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But if I have to license them separately, I treat them as I would all other potential content and decide whether it's worth what are always limited funds. Sometimes the rightsholder wants so much that the decision is made for me - for instance, on Eureka's Three Days of the Condor (I wasn't surprised, as it was very much in StudioCanal's interest for Eureka not to acquire their extras, as it would make their own conveniently Region B European edition unattractive to UK importers) - and at other times I genuinely don't think that the older extra adds anything significant to what's also going in the package. Or at least not enough to justify a fee that I think could be spent more effectively elsewhere. My production mentor Roma Gibson always taught me that the worst sin you can commit is excessively overlapping material, and while it's often impossible to avoid some overlap (especially if you're licensing two separate third-party extras), it's good to keep it to a minimum. |
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I agree with this, there are only so many anecdotes to be told, once you have heard them you don't need to hear them again! I much prefer the meatier retrospective docs and visual essays than the old EPK extras that we used to get. Like the ones on the House and Phantasm box sets which span the multiple discs, the Phenomena one and the piece by Kat Ellinger on the Bird with the Crystal Plumage disc. We need a nice Jess Franco collection with a brilliant career spanning 5hr doc
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And I still added stuff to the package: an hour-long Frankenheimer doc and a crammed booklet. In fact, the second half of the booklet, about actual CIA-backed mind control experiments, was initially conceived as a video feature until I realised that the stuff being described was so hair-raising that it really needed extensive footnoting, so a text-based piece seemed more sensible. (One thing I did drop, though, was the 5.1 mix. Christ knows why the US edition only featured it, but it was pretty much an object lesson in how not to do these things, with added "surround" effects so clunkily obvious that it really took me out of the film. Nobody seemed to have any time for it, and the DVD in particular was crammed to bursting, so it was easy enough to decide to omit it.) |
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Am hoping that extending the boxset run to 6000 copies, means that the Amazon price is quite likely to significantly drop. Surprised that some people are complaining about the quantity being increased but I guess that's the Internet for you! "The Internet is a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another." (quote from Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back).
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Okay so I spun the UK BD of The Thing and 2 things sprang to mind, 1 it looked very close to what I saw in the cinema back in the day (so quite good then) but... 2 there seems to be a lack of film grain, it's still a nice detailed picture tho, now if Arrow just transfer as 4K and don't filter at all we should have a 'Scream-Factory' beater, those of you on here with the SF release just how 'Blue' is the colour correction in some scenes, the screenshots look like far too much blue-tint IMHO, so now quite looking forward to seeing what Arrow can come up with.
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