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Marwood wrote: Sun Jul 17, 2022 2:33 pm I little birdie has told me that Eureka will be releasing the 1923 Lon Chaney version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame soon. So no need for those of us in Europe to splurge for the Kino or Flicker Alley release.

ryannichols7 wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 6:34 pm speaking of Flicker Alley titles...The Most Dangerous Game has been officially hinted, which is awesome. no brainer MOC title

Marwood wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 8:33 pm

ryannichols7 wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 6:34 pm speaking of Flicker Alley titles...The Most Dangerous Game has been officially hinted, which is awesome. no brainer MOC title

Actually, the same person who told me about the Chaney also confirmed that The Most Dangerous Game was soon to be released. I'll most likely purchase both titles when they are released.

Finch wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:33 pm I wonder if we'll get a Hongkong title as well for October.

FrauBlucher wrote: Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:14 pm Anyone care to speculate at the source material used for The Most Dangerous Game?

It's a bit more complicated than that. Universal having those titles in the back catalogue doesn't automatically mean they are interested in licensing to the UK. We have had a lot of requests rejected due to the licensor possibly having "future plans". Studios are paying more attention to what they own now, and we are finding it a lot harder to acquire what we want.

Hunchback of Notre Dame was actually originally scheduled for October last year – suddenly we were told that we had to holdback our release until an unspecified date because Universal had something planned. Then we see Kino announce theirs for release in September... We raised a fuss but still had to hold back.

I know some of you are frustrated by the amount of HK releases recently, but to be brutally honest if we didn't have those titles it is very likely Eureka wouldn't have survived the last few years. I personally love working on the HK titles, but they are a lot of work and I wish we could space them out a bit more – but with increased competition from other labels who are seeing good sales from the Hong Kong stuff, combined with an increasingly limited selection of acquisitions from elsewhere means it kind of had to be that way this year.

I am sure things will change again, we've got some interesting stuff planned for next year so hopefully there will be a bit more balance between MoC and Classics.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:45 pm If Yes, Madam isn't being paired up with Royal Warriors, which would have made more sense since they are a part of the same series, then I doubt we will see a double feature of Royal and Magnificent Warriors (especially since they don't have much in common outside of Michelle Yeoh starring in both and both having the same director).

Glowingwabbit wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:25 pm Edit:

From twitter: Yes, Madam! teased as coming soon. Magnificent Warriors and Royal Warriors teased as early 2023 (hopefully a double feature)

dwk wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 5:43 am Irongod2112 shot down someone saying Arrow probably would be releasing the Yeoh films in the US/Region A. So no Running out of Time 1 & 2 or Hapkido & Lady Whirlwind double feature situation with these three.