NEWS: Direct from Warner Brothers Chat Session

[Cryogenic]

This is Elvis (a SE edition) was supposed to be released around august 2007...but warner turned it down..cause the movie has too many short movies in it..and the movie was not shot in HD quality..and warner wants to release HD quality dvd's or blueray discs..and the production costs to digitally remaster it to HD were to high..so that project was also down..but they are thinking about the "normal" movie in the same quality as the old vhs...to put that to dvd.... so we get this is elvis in mono or poor 2.0 dolby digital..and with blurry colours...

"This Is Elvis" was shot / compiled on 35mm film. It naturally has a very high resolution (way higher than HD).

But I think I see what you mean. Remastering costs time and money. However, given the pivotal nature of this production, not to mention the acclaim it received on release, I am sure that many want to see it done properly. Unfortunately, because the film was made of composite sources, not only are there clearance rights, but quality issues. Take the kinescopes. We now have the Ed Sullivan shows restored and enhanced to full glory, but no material had such estimable treatment back then. Even the youngest of the real footage (i.e. "Elvis In Concert") should look better with today's digital mastering techniques. But who would go through and put all that effort in? It would be too costly by half.

[KPM]

This is Elvis was a hodge-podge of footage a little from everywhere. I don't want to get my hopes up, but my wish is for EOT, remastered and restored ,with multiple DVDs and unreleased footage.
When all the unreleased footage from EOT started showing up last year online I wondered if it had anything to do with a possible EOT release with a lot of extras.
You know perhaps they got all the film shot in 72 together to see what they had and the shape it was in- and someone leaked it out.
I hope its not just a dvd re-release of the VHS version of EOT.

[ricardo b. prospero]

Sounds great. I hope it come soon without any delay.