The Arrow Thread

[bleakshaun]

this would describe the chaos after the announcement, just noise and sound

[trebor8273]

Screw it, ordered the limited edition and steelbook , done it more just to upset that asshole on Facebook.

[bleakshaun]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Screw it, ordered the limited edition and steelbook , done it more just to upset that asshole on Facebook.

sell them on ebay to make thrice the profit

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bleakshaun

sell them on ebay to make thrice the profit

He can't.

He's already sold them to Cex.

[keirarts]

Some of the responses on Facebook are mental.

One person was complaining that Arrow were deliberately cutting extras. People tried to point out that all those bonus materials were liscenced by Scream factory and Arrow may not have been able to get the rights. On top of that, Arrow probably spent a lot of the budget getting access to the Negatives. Scream used the inter-positives which would have been a cheaper option but I'd rather Arrow spent the money on the film itself!

[Rik]

It's the same on all the UK labels pages, I remember all the crying when 88 Films announced Toxie 3 or 4, can't remember which, with a few seconds cut, it was hilarious

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Rik

It's the same on all the UK labels pages, I remember all the crying when 88 Films announced Toxie 3 or 4, can't remember which, with a few seconds cut, it was hilarious

Toxie 3 I think. I remeber the U.S release is the same as its what Troma gave them. Try explaining that to someone with nerd rage though.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Toxie 3 I think. I remeber the U.S release is the same as its what Troma gave them. Try explaining that to someone with nerd rage though.

It was 3 you're right

[Michael Brooke]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Some of the responses on Facebook are mental.

One person was complaining that Arrow were deliberately cutting extras. People tried to point out that all those bonus materials were liscenced by Scream factory and Arrow may not have been able to get the rights. On top of that, Arrow probably spent a lot of the budget getting access to the Negatives. Scream used the inter-positives which would have been a cheaper option but I'd rather Arrow spent the money on the film itself!

I don't know the ins and outs of this particular release, but I suspect it was a case of either/or in terms of budget - and the opportunity to create brand new extras (such as a feature-length documentary) was more tempting. Especially given how well other similarly lengthy Arrow-commissioned docs on Donnie Darko and Phenomena have been received.

Arrow has worked in collaboration with Shout Factory in the past, for instance on To Live and Die in L.A. where Arrow did the restoration and Shout did the extras, but since Shout's The Thing was already out there this was presumably a much less practical option.

[Justin101]

I might be the odd one out but I prefer it when labels do bespoke extras rather than all re-using the same ones.