MARCH 14th update
Here are some TV shipping updates for those who have preorders:
The Basement: Video Club is finished (save for a handful of complex orders) and we’re actively shipping all regular preorders now. Will wrap early next week. Many of you have tracking already.
The Last Screening: The Pallet landed on March 4th, and we’ve shipped out Video Clubbers who opted in for this title. Just started to ship to normal preorderers.
Best Worst Movie: Video Club is finished (save for a handful of complex orders) and we’re actively shipping all regular preorders now. Will wrap early next week. Many of you have tracking already.
New Religion: The Pallet landed on March 4th, and we’ve been shipping out TV Video Clubbers who opted in for this title. GF Video Clubbers early next week. Then we’ll pivot to everyone else.
Patchwork: UHD test disc approved 2 days ago. BD test disc rejected. Simple fix and we’ll get a new BD test disc soon. Packaging just landed yesterday (3/13).
Silent Night Deadly Night 3XLP: These will ship to customers next week.
Slashers LP: These will ship second half of next week.
In the Mouth of Madness: This is done save for a handful of complex orders and a few intl people.
Shoestring Slashers Vol 1 (standard edition): these are all shipped out save for people that ordered with other preorders
90s Nightmares and Shoestring 2: glass masters for both have been made and proofs are approved.
Happy Hell Night: packaging proofs approved and packaging in motion. Waiting for test discs.
Boggy Creek this title is wrapped save for a few people that ordered with other preorder titles.
All the VHS (Thanksgiving, Boggy, Paramount titles): these are wrapped save for a few people that ordered with other preorder titles.
Hide and Go Shriek and Student Bodies: both are in the same place with a different problem. Packaging has been in hand for literally months, and with HAGs the BD is good and the UHD is bunk and on Student Bodies the opposite. We’re requiring new test discs and are awaiting those. Thank GOODNESS we’re doing test discs now as both would’ve required a replacement program. So yes, taking longer this way but at least no replacement program.
Gator Bait 1 & 2: GB1 has been done and authored for a few weeks. GB2 we have some exciting updates. During us acquiring several reels of some OTHER films, we uncovered some footage recently that had some snippets and trims from GB2. This footage has only been available from an Italian VHS and never made it stateside even with the DVD that the Sebastian’s released. This includes more violence, nudity, and a few extended shots that were never released in the U.S. We were able to scan those elements and re-introduce them into our version. Sorry for being a little silent on these details but we have to make sure everything is foolproof before we give details on something so significant for the release. UHD is incredibly complicated when using source material that isn’t film and in this case we have BETA SP, VHS, DVD, Laserdisc, and using our IN and IP of Gator Bait II.
So much work went into this release from so many parties; we are very grateful for all the teamwork. Couldn’t have done it without all our peers to present something like that. Truly monumental.
Special thanks to; Jaime Busby, Danny Nguyen, and The Gotham Photochemical Team. Big thanks to Michael D’Angelo and his team at Paramount. Thank you to Todd Weiner, Steven Hill, and Staci Hogsett at UCLA. Huge shoutout to Michael Keene. Thank you to the Sebastian Family and to everyone else that was involved with this project to start to finish.
When will Gator Bait finish and ship? Hoping for late March/early April but don’t quote me on that till we get GB2 authored. The good news is, the finish line is near, and it’s a better release than we even thought possible with the additional material we found. THANKYOU for your extreme patience with this title. You have no idea how much we appreciate it.