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rapta wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:21 pm Witness, The Warriors, American Gigolo and A Simple Plan.

Maltic wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:00 am

rapta wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:21 pm Witness, The Warriors, American Gigolo and A Simple Plan.

The other US-exclusive Paramount titles I count were The Shootist, Unman, Wittering and Zigo, and The Tin Star.

Any other? And do we think they'll all be released by Arrow UK now?

ryannichols7 wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 12:56 pm would be stunned if they didn't put out The Assassination Bureau, way more a title that would sell in the UK than it would in the US

In the first half of the 1970s, when I was a young and mid-teenager, films were still central to television programming. On Sunday night BBC1 would always show a film. They would tend to be new films, but, because of the five year rule that meant there had to be a five year gap between the cinema release and the first showing of a film on TV, they would be films from the 1960s. Not Bonnie and Clyde or Easy Rider, but films that were supposed to appeal to a broader audience. Our household was a broader audience: Sundays were a day of routine: after my grandfather died my grandma would come around, we would have a big Sunday lunch (chicken, always roast chicken), at some point I would do my homework, we would have tea in the early evening and then watch the film on the TV. And, as the years went by and my grandma's hearing got worse, the TV would get louder, everything sounding like a Christopher Nolan film. Of course there were good films - I think it was on a Sunday night that I first saw Hell in the Pacific which blew my teenage mind - but most were stodgy and a bit dull. I don't remember watching The Assassination Bureau, but it would be typical of the sort of films shown. An adventure film that sprawls in a slightly aimless way. A black comedy with characters trying to kill each other in amusing ways: there's the sense that it is trying to be sophisticated, but it is a little charmless and flat. It was put together by the veteran British director-producer team Basil Deardon and Michael Relph: they had been working together since the 1940s and it feels as though they are trying to concoct something a bit trendy and hip to fit the new tastes of the 1960s, but it feels as though they were a bit lost, trying to have some fun but never quite managing it. It can be compared to Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes that came out around the same time: Wilder's film does have symptoms of aimlessness, but Wilder is confident in making an old fashioned film, Deardon and Relph are too intent on being trendy...the result is something closer to Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang. It's watchable, it will make your Sunday evening pass by if you are still stuffed with roast chicken and apple crumble, but it is immediately forgettable.

eerik wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:13 am I wonder if Arrow has any interest in putting out the American Ring collection to compliment their Japanese Ring collection. They have worked with Shout before, so porting over the work they did for their set would be a good start.

Marwood wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 1:14 pm

Spoiler

These are all the US only Paramount releases from Arrow as far as i know. Hope we get some of these in the UK too.

2023
Barbarella LE (Blu-ray) OOP
Barbarella LE (4K) OOP
Warriors LE (Blu-ray) LE both cuts OOP
Warriors LE (4K) LE both cuts OOP
Witness LE (Blu-ray) OOP
Witness LE (4K) OOP
The Desperate Hours LE (Blu-ray)
Day of the Locust LE (Blu-ray)
The Assassination Bureau (Blu-ray)
Unman, Wittering and Zigo LE (Blu-ray)
Borsalino LE (Blu-ray)
Murphy's War LE (Blu-ray)
Black Sunday (Blu-ray)
Fighting Back (Blu-ray)

2024
Barbarella REG (Blu-ray)
Barbarella REG (4K)
Warriors REG (Blu-ray) (1 disc just theatrical)
Warriors REG (4K) (1 disc just theatrical)
Night Falls on Manhattan (Blu-ray)
Fear Is The Key (Blu-ray)
Red Line 7000 LE (Blu-ray)
The Scarface Mob LE (Blu-ray)
The Tin Star LE (Blu-ray) OOP
The Shootist LE (Blu-ray) OOP
Friday the 13th LE (4K)
Americn Gigolo LE (Blu-ray)
Americn Gigolo LE (4K)
A Simple Plan LE (Blu-ray)
A Simple Plan LE (4K)

*OOP means that it is no longer sold on Arrow’s site. May still be avaliable at other resellers like Amazon

rapta wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:52 pm Don't know if Paramount would willingly license out The Ring (2002) as they only just released the 4K disc in the UK.

hearthesilence wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 2:33 pm All right, finally, G.I. Joe: The Movie.

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Wed Apr 23, 2025 6:39 pm Guesses on Instagram were particular towards Cobra