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Manga Entertainment Updates on Podcast Including Trigun Film Delay
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Among Mazandarani's announcements:
- Trigun: Badlands Rumble has been moved back to November 12.
- The next big announcements of future Manga Entertainment releases will be at the London MCM Expo from October 26 to 28.
- On the sales of the sub-only edition of Neon Alley didn't help.”
- Asked which older titles he would ‘upgrade’ from DVD to Blu-ray, Mazandarani stressed that it would depend on the availability of a suitable master. If that was the case, he cited Paprika.
However, Mazandarani said, “I think all these would be viable once we get more favourable Blu-ray manufacturing costs. Those titles are not Ghost in the Shell or Akira; they're not going to sell anywhere near as many copies…. I would need something in my catalogue to have done over two and a half, three thousand copies in a month in order for me to decide to re-release it on Blu-ray. Anything below that and I'm not going to sell enough Blu-rays and I'll lose money.” He said he was more interested in building up his Blu-ray catalogue with primarily new releases.
- Asked about festivals and theatrical anime screenings, Mazandarani said, “We always pay a lot of interest to the fan reactions at Scotland Loves Anime… I tend to wait for U.K. fans to see stuff… Each market's different, so it's very handy to have something like Scotland Loves Anime, Leeds Young People's Film Festival and the London Film Festival showing anime.”
