, Shawn Sheridan, Larry Strothe, and Matt Weinhold

* The Gorgon
* Commentary with writer/director Joshua Kennedy (House of the Gorgon)

* The Snorkel
* Commentary with writer/producer Phoef Sutton, writer/film historian Mark Jordan Legan, and screenwriter/film historian C. Courtney Joyner

* Never Take Candy From A Stranger
* Commentary with filmmaker/historian Constantine Nasr

* Scream of Fear
* Commentary with author/film historian Steve Haberm

A Universal licensed title on 1/19/21 - Accepted (2006)

Another Sony licensed title on 1/12/21 - Like Father Like Son (1987)

I seem to remember a Mill Creek multi-film box, that came out one or two years ago, featuring a lot of Hammer and Universal horrors (The Strange Door comes to mind), probably around 40 titles. Not listed on Mill Creek´s home page. Many thanks in advance for any info about this. Do these multi-feature boxes go OOP very soon?

captveg wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:18 pm Battlefield Earth (2000) (via Morgan Creek/Sony)

Wondering does this have the original theatrical cut or the edited home video version :-k. Aspect ratio should be the correct 2.35:1 and it has lots of extras too.

I've never seen the film, but according to this post on the Blu-ray.com forums it runs 1:57:58.

Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot Blu-ray on March 9th.

And for those that missed the limited edition Vinegar Syndrome UHD/Blu-ray of Rad, Mill Creek is releasing it on Blu on March 16th.