When is Mike Basset England Manager on Region 1 DVD?????

[chansla]

Anyone Know?
Cheers

[Paul490]

I doubt it, because it is a British film and it isn't that major. It will be on R2, and maybe even R4 (Kevin And Perry Go Large), but not R1.

[dangermouse]

I would imagine that the chances of this movie being released on American DVD is practically zero.

The region 2 edition, whenever that is, will almost certainly be the best version available, as there no real market for it on region 1.

[Paul490]

Hi dangermouse. :)

I expect the R2 will have quite a few extras as well.

[Bapapapa]

R2 is out 25/3

[platty]

There`s an advertisment for this disc in this months Empire mag and it`s an EIV disc....and you know what that means!. :mad:

[Arch Stanton]

Originally posted by platty
There`s an advertisment for this disc in this months Empire mag and it`s an EIV disc....and you know what that means!. :mad:

Good disc but crap cover and if you wait a fortnight it'll be in the HMV sale for £10.

[Michael Brooke]

So far the film has been released in the UK and Israel, and I don’t know of any planned US release – and I agree with Dangermouse that it would be a major surprise if it ever got one.

Ultra-parochial British comedies like this rarely have much in the way of an international audience, especially if their appeal mostly revolves around in-jokes relating to English football and while I know Ricky Tomlinson is a national treasure, he’s almost totally unknown abroad. As a result, there’s virtually no marketing hook and the likely international audience is so tiny as to make it barely worth considering.

While the Hollywood marketing machine can occasionally force American sports films down our throats, even they tend not to do very well in Britain - <I>Eight Men Out</I> and <I>Cobb</I> flopped (despite being superb) while <I>BASEketball</I> went straight to video – we simply don’t have the muscle to do the same in reverse!

So I suspect the R2 is not so much the best as the only choice you’ll ever get!

[dmb6473a]

Isn't Fever Pitch out on R1 though? I'm sure I've seen it on the Djangos website.

So maybe there will eventually be a R1 release. :)

[chansla]

i was hoping for the region 1 version as i have a usa PS2 and im moving over there.

[Paul490]

Why has it been released in Israel? :confused:

[Robby]

The R2 cover for this is so bad it's good. Not once, not twice but thrice the powers that be at EIV thought it'd be good to stick 'Hilarious' on the bottom of the cover.

But they are respectable quotes from respected newspapers aren't they???!!!!:rolleyes:

[Michael Brooke]

<B>Isn't Fever Pitch out on R1 though? </B>

I wouldn’t use <I>Fever Pitch</I> as a reliable guide, as there are major differences between the two films – and it’s all too easy to see why one got a US release (albeit tiny) and the other probably won’t.

<I>Mike Bassett</I> is a broad comedy that relies heavily on a knowledge of English football culture in order to get most of the jokes. Since 99.9% of Americans won’t share that knowledge, it will probably go down like a lead balloon over there, and I suspect any US distributors who watched it felt the same way.

By contrast, you don’t need to know much about football to enjoy <I>Fever Pitch</I>, which works just as well as a romantic comedy, and it’s aimed as much at the female Colin Firth fanbase as male football fans, which also makes it more attractive to Anglophile Americans. Also, Colin Firth is rather better known internationally than Ricky Tomlinson, having appeared in major Oscar-winners like Shakespeare in Love, as well as Pride and Prejudice being a runaway hit on US TV. So I’m not surprised it got a small-scale release over there.

As for Israel… who knows? But Israeli film rights usually go for peanuts (four figures being typical for a low-budget British film), so it’s easy to snap something up for a song if a distributor likes it. By contrast, the US rights to <I>Mike Bassett</I> would cost vastly more.

[dmb6473a]

Originally posted by Michael Brooke
By contrast, you don’t need to know much about football to enjoy <I>Fever Pitch</I>, which works just as well as a romantic comedy

Well in that case, Mike Bassett should work well in the U.S. Afterall, as any football fan will tell you, there's nothing more romantic than a story about attempting to win the World Cup! ;)