Twilight Time is Shutting Down, Final Blu-ray Sale on Now

Posted by on May 12th, 2020   Filed under: DVD and Blu-ray, Industry News

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With COVID-19 currently accelerating the film industry’s move to digital distribution (where it makes sense), it is definitely not doing any favours to the state of physical media. This week there is some unfortunate news to report on that front: boutique DVD and Blu-ray distributor Twilight Time is reportedly shutting down after nearly a decade of operation. The company is best known for offering limited edition runs of vintage genre movies, usually with runs of only 3000 copies, many of them contained in their trademark clear cases. They will no longer sell or produce discs after June 30th, 2020 and the closure does not appear to be directly related to the coronavirus shutdown. Here is an excerpt from the company’s official statement:

“After nine years of successful operations in which 380 motion pictures from the 1930s to the 2010s have been released on DVD and Blu-ray disc, the home video label Twilight Time founded by veteran Hollywood studio executives and filmmakers Brian Jamieson and the late, dearly celebrated Nick Redman, will not release any further titles and we will be winding down operations this summer. A changing market, the rising costs of title acquisitions and the passing of longtime partner and company spokesman Nick Redman, are key reasons for the closure.

When launched in 2011, Twilight Time pioneered the concept of bringing rare and distinctive films of all genres to the marketplace in 3,000-unit Limited Editions, exclusively available at two website destinations: Screen Archives Entertainment and later Twilight Time Movies. This allowed devoted movie fans to obtain physical copies of highly desired titles which did not command shelf space at local brick and mortar stores. Nick aptly named the venture Twilight Time, because eventually the concept of film as physical goods would have a ‘sell-by date’ possibly sooner rather than later. Nick once said, ‘At the onset we never envisaged we would be around for nearly a decade before it was time for the sun to set on the company.'”

Most (if not all) remaining titles are currently on sale until June 30th for $3.95, $6.95 or $11.95. The Twilight Time website is also offering a 10 for $115 special on all $11.95 movies. Are you disappointed by this news? Will you be purchasing anything from the final sale?



  • Johnny

    Sad news! Although I don’t own any twilight zone releases I was always interested in the label, since there are some real deep cuts in their catalog. Movies that probably would have never gotten the Blu-ray treatment if it wasn’t for twilight zone. It’s always sad to see a boutique label go.

  • Jameson

    Sad news but I’ll definitely make a few final purchases.

  • Lior

    It’s unfortunate, but Twilight Time’s demise has nothing to do with the pandemic, it was in the air for a while. Actually, disc sales have been up since the outbreak, with sales of players also increasing.

  • 1138sw

    Wow to bad. It’s already difficult enough to get physical media with online and B&M not selling as much. But have a site like TT with their catalog end is disappointing. This year is just full of disappointments and tragedies.

  • Sam

    This kinda sucks. They weren’t my favorite of the boutique labels or maybe not even top 10 but they did have a solid catalog. I placed an order of about 10 for this close out sale. What hurt TT for me is that a lot of their catalog overlaps with Powerhouse Indicator label, and Indicator releases are such high quality that I would just wait and see if Indicator would announce a lot of the same releases or if another label would release the movies once they lost the rights.