One last note about Scream: You may be aware that Event Horizon is (like Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, which is due on 8/25) a Paramount catalog title. It seems likely that it won’t be the last such title to be released on Blu-ray by Shout/Scream in the months ahead.
In other news today, Mill Creek Entertainment has revealed their September 2020 catalog Blu-ray slate, which is set to include Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Battlefield Earth, the animated The King and I, and a double-feature of Big Bully and Wrongfully Accused. The street date for all of these is 9/15.
Meanwhile, our friends at Kino Lorber Studio Classics have revealed that they’re working to release more great new catalog Blu-ray and DVD titles as well, including Terry Leonard’s Death Before Dishonor (1987 – for Scorpion Releasing) on 8/18, John Ford’s Hell Bent (1918), Douglas Sirk’s All I Desire (1953) and There’s Always Tomorrow (1955), Cecil B. DeMille’s The Sign of the Cross (1932), Clint Eastwood’s Breezy (1973), Joseph Strick’s The Balcony (1963), Allen Coulter’s Hollywoodland (2006), and The Reginald Denny Collection (includes The Reckless Age (1924) directed by Harry Pollard and Skinner’s Dress Suit (1926) and What Happened to Jones? (1926) directed by William A. Seiter) on 8/25, and Larry Yust’s Trick Baby (1972 – for Scorpion Releasing) and Lucio Fulci’s Conquest (1983 – for Code Red) also on 8/25. And in September, look for John Guillermin’s Death on the Nile (1978) on 9/1 and Frank Borzage’s Disputed Passage (1939) and Robert Redford’s The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) (street date TBA).
Finally today, we have a bit of confirmation (from the excellent Bond website MI6HQ) on a story that we reported on here at The Bits last year, taken from the studio’s Q1 2020 investor report, as follows: “Our physical home entertainment distribution agreement with Fox expires on June 30, 2020, and we expect to have a replacement distributor in place immediately thereafter.” We obviously knew this was going to happen in the wake of The Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox, but it will be interesting to see where the lion’s share of the MGM catalog ends up (no pun intended). And we should know soon enough.
All right, that’s all for now. Stay tuned!
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