Shout! Factory / Scream Factory

[Aunt Peg]

One of the features is listed as "Alternate Censored Scene From The Theatrical Cut Of The Film" so I would guess the international cut, no?

That certainly sounds to be the case.

[therewillbeblus]

Shout! Factory is having a 4K UHD sale on their site right now, with some great deals. Too bad I just picked up most of these for almost twice the price!

[dwk]

A batch of titles have been added to Shout's Going OOP list:
The Boxer (1997)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Ned Kelly (2003)
Law and Order (1953)
Sarah T. - Portrait Of A Teenage Alcoholic
Snow Falling On Cedars
Talk to Me (2007)

[Peacock]

EDIT: Wrong info!

[swo17]

Where are you seeing that? They sent out an email that shows it with a banner that reads "fewer than 100 copies remaining" beneath it, but that banner is introducing the next section of the email. The page simply lists the title as "in stock." I believe if there were fewer than 100 copies remaining, the exact count would show up there

[Peacock]

Oops Swo you’re absolutely correct! I misread the email, the “less than 100” was instead referring to the titles underneath the Tokusatsu set - Blood of the Vampire, School Spirit, The Evil That Men Do, Big Bad Mama/Big Bad Mama 2.

[dwk]

New site exclusive limited editions
Fear City (new 2k master for both cuts. 1620 copies only. sigh)
Darkness (2 cuts of the film. 1800 copies.)

[therewillbeblus]

101 Films just put out Fear City for those who are region free and want to get the sub-par Ferrara without going through Shout!'s site direct

[swo17]

But have they fixed the aspect ratio on the second cut?

[tenia]

1620 copies ? That's specific.

[dwk]

1620 copies ? That's specific.

They've been doing weird print runs for these for a while, I assume they are actually pressing 1750 or 1800 discs and holding the remaining for exchanges.

Given how much the previous site exclusive is going for, I dont know why this isn't getting a wide release (other than Shout being Shout and doing everything possible to piss off people.)

[beamish14]

New site exclusive limited editions
Fear City (new 2k master for both cuts. 1620 copies only. sigh)
Darkness (2 cuts of the film. 1800 copies.)

God, can someone PLEASE put China Girl out?

[dwk]

An early impression of the new Fear City disc from a Blu-ray.com post

Some huge changes with the new release. Does appear to be a new transfer. Does not appear stretched. Looks very organic. Original shout disc was 1.57:1 aspect ratio, this one is 1:85:1. Checked the first Unrated scene and the quality is just as good as the rest of the film, no VHS quality.

[therewillbeblus]

The new complete set of Pee-Wee's Playhouse apparently has all-new transfers.

What a lot of people don't realize is, the show was shot on film. But it's never been seen on film — we'd shoot it and immediately transfer it to tape, then we'd edit it on tape and add the effects in on tape. The whole thing is then put on a "broadcast tape," for airing. You lose information and clarity the more you dupe, so in some cases, we're talking six generations of loss. We've cleaned all that up. I've spent over a year in a lab helping the folks putting this out with color corrections, helping them find the right source material for some of the effects — many of which they recreated from scratch for the Blu-rays. The amount of work that went into this was huge.

I wish I caught this show when it aired, I've had a few people tell me in my college years that I would've loved it. FWIW, J. Hoberman reviewed the set in the NYTimes.

I didn't realize this had fallen out-of-print - new copies now go for at least $300.

It's now apparently coming back in-print? There's a pre-order up on Orbit for cheap with an 8/27 street date listed, though I can't find any announcement elsewhere

[dwk]

Augusts Scream/Shout releases:
Poltergeist II 4K UHD Collector's Edition
The Delta Force 4K UHD
The Last Unicorn 4K UHD
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey 4K UHD
Bill & Ted Face the Music 4K UHD
Bill & Ted's Most Triumphant Trilogy 4K Collection
Evil Dead (2013) 4K Steelbook
Dragonheart 4K Steelbook (previously a WM Exclusive
Hackers 4K Steelbook (previously a BB exclusive)
Death to Smoochy Blu-ray
Observe and Report Blu-ray
Pee-Wee's Playhouse Complete Series (reissue)

[hearthesilence]

Pee-Wee's Playhouse Complete Series (reissue)

I was hoping and expecting this - copies were going for a couple hundred dollars, even approaching $400 for unopened copies.

[flyonthewall2983]

The Delta Force is semi-sleazy right wing propaganda but it has some nice moments to it, and a theme by Alan Silvestri that reminds me much more of the Indianapolis 500 than this, but it works as giving Chuck Norris some shine even if it is all a keyboard-afire rock explosion like most movie music was around this time. Uncharacteristic of the bombast in his other Hollywood hits but effective, even with the dramatic theme at the end.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

The Delta Force is semi-sleazy right wing propaganda but it has some nice moments to it

Semi-sleazy? The film literally has Robert Forster in brown face separating Jewish hostages from non-Jewish and then George Kennedy as a priest defending some sort of messy definition of "Judeo-Christian" values. It's a very ridiculous piece of right-wing propaganda that looses its effectiveness due to Chuck Norris's black hole of charisma and the ridiculousness of the whole thing. I'm a little surprised that a studio would re-release a film like this now.

[flyonthewall2983]

The other half of sleazy by my definition would be unnecessary female nudity of which this has none (I think), otherwise you’d be right to see it as an abomination of a genre picture. It’s just something I remember not that different from cartoons or other schlock I'd watch as a kid on basic cable. This was on TBS a lot.

[Mr Sausage]

The Delta Force is semi-sleazy right wing propaganda but it has some nice moments to it

Semi-sleazy? The film literally has Robert Forster in brown face separating Jewish hostages from non-Jewish and then George Kennedy as a priest defending some sort of messy definition of "Judeo-Christian" values. It's a very ridiculous piece of right-wing propaganda that looses its effectiveness due to Chuck Norris's black hole of charisma and the ridiculousness of the whole thing. I'm a little surprised that a studio would re-release a film like this now.

It's such a weird movie, too. On the one hand, it seems to want to be a serious thriller based on the hijacking of TWA flight 847, starring actors like Hannah Schygulla, Shelley Winters, Robert Forster, etc. On the other hand, the last 30 minutes is Chuck Norris riding around on a futuristic motorbike with mounted rocket launchers shooting Arabs.

[dwk]

NIght of the Creeps UHD is coming from Scream Factory