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Post #1065322

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Swift S. Lawliet
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Do you think Disney will release the unaltered versions for DVD and blue ray?
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13-Apr-2017, 1:49 AM

And for some Disney examples:

  • The Incredible Hulk which was owned by Universal but was on the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One box set by Disney.
  • Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro which was licensed for North American release by Discotek/Eastern Star Media but was on The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki box set by Disney.

For the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One box set, the Paramount distributed ones were copyrighted under Marvel and immediately went to Disney after they released The Avengers: the last Phase One movie. This may happen again in case they make a Phase Three box set where they most likely will include Spider-Man: Homecoming.

And for The Collected Works of Hayao Miyazaki box set (US release only), Disney licensed all the other Hayao Miyazaki films for release in North America.
And Studio Ghibli has the home video distribution copyrights for all of the Hayao Miyazaki films in Japan, and Walt Disney Japan is Studio Ghibli’s official home video distributor in Japan, so there are no problems over there.
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro was also included in both UK and Australian releases since StudioCanal in UK and Madman Entertainment in Australia own the distribution copyrights to both Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro and the other Hayao Miyazaki films in their respective countries.
The only problem is in Hong Kong where Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro wasn’t included in the box set because IVL, the official Hong Kong distributor for all the Studio Ghibli films, never got the distribution copyrights to Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro nor was it licensed by another company, leaving it without an official release in Hong Kong at all.
Pretty ironic since the Studio Ghibli films are quite popular in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.
Bootlegs of that movie with Chinese subtitles are still quite common in Hong Kong given how much the Chinese love Studio Ghibli films.