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Vast majority of film's doesn't have so many product placement like bond, so it could be a little tricky.
If the delay gets pushed back again to 2022, I think EON may be forced into making a decision what to do then - go streaming or reshoot these scenes to keep the product marketing folk happy. I'm guessing CGI may come in useful here...
Deleted scenes on a home video release? That's asking for a lot from them these days.
Part of it is because physical media has been declining. If you recall, there was an experiment in the late 2000s where they would release a DVD of a new film in two forms: "Single Disc Edition" and "Two-Disc Edition". This happened with QOS. I'm willing to bet that the cheaper single disc releases sold a lot more and gave studios less incentive to invest in special features. Now jump to 2021 and most people just stream films.
Special features are now something for a niche consumer, with brands like Criterion and Shout continuing to carry the flag.
If blu-ray are not does not sells, it is also because lacj of bonus in it make that they are no attractive. Anyway they have more of one year of delay with this COVID situation, I expect this time a very good packaged in bonus home media releases. They have no excuse.
It's all about return in investment. Just look at the menus of recent films. There used to be an art to creating fully interactive menus for films but now it's just a stock image with three options. I've seen blu-ray titles that don't even have chapter selections!
Just look at those Bond DVD menus from 20 years ago. We've really lost something there.
But the fact that the films still do technically have special features means they're creating all of this for someone. Surely adding in some deleted scenes that do exist can't be remotely problematic or tasking.
Previously this would have meant the VOD, Blu-ray and DVD would have come out late January. Now, late November (possibly even early depending on whether the COVID situation at that point would let studios go for the 31 day window)
This would seem to offer a greater opportunity to generate revuenue from major releases quicker. Release Bond in theaters in October and have it out on BluRay just in time for Christmas
To be fair those old DVD menus do seem a bit kitsch and dated now.
I'll take them over the current Blu-ray menus of the same generic Bond shooting the gun and the title appearing inside the barrel. That early DVD experience was such a revelation and those kitschy menus only added to the excitement the way a good product entices you to enjoy what's to come. I used to feel the same way when ABC would show the previews before a Bond film to get hyped for those viewings.
Sadly, we've lost a lot of that, a product of the times.
Just because physical media is on the decline doesnt mean special features are not being produced.I buy most of my movies on digital from the likes of Itunes and in most cases,the special features that are produced for the discs are provided on the digital copy.
In fact,some special features are Itunes exclusive like the extended cut of Rambo:Last Blood being included along with the theatrical cut.
"Potential buyers are said to include Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Studios, who has held “exploratory talks.” MGM’s former CEO, Harry Sloan is in there too. He and business partner Jeff Sagansky, are raising $1.5 billion for their seventh special purpose investment vehicle — an evaluating potential targets. Spokespeople for Amazon and Sloan’s Eagle Equity Partners declined comment. Others floated as potential buyers — Comcast’s NBCUniversal and AT&T’s WarnerMedia — are little more than fantasy at this point, though Apple remains a speculative wild-card."
The problem is that MGM’s collection of great movies is dated and losing value by the minute. Barbara Broccoli and her half brother Michael G. Wilson, who maintain an iron grip over the Bond franchise — a deal initially hammered out decades ago by Broccoli’s father, producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli — have the final say over casting decisions, dialog and promotional materials related to 007 — adding complexity to any deal talks.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dawnchmielewski/2021/01/30/mgms-back-on-the-block-and-floating-a-10-billion-price-tag-dont-count-on-it/?sh=2be2130fb740
I'm not saying no special features are produced today, only that they're no longer as elaborate as they used to be back when DVD was at its prime.
I think there was a Bond film in the Criterion Laserdisc (???) collection? Maybe?
Since then they’ve only done art/indie films.
It is no use the film makers/Producers kicking up a fuss when they allowed partners to go ahead with their marketing campaigns. This goes for other movies too not just Bond.
How are producers kicking up a fuss? They are the ones who would have to do the reshoots after all.. If this was just something the sponsors would do on their own (reshooting or recutting a commercial for example) there wouldn't be a problem. Re-opening and changing a locked-in film is a different thing altogether.
'WELCOME TO [insert Bond film] SPECIAL EDITION DVD, PLEASE ACTIVATE'
Bit naff to be honest.
Yes, that's just silly. Would fit better in an Austin Powers DVD menu.