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Studio Canal (France) titles for this week!

post #1 of 19
9/21/09 at 5:29am
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Anyone picking up any of them?

Traffic
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
The Others
Memoirs of a Geisha
Bridget Jones 2
Evil Dead 2
Good Morning England
Baghdad Cafe
Sleepy Hollow
Universal Soldier
Unborn
Mission To Mars
Emmanuelle
The Interpreter


I'm thinking of:
Traffic
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Are they usually region-free?
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post #2 of 19
9/21/09 at 5:33am
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Originally Posted by DigitalfreakNYC View Post

Anyone picking up any of them?

Traffic
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
The Others
Memoirs of a Geisha
Bridget Jones 2
Evil Dead 2
Good Morning England
Baghdad Cafe
Sleepy Hollow
Universal Soldier
Unborn
Mission To Mars
Emmanuelle
The Interpreter


I'm thinking of:
Traffic
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Are they usually region-free?

More important, will these have forced subtitles like TF1 releases?
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post #3 of 19
9/21/09 at 9:45am
Any chance their Evil Dead 2 will look any better than the domestic release?
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post #4 of 19
9/21/09 at 9:59am
That is the million dollar question.
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post #5 of 19
9/21/09 at 10:17am
Emmanuelle sounds interesting
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post #6 of 19
9/21/09 at 10:30am
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Originally Posted by DigitalfreakNYC View Post

I'm thinking of:
Traffic
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Are they usually region-free?

No, I don't think so. They're region B.
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post #7 of 19
9/21/09 at 12:32pm
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More important, will these have forced subtitles like TF1 releases?

I have no insider info. on these particular releases, but I am pretty much certain they will have forced French subtitles. It's a contract thing in France. Apparently, only majors (Warner, Paramount, Universal) have the right to distribute BDs (and DVDs) without forced subtitles; from what I heard, there's practically no legal way around it. That's one of the reasons why many of my BDs come from other countries (though I live in France).
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post #8 of 19
9/21/09 at 1:36pm
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No, I don't think so. They're region B.

Is that confirmed? Do you have them?

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I have no insider info. on these particular releases, but I am pretty much certain they will have forced French subtitles. It's a contract thing in France. Apparently, only majors (Warner, Paramount, Universal) have the right to distribute BDs (and DVDs) without forced subtitles; from what I heard, there's practically no legal way around it. That's one of the reasons why many of my BDs come from other countries (though I live in France).

Looks like I'll be waiting for a review.
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post #9 of 19
9/22/09 at 12:49pm
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Anyone pick up?
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post #10 of 19
9/22/09 at 1:18pm
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Originally Posted by DigitalfreakNYC View Post

Is that confirmed? Do you have them?

No, I don't have them. But according to a few french review sites I read regularly, they are...

http://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f151398-eli...-age-d-or.html

http://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f151405-traffic.html

I still hope I'm wrong... Each time I go to Paris, I verify a few titles in stores and they're region-locked. I bought 2 Universal titles that were supposed to be region-free, but they don't play on my BD-30, at all.
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post #11 of 19
9/23/09 at 3:34am
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Originally Posted by Morpheo View Post

No, I don't have them. But according to a few french review sites I read regularly, they are...

http://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f151398-eli...-age-d-or.html

http://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f151405-traffic.html

I still hope I'm wrong... Each time I go to Paris, I verify a few titles in stores and they're region-locked. I bought 2 Universal titles that were supposed to be region-free, but they don't play on my BD-30, at all.

That site has listed them as Region B since they've been added. They're about as accurate as Amazon. I'd love to hear from someone who actually picked them up!
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post #12 of 19
9/23/09 at 5:24am
the majority of the studio canal releases are locked.
there are a very few exceptions like "la haine"
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post #13 of 19
9/23/09 at 6:26am
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Originally Posted by 16x9enhanced View Post

the majority of the studio canal releases are locked.
there are a very few exceptions like "la haine"

Really? I'm surprised, I guess. I thought that, since they're affiliated with Universal, that they'd be region-free.
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post #14 of 19
9/23/09 at 11:02am
Though these titles have been officially released on the 22nd, practically no store has them yet in Paris; the only exception is "Good morning, England", which is rather easy to find since yesterday. I located one store which got a few copies of most titles (absent were Traffic, Universal Soldier and Baghdad Cafe). I bought Mission to Mars. This title is marked as locked Region B on the jacket and so are the other titles I checked, if memory serves (I only had a short time to browse through the many recent arrivals that were not even on display yet). As far as the subtitles go, I'l tell you as soon as I play my disc.
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post #15 of 19
9/23/09 at 11:10am
They will be like the recent UK releases, a mess and most of them look like upscales with added EE
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post #16 of 19
9/23/09 at 1:41pm
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Originally Posted by dvdmike007 View Post

They will be like the recent UK releases, a mess and most of them look like upscales with added EE

What do you mean? Have the new French Studio canal titles been released in the UK? I looked on a couple of UK sites, and I did not see them.
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post #17 of 19
9/23/09 at 4:53pm
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Very interested to see how this turns out.
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post #18 of 19
9/28/09 at 4:35am
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Just checking in...

I guess no one picked them up?
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post #19 of 19
9/30/09 at 5:29pm
Picked up Ils myself. Region B locked with only French subs, so not English friendly.

From Studio Canal leaflet:
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