Continuing the discussion about the special edition DVD of Giant Spider Invasion that is still (barely) available–or else I was one of a very lucky few to procure one–correspondent Dave Fullem points out this post by Fred Olen Ray on the situation. Basically, he won his case against GSI director Bill Rebane pretty handily, as Rebane sold Ray’s Retromedia the rights to the film only to have Rebane resell those rights to a company called Synergy, who issued the 2-disc set in question, which has now more or less been pulled from market.
The most interesting sentence is this, from Ray: “The various letters issued by Respondent (that’s Rebane) during the course of this were/are, in my humblest opinion, weird and outlandish and would easily make an interesting book of their own… in fact we might publish them since I am told that I am the legal owner of correspondence sent to me. ”
I’ve never given a rat’s ass about celebrity’s personal lives, but I find the nuts and bolts of the weird exploitation market sort of fascinating (and kind of like law stuff), and I’d love to read a book like this. Here’s hoping Mr. Ray follows through with this idea.
