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Well next year ole Warner bros going celebrate 90 years in biz

In an early kickoff to next year’s 90th anniversary, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group today rolled out a new look for the 2013 celebration and multiple collections commemorating the studio’s history. The collections, some DVD and some Blu-ray, will come out over the yearlong celebration. The Best of Warner Bros. 100 Film DVD Collection will include all of the 22 Warner Bros’ Academy Award Best Picture winners from 1931’s Cimarron to 2006’s The Departed. The 55-disc collection will also come with two documentaries, Tales From The Warner Bros. Lot and The Warner Bros. Lot Tour. The former will feature interviews with present and past studio execs like Barry Meyer, Alan Horn, Bob Daly, and Terry Semel as well as stars such as Clint Eastwood, Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman and Martin Sheen. The Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Blu-ray Collection will bring to Blu-ray for the first time films like Grand Hotel, Mrs. Miniver, and Driving Miss Daisy as well as the two new documentaries. The collection will come on 52 discs. Both the 100 Film DVD Collection and the 50 Film Blu-ray Collection go on sale on January 29, 2013.

The studio also has a few other releases coming
out throughout 2013 to celebrate its 90th. The genre specific Best of Warner Bros. 20 Film DVD Collections will be released starting in January with Best Pictures, Musicals in February, Romance in April, Comedy in July and Thrillers in September. There will be a 40-movie Clint Eastwood Collection out in the spring. The Best Of Warner Bros. Animation Collections will also be released throughout the year. There’ll be Hanna-Barbera in May, Looney Tunes in June and DC Comics in August. And in that superhero vein, The Best Of Warner Bros. Superman TV Collection will come out in May. The collection features nine Superman live action television and animated television shows.

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http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/warner- ... llections/

Glad they kept the classic look of the shield.

GRAND HOTEL and MRS. MINIVER on a "Best of Warner Bros." collection?
Something wrong there...

Warner Home Video has for many years released much of the Turner Entertainment library of MGM, RKO as well as Warner Brothers pictures. We can thank Ted Turner for preserving this huge part of cinema heritage.

Although I agree--if it's about Warner Brothers 90th Anniversary, why MGM titles in the collection? Probably since corporate WB is in charge of the home video?

Marr I think you are right

I think since TCM own MGM library that bottom line release their movies too

You could thanks Ted Fonda for that

Warner Home Video has for many years released much of the Turner Entertainment library of MGM, RKO as well as Warner Brothers pictures. We can thank Ted Turner for preserving this huge part of cinema heritage.

Although I agree--if it's about Warner Brothers 90th Anniversary, why MGM titles in the collection? Probably since corporate WB is in charge of the home video?

It's not unusual. Thanks to modern-day MGM marketing, you'd hardly know United Artists ever existed.

[Christopher Jacobs]

Warner Home Video has for many years released much of the Turner Entertainment library of MGM, RKO as well as Warner Brothers pictures. We can thank Ted Turner for preserving this huge part of cinema heritage.

Although I agree--if it's about Warner Brothers 90th Anniversary, why MGM titles in the collection? Probably since corporate WB is in charge of the home video?

It's not unusual. Thanks to modern-day MGM marketing, you'd hardly know United Artists ever existed.

And the UA and MGM/UA and late MGM movies are actually being distributed on home video now by Fox Entertainment! Universal owns most of the 1930s-40s Paramount titles and has included some Paramounts in its rather limited selection of 100th anniversary releases. Paramount, on the other hand, now owns Republic, which somehow managed to get the rights to the Universal releases THE DARK MIRROR (1946), SECRET BEYOND THE DOOR (1947), and LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948), as well as the Warner Bros. release PURSUED (1947), all of which are being distributed on Blu-ray by Olive Films through their Paramount licensing agreement.

Although Paramount itself hasn't been actively releasing their older titles (nor Universal with its Paramount library), thanks to the Olive Films arrangement there have actually been more old Paramount Pictures coming to Blu-ray than any other studio over the past year, including the previously prolific Warner Brothers! And other than a few high-profile classics, most of the older Fox and Columbia titles making it to Blu-ray have been mainly through Twilight Time and other licensees.

[Christopher Jacobs]

According to the news release at
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/32419 ... re-in-2013" target="_blank
many of them are DVD only and almost all of the titles have already been released to DVD or Blu-ray before. Very few new-to-Blu-ray titles are in the 50-film set, and the article makes it sound like the smaller 20-film essential genre sets are DVD only. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

[Danny Burk]

There's a greatly expanded list at Digital Bits:

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/m ... 00412_0100

Well, not ALL the Best Picture winners. MY FAIR LADY, which is now owned by CBS, is apparently not included.

Nor are any "new" titles, either. Seriously, is there ANYBODY who doesn't own CASABLANCA at this point?

Mike S.