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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118039525
West Side Story' dances to Blu-ray
MGM tuner celebrates 50th anni with new release
By Marc Graser

Fox is helping MGM with a promo push for the 50th anni of "West Side Story," which will be released on Blu-ray for the first time.
After successfully hyping the 45th anni of "The Sound of Music" last year, 20th Century Fox is taking the promo stage again to sell MGM musical "West Side Story" 50 years following its bow in theaters and marking its first time on Blu-ray.

In April, MGM renewed its deal with Fox to handle the release of its homevideo titles through 2016, a relationship that began in 2006. Fox has considerably more marketing resources to bring to bear on behalf of the MGM titles,especially as the latter has been working over the past year and half to maximize its assets after its latest reorganization.

Now, with the Lion ready to roar again, MGM will release a collector's box set for "West Side Story" on Nov. 15, and is turning to Fox to push the pic through a variety of high-profile events leading up to the launch.

[highlight=#ffff80]Push marks the first in a series of homevid launches to promote MGM's extensive film library, which includes the James Bond franchise, "The Pink Panther" comedies and "Rocky," all of which will also get anniversary relaunches starting in 2012.[/highlight]

"This film is to MGM what 'Sound of Music' is to Fox," said Mary Daily, exec VP of marketing in North America for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. "It's a perennial classic."

The limited-edition "West Side Story" box will include a two-disc Blu-ray set, a restored DVD and tribute CD that includes covers of "I Feel Pretty," by Julie Andrews, along with a 40-page hardcover photo book and other collectibles, such as the original animated title sequence and one-sheet created by Saul Bass ("Psycho," "Vertigo").

MGM previously released "West Side Story" on DVD in 2003, and has sold 4 million units since.

New gift set will retail for $49.99 while individual Blu-ray will be priced at $19.99.

A series of promo efforts will take place now through November, including this weekend's screening of "West Side Story" at the Hollywood Bowl, and live perf of Leonard Bernstein's score, with David Newman conducting the L.A. Philharmonic. It'll mark the first time the score has been played by an orchestra since it was recorded in 1961.

That event will be followed by similar screenings and perfs in New York City in September and Chicago in November. Additional screenings in theaters are also planned.

"When you have a property like 'West Side Story' and 'Sound of Music,' where the music is so important and the spectacle is so important it just makes a lot of sense (to have screenings) where the audience can have a collective experience," Daily said.

Promo push will see cast members, including Rita Moreno, making appearances. The film and some of its songs, including "Maria," "America," "Tonight," and "I Feel Pretty," will be integrated into various TV shows that air on Fox, similar to how "Glee" themed an episode around "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" when that musical had its Blu-ray debut. That effort aimed to court younger audiences who may not have been familiar with the 1975 pic.

Similar effort around "The Sound of Music," which included most of the cast reuniting on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," helped make the box set the top live-action catalog seller in 2010.
[highlight=#ffffbf]With DVD sales declining and Blu-ray still growing, studios are looking for every reason to get consumers excited about a home-video launch, even if it's an older catalog title. An anniversary certainly helps.[/highlight]

Launches of older pics on Blu-ray come as 27 million households now have a player for the format in their homes.

"We're seeing many people revisiting their favorite films or experiencing them for the first time," Daily said.

And with the box sets, "What people want is something that's collectible and meaningful and a complete compendium, as possible, to that title. We try to look for things that people haven't seen before or haven't seen the light of day in a long time. That's our jumping-off point."
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About time! although and I probably will be banned for saying this all of the Bond films are available in HD if you look.
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Up for pre-order and Amazon.co.uk (89.99) & Amazon.com ($199)
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MGM And Fox To Package All 22 James Bond Films On Blu-ray
By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:04pm EST


When you consider how important gadgets are in James Bond lore, it makes sense for MGM and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to use the 2012 International CES to announce plans to release all 22 movies in a boxed set of Blu-ray discs. This will be the first time that all of the films — from Dr. No to Quantum Of Solace – have been offered together, and that nine of the films will be available in HD. The package celebrating 007′s 50-year film career also will include 130 hours of bonus features. The set will be available this fall for about $240, but fans can pre-order on Amazon starting today. The announcement will be made at a panel about the Bond films featuring directors John Glen (For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights, and Licence To Kill), Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale) and Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough). Also appearing will be actresses Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace) and Caterina Murino (Casino Royale). Last year, Fox used the CES platform to announce sales of its Star Wars Saga set of Blu-ray discs
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Blowfeld wrote:Up for pre-order and Amazon.co.uk (89.99) & Amazon.com ($199)
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MGM And Fox To Package All 22 James Bond Films On Blu-ray
By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday January 10, 2012 @ 4:04pm EST


When you consider how important gadgets are in James Bond lore, it makes sense for MGM and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to use the 2012 International CES to announce plans to release all 22 movies in a boxed set of Blu-ray discs. This will be the first time that all of the films — from Dr. No to Quantum Of Solace – have been offered together, and that nine of the films will be available in HD. The package celebrating 007′s 50-year film career also will include 130 hours of bonus features. The set will be available this fall for about $240, but fans can pre-order on Amazon starting today. The announcement will be made at a panel about the Bond films featuring directors John Glen (For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights, and Licence To Kill), Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, Casino Royale) and Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough). Also appearing will be actresses Olga Kurylenko (Quantum Of Solace) and Caterina Murino (Casino Royale). Last year, Fox used the CES platform to announce sales of its Star Wars Saga set of Blu-ray discs
I prefer the Special Edition DVDs and the old school VHS thank you very much. Anything with DC's mug on it I WILL NOT buy, and I'm sure BJ will do the same. Babs doesn't need my money. Bond is totally corrupted these days.
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Well I won't be buying it, Blu-ray players upsale DVD to 1080p and as my TV is only 32 inch, That's fine for me. :)
I'll stick to my Ultimate Edition, and like others I don't want Craigs Movies to infect my boxed collection.
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How come Daniel Craig is the same size as the other actors in that picture?
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007 wrote:How come Daniel Craig is the same size as the other actors in that picture?
They can not very well show him like this :twisted:
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The video for the set is good until it cuts Craig's grimacing face honestly a few years ago everyone would of though it was highlighting a new villain.The cut scenes with good old fashion Bond and Craig point how how much of a sore thumb he is.
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And I thought the changes Lucas made for the Star Wars Blu-Ray are bad. This Bond Blu-Ray is going have DC's mug everywhere, and this is worse. What did I say? Bond is corrupt.
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FormerBondFan wrote:And I thought the changes Lucas made for the Star Wars Blu-Ray are bad. This Bond Blu-Ray is going have DC's mug everywhere, and this is worse. What did I say? Bond is corrupt.
It's sad to think that any future Bond documentaries will have clips of Craig covered in dirt and ruining one liners.
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carl stromberg wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:And I thought the changes Lucas made for the Star Wars Blu-Ray are bad. This Bond Blu-Ray is going have DC's mug everywhere, and this is worse. What did I say? Bond is corrupt.
It's sad to think that any future Bond documentaries will have clips of Craig covered in dirt and ruining one liners.
Are the Ultimate Edition DVDs devoid of any mentions and/or images of DC's Bond in the extras and documentaries?
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FormerBondFan wrote:
carl stromberg wrote:
FormerBondFan wrote:And I thought the changes Lucas made for the Star Wars Blu-Ray are bad. This Bond Blu-Ray is going have DC's mug everywhere, and this is worse. What did I say? Bond is corrupt.
It's sad to think that any future Bond documentaries will have clips of Craig covered in dirt and ruining one liners.
Are the Ultimate Edition DVDs devoid of any mentions and/or images of DC's Bond in the extras and documentaries?
Mate you've been talking out of your ass on this one for some time. Good news the Blu-rays already released do not feature Craig in any manner. The disc loads no ads appear that feature Craig (Die Another Day, The World Is Not Enough, load strait to the main menu with all of the same special features as before.). This new packaging may feature Craig with the other Bonds miniaturized to match his slight frame, otherwise that's it except for any special 50th celebration hoopla/extra discs. The thirteen disc already press should be the same discs in this set, and they are just like the 2006 DVD which means unless they repress all the discs the remaining nine should be the same.

I have all of the (US)pre Craig Bond Blu-rays they are the exact copy of the 2006 DVDs which do not feature Craig in any way, special features are the same old special features. The 2006 masters are the last proper Bondian release. A proper looking shadowy Bond walks on the screen followed some proper looking shapely ladies to caress the screen. You've been buying up the VHS or older DVD (not that they are not collectible) from what I can tell because you think the Blu-ray are tainted by Craig.

This set is cheap as chips hopefully they fix the GoldenEye error before this is released and do not redo the intros for a special 50th renovation. Which I doubt since there is no real money to re-master and redo them all. Extra discs may be another matter. I would be very surprised if this set is remastered. Probably have some crappy digipacking. Hopefully a lesson was learned from the 1 through 3 set.
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Do the commentaries or any other extra in the Ultimate Edition not mentioned anything DC? I just want to make sure.
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FormerBondFan wrote:Do the commentaries or any other extra in the Ultimate Edition not mentioned anything DC? I just want to make sure.
Judas H Priest...are you worried you might get cooties if somebody mentions Craig on a commentary or something?
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FormerBondFan wrote:Do the commentaries or any other extra in the Ultimate Edition not mentioned anything DC? I just want to make sure.
How? Do you think Brozza went back to re-recorded his commentary for DAD I can guarantee he didn't, on top of that he Connery, Lazenby will probably never do another commentary for EON. Most if not all of the recordings were done well before 2006 so would not mention Craig for a variety of reasons besides bad form (Sir Rog did all of his around Sept 2005).

This is for the existing set only it remains to be seen if the new Blu-rays will be transparent to the 2006 DVD release, by most reasoning they should.
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Geek Culture: Directors discuss James Bond – 50 years old, still looks great
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At CES there’s a lot of stuff. Too much stuff. Robots, cars, haptic displays and entire houses just sitting in the middle of the convention center. It’s a wacky place. Panasonic brought a little order to the show’s chaos by hosting a sit-down conversation with three directors of the James Bond franchise in honor of the 50th Anniversary Blu-ray set Geek Culture: Directors discuss James Bond 50 years old, still looks great ($199, Amazon.com) coming out this year. After walking for hours across the show floor I was relieved to find a place where I could sit, rest my feet, and listen to three film veterans discuss one of my favorite movie franchises.

Before the old folks came out, former Bond girls Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and Caterina Murino (Casino Royale) waltzed out first. After looking beautiful and reading a few platitudes about the Bond series from note cards they introduced directors Michael Apted, John Glen, and Martin Campbell. A few select scenes played on Panasonic’s numerous HD TV displays – an array worthy of a Bond villain – then each director reminisced about each clip.

The first scene was the opening vignette from Octopussy when Roger Moore’s Bond flew a plane through a rapidly closing hangar door. I was never big on Roger Moore; I think once he came around scenes in Bond movies became interchangeable and this scene, while great, is good proof of that. It has nothing to do with anything else in the movie and director John Glen, the older of the three with an ultra-rich British timber in his voice, copped to that then explained how the scene involved a lot of forced perspective and miniature work to get the plane through the hangar moment to look right. Apparently the stunt could have been shot for real, with a real plane going through a real hangar door, but it would’ve looked too boring!

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From left to right: John Glen, Michael Apted, Martin Campbell
The next scene, from The Spy Who Loved Me, showed Moore-as-Bond escaping from bad guys via ski chase. It was a pretty fun bit, prefaced by some enjoyable cheesy dialogue (“I need you James!” says the girl. “So does England!” Bond replies) though that dated, dated bow-chika-wow-wow soundtrack and rear-projection shots took me out of the scene a bit. Then the critical part of my brain shut up when the incredible and loooong ski jump took place. Bond twirled and tumbled through the air until his Union Jack parachute popped out and the Bond theme kicked in. So cool. The man who did it was a bespectacled, short guy named Rick Sylvester, someone unassuming that you wouldn’t expect to do this kind of dangerous work, but he stepped up to do kickass stunts when the time was right, according to Glen (who edited The Spy Who Loved Me, but didn’t direct it). Glen then laughed and mentioned how Sylvester pulled down his trousers and “dumped in the snow” after the stunt due to his stomach flipping. Manly!

Michael Apted then took the spotlight with a scene from The World is Not Enough. Not my favorite of the Pierce Brosnan Bonds — I forgot all about it — but this scene reminded me how awesome Brosnan was in the role. It almost seems effortless for him. Anyway, they showed the part when Bond roughs up mob boss Valentin (Harry Potter’s Robbie Coltrane, also in GoldenEye), remote control drives his car to fire missiles at a helicopter, then flinches comedically as his car gets sliced in half by a helicopter wielding a gigantic multi-bladed saw. It was a nice scene, full of gadgets and suspense, and director Michael Apted remarked how he loved to chop a BMW Z8 in half. He also mentioned how the main plot of oil in the Caspian Sea was inspired by real-world controversy in that region that is still on-going today.

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Call me crazy, I kinda preferred Olga in Hitman.
The final clip came from Casino Royale – the parkour scene. Still a thrilling setpiece, modern and sleek, it amazed how far the Bond movies have come since the days of obvious blue screens and kitschy ’70s soundtracks. Director Martin Campbell revived Bond with a new actor and new dark style twice – once in the 90s with GoldenEye and again in 2006 with Royale, which he mentioned he wanted to hew closer to Ian Fleming’s original book. I’m not sure how parkour, cell phones and 9/11 references fit in that mission statement, but hey, they worked for the movie. Campbell talked a lot about Daniel Craig and the style of Bond they created together, that he’s “a rough diamond” who thinks with his gut or heart and not his head, thus crashing through walls and invading embassies while chasing a man who can jump off high-altitude construction cranes. Campbell even admitted what many of us have thought, that Bond could’ve just waited at the embassy to catch the guy he was after, though that wouldn’t have made for much of a thrilling sequence.
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Formula for 50-year-old film franchise = Gorgeous actresses + Talented directors

After that the Bond girls returned and shared a photo op with the directors. Although each filmmaker came from a different era and perspective it was obvious the three shared a deep love and understanding for Bond. I can’t think of many other franchises, film, book or otherwise, that has had the benefit of the changing of so many hands over 50 years of existence. Maybe they’re out there, but are they as cool or entertaining as Bond?

As of now there’s no release date for Bond’s golden anniversary Blu-ray set. Obviously it will be this year sometime, most likely before SkyFall comes out. Stay tuned at 007.com for future announcements and stay tuned here as I continue to gush (and gripe) about Bond in time for SkyFall’s release.
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