Warner Archive Collection
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| Industry | Home video |
|---|---|
| Founded | March 23, 2009 |
| Parent | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment |
The Warner Archive Collection is a home video division for releasing classic and cult films from Warner Bros.' library.[1][2] It started as a manufactured-on-demand (MOD) DVD series by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on March 23, 2009, with the intention of putting previously unreleased catalog films on DVD for the first time.[3] In November 2012, Warner expanded the Archive Collection to include Blu-ray releases,[4][5] Some Warner Archive releases, such as Wise Guys, previously had a pressed DVD release but have lapsed out of print and have since been re-released as part of the Warner Archive collection.
DVD-R recordable media are manufactured on-demand for the consumer and authorized distributors for online resale, rather than the traditional business model of pressing large batches of discs that ship to "brick and mortar" retailers. This saves on the costs of storing unsold stock in a warehouse and mitigates the risk of a retailer holding unsold merchandise, especially since the majority of the films in the archive do not have widespread public demand. These discs are indistinguishable in quality compared to their mass produced counterparts.[6]
In addition, Warner Archive also sells films and television shows as downloadable Windows Media files, and formerly operated a subscription-based streaming video service, Warner Archive Instant, which allowed members to stream many of the Warner Archive properties in a format similar to Netflix.[7] In 2018, Warner Archive Instant merged with its sister service FilmStruck.[8] The combined FilmStruck / Warner Archive streaming service was discontinued on November 29, 2018, and was replaced by HBO Max.[9]
Collection and operations
The collection consists of theatrical films, television shows, and television films from the libraries of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment Co. (including pre-May 1986 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Associated Artists Productions, RKO Radio Pictures, Brut Productions, Hanna-Barbera Productions, and pre-1991 Ruby-Spears Enterprises), HBO, Lorimar Productions, Warner Bros. Television, post-August 1946 Allied Artists Pictures, post-1946 Monogram Pictures, Largo Entertainment, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment.
Sony Pictures (including Columbia Pictures titles), Paramount Pictures,[10][11] Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,[12] Universal Pictures,[13] Walt Disney Studios,[14] and 20th Century Studios[15] have also started MOD services after the success of Warner Archive. Their services are named Sony Pictures Choice Collection (formerly Screen Classics By Request), MGM Limited Edition Collection, Universal Vault Series, Disney Generations Collection, and Fox Cinema Archives, respectively. Including Warner, major film studios and including Lionsgate,[16] CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon have also started to offer MOD discs of catalog titles through Amazon CreateSpace.[14] On April 13, 2011, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced that Warner Archive will offer on-demand titles from Sony.[17] MGM Limited Edition titles are also sold through Warner Archive.[18] In 2013, as part of Paramount's agreement with Warner Bros., select Paramount titles were released under the Warner Archive moniker.
Blu-ray
In November 2012, the Archive collection began releasing titles on Blu-ray, with the first two releases being Deathtrap and Gypsy.[19] Unlike their DVDs all Warner Archive Blu-Rays use pressed discs.
Over the years, Warner Archive's Blu-ray releases expanded to include season sets of current television series, such as iZombie, The 100, Longmire, The Originals, Lucifer, Lethal Weapon, Ballers and Final Space.
Streaming
Expanding their films' availability to Internet streaming, in July 2014, Warner Archive introduced the Warner Archive Instant service. Similar to Netflix, Warner Archive Instant allows its members access to various Warner Archive library titles via their website, in addition to apps for Roku and iOS-based devices.[7] As of June 2015, the service was presently limited to serving customers who are located in the United States.
In February 2018, Warner Archive retired its online streaming service, transferring several of its films to FilmStruck.[20] It was discontinued as of November 29, 2018, and was replaced by HBO Max in 2020.[9]
List of Blu-Ray Releases
| Title |
| The Long, Long Trailer |
| Our Dancing Daughters |
| Goodbye, Mr Chips |
| Wife vs. Secretary |
| Rancho Notorious |
| Attack of the 50ft Woman |
| Night of the Iguana, The |
| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) |
| Mark of the Vampire |
| Rachel, Rachel |
| Abe Lincoln in Illinois |
| King Kong (1933) |
| Frisco Kid, The |
| Adventures of Don Juan |
| Ziegeld Girl |
| For Me and My Gal |
| The Clock |
| Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde (1941) |
| The Carey Treatment |
| American Flyers |
| Fandango |
| Captains of the Clouds |
| A Star is Born (1937) |
| Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm |
| Edge of Darkness |
| Gold Diggers of 1933 |
| Three Musketeers |
| Stage Fright |
| Song of the Thin Man |
| Angels with Dirty Faces |
| Ivanhoe |
| Fury |
| Ladies They Talk About |
| Last of Sheila, The |
| Lullaby of Broadway |
| National Velvet |
| Some Came Running |
| Party Girl |
| Thin Man Goes Home |
| Bedlam |
| Children of the Damned |
| Dinner at Eight |
| Eye of the Devil |
| Ghost Ship |
| Mary Stevens, M.D. |
| Night Shift |
| Mad Love |
| Tex Avery Vol 3 |
| Naked Spur, The |
| Night at the Opera, A |
| Santa Fe Trail |
| Straight Time |
| Window, The |
| One Crazy Summer |
| In the Good Old Summertime |
| Shadow of the Thin Man |
| Prince of the City |
| Step By Step |
| Objective, Burma |
| I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes |
| Take Me Out to the Ball Game |
| Chain Lightning |
| Guns for San Sebastien |
| It Happened at the World's Fair |
| Madame Curie |
| There Was a Crooked Man |
| Ziegfeld Follies |
| Bachelor in Paradise |
| Drunken Master 2 |
| Escape from Fort Bravo |
| Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House |
| Athena |
| They Won't Believe Me |
| Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The |
| Tender Trap, The |
| Yearling, The |
| Annie Get your Gun |
| Another Thin Man |
| Broadway Melody of 1940 |
| Chariots of Fire |
| Doctor X |
| Each Dawn I Die |
| Green Dolphin Street |
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
| Quick Change |
| Driving miss daisy |
| Bermuda Depths, The |
| Crossfire |
| Damn Yankees |
| Great Caruso, The |
| Isle of the Dead |
| What's Up Doc |
| A Tale of Two Cities |
| Baby Doll |
| My Dream is Yours |
| On Moonlight Bay |
| Pump up the Volume |
| San Francisco |
| Show Boat |
| After the Thin Man |
| Good News |
| Man Who Would Be King |
| Pajama Game, The |
| Room for One More |
| Best Years of Our Lives |
| Curse of Frankenstein, The |
| Mister Roberts |
| Harvey Girls, The |
| Holiday Affair |
| It Happened on 5th Avenue |
| Shop Around the Corner, The |
| Tex Avery Vol 2 |
| Young Man with a Horn |
| Libeled Lady |
| Mortal Storm, The |
| Pirate, The |
| Tennessee Johnson |
| Drop Dead Gorgeous |
| Reverasl of Fortune |
| Opposite Sex, The |
| Sergeant York |
| Sunrise at Campobello |
| Waterloo Bridge |
| Flying Leathernecks |
| Genesis 2, Planet Earth |
| Jeremiah Johnson |
| Kentucky Kernels |
| Memphis Belle |
| That's Entertainment 1, 2, 3 |
| Big Parade, The |
| Clara's Heart |
| Girl Crazy |
| Michael |
| Million Dollar Mermaid |
| Pat And Mike |
| Pride and Prejudice |
| Without Love |
| Cannery Row |
| Hans Christian Andersen |
| House of Wax |
| Romance on the High Seas |
| Strike up the Band |
| Inside Daisy Clover |
| Mystery of the Wax Museum |
| Reluctant Debutante, The |
| Selena |
| Sunday in New York |
| Blood on the Moon |
| Action of the Tiger |
| Reflections in a Golden Eye |
| Sweet Bird of Youth |
| Rachel and the Stranger |
| Tin Cup |
| Beau Brummell |
| Dodsworth |
| Stalking Moon, The |
| A Little Romance |
| Guys and Dolls |
| It Started with a Kiss |
| Sparkle |
| Tex Avery Vol 1 |
| Victory |
| Cimarron |
| Penelope |
| Two on a Guillotine |
| Underwater! |
| Bad and the Beautiful, The |
| Great Day in the Morning |
| World, the Flesh and the Devil, The |
| Operation Crossbow |
| Days of Wine and Roses |
| Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark |
| Fearless Vampire Killers |
| From Beyond the Grave |
| Mr Nice Guy |
| A touch of Class |
| Action Jackson |
| Dial M for Murder |
| Kiss Me Kate |
| Letter, The |
| My Favorite Year |
| Set-Up, The |
| Jezebel |
| Moonfleet |
| Wagon Master |
| Witches, The |
| Bronco Billy |
| Footlight Parade |
| Merrill's Marauders |
| Pure Country |
| Streetcar Named Desire |
| Thin Man, The |
| What ever happened to Baby Jane |
| Corvette Summer |
| Gaslight |
| None But the Brave |
| A star is born (1954) |
| A Star is born (1976) |
| Golden Arrow, The |
| Prisoner of Second Avenue |
| Shaft in Africa |
| Shaft's Big Score |
| A Patch of Blue |
| Frankenstein 1970 |
| Summer Stock |
| Cleopatra Jones |
| Glass Bottom Boat |
| Jazz Singer, The |
| Man From Atlantis |
| Starsky & Hutch |
| Wild Rovers |
| Year of the Dragon |
| Giant Behemoth, The |
| Judgment Night |
| Prize, The |
| Tarzan Goes to India |
| Tarzan's Three Challenges |
| Horror of Dracula |
| Sea Hawk, The |
| Cabaret |
| Mame |
| Tarzan's Greatest Adventure |
| Thing From Another World |
| Bad Ronald |
| Brewster McCloud |
| Dracula AD 1972 |
| Satanic Rites of Dracula |
| Big Wednesday |
| Cyclops, The |
| Looker |
| Queen of Outer Space |
| Papillon |
| Swarm, The |
| Home from the Hill |
| Last Hunt, The |
| Naked and the Dead, The |
| Never so Few |
| Billy Budd |
| Life and times of Judge Roy Bean |
| Village of the Damned |
| Designing Woman |
| Seven Brides for seven brothers |
| Super Fly |
| Colossus of Rhodes, The |
| Dark of the Sun |
| Gun Crazy |
| Two Weeks in Another Town |
| Les Girls |
| Meet Me in St Louis |
| Black Scorpion, The |
| While the City Sleeps |
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt |
| Drowning Pool, The |
| Hanging Tree, The |
| Harper |
| Leatherface (TCM 3) |
| Auntie Mame |
| Battle Cry |
| Dolores Claiborne |
| Doc Hollywood |
| Summer of 42 |
| Hidden, The |
| Green Slime, The |
| Hell on Frisco Bay |
| Night School |
| Scarecrow |
| Sea Wolf, The |
| Superman 2 Cut Edition |
| Brigadoon |
| Illustrated Man, The |
| Innocent Blood |
| Law and Jake Wade, The |
| Waiting for Guffman |
| Freebie and the Bean |
| Man with Two Brains, The |
| My Blue Heaven |
| Night Moves |
| Blood Alley |
| Sea Chase, The |
| Where the Boys are |
| Ballad of Cable Hogue |
| Gumball Rally, The |
| Joe Versus the Volcano |
| Running on Empty |
| Accidental Tourist, The |
| Loved One, The |
| Seven Days in May |
| Valley of Gwangi |
| Vision Quest |
| 36 Hours |
| From Hell It Came |
| Ride the High Country |
| Rounders, The |
| Spencer's Mountain |
| Wheeler Dealers, The |
| Demon Seed |
| Finian's Rainbow |
| S.O.B. |
| World Without End |
| Boyfriend, The |
| Love in the Afternoon |
| When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth |
| Yakuza, The |
| Bad Day at Black Rock |
| Battleground |
| Bells are Ringing |
| Wait Until Dark |
| Doc Savage |
| Goodbye Girl, The |
| It's Always Fair Weather |
| Time After Time |
| Body Snatchers |
| On Dangerous Ground |
| Love Me or Leave Me |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good & Eveil |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Man in the Wilderness |
| Deadly Trackers, The |
| Silk Stockings |
| To Have and Have Not |
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon |
| They Were Expendable |
| Unsinkable Molly Brown |
| Victor Victoria |
| Dark Passage |
| Father of the Bride |
| Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf |
| Susan Slept Here |
| Suspicion |
| Michael Collins |
| A Mighty Wind |
| Big Sleep, The |
| I Confess |
| Key Largo |
| Ice Pirates |
| Wrong Man |
| Deep in my Heart |
| Passage to Marseille |
| Murder My Sweet |
| Hunger, The |
| World According to Garp |
| Showdown in little Tokyo |
| Sunshine Boys, The |
| Wolfen |
| Ladyhawke |
| Thank your Lucky Stars |
| 42nd Street |
| Far From the Madding Crowd |
| Pete Kelly's Blues |
| Picture of Dorian Gray |
| Possessed |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy |
| Great Race, The |
| Out of the Past |
| Kismet |
| Hit the Deck |
| Wind and the Lion |
| Americanization of Emily |
| Performance |
| Billy Rose's Jumbo |
| Fearless |
| Greystroke: The Legend of Tarzan |
| Hudsucker Proxy |
| Deathtrap |
| Gypsy |
Licensors
- The Criterion Collection
- Mill Creek Entertainment (television series and movies library)
- Shout! Factory (television series and movies library)
References
- ^ "Warner Archive Rolls Along".
- ^ "Archived copy". cinemaretro.com. Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Warner Bros. Launches Warner Archive Collection". Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "• View topic - Warner Brothers Archive Collection Blu-rays". www.criterionforum.org. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
- ^ "A note on the format of our Warner Archive Blu-ray discs. (YouTube)". YouTube.
- ^ Stephanie Prange (9 April 2019). "Warner Archive Celebrates 10th Anniversary". Media Play News. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ a b Snider, Mike (1 February 2014). "Cutting the Cord: Warner Archive Instant delivers a stream of rarities". USA Today. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
- ^ Spangler, Todd (February 26, 2018). "Turner's FilmStruck Adds Warner Bros. Classic Films, As Warner Archive Service Winds Down".
- ^ a b Spangler, Todd (October 26, 2018). "WarnerMedia to Shut Down FilmStruck Subscription-Streaming Service". Variety. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
- ^ http://www.alliedvaughn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AVMOD-Newsletter-Vol-9-Iss-17.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Sony Bows Screen Classics On Demand DVD". Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "MGM on MOD: The MGM Limited Edition Collection". Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "Universal Vault Series opens at Amazon". Retrieved 29 April 2011.
- ^ a b "Amazon Adds More Classic Content for Customers to Enjoy in the "Never Before on DVD" Store". CreateSpace. 23 May 2012. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ "DVD Extra: Selznick's busy RKO year; Fox unveils first MOD slate". Retrieved 18 August 2012.
- ^ "Lionsgate Home Entertainment to Release More Than 100 Titles on DVD Through CreateSpace's On Demand Service". Retrieved 21 April 2012.
- ^ WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION TO OFFER TITLES FROM SONY PICTURES' "SCREEN CLASSICS BY REQUEST", sonypictures.com
- ^ Mermelstein, David (28 May 2012). "MOD Movies for Intrepid Cineastes". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ^ "The Warner Archives Collection Announces First MOD Blu-rays". Hi Def Digest. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
- ^ Haring, Bruce (February 26, 2018). "FilmStruck Adds Warner Bros. Films As Warner Archive Sunsets". Deadline. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
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