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I think Killbots was rereleased as Chopping Mall.
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Aug 18, 2017 - 11:24 AM
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There is a forthcoming Arrow Blu box set of Witch,Crazies (4k?!), Vanilla, slated for Oct.
-Sean
That will be worth waiting for. When Anchor Bay released their DVD of Witch & Vanilla in 2005, they put a disclaimer at the start of the disc, saying that proper film elements couldn’t be found, and that what was used for the transfer was below Anchor Bay’s usual standards. The disc was basically VHS quality, and possibly was mastered from earlier videotapes. In any case, it was alleged at the time that there was only one surviving print of Witch.
Both films were shot in 16mm, and it will be interesting to see if Arrow has uncovered better elements.
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I don't know about the success or failure of it, but the 1973 film "The Mack" was re-released years later and rescored by Alan Silvestri (the original version is scored by Willie Hutch).
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Aug 18, 2017 - 2:36 PM
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"The Ninth Configuration" (1980) was re-released with a new title, "Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane".
In 1966, William Peter Blatty's novel Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane was published. Blatty adapted the novel into a screenplay, and intended for it to be filmed by William Friedkin. Blatty said that the script "was what you might call bizarre material. I had hoped to direct it myself. But after seeing THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S (1968) I thought the script would be safe with Friedkin. I sent it along to him. He liked it. But we couldn't find a studio that liked it."
After THE EXORCIST was completed, Blatty returned to Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane. In lieu of filming the novel, Blatty decided to rewrite it. The rewritten version of Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane was published in 1978 under the title The Ninth Configuration.
Blatty then developed The Ninth Configuration into a screenplay for Columbia Pictures. Columbia then placed the screenplay in turnaround; Blatty took the script to Universal Pictures. Universal rejected it.
With no major film studio prepared to fund THE NINTH CONFIGURATION, Blatty decided to raise the film's $4 million budget by putting up half the money himself, and persuading the PepsiCo conglomerate to provide the remaining $2 million. The company had funds that couldn't leave the country of Hungary, and to use them, they decided to co-finance the film.
THE NINTH CONFIGURATION has actually emerged over the years in numerous formats, most of which were constructed by Blatty himself. Refined from an unwieldy first assembly of over three hours, the film was originally issued at 105 minutes in the U.S. by Warner Bros. in early 1980.
After initially poor box office returns in its test markets, Warner Bros. returned the film to Blatty and allowed him to take it to another distributor. Blatty created an abridged 102-minute version re-titled TWINKLE, TWINKLE, "KILLER" KANE which United Film Distribution put out in August 1980. This was the version reviewed by the New York Times and which was nominated as Best Picture at the Golden Globes. (It won the Best Screenplay Golden Globe for Blatty.)
In the U.K. Lorimar's 109-minute international version was theatrically released by ITC with an 'X' Certificate, with Guild Video subsequently issuing an alleged 108-minute cut for home video. Although this may in fact be the same cut, small differences between the Guild video and British television versions suggest that distinct 108- and 109-minute cuts could indeed have circulated.
Unsatisfied with all the extant versions, Blatty finally decided to definitively re-cut THE NINTH CONFIGURATION for a New World re-release in 1985, creating the 117-minute, 37-second cut which now stands as his approved assembly.
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Aug 18, 2017 - 3:36 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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I don't know about the success or failure of it, but the 1973 film "The Mack" was re-released years later and rescored by Alan Silvestri (the original version is scored by Willie Hutch).
This is definitely not a film that fits the criteria here. THE MACK is a film that kept getting re-released because it performed so well at the box office. And because it did so well, it kept the same name throughout.
In THE MACK, when small-time pimp “Goldie” (Max Julien) is released from prison after suffering through a five-year sentence, he learns that he was framed by the police. Don Gordon played “Hank,” one of the policemen who framed Goldie. Michael Campus (Z.P.G.) directed the 1973 Blaxploitation film, which was initially distributed by Cinerama Releasing Corp. (CRC). The film’s song score was by singer-songwriter Willie Hutch, and was released on LP by Motown.
THE MACK was re-released to theaters in 1977 by American International Pictures, who had acquired it from the producers after CRC had dissolved. At that time it still carried the Willie Hutch song score.
Subsequently, however, the film was acquired by the Producers Distribution Company, which re-released it to theaters again in 1983 through Blossom Pictures. For that release, Willie Hutch’s song score was discarded and replaced with an instrumental score by Alan Silvestri. The reason for this is unknown. Perhaps the new distributors wanted to have their own soundtrack to exploit. The re-release poster for the film noted “Soundtrack available on Posh Boy Records.” However the LP with Silvestri’s music was actually released by ALA Records.
Reportedly, the 2002 DVD release of THE MACK, by New Line Video, has reverted back to the Willie Hutch score, which was issued on CD in 1996.
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Thanks for the Killbots/Chopping Mall posters, Bob. Also I didn't know they'd cut the film down. Its actually a very fun film!
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