People believed Mr. Orson Welles for a short while during the whole War of the Worlds debacle.

Anyways… I actually think I am wrong and this is happening. Primarily based upon The Criterion Collection having a space between 475 and 477 with no apparent film to fill it – and on the side of a high-res version of the Curious Case cover I found was the number 476. So, blah… seems it is one hundred percent true. Reuters or no Reuters.

So, one… I'd like to repeat that I firmly believe the Criterion folk are not that lazy. Their covers are never that obvious. When they do (and rarely do they do this) release a film that is North American and recent (Wes Anderson being the only filmmaker of late to have received this treatment) they tend to create never before seen artwork.

Second, I'd like someone to explain to me in what way this would be a financially intelligent move on Paramount's part? Why would they sell the home video distribution rights to a company like Criterion? They have there own home video arm and why would they hand the rights over to Criterion? It seems entirely illogical to me. Maybe that's just me.

Just searched through Amazon for the DVD and here's what I came up with….

http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Benjamin-Button-Two-Disc-Special/dp/B001U0HBPQ/ref=sr_tr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1237513233&sr=1-1

There is a more expensive version with no cover art:

http://www.amazon.ca/Curious-Case-Benjamin-Button/dp/B001U7IJUU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1237513173&sr=1-2

But I don't understand why Criterion would release this film if there is a 2-disc version being sent out at the same time… no double dip, no nothin'.

Finally, just like to put in my two-cents that I truly believe this rumour to be false.

Over and out.

2. I still don’t get it.

1) This site has NEVER gone to bat for “Transformers.” At least I don’t think so.

2) ROBOCOP is a perfect movie.

All of a sudden everyone’s posting. Weird.

Anyhow.
Robocop: I don’t get the cult behind that film.

Darjeeling: Criterion finally realized Wes Anderson’s work isn’t unassailable.

As far as “Ben Button” making Criterion goes, whatever. I’m more interested in why “The Darjeeling Limited” wasn’t released on Criterion. Yes, it’s Wes’ weakest, but now that “Bottle Rocket” has made it, it’s the only film of his not on the label.

Ahh, what do I know. You’re probably right.

It seems so unlikely that they would even release a film like this. They’ve been getting away from films like Chasing Amy, Armageddon, Robocop etc. for quite some time now.

Also, I have never ever seen a Criterion image on the web with a 3D box like that. They are always straight on images.

Again, I wouldn’t put money on me being right, but it just feels wrong somehow.

If they do Celine & Julie i think I'll jizz all over myself.

But Yonah, i think they'll make the exception for Button that has to come out at a certain time. Slashfilm has the real art and it looks very generic – i.e., they had to whip it together.

http://www.criterion.com/library/dvd/criterion/soon/expanded/spine_number