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Just to show you how organized we are here at CineSavant, until a few minutes ago, today’s Column bore the proud date ‘February 29, 2025.’

The tireless Joe Dante has circulated an article from the page ‘boundingintocomics.com,’ by J.B. Augustine.  It discusses a CineSavant-compatible subject — Godzilla — and also gives us another opportunity to praise the late Michael Schlesinger, a much-missed producer, director, studio exec. and super-fan of all things cinematic.

Among Michael’s wildest assignments at Columbia was the writing and production of an American release version of Toho’s Godzilla 2000. It was liked so much by Toho that for quite a while, a followup project was in Columbia’s production hopper …. another American-made Godzilla movie.

The article describes the proposed show as a mix of comedy — the human side of the story — and fairly serious Kaiju monster-stomp action. How cool it is to be able to read all these details about a movie that was to be called Godzilla Reborn.

And the alert Gary Teetzel tells us of another desired title in the works, now with a confirmed release date …

Coming May 13th is a remastered Blu-ray of 1965’s  Crack in the World.  We’ve viewed Olive Films 2010 Blu-ray many times, and see a lot of room for improvement … dirt here and there, film damage, and splices that jump in the gate. Kino’s disc is said to be a new 4K scan, so hopefully it will be brighter and spiffier presentation all around.

The new disc will have a Gary Gerani commentary, plus a two-part video discussion with Stephen R. Bissette and Tim Lucas.

Our existing, old DVD Savant review is  here.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson