Talk:A Day With SpongeBob SquarePants: The Movie (Rare Direct-to-DVD Release, Late 2011)/@comment-2170582-20150929005411

UPDATE 2

After replying to MVD asking about the reason why the film was cancelled, I received two emails:



This first email confirms that, while MVD did distribute ADWSS, it did not receive a review copy, and it did not receive any stock of the DVDs. It also states that, to the author's knowledge, nobody at MVD saw the film. They are unaware of why the film was cancelled, but the assumption is that Viacom had something to do with it.

One major thing to note is that the author of the email says that they will ask around MVD and confirm whether or not anyone there as seen ADWSS. However, considering that they never received stock nor a review copy of the movie, I wouldn't keep my hopes too high.



The second email was supplementary and included the DVD catalog number and UPC barcode number of the unreleased DVD. I can't seem to find a resource to confirm the catalog number, but the barcode number is the same as the one listed here: https://www.barcodelookup.com/827191000486

In my next reply, I will ask why this information exists if the DVD was never released, and also try to get info about MVD's personal relationship with Reagal Films.

Before I end this, I want to apologize for saying there's "pretty much no chance of finding it" in my previous comment; lots of pieces of lost media have been found without there actually being an official copy (like the Fantastic Four movie I mentioned). While, yes, the chances of finding it are slim, I should not have made it sound like it would be nearly impossible.

I would also like to address that, yes, there are a lot of pieces of evidence, such as that Tweet from several years ago, that make it seem strange that the film was unavailable for consumers. That's why I'm not done with this search yet. I have a connection with MVD now, so I'll try to solve as many of these mysteries as I can.

I'll check back with y'all when I get another email. Thanks for keeping the fire burning, and SPECIAL thanks to customer service at MVD for being so helpful in all this.