• Questions and concerns have been rolling in concerning the Chasing Amy DVD from Alliance. First of all, we can say that we have NO FACTS AT ALL on this disc. It seems very secretive, the entire project, but we can tell you what we’ve heard anyway: First of all, Kevin stated recently that Criterion has not licensed any of their Special Edition laserdisc material to Alliance, so the DVD can at most be the film and possibly a trailer. No commentary, deleted scenes, all that good stuff. Second, a while back we asked Vincent about the possibility of a 16:9 transfer for the flick. Again, no dice. Vincent said that he’d have known were something like that happening.

Now, the second part: Alliance has been coming under fire for releasing Canadian exclusive DVDs of Buena Vista’s material, and it’s going to stop. Looks like Amy may be the last (IF it shows up) of a dying breed. From now on, Alliance will release Canadian counterparts of flicks concurrently, and identical to, U.S. releases. Now, as for the chances that Amy won’t ship: We’ve gotten one confirmation from a dealer in Canada who states that he received confirmation that the shipment had already left the warehouse and would be in his store by Friday. This seems odd since it’s almost 2 weeks early in that case, but we’ll keep our eyes peeled and let ya know. We’ve also contacted the folks we partnered with to promote the DVD to see if they’ve heard any more.

So, in short, looks like we still WILL see the Amy DVD, though it’ll be a very stripped down version of the ineviatable re-release of the flick here in the US with all the Criterion stuff intact. And there’s no word on when that’s happening at this point.