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Comic-Con: Grindhouse: Two DVD Releases - Two Release Dates
Posted by Brian C. Gibson (brian@filmschoolrejects.com) on July 29, 2007
An actress, completely costumed as Cherry Darling (mind you, an actual amputee), stood next to a pole and enticed me to come closer. Dimension’s booth at Comic-Con is basically all about the Grindhouse DVD release. What I found though, just about made me want to cry. If it wasn’t bad enough that all ads for the film were pulled within a week of its release, the DVDs will be released as separate films.
The redeeming factor of this news is that both films will be the full director’s cuts. The downside: two release dates and a math equation that goes something like this: (2 x MSRP = $$). Deathproof is set to release in September and Planet Terror is set to hit in October, just in time for Halloween. Below, are some photos of the DVD’s. I think the studio expects everyone to run out and lay down their hard earned cash for multiple copies of Grindhouse, but the sad fact is that a lot of people will. Maybe the studio is just trying to make up for the very low box-office totals from earlier this year. Ultimately though, this is yet another example of Hollywood sticking it to us.
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21 Comments
July 29th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
This isn’t Hollywood sticking it to us. Many people will be glad to get PT without having DP attached. Besides a director’s cut of DP is unimaginable. What’s their to add besides more tedium and lame dialogue?
August 4th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Why not hust release it the way it was shown at the theatre?
This is a rip-off and I hope no one buys it this way. This is wrong to the consumer and the fans.
August 4th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
This is the only time that I can actually support the idea of buying a “Bootleg” copy.
You know that they will be out there with the original theatrical release and I hope people buy those instead and teach the greedy bastards a lesson.
August 10th, 2007 at 9:56 am
i live in the uk and havent seen the movie yet so will buy them on import my reason for this is i don’t no when planet terror will be out and the deathproof dvd is out in the us nearly a week before it is released in the uk at cinemas i find that the most disapointing feature of these dvds is that the trailers are not included so when all the hype has died down then the money grabbing bastards that is the weinsteins will release grind house in its original format on dvd so that us completists will have to buy it like wise with the new kill bill collection they really do no how to cash in
August 14th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Paddy, uk releases for cinema are now 21st of september for death proof and 9th of november for Planet terror. I’m waiting for both uk releases at the cinema obsessively and have found a double bill edition of grindhouse to view afterwards.
August 16th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
[…] release of the Grindhouse double feature from Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. As we reported from Comic-Con, the release will be two individual “extended cut” films, with a Special […]
August 17th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Honestly, I for one will be glad to even get my hands on a copy of either movie…The moment I first say the previews for Grindhouse, I wanted to see it, but unfortunately for me it was not released here in Australia. So to me it would be worth spending that little extra just to be able to see it.
August 20th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
like lolly said , the rest of the world was robbed of grindhouse at all !!! we all saw ad’s and posters and 5 page spreads in movie magazines only to have the selfish studio pull the release on us !!
August 22nd, 2007 at 12:23 am
DON’T DESTROY THE GRINDHOUSE!
Sign the petition!
http://www.petitiononline.com/saveGH/petition.html
September 10th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
This is gay, stop this bulls***. This is no longer grindhouse.
September 13th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
“”What’s their to add besides more tedium and lame dialogue??”
maybe a correct form of there. To answer your question, there’s lots to add, but only a the people who really liked DP will watch it. (myself). and the release on two dvds is not right, because it’s not two movies. it’s one movie “Grindhouse” with two segments. so they’re just splitting the movie and then making us pay for it twice.
September 17th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Just to be able to pay $9.15 for two films by two high caliber directors such as Robert Rodriguez and Quinton Tarantino was mind blowing to me, me being a movie aficionado and a cheap ass. Though Tarantino’s film was kind of dry at least he put one out instead of whoring out his name in the “Quinton Tarantino Presents†fashion. I thought after Kill Bill he was going to take another 5 year brake. Where the two films in theaters were mind-blowing together and just a damn good value this blows all cheap like five dollar hooker. I will wait for a box set or I will sail the high seas and take up the life of a media pirate.
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:39 pm
This is OUT of control! The movie, when it was in the theater, cost ONE PRICE to see both movies with all the fake trailers etc…etc…etc. It’s deplorable to try and sell/rent this movie as two separate entities and I hope NO ONE purchases or rents either DP or PT until it’s released as it was in the movies. Enough is enough.
September 25th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
ditto…..i agree but the studio owns the film….thats the way it go’s sorry
September 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I am really disappointed with how they handled the DVD release. When I saw in the theater, I was pretty happy with the whole experience. And that’s what the whole package is meant to be: an EXPERIENCE. It shouldn’t have been split up the way it now is on DVD.
September 28th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Wow! I was really excited to see both films. I have always enjoyed all the past films and really looked forward to seeing something I haven’t seen in the past. I was so disapointed. Growing up all the great films watching Vanishing Point with my dad so many times - I wanted to see something vintage. I don’t know maybe I have been ruined by Hollywood. I am glad I didn’t see it in the theatre I would have reacted the same way I did with Blair Witch. Then again I expect a movie to keep me in my seat. The whole time I was watching Death Proof I kept waiting. I was amused at the Vanishing Point references and the chase scene. BUt it’s really nothing I haven’t seen in the past. Next time I want to see a Classic I will simply rent just that the real deal. On a more positive note it was nice to see the cheezy editing and old grain film. Loved that.
October 8th, 2007 at 8:03 am
Hey, let’s just be happy we saw the movie in theatres!! This 2-disk thing they got going on is horrible, but seeing the whole thing together was one of my favorite nights of 2007. Too bad they keep *uck*ng messing up… (doing what they want to do instead of what the little amount of people who saw it in theaters want to see again).
It’s like Elvis coming from the dead and making new songs, but never performing his old hits; People loved them–but he don’t care :)
October 21st, 2007 at 9:42 am
I can’t help but read all of the above comments and realise how ungrateful the majority of you are. Living in the Uk i never got the oppurtunity to see Grindhouse in its whole, the reason is, because the majority of people were too f***in lazy to go see it. Now the studio has done the only thing they can. Grindhouse cost roughly 50 million to make and took in about 15 million in the USA & Canada. Clearly the money has to be returned. It sucks ass but you have to face the music, Hollywood is a business, the films were made to make money, so the money has to be made by whatever means the studio see fit. Its not like the studio has spat out a shitty one disc edition with a 5 minute making of featurette, its a 2 disc version with plenty of features and at least an extra 20 mins of extra footage in each film. So stop feeling so sorry for yourselves as you only got to see it in the cinema as Grindhouse, the rest of the world got Death Proof and Planet Terror. Consider yourselves lucky!
November 20th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I think its a ripoff they arent combining them but I could live with it if they included the trailers. Rob Zombie’s She Wolfs of the SS was the highlight of the film to me.
Im not buying these unless they come out with aeither a combined version or one that includes all the trailers.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
You guys are too busy boycotting everything that you don’t even know there is an official release of Grindhouse being released. Robert Rodriguez says so on the special features of the Extended cut of Planet Terror. It was always obvious they would release these films in every possible manner, seperately and as Grindhouse. Nobody is making you buy these seperate DVDs so as i’ve said before stop bitching and be grateful you did see Grindhouse at the cinema. Stop moaning about the extended cuts of the films as well. If you’d seen them then comment, if not don’t say stupid shit like ’seperate dvds is fucking stupid’ when you’ve not seen the difference in the films.
December 25th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I really was looking forward to grindhouse, but when they split it and removed the trailers I decided not to bother seeing it as did alot of my film loving friends at university! And now they are refusing giving us Grinhouse on DVD are they nutts, I was looking forward to viewing the films on the uni cinema with the film society, but now we will have to continue waiting. We have formed a pact and we, or surtainly I refuse to watch either film until we have it in the format it was ment to be seen in!
They really have shot themselves in the foot with this whol quest for more money, and im sure they will see there cult status rise and sales increase whne then finally get there act together and release grindhouse in the uk.