An interview with Ventura/Selects Cliff Macmillan

[mike robert]

Recently I had a chance to sit down with Ventura/Selects Cliff Macmillan and had a chance to ask him a few questions about The Sonny Chiba collection and other titles to except in the near future. That interview can be found here: www.10kbullets.com/featur...erview.htm (http://www.10kbullets.com/features/adnessinterview.htm)

[Linn1]

"they are all licensed titles from a large library owned by both companies."

Could someone tell me how in the hell these can be licensed titles when they are copies of UK dvds or just copies of old video tapes? I think their "library" is like the video shelves I have in my bed room.

[kungfusamurai]

It would be a total dream come true if Adness could put together boxsets for the Kage No Gundan TV series. Heck, I'd be happy with just the first one. It's too bad the Chiba films aren't selling as well as they expected. Perhaps they should look at dropping the price a bit so even casual martial arts movie fans might consider dropping money for them.

KFS

[Linn1]

for the amount I've seen for the rights to get these,if they lowered them much more, they would make NO money. I mean, you can get these for $13 in a few places.

[kungfusamurai]

for the amount I've seen for the rights to get these,if they lowered them much more, they would make NO money. I mean, you can get these for $13 in a few places.

That's too bad. Have they been pushing hard to get retailers and renters to stock them? Sometimes customer demand isn't good enough, especially if customers don't know they've been release. You can't buy what you can't see, and not every customer likes to do the research the way most of us here do.

KFS

[Linn1]

EVERY Best Buy I've been in carries the whole series. I think it comes down to the same thing that kills kung fu releases. Bootleggars like Xenon and Groundzero have killed the market by putting boots into the major department stores. This makes it so stores won't carry the titles(ordering computers are set to not stock two of the same film unless it's a re-release from a major company) and undercuts the legit companies that can't compete with a price point that has nothing to do with buying rights nor remastering, but everything to do with sticking an old tape into a VCR and hitting play. IF legit companies could compete price-wise, bootleggars could just lower their prices even more.