Wanna buy “Caddyshack,” “The Exorcist” or “Dr. Zhivago” on DVD or Blu-ray?
You won’t be able to until sometime in 2010.
Warner Home Video just announced an interruption in the sales of these three titles. Or, as WHV tells it, ” The moratorium begins September 4 and includes Video-on-Demand, Electronic Sell Through and all digital delivery.”
All are getting a spiffy re-release treatment next year timed to various milestones (“Caddyshack’s” 30th anniversary takes place in 2010, and the film will be available on Blu-ray for the first time next year).
It’s a page out of the Disney playbook – pulling titles off the shelves temporarily to stoke interest in a re-release.
But I’m betting stores have plenty of these titles still in stock, or the movies in question are already in your DVD collections.
Patient souls, WHV says, will be rewarded with “beautiful remastered prints, recovered previously lost footage, and exciting new bonus content all with the latest Blu-ray technology”
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Well, if all else fails, there’s always e bay. I’m more interested in why some great films still haven’t made it to DVD yet. Things like Elaine May’s “A New Leaf”, or 1980s “Simon” with Alan Arkin or Jimmy Stewart’s “No Highway in the Sky” or “Strategic Air Command” and a host of others.
Dr. Zhivago would be nice, but I am still waiting for Lawrence of Arabia on Blu-Ray…
‘The Exorcist’ is actuallybeing released n blu-ray this September unless the release date has been changed