Writing to MGM about Human Vapor, Last War & Gorath

[Tyler]

Been thinking about this and I'm wondering if we could get a lot of people to contact MGM to at least let them know there's an audience for these movies and they should at least consider releasing these in some sort of set (like Sony's H-Man/Battle in Outer Space/Mothra collection).

Might work might not but bringing it to their attention would be worth something and set things in motion for the future.

[Tamura]

There's no way MGM would release the three Brencos as retail titles. Hell, virtually no cult movies stand a chance at being released by a major home video company nowadays. But, I'm with you in that these should be released somehow. I can see them easily becoming MOD titles with a little demand.

I've heard that MGM's materials aren't in good condition, but I'd like to see what they have anyway. For all we know they could be OAR at the very least, which is better than those ugly pan 'n scan tapes. Whatever MGM has of these three films can't possibly be worse than KOFA's 48-minute Korean language fragment of YONGARY, its short running time being a result of hundreds of splices throughout.

[o.supreme]

Unfortunatly I've already done this (postal mail & mutiple e-mails) with not response. I would also think a MOD DVD would be the way to go with these films, even offer the 3 as a set. On the old forums I had posted the mailing address for MGM, but perhaps someone needs to startan online petition? I'll definitely sign up, I just dont know how to start one.

[JVM]

I thought Human Vapor had already been released on DVD?

[omgitsgodzilla]

The H-Man has, but not the Human Vapor, I don't think.

[wataru]

There's no way MGM would release the three Brencos as retail titles. Hell, virtually no cult movies stand a chance at being released by a major home video company nowadays.

O Hai!

2011:

http://www.amazon.com/Godzilla-Vs-Megal ... 477&sr=1-1


http://www.amazon.com/Destroy-All-Monst ... 520&sr=1-1


http://www.amazon.com/Escape-Two-Disc-B ... 357&sr=8-3

2010:

http://www.amazon.com/Film-Favorites-Cr ... 425&sr=1-1


http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5 ... AA160_.jpg
This was also released this year as a 25th anniversay edition

2005:

http://www.amazon.com/Ice-Pirates-Rober ... 53&sr=1-12

[Ethan]

Media Blasters is not hardly "major". Escape from New York is hardly "cult", compared to Toho sci-fi films at least.

[Tyler]

I'm being lazy but anyone have accurate contact information?

[wataru]

Media Blasters is not hardly "major". Escape from New York is hardly "cult", compared to Toho sci-fi films at least.

Of the companies who WANT to release Godzilla films, MB is a major company.

[omgitsgodzilla]

Yeah, but we're talking about actually major. MGM. Not some other CM/MB level label. Metro-Goldwyn-fucking-Mayer. The only other company on their level to release these movies on DVD was Sony because they could do cheap releases and people would buy them, and Criterion because they could sell it on their brand name alone. And Universal, which owned the rights to both KKvsG and KKE anyway, and had a new Kong movie coming out to tie said films into. But the difference there is that those movies all involved marketable names. None of these movies do.

[The Dark Uniter]

One way they could release the films is by releasing them on DVD on demand ( I forgot the name of the service). Pretty much, some studios are releasing films that aren't in high demand with no special features, however the film is still released. One example is the DVD release of The Green Slime.

[omgitsgodzilla]

Manufacture-On-Demand. I'll admit, it's a possibility. Unlikely though. I'd love to see it, don't get me wrong, but I'm doubtful.

[wataru]

Yeah, but we're talking about actually major. MGM. Not some other CM/MB level label. Metro-Goldwyn-fucking-Mayer. The only other company on their level to release these movies on DVD was Sony because they could do cheap releases and people would buy them, and Criterion because they could sell it on their brand name alone. And Universal, which owned the rights to both KKvsG and KKE anyway, and had a new Kong movie coming out to tie said films into. But the difference there is that those movies all involved marketable names. None of these movies do.

Yall bitch too much.

ZOMG THEYRE NOT "BIG" ENOUGH!

[Tamura]

A troll?

[wataru]

A troll?

If pointing out your erroneous 'factoid' is trolling, then ya

[omgitsgodzilla]

Yeah, but we're talking about actually major. MGM. Not some other CM/MB level label. Metro-Goldwyn-fucking-Mayer. The only other company on their level to release these movies on DVD was Sony because they could do cheap releases and people would buy them, and Criterion because they could sell it on their brand name alone. And Universal, which owned the rights to both KKvsG and KKE anyway, and had a new Kong movie coming out to tie said films into. But the difference there is that those movies all involved marketable names. None of these movies do.

Yall bitch too much.

ZOMG THEYRE NOT "BIG" ENOUGH!

I want to see these get released as much as anyone, but I just doubt it's going to happen. A company releases a movie if they think they can make money from it. These movies are obscure and without any particularly outstanding selling points and are therefore hard to sell to as large an audience as MGM is probably hoping to sell a given movie to. If it were Shout! Factory, Classic Media or Media Blasters, it would be another story - the money one could make selling these movies is a lot more to them than it is to MGM. They're niche companies, MGM isn't. Besides, if they WERE released, you'd have three less films you could use to advocate bootlegs.

[gigan71]

MGM has a facebook page, maybe we can petition it on there ?

here is the link - https://www.facebook.com/#!/mgm

[Legion1979]

Online petitions never work.

[TheSecondComing]

Been thinking about this and I'm wondering if we could get a lot of people to contact MGM to at least let them know there's an audience for these movies and they should at least consider releasing these in some sort of set (like Sony's H-Man/Battle in Outer Space/Mothra collection).

Might work might not but bringing it to their attention would be worth something and set things in motion for the future.

Offer to buy the rights. That'll get their attention.

[Tohosaurus]

I'd really like to see these three release on DVD/BRD, especially Human Vapour and Gorath.