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Slumdog Millionaire DVDs may be Missing Features
Apparently the April Fools Joke came a day too soon for a handful of people who bought the Slumdog Millionaire DVD. As advertised, the DVD had some special features, which is common with the hardcopy releases, but a batch of the discs were missing these features.
Fox quickly set up a plan of action to counter this boo boo.
Deadline Hollywood shares:
We are aware that special features were missing from a number of Slumdog Millionaire DVDs. Fox has set up a hotline telephone number (1-888-223-4FOX) for those consumers who may have purchased a version that does not contain special features. Upon calling the hotline, these consumers will be able to have their disc replaced for one containing special features. Fox regrets any inconvenience this has caused.
I don’t know exactly how many of these faulty discs made it into the hands of unsuspecting consumers, but it had to be enough to warrant Fox to issue this kind of customer service reaction.
If a couple dozen of the discs were misprinted, they would just let retailers do exchanges. This had to be a hell of a run of discs to generate that many complaints.
Did you buy a copy? Do you have the Making of and Deleted Scenes features?
I rented it yesterday, and it didnt have any special features…..
That is amazing fox is so funny Oh and when I watched it the other day Warner Brothers also had a hand in Slum Dog and months ago they argued over Watchmen they are confusing me.
I didn’t buy the movie. But I remember back in 2005 when DVDs were released with 1 or 2 discs. 1 disc being obviously just the movie and the 2 disc being the movie and special features. I remember the first movie I saw this happen with was Batman Begins.
It loooks like what happened is Fox’s new strategy exploding in their faces. As previously announced Fox will be releasing “Sale” and “Rental” versions of DVD’s. The “Sale” version will have special features etc. and the “Rental” version will be just the film, for all new Fox DVD releases apparently. This is one of the first films they are doing it with, and they mispackaged a large number of “Rental” copies in “Sale” Boxes. That is what they get for trying to screw people over who would rather spend $5 to rent a movie, than $25 to buy it.
Jai Whoops.
I bought the DVD yesterday and after reading this article, tried my copy and the only Special Features I have are trailers for other Fox movies.
I rented it at Redbox and all I got were movie trailers.
The new naked copies of rental films SUCK.
The same shit happened to me years ago with a two disc edition I bought of Romper Stomper. It said on the 2nd disc that there was a documentary on the history of neo nazi skinheads and it’s impact. Seems interesting right? Well, I wouldn’t fuckin know cause the damn disc didn’t have it. Apparently it happened with a lot of them.