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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  How can two companies release the same film on the same format in the same country?
Surely someone is breaching a rights contract.  |
This has been brewing for a while. The director of Pit Stop Jack Hill maintains that he owns worldwide copyright of his film and sold the rights to Arrow to license in the UK (and now the US) whilst Roger Corman also maintained that he owned the rights, of which has been licensed to Code Red for some time now. Code Red has been sitting on them until Arrow announced and has obviously made a deal with Kino to distribute in the US. The prints/extras will probably differ over both sets, but the timing was crucial for Code Red/Kino as they couldn't afford
not to announce the same day Arrow did as anything after could be detrimental to their sales.
However, that said the UK region free version has been available (and available cheap) for a while, and for a niche title such as this most people who wanted to own it probably already do.
Still, with Blood and Black Lace and now Pit Stop Arrow's venture into the US has hardly got off to the greatest of starts.