It takes a ton of legal paperwork for most films to get released on a new medium. Rarely were they able to anticipate the new formats of the future (reason for the writer walk-out last year) and the contracts did not stipulate how a blu-ray disc would be handled (since no one knew about blu-ray 5 plus years ago). The reason you get these really 'pitiful' titles released is because it was a b-list film to start and everyone just signed their rights away all together and it's easy to do things when you don't need more legal paper work done on those projects. Not only is it easy to get them out, but much cheaper b/c of that legal process you can skip over.
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Taylor @ Jun 10th 2008 10:54PM
It takes a ton of legal paperwork for most films to get released on a new medium. Rarely were they able to anticipate the new formats of the future (reason for the writer walk-out last year) and the contracts did not stipulate how a blu-ray disc would be handled (since no one knew about blu-ray 5 plus years ago). The reason you get these really 'pitiful' titles released is because it was a b-list film to start and everyone just signed their rights away all together and it's easy to do things when you don't need more legal paper work done on those projects. Not only is it easy to get them out, but much cheaper b/c of that legal process you can skip over.