Une interview de Gordon Clark à propos du film
http://www.killerfilm.com/spotlight/rea ... ng-2-29680
Il explique notamment pourquoi le film ne sort pas en dvd aux USA
Jason Bene: This year marks the 30th Anniversary of Without Warning. Why hasn’t there been a DVD release?
Greydon Clark: Boy, I can talk about that for three or four days. When we made the picture it was 1979 and it was released in 1980. I finished the picture and I screened it for American International Pictures, and they loved the picture and we made a deal. Within a matter of weeks American International Pictures was sold to Filmways. And I remember at the time with the press announcement and the guy from Filmways was there at the podium talking about the fact that they bought AIP and so forth. And the guy said we are not going to release any of these old AIP type pictures. And I thought why the hell did they buy the company? I don’t get it.
But anyhow, I had to threaten a lawsuit to get them to release the picture. We had made a pre-production deal with HBO and part of our HBO agreement was that the picture had to play in ten major markets in the United States. And when I made the deal with AIP, I put in the contract that AIP agreed to fulfill the minimum requirement of my HBO deal. So when Filmways purchased AIP, they didn’t want to release any of the old AIP stuff. I threatened to sue Filmways to force them to release Without Warning. Then they did release it and it did quite well, they made some money with it, they were happy with it and so forth. Filmways was purchased by Orion, and eventually MGM owned the rights to the film.
Jason Bene: Now MGM is in big financial trouble, so those rights might go anywhere.
Greydon Clark: God only knows. They control the DVD rights. I control the remake rights and I’ve been in discussions with MGM for two years about making a remake of it. One of the problems is every six months you are talking to another executive because the guys there move on to other companies. To why it hasn’t been on DVD, I guess you’ll have to contact MGM. I am told it is one of the most pirated films on the internet. I get a lot of response from my website on Without Warning.