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    Topic:   Cover Art?

     JJH
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    Silly question:

    How is it a release can have 2 different cover designs?
    I know it a UK/ US thing, but I've always wondered, what's the reason?

    Some examples:

    Love's Labour's Lost
    Rob Roy
    Carrington
    Tom & Viv
    East-West

    danke

    NP -- Return of the Jedi is about to end

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    posted 05-25-2000 06:56 PM PT (US)     

     Chris Kinsinger
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    It's my theory that "Collector Fever" will cause this to become more and more common as time goes by.
    Some magazines are regularly issued with up to four different covers, so that "Collectors" will by FOUR copies instead of one.
    Disney was the first to issue a home video with four different boxes. Wouldn't you just love to be the parent of the kid who wanted all FOUR versions of A Bug's Life?

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    posted 05-25-2000 07:13 PM PT (US)     

     H Rocco
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    It's not just a UK/US thing. Different countries commonly have different campaigns, and different standards. HOW many different covers for THE CASSANDRA CROSSING are there? Check out DECONSTRUCTING GOLDSMITH to find out.

    Japan is an excellent example: they market movies in completely different ways than the Americans do, and as far as CD art, look at their beautiful Noriyoshi Orai painting for the KING KING LIVES cover, and compare that to the cheap, cartoony artwork for the American LP. (Originally slated to be a Varese LP, but MCA captured the rights back at the last second and was selling them at Universal City when KING KONG LIVES came out -- you can still see the Varese license number in the inside of the LP, though! MCA promised a CD, but the movie was such a catastrophe that they never bothered. The artwork I refer to is identical to that of the subsequent bootlegs I've seen.)

    NP: 20/20 Downtown (television newsmagazine show, for you non-American types. This is the second TV story I've seen about the accelerating crime rate in South Africa in less than a month.)

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    posted 05-25-2000 07:43 PM PT (US)     

     SEBULBA
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    Even some releases in the US. Eg. Starship Troopers from Varese had 2 designs. I picked up the one more rare. It the standard SST cover, but with a red tone, and a ripe down the center from a bug. It's pretty cool.

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    posted 05-26-2000 07:55 AM PT (US)     

     Camillu
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    I have a copy of Braveheart and the cover art is not the green one seen at Amazon.com

    It's quite silly considering they're exactly the same thing. In the case of Angela's ashes there was at least an actual difference in the content (no dialogue). [the cover looks the same but is brownish instead of greyish]

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    posted 05-26-2000 01:13 PM PT (US)     

     HAL 2000
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    H. Rocco hits at the core of the issue. It's all about marketing.

    Many times the soundtrack cover art is based directly on the movie poster. Because of the differences in cultures and audience demographics movies have to be marketed to suit each country so the result is that the film may have many different continent/country specific posters. Likewise the album/CD covers.


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    posted 05-26-2000 01:34 PM PT (US)     

     Jack
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    One current example is the Heavy Metal 2000 soundtrack featuring a collect all four collectible covers sticker.

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    posted 05-26-2000 02:23 PM PT (US)     

     Norman McCay
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    How about one of Issac Hayes' albums? Two (or is it four? Arggh.) separate CD covers of the same album placed together would make an image of his head?

    Yes, definitely marketing strategy.

    [This message has been edited by Norman McCay (edited 26 May 2000).]

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    posted 05-26-2000 02:29 PM PT (US)     

     Marian Schedenig
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    The Cider House Rules has a different cover in the Austrian (German? European? whatever) version. I actually got the "original" cover, because the "local" version seems to have been released some days or weeks later, and before that there were some copies of the US version around.

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    posted 05-26-2000 03:15 PM PT (US)     
     

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