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BCI Raids the Miramax Vault!
Posted by Todd Brown at 10:38am.
Posted in DVD News , Martial Arts, Action, Asia.
You’ll be forgiven if you were one of those who despaired of ever seeing North American releases of any of the Asian action titles languishing in the Miramax vaults for years thanks to the Weinstein Brothers’ ‘buy and bury’ habits. Sure, some of those titles left Miramax with the brothers and have been arriving on disc via their new Dragon Dynasty label but they left a LOT of other titles behind and the company has been silent on their plans for them. Well, no more. DVD label BCI have just announced they have purchased twenty five of those sought after titles from Miramax, including Ringo Lam’s Prison on Fire films, Tiger on Beat, Wing Chun, The Touch and My Wife Is A Gangster. DVDs should start rolling out in early 2009.
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Rhythm-X 08/09/2008 @ 11:09am
Not confirmed as forthcoming just yet, but logically very likely, would be the long-missing ZATOICHI’S PILGRIMAGE and the uncut and resubtitled PEKING OPERA BLUES. It’ll be interesting to see what other titles managed to escape being captured by Ratner Dynasty that people assumed the Weinsteins had taken with them.
kungfucinema 08/09/2008 @ 12:36pm
I’m not sure about PEKING OPERA BLUES but ZATOICHI’S PILGRIMAGE is not among the 25 titles that BCI acquired. The good news is that BCI is looking to acquire even more Asian action from Miramax so we’ll have to wait and see.
Rhythm-X 08/09/2008 @ 1:32pm
Wow, releasing the one missing ZATOICHI film seems like a no-brainer. It would be a real shame if PEKING OPERA BLUES got ignored yet again. That title trumps any of the ones they actually named as far as I’m concerned. How many more of these films does Miramax even have? Are previously released titles now in play?
ChevalierAguila 08/09/2008 @ 2:46pm
Drunken Master 2 and Police Story 3 wouldn’t be bad.
Rhythm-X 08/09/2008 @ 4:11pm
DRUNKEN MASTER II is an interesting case; ownership of that film has changed from Golden Harvest to Warner Bros. since Miramax licensed it. There’s nothing to be gained if that film heads to WB through a contractual oddity or something.