Chinese Ghost Story is one of my favorite movies. Got a okay blu ray (with terrible subtitles; about as bad as the old Teng Seng DVD), but I'd be willing to double-dip on that, especially if they release a box set of the trilogy like they did of The Brave Archer series. I was pretty happy with the first volume of Shout's Shaw Bros. Classics, although I haven't explored it fully yet. Only misstep I found so far are the subtitles on Sword of Swords.
Now that Shout finally acquired the deal with Golden Princess which I never have thought that it would happen ever, I’m eager to see what’s the right boutique label to release these classic John Woo films, maybe an ultimate box set that includes A Better Tomorrow trilogy, The Killer, Bullet in the Head, etc.? Arrow, perhaps?
Hope somebody hooks me up with Shout Factory! I would like to rework on the english translations for Ringo Lam's School of Fire. Last time, Joy Sales by no fault of their own, gave me the Mandarin dub transcript. I only had that to base my translations on.
Holy shit, this is great news. I'd say you're right, shout will probably want to licence them to other distributors in different territories to try and recoup some of the costs. Fingers crossed this happens
Best news i heard so far, this year. Maybe now Warners will lose the rights to their Hk films they owned that they have done nothing but sit in their vaults.
I can't believe this is finally happening. Yeah I have doubts too about Shout Factory (especially because to me this means more imports......), and I definitely would've preferred Arrow or 88 Films to handle this. But the important thing is that these titles ar finally FREE. I can't find your video with Djeng talking about the difficulties of this licensing, is it still up..?
We retired the video from last year in light of the news, don’t give up on Arrow, 88 or eureka stepping up for the U.K. market. Shout have obtained worldwide distribution rights but don’t have any plans to start releasing discs themselves outside of the US so we’ll very likely see other labels being involved in different territories. I’m hoping Arrow or Second Sight step up 🤞🤞
As hyped as I am but what sucks is that means only region A versions of these great films are coming unless 88 Film, Arrow, Radiance or Eureka come along to save the day for us UK folk
They won’t be region A only, shout have the worldwide distribution rights and have to recoup the huge cost of obtaining the back catalogue every way possible. We can absolutely expect sub licensing deals to other territories, time will tell who steps up for the U.K. I doubt 88 or eureka can afford the asking price. My money would be on Arrow or second sight. Time will tell.
I went to find your video from last year explaining the rights conflict to comment about these news as soon as I read the article but could not find the video. Did you guys take it down?
@ oh I see. It was very educational to me. It had the best explanation of circumstances and I didn’t know of before. I’m exited to the prospects of seeing these films finger the quality attention they deserve
Cool news, but I'm not the biggest shout fan. I'll give them props for the Shaw bros sets. Keeping my fingers cross hopefully Arrow gets them across the pond. They would give those films a proper treatment. 👊👊
I have a question for everyone: What artist would you pick for the GP film you're looking forward to the most?. My top 3 would be 'Kung Fu' Bob O'Brien for 'Tiger on the Beat', Tony Stella for 'A Chinese Ghost Story' and maybe Sam Green for 'I love Maria' 🤩
@@BloodnailTV Tony has already made some gorgeous artwork for the killer ( and I think hard boiled too 🤔) hopefully shout will get him and Bob involved 🤞🤞
He’s the busiest man on the planet these days. But I know he’s already working on the new releases for shout so not sure what he can or can’t say right now.
@TheFanaticalDragon Oh I was just thinking of a funny short video will him saying 'actually...I take it back' 😂. Oh no doubt!, especially with the potential Game of Clones volume 2 in the future too!
WOW. YES!! I'm just excited in general, especially after watching your previous video about the likelihood of this acquisition ever happening.
Fantastic news indeed!!!!! I too was not expecting this.
Luckily Shout has sublicensing rights for non-Asian territories so UK labels will have a crack at these films. Super stoked!!!
Great news, so many amazing movies, Hard Boiled is one of my all time fave movies.
This is unbelievable news! I never thought this would happen either! I can’t wait to see the first line up of releases!
Awesome News thanks brother for the info 👊🏾
Miracle of physical media miracles. Shout you just moved up in my world. I have both of their Golden Harvest boxes and they are good enough.
Thank you my friend.
Chinese Ghost Story is one of my favorite movies. Got a okay blu ray (with terrible subtitles; about as bad as the old Teng Seng DVD), but I'd be willing to double-dip on that, especially if they release a box set of the trilogy like they did of The Brave Archer series.
I was pretty happy with the first volume of Shout's Shaw Bros. Classics, although I haven't explored it fully yet. Only misstep I found so far are the subtitles on Sword of Swords.
Now that Shout finally acquired the deal with Golden Princess which I never have thought that it would happen ever, I’m eager to see what’s the right boutique label to release these classic John Woo films, maybe an ultimate box set that includes A Better Tomorrow trilogy, The Killer, Bullet in the Head, etc.? Arrow, perhaps?
It's very exciting news..
There are lots of titles there that I haven't seen yet 😁
Hope somebody hooks me up with Shout Factory! I would like to rework on the english translations for Ringo Lam's School of Fire. Last time, Joy Sales by no fault of their own, gave me the Mandarin dub transcript. I only had that to base my translations on.
@@tinlunlau1 may well be worth reaching out to Frank Djeng. He’s going to be very involved with shout on these releases.
@TheFanaticalDragon will probably have to give him a call. I spoke to him recently about witch from nepal
Holy shit, this is great news. I'd say you're right, shout will probably want to licence them to other distributors in different territories to try and recoup some of the costs. Fingers crossed this happens
looking forward in seeing PRISON ON FIRE I & II in HD 😎
Really hope they include brand new interviews with Chow Yan Fat!
Best news i heard so far, this year. Maybe now Warners will lose the rights to their Hk films they owned that they have done nothing but sit in their vaults.
We can only hope! Still hearing rumours about criterion bringing out pedicab driver but nothing solidly confirmed yet.
@@TheFanaticalDragon I've heard rumors of that and them eying JC's films that they owned but nothing official yet.
Hopefully Arrow Video get the UK rights. Even us Americans would buy those knowing they would be the best.
I can't believe this is finally happening.
Yeah I have doubts too about Shout Factory (especially because to me this means more imports......), and I definitely would've preferred Arrow or 88 Films to handle this. But the important thing is that these titles ar finally FREE.
I can't find your video with Djeng talking about the difficulties of this licensing, is it still up..?
We retired the video from last year in light of the news, don’t give up on Arrow, 88 or eureka stepping up for the U.K. market. Shout have obtained worldwide distribution rights but don’t have any plans to start releasing discs themselves outside of the US so we’ll very likely see other labels being involved in different territories. I’m hoping Arrow or Second Sight step up 🤞🤞
I hope they get Iron Angels 1-3.
As hyped as I am but what sucks is that means only region A versions of these great films are coming unless 88 Film, Arrow, Radiance or Eureka come along to save the day for us UK folk
They won’t be region A only, shout have the worldwide distribution rights and have to recoup the huge cost of obtaining the back catalogue every way possible. We can absolutely expect sub licensing deals to other territories, time will tell who steps up for the U.K. I doubt 88 or eureka can afford the asking price. My money would be on Arrow or second sight. Time will tell.
Full Contact too? 🤔
Yep, I believe so!
Yes, It's a Golden Princess produced film but hopefully fully uncut.
@@GothamKnight84661 I have the HK version the transfer is decent but the subtitles are dog shit
The only thing I hate about boutique labels is that they don't put spanish subtitles in their releases. Anyway, good news
We'll see. I have almost every title you mentioned from Novamedia except Hard Boiled.
Never say never.
I went to find your video from last year explaining the rights conflict to comment about these news as soon as I read the article but could not find the video. Did you guys take it down?
Yep, spoke to Frank and we decided to retire it in light of yesterday’s news.
@ oh I see. It was very educational to me. It had the best explanation of circumstances and I didn’t know of before. I’m exited to the prospects of seeing these films finger the quality attention they deserve
@@FrankieKennethL it’s back up again, had a bunch of messages from folks requesting to see it :)
Cool news, but I'm not the biggest shout fan. I'll give them props for the Shaw bros sets. Keeping my fingers cross hopefully Arrow gets them across the pond. They would give those films a proper treatment. 👊👊
I have a question for everyone:
What artist would you pick for the GP film you're looking forward to the most?.
My top 3 would be 'Kung Fu' Bob O'Brien for 'Tiger on the Beat', Tony Stella for 'A Chinese Ghost Story' and maybe Sam Green for 'I love Maria' 🤩
@@BloodnailTV Tony has already made some gorgeous artwork for the killer ( and I think hard boiled too 🤔) hopefully shout will get him and Bob involved 🤞🤞
We need Frank back to update the 'stop asking about GP John Woo films' video 😁.
He’s the busiest man on the planet these days. But I know he’s already working on the new releases for shout so not sure what he can or can’t say right now.
@TheFanaticalDragon Oh I was just thinking of a funny short video will him saying 'actually...I take it back' 😂.
Oh no doubt!, especially with the potential Game of Clones volume 2 in the future too!