Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

Who know? TYO is a totally different company... Only time will tell.

Okay...can someone give me the plot / storyline of Silver Mask / Silver Kamen? This is such a horribly obscure show that even by the snooty comments of 'those Japanese hero shows are all the same', there's barley anything known about it or available online, outside some pictures of the title character's giant and human-sized fighting forms.

And while on the subject, what's with this VERY recent (and way more obscure) Mirror Man Reflex-style film remake of Silver Kamen which not only took place in turn-of-the-century Japan, but has the title character changed to a woman?

Needless to say I'm desperate for REAL information, outside the crummy one-sentence personal reviews of both projects I've gotten on other forums (like wanting to learn more about Godzilla, but every damn G-site and Wikipedia page is nothing but polls on the authors' least favorite Godzilla suits).

Bad news...

NAVARRE SHUTS DOWN BCI ECLIPSE
Corporation looks to reduce costs due to recession

By Susanne Ault
Video Business, 12/17/2008

DEC. 17 | Navarre Corp. is shutting down the primary licensing operations of its in-house label BCI Eclipse in order to reduce costs in the current recession.

As part of this decision, Navarre will be reducing its workforce and writing down assets. Going forward, BCI's exclusively distributed disc business will be folded into the corporation's distribution unit. Its BCI brand is not expected to be stamped on future releases. Among former BCI-managed titles now distributed by Navarre Distribution Services is the ongoing Ultimate Fighter mixed martial arts releases.

Retro TV titles, featuring the licensed He-Man and She-Ra series, have been among the label's more popular titles.

Current BCI president Bob Freese will be in charge of the company restructuring. Its expected that about 10 employees will be losing their jobs with the label's closure. Navarre did not specify layoffs and did not further comment about executive departures.

Navarre CEO Cary Deacon said that BCI needed adjusting because it has been an unprofitable business for the last two years.

The company did not quantify the number of BCI-related layoffs. But Navarre expects that its fiscal 2009 third-quarter results for the period ending Dec. 31 will include a significant charge due in part to severance costs.

Navarre hopes to complete the restructuring, which is part of the company's general strategy to lower costs, by the end of January 2009.

"To deal with the effect of the recession, we are moving quickly to decrease expenses in all areas of our business," said Deacon. "Rapidly changing conditions in the licensing and budget DVD markets during this holiday sales season have prompted us to make more fundamental changes. We continue to be very excited about the DVD content that will now be exclusively sold and marketed through Navarre Distribution Services. These changes will allow us to focus our efforts on growing the sales of the DVD content that is most appealing to our retail customers and consumers."

BCI released the Japanese superhero/kaiju series ULTRAMAN, IRON KING and SUPER ROBOT: RED BARON.

A bit late in catching up here. Judging by August's last post, then is it safe to assume that BCI's slated release of "SILVERMASK" is now DOA?? Seems dumb to kill the series since they had already went to the expense of obtaining the rights for it and had all the subbing and stuff completed.

Perhaps it will still see release, just at some later point? Or have the rights to it be cut loose???

Sad.

This picture makes me so sad this was cancelled.

I contacted Millcreek Entertainment about a possible release for "Silver Kamen" and they say they still have the rights for it but they don't have the assets (video masters, etc) to have the series released

I wonder, could someone point them to the right direction to get those missing assets (whatever they are)?

With all these dvd releases by mill creek such as the gamera trilogy and the upcoming daimajin movies, i wish mill creek would do something with silver kamen !