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Why it's not on DVD

posted 14 years ago by bat2005
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There's a scene where Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox are slow dancing to a song that's playing on the radio. Warner Brothers owns the copyright to the song and won't give permission to Sony for a home video release. I found this out by accident when I posted a clip with that scene on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLh286QolRM

[–] staby 14 years ago

Well, that just sucks!

[–] bhs_golfergrl 14 years ago

But if they really wanted to release it, they could easily replace that song with something else. They do it on DVD releases of old TV shows all the time when they don't want to pay for the rights. I hate WMG, btw. They're such buzz killers.

[–] Cinemaniac-1 14 years ago

The movie is available on DVD in Germany (PAL, Region 2). So dont give up hope for an international release!!

[–] hofnarr 13 years ago

However - this is dubbed in German, doesn't have subtitles and is formatted @ 1.33:1 - aka a "Full-screen version" so the image gets chopped off on the left and right.

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[–] DanielKomarek 13 years ago

Yeah I definitely want to find this film!

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