Post by travis on Jan 28, 2015 16:27:02 GMT -5
It's been awhile since I've updated anything (with the way the sets have been churning out, do I even need to? ), so I've brushed up on a few titles, updated stuff I thought I updated but didn't, which includes taking in to account the "Ballyhoo evidence," which I agree is something to go on. All we have to do is wait a few months to find out if we were right.
418: Attack of the Eye Creatures. Susan Hart claims to own it. She legitimately owns Invasion of the Saucer Men, which Eye Creatures was a remake of. Therefore, Eye Creatures is a derivative work under copyright law, so she may jointly own it with MGM. The eventual split of those titles between the Nicholson and Arkhoff estates was the result of American International Pictures being incorporated as a limited partnership between Jim Nicholson and Sam Arkhoff during their production, hence why all the other AIP titles are owned by MGM.
MGM owns the rights to THE EYE CREATURES. Though I could totally see Susan Hart making a claim on the film, I don't know how much power she'd really have over it. She [SHOULD] just not care...
913: Quest of the Delta Knights was distributed on home video by Hemdale Entertainment. The home entertainment for their other titles, Like "The Terminator", are now owned by MGM. Perhaps Delta Knights is owned by MGM now?
Possibly, but DELTA KNIGHTS was later issued on VHS in 1999 by Plaza Entertainment (as was SOULTAKER and MOSQUITO, two titles Hemdale released on VHS around the same time as DK). Ramsway JC has the original listed copyright on the VHS release.
420: Human Duplicators. It's possible that VCI Entertainment legitimately owns that film. If you go online, you'll see they handle DVD distribution of other Wooler Bros. copyrighted films from that time.
I saw they released HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE and LAS VEGAS HILLBILLIES. A double feature of DUPLICATORS with MUTINY IN OUTER SPACE would totally be up VCI's alley, though I'd be surprised if they'd sit on any 60s scifi titles like that...
Columbia invested money in MOTHRA, so they have full rights to the Japanese version too (which they released on a nice 3-Toho film set years ago).
Thanks for the information and continued support, guys!
418: Attack of the Eye Creatures. Susan Hart claims to own it. She legitimately owns Invasion of the Saucer Men, which Eye Creatures was a remake of. Therefore, Eye Creatures is a derivative work under copyright law, so she may jointly own it with MGM. The eventual split of those titles between the Nicholson and Arkhoff estates was the result of American International Pictures being incorporated as a limited partnership between Jim Nicholson and Sam Arkhoff during their production, hence why all the other AIP titles are owned by MGM.
MGM owns the rights to THE EYE CREATURES. Though I could totally see Susan Hart making a claim on the film, I don't know how much power she'd really have over it. She [SHOULD] just not care...
913: Quest of the Delta Knights was distributed on home video by Hemdale Entertainment. The home entertainment for their other titles, Like "The Terminator", are now owned by MGM. Perhaps Delta Knights is owned by MGM now?
Possibly, but DELTA KNIGHTS was later issued on VHS in 1999 by Plaza Entertainment (as was SOULTAKER and MOSQUITO, two titles Hemdale released on VHS around the same time as DK). Ramsway JC has the original listed copyright on the VHS release.
420: Human Duplicators. It's possible that VCI Entertainment legitimately owns that film. If you go online, you'll see they handle DVD distribution of other Wooler Bros. copyrighted films from that time.
I saw they released HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE and LAS VEGAS HILLBILLIES. A double feature of DUPLICATORS with MUTINY IN OUTER SPACE would totally be up VCI's alley, though I'd be surprised if they'd sit on any 60s scifi titles like that...
Sony has all American rights to the English version original Mothra film period due to the original license agreement from the 1960s. They can sublicense that to whoever they want and Toho would have very little say about it. Mill Creek's release has no Japanese version, which is the version of that particular film Toho would have claim to.
Columbia invested money in MOTHRA, so they have full rights to the Japanese version too (which they released on a nice 3-Toho film set years ago).
Thanks for the information and continued support, guys!