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Thursday, April 21, 2011
#1055: London Boulevard
1:40 PM / Blu-ray / 
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(BD, Entertainment in Video, Region B, UK)
This title has the distinction of being my first ever Entertainment in Video BD.
EIV and their theatrical wing, Entertainment Film Distributors, are a British distribution company who at one point put out all New Line's titles in the UK and were renowned for their tasteless, tabloid-style cover art. Nowadays, things have changed somewhat. The tabloid influence is still there in the prominent quotes from The Sun and Daily Star (but then again you can find quotes from these gutter rags on the covers of BDs from pretty much any distributor), but it's more muted now.
Perhaps more significantly, the rights to the New Line library have reverted to Warner in the UK, depriving EIV of a heck of a lot of titles, meaning that nowadays they're more likely to put out independent features such of this, the directorial debut of KINGDOM OF HEAVEN and THE DEPARTED writer William Monahan. It's based on the novel of the same name by Ken Bruen (which I haven't read) and, as its title implies, it's something of a contemporary retelling of SUNSET BOULEVARD. Should be interesting.
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1. FoxyMulder said:
Sunset Boulevard is a fabulous film, great script.
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http://pics.hondz.com/?s=darkrealmfox&cat=sch
It's bloody annoying when people try and steal your entire posts and bandwidth.
(Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 3:21 PM)