Monday, February 05, 2007

Honey and gunpowder.

It baffles me that one of the most revered writers of the century is essentially a starving artist. Here's a copy of the letter of thanks for our recent purchase of the (SIGNED!) 25th anniversary (WIDESCREEN!!) edition of Peter S. Beagle's (DIGITALLY REMASTERED!!!) The Last Unicorn. If you're thinking of ordering, read this and go to the conlan press link. Help a brother out.

Thank you for helping Peter S. Beagle
by purchasing the new DVD of THE LAST UNICORN from Conlan Press, instead of from
somewhere else. More than half of what you just spent will go to support Peter
and his projects — but if you had bought it somewhere else, Peter would have
gotten nothing.Here's the situation in a nutshell:

Granada Media International (the English company that
owns the animated film of THE LAST UNICORN) has sold more than a million copies
on DVD and videotape since 1999. By contract, they owe Peter hundreds of
thousands of dollars in royalties, but so far they have refused to pay him a
cent.


Peter has fought
for three years to get his due, so far without success.
He still isn't
getting any royalties from the DVD you just bought, either (not as long as
Granada keeps stonewalling).

However, the people at Lionsgate
Entertainment (the film's American distributor) are great folks. To make it
possible for American fans of THE LAST UNICORN to finally own a GOOD version,
they are putting out this special digitally-remastered 25th Anniversary
Widescreen DVD. And to help Peter, they have agreed to let us sell copies via
the Conlan Press website. By purchasing here you have put money straight into
Peter's pocket and helped him in his quest for justice.

Please spread
the word. If you know anyone who wants to buy this DVD, tell them why they
should buy it here.Thank you very much! (And thanks to Lionsgate for caring.)

If you'd like to know more about the situation, and what you can do
about it, go to
www.conlanpress.com/youcanhelp.

And if you'd like to add your
own voice to the people from more than 34 countries who have stood up for Peter,
just go to
www.conlanpress.com/html/fans_speak.html and follow the instructions there.Peter S. Beagle
needs support in the fight to get him his due for the animated versions of THE
LAST UNICORN and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.


To learn all the details —
and find out how you can help — go to:
www.conlanpress.com/youcanhelp. Sincerely,The folks at Conlan
Press


And let's not forget about that ST:TNG episode. Sarek rocks.

8 comments:

Greg said...

He did that crappy old rotoscoped version of Lord of the Rings? The one that just stops halfway through the second book?

Scott said...

Starving? Dude's got three dozen other published works, plus another 10 due out this year! I've yet to read one of them, and never heard of any of them save the TNG episode, but you hold The Last Unicorn in such high regard I might make a donation to him myself. Maybe my $20 will afford him a hot meal. I feel so charitable.

Jess said...

I use "starving" loosely, of course. but a man deserves his due. and since we're tallying up his works, I'd like to add that he also served as creative consultant for the eighties cartoon "wildfire". you know, the one with the flaming horse.

Beers said...

Thanks for the heads up on this Jess. I just picked myself a copy of the DVD from the site. I am so excited.

Jess said...

wonderful! I'm so glad to hear it! I must warn you, though, it seems that the number of orders from the site was unexpected, so they're a little backlogged. there'll be a bit of a wait. still, very much worth it.

Beers said...

MY COPY ARRIVED TODAY!!!!!!

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