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Fox does not know their own films

posted 20 years ago by geode
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I just bought the DVD and looked at the back of the package. First picture there caught my eye. Victor Mature in a military uniform standing next to Michael Wilding in Egyptian grab....must be playing Akhnaton to Mature's Horemheb. That means of course that the still is from "The Egyptian" and not "The Robe"...

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[–] tcfoxfan 20 years ago

Fox does own their own films. What happened was someone in the Home Video Department who does not know films put the wrong photo to be printed on the back. Very simple.

[–] geode 20 years ago

Fox does own their own films. What happened was someone in the Home Video Department who does not know films put the wrong photo to be printed on the back. Very simple.

Yes, obviously the mistake was made by people connected with the Home Video release, I would think that was implicit in my first post. Yes, Fox does own the rights to "The Robe" under a copyright renewal in 1981. They have issued it on video through their own subsidiary, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Inc. which can be found in the following link.

http://www.foxhome.com/

This is listed in the following link showing the Form 10-K of Fox companies, which includes the following companies that actually bear the name "Fox":

Fox Animation Studios, Inc. Delaware
Fox Home Entertainment Ltd. UK
Fox Home Entertainment Worldwide L.L.C. Delaware
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc. Delaware
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. Delaware
Twenty-First Century Film Corporation Delaware
Twenty-First Century Fox Corporation Delaware

http://sec.edgar-online.com/2004/09/10/0001193125-04-154960/section36.asp

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[–] tcfoxfan 20 years ago

Well I don't know how implict it was, since it started out with the heading was "Fox does not know their own films"?

Anyway, I know the people in charge of the photo archive and something the Home Entertainment department uses an incorrect image since many of the employees there are quite young and don't know about the older films in their film collection.

A lot of those other companies you listed are owned and control by News Corporation the parent company of 20th Century Fox.

[–] bnyck 19 years ago

That's funny. I bought and watched the DVD without even looking at the pictures on the back. I'm not surprised they used an image from the wrong movie though. The people putting together the box had probably never watched the movie and didn't know the picture was from the wrong movie. A while back a person on eBay listed a picture of Bella Darvi in "The Egyptian" as a picture of Jean Simmons. :o

[–] tcfoxfan 18 years ago

Things that make you go hmmm! :o)

[–] mgm7041-1 17 years ago

Somebody did not do their research for this film "The Robe". You are absolutely right geode.

[–] MrsHannahBannaButler 16 years ago

lol, on the back of my copy, it says Jeans Simmons!

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[–] geode 16 years ago

I had missed that before now. It is a little known fact that Jean had a nickname at the time due to the casual attire she wore when arriving on the set.

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