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dwk wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 6:37 pmTo be fair to those posters, history is full of larger companies buying smaller companies and destroying what made the smaller company successful. And key personnel jumping ship or being forced out is a red flag that that is happening.

MichaelB wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 10:49 pm

dwk wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 6:37 pmTo be fair to those posters, history is full of larger companies buying smaller companies and destroying what made the smaller company successful. And key personnel jumping ship or being forced out is a red flag that that is happening.

Nobody's been "forced out", have they? I was at Fran's leaving do last week and...

...well, it was sharply different from mine at the BFI eleven years ago, which I shared with a number of people who really had been forced out past.

Calvin wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 9:59 pm

JamesF wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 3:19 pm That doesn't mean we've dumped Academy-style releases altogether though, even if they're in the minority - for one, I'm currently working on a boxset of films by an acclaimed contemporary arthouse filmmaker that is very much within the Academy wheelhouse and I think will make a lot of people on this board happy.

Sounds good, James!

(Did we ever find out what 'LM Box' was? Fingers crossed for Lukas Moodysson...)

ryannichols7 wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 12:19 am

Calvin wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 9:59 pm

JamesF wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 3:19 pm That doesn't mean we've dumped Academy-style releases altogether though, even if they're in the minority - for one, I'm currently working on a boxset of films by an acclaimed contemporary arthouse filmmaker that is very much within the Academy wheelhouse and I think will make a lot of people on this board happy.

Sounds good, James!

(Did we ever find out what 'LM Box' was? Fingers crossed for Lukas Moodysson...)

I lean towards this, especially knowing James is working on it. that's right in line with Over the Edge. looking forward to it!!!

rapta wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 11:25 am I was kinda hoping it might be a Lucrecia Martel set, myself…

swo17 wrote: Tue May 31, 2022 9:50 pm What about Luc Moullet?

JamesF wrote: Mon May 30, 2022 3:19 pm

That doesn't mean we've dumped Academy-style releases altogether though, even if they're in the minority - for one, I'm currently working on a boxset of films by an acclaimed contemporary arthouse filmmaker that is very much within the Academy wheelhouse and I think will make a lot of people on this board happy. The way these things generally work is in cycles, based on whichever bunch of films from a certain deal we're currently working through - so for a while it may be Sony titles, or Toei titles, or Fortune Star titles, then it pivots to Universal titles, or Celestial titles, or MK2 titles, then we get another Sony deal, and another Toei deal, and the cycle begins anew... so basically, hang in there and if there isn't something you're interested in one month, or even for a few months, there will probably be something eventually. Ultimately we're just responding to what's available (not as much as you'd think), what interests us (a lot more than you'd think) and of course what sells well. While I am indeed largely focused on HK action titles at the moment (not entirely by choice, they're just incredibly demanding films to oversee and I'm the one who's become the in-house specialist by default!), there's plenty of variety to go around and I'll be across at least some of it. I'll never understand people (not referring to any posts here, more on Facebook etc) complaining about Arrow not releasing specific types of films anymore or having to change with the times; the amount of companies working in the sector has ballooned over the years and there's an extraordinary amount of choice out there. We can't possibly do all of the films so isn't it brilliant that there are plenty of other labels working hard at picking up the slack where we can't? I suppose in a way it's a backhanded compliment...

Roscoe wrote: Thu Jun 09, 2022 5:30 pm And still no word on a corrected TWELVE MONKEYS UHD?

dwk wrote: Tue Jun 14, 2022 8:11 pm Nope, the film is presented incorrectly and it needs to be fixed. Doesn't matter that the error was only recently discovered.