Member ching li Posted December 24, 2009 Member Share Posted December 24, 2009 Do any of you guys know why celestial stopped releasing shaw bros films? They still had some left, but that just seemed to have stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member HyperDrive Posted December 24, 2009 Member Share Posted December 24, 2009 I think someone said that they are only going to air them on their deluxe cable channel from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ching li Posted December 24, 2009 Author Member Share Posted December 24, 2009 Oh, crap. That sucks, I wish they were still releasing them on dvd. Thanks for the info HyperDrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member zeus Posted December 24, 2009 Member Share Posted December 24, 2009 how many martial art was left anyways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kungpowmaster Posted December 24, 2009 Member Share Posted December 24, 2009 I didn't realize SB made so many movies, it sure is a lot. What's the total count of SB movies that start off with the SB Shaw Scope frame? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Maybe about 800 Shawscope films? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member HyperDrive Posted December 26, 2009 Member Share Posted December 26, 2009 Oh, crap. That sucks, I wish they were still releasing them on dvd. Thanks for the info HyperDrive. No problem. Now watch, they'll release the ones KFC has been wanting like To Kill a Mastermind and Thunderclap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Sifu Posted December 26, 2009 Member Share Posted December 26, 2009 I'll tell you why. It's because they only chose so many films to remaster. Some films didn't have good copies, others haven't even been found yet. So they've pretty much released the quota they had set a couple years ago, when they first started this huge collection. Plus, a lot of them have even gone of out print. Sad, but most of the good ones are still in print somewhere, or have already been bought by other companies for release in the U.S. and Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Many of the titles that were remastered remain unreleased. IVL's rights ran out end of 2008 and that was it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member HAZ Posted December 27, 2009 Member Share Posted December 27, 2009 ALL of the Shaw films are with the Hong Kong Film Archive. Celestial donated them in a big ceremony a few months back. I don't know if Celestial remastered all of the material & then donated it or what. It would have been crazy for them to give it away without remastering all of the material. Celestial should have digibeta copies of all of their films, or I hope so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markgway Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I think some were just old 35mm prints. But that could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member HAZ Posted December 27, 2009 Member Share Posted December 27, 2009 I think some were just old 35mm prints. But that could be wrong. They donated every scrap of 35mm film and kept only 12 or 13 re-mastered 35mm prints. That's the only film material they have left. They kept copies of Blood Brothers, 5 Venoms, the 36 Chamber films, 14 Amazons, and I can't remember the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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