Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on May 19, 2014 23:40:12 GMT -6
www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/entire-halloween-franchise-coming-a-705808
Anchor Bay Entertainment and Scream Factory have corralled all the rights from various home entertainment companies under one roof.
Halloween' (1978)
"Halloween"
It’s never too early to think about Halloween.
'Halloween' Director John Carpenter's First Student Film Unearthed
At least, that’s what Anchor Bay Entertainment and Scream Factory believe, who today announced they were releasing Halloween: The Complete Collection, a massive Blu-ray set that has been years in the making.
The move noteworthy since up until now, Halloween has never been collected under one roof. Unlike almost all other movie series or franchises, Halloween has suffered from having the rights to its installments owned by several companies over the decades, thus making any DVD or Blu-ray releases possible only in piecemeal fashion.
Halloween, directed by John Carpenter and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, was first made as an indie horror movie and released in 1978. After it became one of the most profitable movies of all time, Universal took it over for two movies. Then Galaxy International and CBS Video had the theatrical and home video rights for the movies made in the late 1980s.
When Halloween got resurrected in the late 1990s, it was under Disney-owned Dimension/Miramax (and home video was distributed via Buena Vista Home Video, thus making Disney the company releasing Michael Myers movies). A resurrected Dimension has been releasing the recent Rob Zombie-directed reboot.
Anchor Bay and Scream Factory worked with the rival home entertainment companies to get the movies finally all under one roof, and the result is a limited edition 15-disc deluxe and 10-disc edition for one massive set that will hit shelves Sept. 23.
The Halloween films include Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween H20, Halloween: Resurrection, Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II.
The deluxe edition comes with a ton of extras such as the never before released producers cut of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers as well as the rare network TV version of the original Halloween, the network TV version of Halloween II (it add some additional scenes and an alternate ending) plus the unrated versions of Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II.
The first Halloween will also include the original mono track (something the die hard fans have been demanding), and also come with the recently remastered 35th anniversary version with the mono track added back in. It will come with a 40-page book written by Michael Gingold of Fangoria Magazine.
The deluxe set will go for $169.99 while the normal set will retails for $129.99
More bonus features and original packaging artwork will be revealed in the coming months, according to the companies.
Anchor Bay Entertainment and Scream Factory have corralled all the rights from various home entertainment companies under one roof.
Halloween' (1978)
"Halloween"
It’s never too early to think about Halloween.
'Halloween' Director John Carpenter's First Student Film Unearthed
At least, that’s what Anchor Bay Entertainment and Scream Factory believe, who today announced they were releasing Halloween: The Complete Collection, a massive Blu-ray set that has been years in the making.
The move noteworthy since up until now, Halloween has never been collected under one roof. Unlike almost all other movie series or franchises, Halloween has suffered from having the rights to its installments owned by several companies over the decades, thus making any DVD or Blu-ray releases possible only in piecemeal fashion.
Halloween, directed by John Carpenter and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, was first made as an indie horror movie and released in 1978. After it became one of the most profitable movies of all time, Universal took it over for two movies. Then Galaxy International and CBS Video had the theatrical and home video rights for the movies made in the late 1980s.
When Halloween got resurrected in the late 1990s, it was under Disney-owned Dimension/Miramax (and home video was distributed via Buena Vista Home Video, thus making Disney the company releasing Michael Myers movies). A resurrected Dimension has been releasing the recent Rob Zombie-directed reboot.
Anchor Bay and Scream Factory worked with the rival home entertainment companies to get the movies finally all under one roof, and the result is a limited edition 15-disc deluxe and 10-disc edition for one massive set that will hit shelves Sept. 23.
The Halloween films include Halloween, Halloween II, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Halloween H20, Halloween: Resurrection, Rob Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II.
The deluxe edition comes with a ton of extras such as the never before released producers cut of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers as well as the rare network TV version of the original Halloween, the network TV version of Halloween II (it add some additional scenes and an alternate ending) plus the unrated versions of Zombie’s Halloween and Halloween II.
The first Halloween will also include the original mono track (something the die hard fans have been demanding), and also come with the recently remastered 35th anniversary version with the mono track added back in. It will come with a 40-page book written by Michael Gingold of Fangoria Magazine.
The deluxe set will go for $169.99 while the normal set will retails for $129.99
More bonus features and original packaging artwork will be revealed in the coming months, according to the companies.