Von KungFu-Cinema:
MCL MediaCom & Licensing Ltd. will be distributing home video formats of Celestial's Shaw Brothers film library and the documentary series Cinema Hong Kong for German-speaking territories.
The Shaw Brothers films licensed by MCL will be the fully restored versions of the studio's movie classics. The titles include The Boxer From Shantung , The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin, Come Drink With Me, Killer Clans, and The Five Venoms.
Cinema Hong Kong , a production of Celestial Pictures, is a landmark documentary series presenting a retrospective of one of the world's most dynamic filmmaking traditions - the Hong Kong movie industry. MCL will be distributing two one-hour episodes of the series, which offer viewers a fascinating and incisive look into the martial-arts genres of sword fighting and kung fu.
William Pfieffer, CEO of Celestial Pictures, said: "Celestial Pictures is honored that the Shaw Brothers film masterpieces will be made available to German-speaking audiences in Germany , Austria and Switzerland . We would like to thank Gerhard Huck and his team at MCL for their enthusiasm toward the incomparable Shaw Brothers films. We are confident that MCL will do a fantastic job in presenting these films to the German-speaking territories."
Gerhard Huck, Managing Director of MCL commented: "We are thrilled to be working on Celestial's Shaw Brothers films and are very proud to be given the opportunity to present this sensational Shaw Brothers library to German movie-fans. There is already an intense interest from the market! We look forward to making available the digitally remastered versions of the original Shaw Brothers masterpieces to the German-speaking audiences."
Exclusively distributed by MiB Medienvertrieb in Buchholz, the first five Shaw Brothers films are planned to be launched in September, 2004
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Da ich bis jetzt die IVL-VÖ nicht beachtet habe, könnte das was sein für mich. Jedoch, existieren von vielen Shaw-Filmen (noch) keine Synchro's oder UTs, welche somit erst noch produziert werden müssen. Und der Lizenzinhaber MCL ist mir völlig unbekannt, dazu ist MiB auch nicht durch spitzenarbeit aufgefallen
Geniesse deshalb diese doch tolle Nachricht mit Vorsicht! :?