Post by elemage on Mar 9, 2019 23:41:00 GMT -5
This is a bit misleading here. It was never stated WHICH of the remaining episodes had problems. Just because it was not on the one set, does not automatically mean they could not secure rights to it. Given this is WB, one of the chief studios who LOVE to do things in volumes, it is quite possible they just kept a good number of nine to do for the eventual later set. Especially if they originally thought they would have it resolved much earlier, they could have planned to say 'Get the Best of the New Scooby Movies Volume 2, see Scooby meet the Addams Family, Josie and the Pussycats and Sonny and Cher again!, Sounds like good marketing to me. But either way the set will 100% not be released until all nine are cleared, how far they are into that is not confirmed, but let's take a look at what remains of that:
Breaking down what you see here it makes this idea all the more logical. Phyllis Diller, Tim Conway, Sandy Duncan had all stayed friendly to the franchise with interviews from cartoon network on scooby.
IF there were contract negotiation problems on the characters for Josie and the Addams Family, these both have obviously been cleared due to WB selling both Josie series on DVD and the first Addams on DVD.
That being said Turner sold episodes of the 70s Addams show on VHS, but the 90s show is held up because the music contracts aren't cleared for dvd yet, and if they could sell Sonny and Cher on VHS, chances are good they too are not hold outs. The problem is only that they need to renegotiate for home video, so if the episode made it to VHS in the past, then it should not have any rights problems on DVD, since home media clauses cover both formats.
(Side bar on this subject: HB's Pound Puppies and 90s Addams Family seem to be in the same boat, where music things are halting both from being released, given both had sporadic VHS appearances, i'm assuming it's only on a few select episodes to be cleared, but these are clear exceptions to the rule, as while WB owns the Shows, and does not have to clear the characters (like they had to do on these new scooby movies because the contracts were made prior to home media clauses being in them) but a third smaller part is the issue)
WB and Sony aren't exactly at each other's throats, given WB openly sells Sony products on their website, so i'm not really thinking Jeannie is a problem.
This only leaves Davey Jones and Jerry Reed. And in fact the only negative thing on the situation i've heard in the rumor mill is that the Jerry Reed estate is apparently "very greedy" (not my words). Especially given the fact that by Shaggy saying a lyric to one of his songs to the episode, they would have to no doubt recontract BOTH his likeness and the music rights. This being the main reason i see most people speculate that the Jerry Reed episode is the soul holdout.