drsyn71

Spaceblackknight said:

grafxuser said:

Out of interest has this new HD release been advertised anywhere, or just popped up as an extra purchase option out of the blue?

Only in the UK AFAIK. It seems Entertainment Film Distributors (who are still around) are the main producer and current rights holder for everywhere but the US. Slipstream did get an extremely limited theatrical run here by a small distributor that not only went belly up not long after release, but also allegedly did not file a proper copyright and thus went PD shortly afterwards.

Ah-hah! Well that explains why I saw it end up on so many cheapie DVDs.

So talking about a physical release of Slipstream, I would even be happy will a Mill Creek Blu-Ray. Now hear me out. Mill Creek gets a bad rap a lot of times. But I actually LIKE and APPRECIATE Mill Creek. They basically release the material they are given. So whatever condition any HD master is in, is what we get. They do NO restoration themselves. Now I WILL say that it IS annoying that they skimp sometimes and put multiple movies on 1 disc or a couple of TV episodes too many per disc to save space. Sometimes they will only do a stereo audio track when there WAS a 5.1 track on a previous release on another label. But Mill Creek releases a lot of stuff that no one will. If Mill Creek was iffy about whether to release Slipstream on blu-ray for fear of poor sales, they could do a Mark Hamill double or triple feature. Release Slipstream with TIME RUNNER and/or BLACK MAGIC WOMAN. Those two movies I don’t even think got a DVD release. Enough of my two cents. I’ll stop rattling on now.

grafxuser said:

I am not sure about this, but I think it’s a UK company that owns the movie so it’s probably cheaper to put it streaming in the UK. And if it makes enough sales it would then publish/stream it in the US.

… but anyway all I can say is I awoke this morning and noticed the message ‘Slipstream HD and widescreen’ all in the same sentence and still thought I was dreaming!!!

I know! It IS pretty cool! Who’d have thought Slipstream would see some love like this. Yes, I think if the numbers/sales/streams of it are good in the UK, it will lead to other countries and other formats. There are SO many repeated clickbait internet articles of how physical media is dead. I see far too much evidence to the contrary. Maybe the big movie studios are wanting to bail on physical media, but there are great 4K/Blu-Ray “niche” labels out there. Arrow, Vinegar Syndrome, Cauldron, Terror Vision, Synapse, Blue Underground, Kino Lorber could put out a nice Slipstream 4K/Blu. I see all of those labels releasing WAY more weird and/or obscure titles all the time, so I never say never.

Maybe we’ll get a nice shiny extras packed 4K this year for it’s 45th anniversary 😅.
A small label Blu-ray would be enough for me at this point.

Agreed. I’m hoping for an audio commentary with director Steven Lisberger and Mark Hamill as well as the vintage 25 minute making-of and the theatrical trailer. But we’ll take what we can get at this point.

Awesome! And I can see film grain. That’s good. You never know if some genius (sarcasm) decided to hit it with DNR and release what I call the “scrubbing bubbles” and scrub away all the grain and fine detail. I’ve seen far too many transfers and “restorations” that do that. I’m hopeful we’ll get a nice physical release of this.

dvdmike said:

It’s my holy grail film, ever since it came out.
I still think that AR is wrong, I would love to know the source on it

Not that IMDb doesn’t ever have wrong information, but they list it as 1.85:1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098350/technical/?ref_=tt_spec_sm

When you start talking about aspect ratios, you get into a tangled web. You hear stuff like WELL, THE DIRECTOR INTENDED IT TO BE _______________. And it’ll be an old film and the director has passed away and can’t confirm that’s correct. It can sometime seem like idle gossip: WELL, I HEARD…
I read an article a few years back that talked about that.

Invasion of the Aspect Ratios
https://www.chicagofilmsociety.org/2012/07/02/invasion-of-the-aspect-ratios/

You really get into the artistic and aesthetic look of a movie seeing it in a wider scope. “Artistic vision”. When I watch a movie I want to immerse myself in that world. I want as much information about that world as I can get. That includes seeing as much of that world as possible. I run across a lot of old DVDs that have “open matte” versions of the films. Not pan and scan, but open matte. Yes, I understand that the director intended that image to be matted for presentation in theaters (or home theaters), but I can’t help it. Some might say, OPEN MATTE?! SACRILIDGE! Not me. I just want to see as much as I can see. For me, I feel sometimes like the director can ruin their own movie. Going back and changing things again and again and again. Yes, I’m talking to you, George Lucas. How many times are you going to change the sound that Obi Wan makes in New Hope to scare off the Sand People?

https://youtu.be/_O-Fdf2-8Z4?feature=shared

Anyway, I just thought I’d pipe in and share my thoughts. Yeah, I know - no one asked! 😃

stretch009 said:

Pineapples101 said:

I honestly never thought I would see this happen!!

And you quite possibly may still never see it.

Agreed. I’ll believe it when I’m putting the disc into my player.

dvdmike said:

drsyn71 said:

Someone in a comment on the Facebook post from DVD News Flash says, “My sources tell me Arrow Video will be releasing this early to mid 2024.”

I SO hope that’s true.

https://www.facebook.com/dvdnewsflash/posts/pfbid02cuo8uSrtz9ByEnPiPd8vBBe2f84dEncLCP6muGvciW3bSACLDrHkC1Ev7EaHSzXil

That’s just as Flowers mentioned it on Twitter. I hope they do but sadly I bet it’s a box set with other movies style release

Stand alone or in a box set, I’ll take it. ARROW usually does some great stuff.

An audio commentary from Director Steven Lisberger and Mark Hamill would be cool.

Someone in a comment on the Facebook post from DVD News Flash says, “My sources tell me Arrow Video will be releasing this early to mid 2024.”

I SO hope that’s true.

https://www.facebook.com/dvdnewsflash/posts/pfbid02cuo8uSrtz9ByEnPiPd8vBBe2f84dEncLCP6muGvciW3bSACLDrHkC1Ev7EaHSzXil

dvdmike said:

Now remastered in HD on iTunes if anyone can rip it?

https://twitter.com/jamesflowerfilm/status/1733763648605069683?t=u4h9tY9IKAqD3OcNXxBHrg&s=19

Whoops lttp there.

Yes, please!

lrnk85 said:

I reached out to several boutique labels and suggested it, so fingers crossed. In the mean time, we soldier on!

Definitely! I just don’t know HOW many times, how many things in my life that I decided I would take on and do myself since no one else was. Keep on keepin’ on.

I’m so glad SLIPSTREAM is being shown some love here. I wish we could get Kino Lorber or somebody to get the original films elements and give this cool movie a good transfer. But I’m not holding my breath on that.

Fred Ward has passed away and I’ve been watching a bunch of his stuff.

Any updates on this project? Oswarez, are you to the point where you can hook us up with a DL link or a blu-ray?

grafxuser said:

Sadly I have just looked up the particular film distribution company who put forward the copyright complaint/issue to youtube and going by the web they still have distribution rights to it.

I am a little bit miffed since I had put the time, effort and a little bit of funding into edited some of the scenes to make them more clean and fluent on the audio and motion front.

It’s just one of those things I suppose 😦

Note from wikipedia…

The film is mistakenly believed to be in the public domain, when in reality it has a proper copyright notice in the end credits.

Any updates? Are you continuing to work on this?

Stepstone said:

And its a pity theirs been no progress on the previous posters hopeful restoration project. This film needs rescuing

It really does. There’s also a “Making of”. I found a lot of good stuff at:
http://futurewarstories.blogspot.com/2012/07/fws-my-favorite-b-movie-slipstream-1989.html

Stepstone said:

Sitting here watching the Japanese Laserdisc I recently purchased from a Japanese seller on eBay (cheaply and it was brand new - more available too).
It’s been some time since I watched my Dvd, but it doesn’t seem to be much of an improvement. Still good to have though.

Ive read through this entire thread and was wondering what became of the 35mm film trailer? All the images of it have since gone. Would love to see even just a few images of it.

I got a DVD transfer of the Japanese Laserdisc some years back. I agree with you. It’s a slightly better image than the public domain DVDs out there. The color seems to be better and of course, it’s widescreen. But then there’s those pesky burned-in subtitles. Oh well. It IS good to have, though.

Anything???

Any updates on the project?