Lionsgate acquires KILL BILL VOL. 1 & 2 and JACKIE BROWN film rights 1 1

[Bosco685]

Lionsgate Partners With Quentin Tarantino For Rights To ‘Kill Bill’ Volumes I & II, ‘Jackie Brown’; Plans Remastered ‘Kill Bill’ For 20th Anniversary

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Lionsgate said today it’s partnered with Quentin Tarantino for distribution rights to three of the director’s iconic films – Kill Bill Volumes I & II and Jackie Brown. 

 

Beginning with Reservoir Dogs, a Lionsgate library favorite for nearly 20 years, “we’ve grown what is now Hollywood’s largest portfolio of Tarantino films to include Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The  Hateful Eight and Death Proof in addition to the movies we just picked up,” said CEO Jon Feltheimer on the company’s post-earning conference call. 

 

He said the studio and Tarantino team will celebration Kill Bill’s 20th anniversary later this year with a new, remastered 4K edition.

Now if they will finally officially release the Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair ULTIMATE Edition. 

[eastriver400]

Anxiously awaiting Tarantino’s swan song, Kill Bill Volume III.

[Skylath]

On 5/25/2023 at 4:23 PM, eastriver400 said:

Anxiously awaiting Tarantino’s swan song, Kill Bill Volume III.

Quentin's pretty staunch about not doing sequels to his works. Gotta wonder if he'd do a Kiddo television show, though...

[AnthonyTheAbyss]

Isn't he down to only one more movie before retiring?

 

***I'd like that final movie to be his take on a Rom Com

Edited May 29, 2023 by AnthonyTheAbyss
engrish bad

[rexinnih]

 

now give me 4K!

[Bosco685]

On 5/30/2023 at 12:33 AM, rexinnih said:

 

now give me 4K!

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Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill was released 20 years ago this coming October and to celebrate the anniversary the classic movie will be released in a 4K remaster.

 

The news was confirmed by Lionsgate who has landed the distribution rights to both Kill Bill movies and Jackie Brown. The studio did not say exactly what will happen to the other two movies, except that it plans to do something.

 

"It was a real coup for us to get the three Quentin Tarantino movies. We have eight, which really gives our library a unique situation in Hollywood. And we’re going to take advantage of that," said Jim Packer, president of worldwide TV and digital distribution at Lionsgate.

 

[Bosco685]

To me this is still Tarantino's greatest work to date. I would love to see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

The Secret Cut Of Quentin Tarantino’s Bloodiest Masterpiece Needs A Release

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Tarantino’s Kill Bill films, which were split into Volume 1 and Volume 2 and released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, were originally meant to be one massive adventure.

 

In fact, Tarantino himself still considers the Kill Bill franchise to count as one single film, as he has subsequently labelled and numbered them as his fourth movie in his catalogue. Tarantino cut together Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair shortly after Volume 2 was released, as the intended 4+ hour version of the film that he originally sought to create.

 

Despite Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair being the filmmaker’s preferred vision, the extra-long edit has never received a proper wide release. The Once Upon A Time In Hollywood director has taken the opportunity to screen the Whole Bloody Affair privately for friends and industry insiders since 2006, and even released an ultra-limited screening for the public in 2011.

 

[Dr Zen]

On 5/25/2023 at 5:23 PM, eastriver400 said:

Anxiously awaiting Tarantino’s swan song, Kill Bill Volume III.

"I killed Bill."

 

 

Edited September 1 by Dr Zen

[eastriver400]

On 9/1/2024 at 11:49 AM, Dr Zen said:

"I killed Bill."

 

 

 

I always imagined that the Bride's and Bill's baby survived the Massacre at Two Pines and that would keep the whole story alive.  

[Bosco685]

On 9/2/2024 at 12:10 PM, eastriver400 said:

 

I always imagined that the Bride's and Bill's baby survived the Massacre at Two Pines and that would keep the whole story alive.  

And that Copperhead's daughter would show up as a grown woman to demand her revenge. Did Tarantino miss that setup for a future film?

 

[VintageComics]

On 9/1/2024 at 10:57 AM, Bosco685 said:

To me this is still Tarantino's greatest work to date. I would love to see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

The Secret Cut Of Quentin Tarantino’s Bloodiest Masterpiece Needs A Release

 

Tarantino owns a few theaters in LA and he makes sure they're used properly. 

This is a great read on his thoughts, including the purchase of the Vista Theater and his thoughts on the cinema business. I have to agree with his comments. The places that serve garbage need to go (expletives from the quote were edited out by forum software but they were well placed).

Quentin Tarantino Buys Vista Theatre

“Some of these exhibitors that are going — I never like to see any movie theater closing — but some of these exhibitors who are going, they deserve to go,” Tarantino said on the podcast. “They have taken all the specialness out of movies anyway. Some of these chains were they’re showing commercials all through it; they don’t turn the lights down, everything is stadium seating, plastic mess.”

He continued, “They have been writing their own epitaph for a long time, but they assumed the business would take you along. It’s been crazy throughout my career to see how the film experience is lessened for the viewer like every five years. However, I do think boutique cinemas actually will thrive in this time. And I am not talking about the La-Z-Boy, order nachos and margaritas … I actually like the Alamo Drafthouse a lot. But I have a living room, I want to go to the theater.”

Edited September 2 by VintageComics

[Bosco685]

These reaction movies are wild when mythical/fictional characters like this are introduced to them

 

 

Edited September 8 by Bosco685

[troydivision1]

On 9/1/2024 at 10:57 AM, Bosco685 said:

To me this is still Tarantino's greatest work to date. I would love to see Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

The Secret Cut Of Quentin Tarantino’s Bloodiest Masterpiece Needs A Release

 

Found a torrent of a fan edit that does the best at recreating the experience Whole Bloody Affair experience.
Not sure if I am allowed to post links to torrent sites, but below is a synopsis.

https://fanedit.org/kill-bill-the-whole-bloody-affair-themilkmanconspiracy-version/

Editing Details:

Using the Japanese uncut DVDs as a base, I matched them frame-for-frame using as much HD footage as possible. The US Blu-rays were my primary source for HD footage, with the full-color House of Blue Leaves sequence largely reconstructed using taas007's brilliant re-inked footage.

After HD matching the DVDs, the film was reconstructed to replicate Tarantino's cut of the film as closely as possible.

However, no intermission is included because I couldn't possibly recreate that in any faithful way. Beginning credits and end credits are also left unaltered from the Japanese versions for similar reasons, though I'm sure Tarantino's cut probably included revised end credits at least.

Subtitles for the non-English dialog are included in the SubStationAlpha format in an effort to replicate Tarantino's usual subtitle style, and also to retain the different scene-dependent colors that are used on the Blu-ray. They are also included in basic SRT format for those who'd like to have more control over their subtitles.

HOW DOES THIS VERSION DIFFER FROM OTHER WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR RECONSTRUCTIONS?

1) It matches the Japanese versions of volumes 1 and 2, and therefore Tarantino's own cut of TWBA, probably closer than any other edit out there.
2) House of Blue Leaves fight is mostly in HD with the help of taas007's footage (I've only seen one other WBA edit that incorporates this).
3) The reveal/cliffhanger ending of volume 1 has been removed. This is how Tarantino's cut is, and is probably the biggest change to how the film plays out as a whole. Some WBA edits choose to leave this in, and in doing so, cease to be Tarantino's version of The Whole Bloody Affair. It's fine to leave it in for your own personal edit of Kill Bill, but not when you're trying to recreate The Whole Bloody Affair.
4) This edit DOES NOT include the deleted scene featuring Michael Jai White as Da Moe. This was absent from Tarantino's cut that he screened, and I will never understand why so many editors choose to include it, especially if the goal is to recreate TWBA.
5) This version does not include any extended Pai-Mei flashbacks during the campfire scene. It's a neat idea, but again, not in Tarantino's version of the film.

Cuts and Additions:

As previously stated, this is largely the Japanese versions of volumes 1 and 2 recreated in as much HD as possible using the US blu-rays (and then reconstructed to match Tarantino's Whole Bloody Affair cut). Anything that wasn't available in HD was sourced from the Japanese DVDs and, therefore, is of significantly lower resolution. However, I tried to make the transitions between footage as seamless as possible. And in an effort to retain as much HD as possible, when a shot was extended in the Japanese version, I only added the missing frames from the Japanese DVD rather than replacing the whole shot.

The following is a general list of changes from the US versions of 1 and 2:

- Klingon proverb that opens the film has been replaced by the Japanese version's Fukasaku dedication, which I recreated in HD
- "Vol. 1" has been removed from title card
- Replaced 'EFX Group' credit with the 'I.G., Tokyo' credit from the Japanese version, which I also recreated in HD
- Used alternate shots in Vernita Green's kitchen from the Japanese version
- Extended anime sequence to match Japanese version, sometimes frame matching the blu-rays to the Japanese version's closer framing of specific shots.
- Gogo's gutting shot has been slightly extended (from Japanese version)
- House of Blue Leaves sequence has been extended in several places to match the Japanese version
- The House of Blue Leaves fight, in addition to being extended, is also now in full color. This was done using a mixture of taas007's "re-inked" HD footage, a few shots from volume 2's end credit sequence, and the Japanese DVDs for the extended bits.
- Shot of Sophie's other arm getting chopped off has been added (from Japanese version)
- After The Bride says "And I want them all to know they'll all soon be as dead as O-Ren," the movie cuts to black and then goes straight into chapter six. This is almost exactly how Tarantino's cut is, with the only difference being an intermission that I didn't include because I couldn't possibly recreate that in any faithful way, so I didn't bother trying.
- The Bride's drive to, and arrival at, Esteban's brothel has been extended as per the Japanese version
* There is a shot on the way to the brothel that is only of the hood of The Bride's car as it's driving on a gravel road. For this, I used the blu-ray's alternate shot, which is almost identical to the Japanese version's. It basically appears to be a different portion of the exact same shot, and they were similar enough that I didn't feel that it would have been worth it to replace with DVD footage. Honestly, if I hadn't just mentioned it, I doubt anyone would have ever noticed.