Rodriguez: 'Roadracers on DVD!'

i dont see why this movie couldn't get a DVD release. He even mentions it on Planet Terror

Here's a link for the Blu:

http://www.amazon.com/Roadracers-Blu-ray-John-Hawkes/dp/B006ZL1PBQ/ref =sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1327187885&sr=1-1

Unfortunately it's being released by Echo Bridge, the worst home video company around.

When Disney sold Miramax their home video catalog was picked up for distribution by two companies: Lionsgate and Echo Bridge. There seems to be little rhyme or reason in regards to what company got what movies. For the most part Lionsgate got most of the high-profile films Miramax films ("The Crow", "Trainspotting", films by Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, "The English Patient" etc.) but it's almost like they threw Echo Bridge a few bones such as the Robert Rodriguez films.

Unfortunately Echo Bridge has little interest in doing anything but taking HD prints prepared for television exhibition and slapping them on Blu-ray discs. There's no better proof of this than the fact that Showtime is showing "Roadracers" in HD and almost instantly Echo Bridge has a Blu-ray release announced.

The worst part of this is that many of these transfers are cropped from 2.35:1 and feature more basic audio options than their DVD counterparts. On top of that they will only rarely carry extra features over from DVD releases.

Echo Bridge is in the business of bargain-bin fodder. They'd rather slap all 3 "From Dusk Till Dawn" movies plus "Full Tilt Boogie" on a single 50gb Blu-ray disc and sell it to you for $9 than charge a little more for a multi-disc set that gives the movies a little breathing room in regards to picture quality and extras.

There have been a couple exceptions ("Dead Man" retained its DVD extras, for example) but I wouldn't expect to see anything Rodriguez may have prepared for the canceled '05 DVD release or mentioned on the "Grindhouse" extras actually wind up on the disc.

I can't imagine Rodriguez is happy with the way Echo Bridge has been releasing his movies on Blu-ray and DVD and I wish he had some way of stepping in and making sure that they're actually presented properly. He needs to apply his DIY philosophy to the films of his that Echo Bridge controls because they aren't willing to do anything with them themselves.