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| ONAR FILMS DECEMBER HOLIDAYS SALES !!; All Onar DVDs at very low prices !!! | |
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| WANYON | Dec 9 2008, 01:00 AM Post #21 |
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I see your point Miltos, but at the same time i understand that Bill has dropped his amount of pressings to 500 per title these days out of necessity. If he had realised that CELLAT would be so popular, obviously he would have opted not to do that! However, i feel he could get around this issue by re-releasing CELLAT in a bare-bones edition. The LTD EDITION release would still be collectable as it would have the bonus material and a re-release would be a welcome earner for Bill due to CELLAT being popular but he could ensure that people who bought the Ltd Edition don't get cheated by removing all bonus material and selling a bare-bones edition to cater for demand... I don't see us returning to the INVITATION TO HELL and THE LAST NIGHT double-bill anytime in the next few years that we have worldwide rights on it unless demand is there and we are willing to do something drastically different with it. That would mean, either totally remastering it spotlessly from the original camera elements and also removing bonus materials from any future release (so, any re-release would be special due to having a fully remastered print from original camera elements whilst the earlier release would be highly collectable still due to having all the bonus stuff) or maybe re-releasing it for the UK only, so that it can be granted the British homecoming release it deserves... But we would never dream of re-releasing it next year or ever releasing it again with all the bonus materials...no way...that 25th Anniversary Special Edition is "special" and "ultra-limited" for a reason. Once it is sold it will not and can not ever be repeated. We have a moral obligation to our customer base to ensure that. Too many companies these days try to squeeze extra cash out of the same films over and over again and totally shit on any collectability factor of previous releases. That is just wrong. Paramount piss me off the most. When they first released the FRIDAY THE 13th films in cut versions i KNEW instantly that they planned to milk this series as a cash cow for years to come before we would EVER get a whif of truly satisfying uncut releases. What has happened? Everything i posted online about Paramount years ago has come true: they have continued to re-release the series, changing their stance a litte on each re-release. First we had those cut releases with shitty cover designs. Paramount swore they had no interest in remastering the series from uncut elements for DVD and that the whole business of bonus materials on DVDs was pointless. Then they re-released them, still in cut form but with some extras i believe (or was it with original sleeve art? I can't recall). Then, re-released again, this time with something else altered so as to please fans a little more to the point they would ditch their old DVDs and buy the latest re-release. You just KNOW they will continue to fuck around until they have milked it to death. I guarantee you that there will be the original sleeve art versions in cut form, then cut version with shit sleeves but in Special Editions featuring commentaries and other nice extras. Then there will be the versions with original sleeve art and extras, but still cut...THEN they will one day FINALLY release the films on DVD in totally remastered uncut version but with no extras and with shitty sleeves...THEN it will be the uncut versions with extras but shitty sleeves...THEN...MAYBE...FINALLY...after 10 years of fucking around with this series to make money each time with each DVD re-release they MAY...POSSIBLY...get around to saying "what the Hell, give them what they want now" and give the world the entire series, remastered from original elements, fully complete and uncut, with a vast array of bonus material for each film and the original poster/sleeve artwork for the sleeves... the TRUE versions we are all waiting on! Just don't expect it anytime soon...because Paramount know it can be milked for looooong time to come yet! And that doesn't even factor in future boxset incarnations! So, i think Bill could get away with re-releasing CELLAT if demand is there. Because he could just alter the edition...make it bare-bones...and let those who forked out for the Ltd Edition of 500 to have their collectable release with its cool bonus material, etc. Why not allow Bill to finally make some money on a release! |
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Oh wanyon, true words you speak, true words. it is all about the money these days. I ll stick to my uncut VHS of Friday the 13th anyway ![]() |
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| cinehound | Dec 9 2008, 01:21 AM Post #23 |
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But...350 pcs makes CELLAT "popular"? A reprint can stay unsold. When Bill says 350 are already gone he means a big part went to a couple of stores...This doesn't mean these stores sold them out, right? At least these very limited Onar releases could be "legendary" in the future and highly collectible. I wish it would be a bigger audience for these films... |
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| WANYON | Dec 9 2008, 12:37 PM Post #24 |
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True...i see your point. I didn't realise that he still had 150 left. It may mean that sales slow down now as those remaining 150 may have to be sold through the ONAR website and it may be a trickle of individual sales for a while to come. In which case, a re-release is pointless. But if the 500 were close to selling out, i think it would definitely warrant a bare-bones re-release... |
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