The Bill Lustig/AB situation?

[y2doublet]

Basically, what's up with this? I keep reading on the boards that Lustig is no longer with Anchor Bay but I've never read anything even slightly official. So is this just rumors or can anyone confirm this and tell me about the specifics of this falling out?

[Black_Mandarin]

I know I read he was going to have his own DVD company, but I always figured it would be an arm/division of Anchor Bay... The only title I heard was Django Kill... which was on Anchor Bays "in the future" list, then it was pulled and it is now back up again. So, who knows?

[crank]

Bill Lustig's film company is called Blue Underground, and so far they have the rights to several old Jess Franco films (Lucky the Inscrutable, Eugine, Her Descent Into Perversion, Future Women, ect...) as well as a couple of other films that I cannot seem to remember right this minute. As far as who is releasing them, that I'm not sure of.

Blue Underground is the group that has been putting together most (if not all) of the "documentaries" that have been on the AB discs. They usually just consist of interviews with the directors, or cast intercut with film footage, you know the ones.

Discovering Evil Dead (Evil Dead)
Hell Rats of the Living Dead (Hell of the Living Dead, Rats)
Uncut and Run (Cut and Run)
Legacy of the Cannibal God (Mountain of the Cannibal God)
Conducting Dario Argento's Opera (Opera)

Oh yea, and in his spare time Lustig shows off his old APIX copy of Uncle Sam for all his friends, and remembers that Maniac was a LONG time ago.

crank

[bruce h]

Blue Underground was actually around before Bill Lustig and Jay Douglas joined.

[DefJeff]

Originally posted by crank
Legacy of the Cannibal God (Mountain of the Cannibal God)


haaha, any company with the balls to make the docu that came with this movie is good in my book. i love how they discredited the director about the animal violence. i wonder if the director actually saw this interview or what

[y2doublet]

So, I guess this is confirmation enough that the hombre has left AB or what? I guess what I want to know for sure is, will AB continue to release genre-titles in the same vein and rate that they have been doing? Or was Lustig the mastermind behind all their purchases and releases?

[Trout]

Originally posted by y2doublet
...will AB continue to release genre-titles in the same vein and rate that they have been doing?

I guess they plan to release what titles that they have already got, then I think they are going more mainstream (Soul man and such films).

[crank]

Hey Bruce, I didn't know that Blue Underground was around before Lustig. What were they doing before him.

crank