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Presumably they'll do with a lot of them what they've already done with Zodiac and others, and re-issue them with zero changes.

knives wrote:Given that Warners hasn't released it Seconds seems more a question of when then if.

Someone asked about Seconds a while back and they said something to the effect of they weren't interested. Since there seems to be a fair amount of lag-time with Paramount-licensed releases, this could still hold true. Seconds has been OOP for several years, which may explain it wasn't part of the Warner 600. Would love to be proved wrong.

matrixschmatrix wrote:

bamwc2 wrote:I'm just going off of memory, since I watched it when the Controversial Classics box set was released a decade ago. To be honest, I don't remember any harping on Preminger, but I'm not saying that it isn't there.

I'm struggling to think of any Casper commentary that isn't fairly awful

Famously, MoC decided not to license his commentary for Lifeboat, even though it was presumably available to them.

Noiradelic wrote:

knives wrote:Given that Warners hasn't released it Seconds seems more a question of when then if.

Someone asked about Seconds a while back and they said something to the effect of they weren't interested. Since there seems to be a fair amount of lag-time with Paramount-licensed releases, this could still hold true. Seconds has been OOP for several years, which may explain it wasn't part of the Warner 600. Would love to be proved wrong.

I actually remember the opposite. Someone had asked on Criterion's Facebook wall about Seconds when they were still replying to inquires and whomever was doing the responses had shared that they did not have the rights to the film but they had recently discovered it for the first time at a revival screening at Telluride and loved it. (This was a few years ago obviously)

I know Seconds has been under-served on home video, but is it really that obscure? I remember first catching it on Cinemax back in the late 90s.

med wrote:...Cinemax back in the late 90s.

I think you just answered your own question.

Lowry_Sam wrote:I'm not familiar with costs/benefits of sublicensing, but I highly doubt WB will be releasing 600 older Paramount blu-rays on top of their own blu-ray releases in the next couple of years.

I'd say we'd be lucky if 100 of them make it on new-to-Blu releases. The others will be re-issues of previously released Paramount Blu-rays and DVDs. The remainder may be Warner Archive bound.

But they won't sub-license.

Look at the ~70 titles Warner licensed from the Samuel Goldwyn library - DVD re-issues, some new releases to Warner Archive, and a handful of Blu-ray upgrades.

Bonjour Tristesse is already released by Twilight Time

Lowry_Sam wrote:I'm not familiar with costs/benefits of sublicensing, but I highly doubt WB will be releasing 600 older Paramount blu-rays on top of their own blu-ray releases in the next couple of years.

They didn't license the 600 titles to do Blu on all of them, they will do DVDs on all of them and Blu on some.

Are the new titles being announced tomorrow?

Yes, unless they aren't.

I'll hazard a guess:

Rossellini/Bergman trilogy
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
I Married A Witch
Picnic Blu upgrade

It's too soon for I Married a Witch. I wouldn't expect that until August at the earliest though October seems most likely.

knives wrote:It's too soon for I Married a Witch. I wouldn't expect that until August at the earliest though October seems most likely.

These will be the August title but you're probably right. They'll wait on a Halloween release for that.

More wishful thinking: Thief.

The Rossellini/Bergman set appears more likely with them pimping one of the Janus theatrical restorations on the CC front page lately.

I Married a Bitch

Guesses:
Early Films of Peter Weir box (w/ Picnic and Last Wave upgrades)
Satyricon
Brighter Summer Day
Madadayo
Ikiru blu

Eclipse: More Early Bergman

Eclipse Series 39: Hey Let's Clear Some Space And Just Put These Out As An Eclipse Set Already

Those 'guesses' are more often than not 'wishes'...

Picnic Blu upgrade would be very nice indeed, a Peter Weir early box would be stupendous.

I've been horrible with picks lately so just one surprise pick:

Olympia I & II.

Eclipse: NO MORE ECLIPSES EVER NYAH NYAH EAT IT LOSERS

Reissue of the Norman Mailer Eclipse set, adding Whoopi Goldberg apologies for each of the films.

Fully Random Guesses:

Scanners
The Brood
Eraserhear
To Be or Not to Be
History is made at Night

Eclipse of Carlos Saura

Edit: I forgot to add upgrades. I'll go with two old standbys: Passion of Joan of Arc and Summertime.

bamwc2 wrote:Eclipse of Carlos Saura

Is this really a rumored thing?!