The 1965 Sherlock Holmes adventure A Study in Terror will be available through the Warner Archive Collection.
On April 13, Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that the Warner Archive Collection (WAC), Warner’s online on-demand distribution arm, will offer select catalog titles from Sony’s “Classics By Request” line. PHE’s “Screen Classics By Request.” Beginning that day, www.warnerarchive.com will feature approximately 150 manufactured-on-demand titles from the Columbia Pictures film library, including such fan favorites as Genghis Khan, A Song To Remember and A Study In Terror.
The Warner Archive Collection was established in March 2009 as the first online, manufacturing on-demand service to offer rare film and TV titles from their library. In its two years of existence, WAC has released nearly 1,000 previously unavailable feature films, shorts and TV productions, rangin from Ken Russell’s 1971 musical comedy The Boyfriend to the 1968 cult sci-fi horror cult entry The Green Slime.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s “Screen Classics by Request” program was announced last September with the introduction of 100 digitally remastered titles that had never before been released on DVD.
Hmmmm…Warner has certainly proven they know how to cultivate film aficionados’ demand for deep catalog titles. And now it looks like the Sony catalog is going to get the benefit of that experience!
Hey, maybe it’s the cinephiles who are the big winners here!
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