The Blu-Ray Upcoming, News & Info Thread

[IronFingaz]

Image Entertainment has extended through 2015 a license deal with Entertainment One, a Toronto-based distributor of theatrical, home entertainment, television and digital content.

Chatsworth, Calif. –based Image said the agreement includes for the first time titles from Madacy Home Entertainment, which Image acquired last year, in addition to its catalog of more than 3,200 discs.

New content acquisitions featured in the deal include theatrical release Burning Palms, the Criterion Collection’s upcoming Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and Brazil. Other titles include The Twilight Zone, Boris Karloff TV series “Thriller,” “The Jeff Dunham Show” and a Kenny Chesney concert video, among others.

“We’re pleased to continue our arrangement with them,” Image CEO Ted Green said in a statement.

Reinhardt, looks like your wish will soon come true

 

[jimjimmyjones85]

Looks like it. The one coming soon is the studios release while the ultimate trilogy box-set that PJ is working on will most likely come out after The Hobbit. Lame

Oh FTW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Reinhardt]

Thanks Iron! So, is Image affiliated with Criterion? Brazil NEEDS to be released with the Criterion stamp.

 

[The Ringer]

Oh FTW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really hate how studios beat around the bush. Looks like this one will be a pass as well.

 

[The Ween]

Looks like it. The one coming soon is the studios release while the ultimate trilogy box-set that PJ is working on will most likely come out after The Hobbit. Lame

And if they wait till AFTER the Hobbit, it will be 2013+

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Looks like it. The one coming soon is the studios release while the ultimate trilogy box-set that PJ is working on will most likely come out after The Hobbit. Lame

how much more ultimate can it get with the extended versions?

 

[IronFingaz]

Thanks Iron! So, is Image affiliated with Criterion? Brazil NEEDS to be released with the Criterion stamp.

No idea. Maybe they have the rights to Brazil and they have a deal with Criterion

And if they wait till AFTER the Hobbit, it will be 2013+

Probably 2014.

how much more ultimate can it get with the extended versions?

PJ and the actors say there's a buttload of extra stuff not yet released and made for the ultimate set (i think) and i think PJ is overseeing the restoration of the movies, unlike these.

 

[Darth Waller]

I watched the Bambi Blu-ray this weekend and used the Disney Second Screen app on my iPad. I thought it was a very cool way of seeing sketches, flip books and other things while the movie is playing on the TV. I hope they continue this feature on future releases.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

Why not pre-order. Amazon is awesome. Got another deal ? Cancel. So easy.

And if the price goes up, you're already locked in. If the price goes down, they adjust it accordingly.

 

[The Ween]

Reason why I don't want to order it through Amazon is I'm hoping Best Buy, or Target, will have a goodie with it. Me loves me goodies!

 

[UTtoyfan]

I watched the Bambi Blu-ray this weekend and used the Disney Second Screen app on my iPad. I thought it was a very cool way of seeing sketches, flip books and other things while the movie is playing on the TV. I hope they continue this feature on future releases.

I saw that on there. I will have to try it out soon too.

 

[jimjimmyjones85]

Reason why I don't want to order it through Amazon is I'm hoping Best Buy, or Target, will have a goodie with it. Me loves me goodies!

That's right. I forgot you love those goodies !!!!

 

[UTtoyfan]

Reason why I don't want to order it through Amazon is I'm hoping Best Buy, or Target, will have a goodie with it. Me loves me goodies!

The goodies are great for sure!

 

[IronFingaz]

Fox Pathé Europa has announced its release slate for June, and it's pretty loaded for a summer month, with a dozen titles from the MGM catalog getting a Blu-ray release – most of them still unannounced in the US. From Marilyn Monroe to Vietnam to drag queens in the outback, hustlers and gigolos, there's something for everyone.

The schedule is as follows:

June 1:
The Misfits (John Huston, 1961)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)

June 15:
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994)
Be Cool (F. Gary Gray, 2005)
Casino Royale (various directors, 1966)
A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988)
Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1995)
The Horse Soldiers (John Ford, 1959)
The Hustler (Robert Rossen, 1961)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison, 1968)
Tigerland (Joel Schumacher, 2000)
Not all movies may be available in other territories.

Note that MGM is rumored to be close to shifting its home entertainment distribution business from Fox to another studio, possibly Sony (see Blu-ray.com, February 9). If true, Fox might be releasing some premium MGM properties before its distribution deal expires.

Some Like It Hot

Midnight Cowboy

The Misfits

The Hustler

Platoon

The goodies are great for sure!

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[Michael Crawford]

The Misfits blows chunks. Sorry, one of Monroe's weaker performances, and a disjointed, uninteresting script. Wallach was good though, and it was a decent turn by Gable.

Some Like It Hot is perhaps my favorite Monroe flick, so I'm happy to see that one finally hitting.

 

[The Ween]

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[IronFingaz]

Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the western True Grit for Blu-ray release on June 7, in a BD/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack. This new adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis (previously brought to the screen by Henry Hathaway in 1969), was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, although it came out of the Oscar ceremony empty-handed.

Special features include:
Mattie's True Grit
From Bustles to Buckskin—Dressing for the 1880s
Colts, Winchesters & Remingtons: The Guns of a Post-Civil War Western (BD-exclusive)
Re-Creating Fort Smith
The Cast
Charles Portis—The Greatest Writer You've Never Heard Of... (BD-exclusive)
The Cinematography of True Grit (BD-exclusive)
Theatrical Trailer (BD-exclusive)

About time.

 

[IronFingaz]

Holy monkey balls! WTF!?

https://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1320816

 

[Darth Waller]

^^^ Wow, DNR strikes again.

 

[IronFingaz]

^^^ Wow, DNR strikes again.

Big time They gave the movie a 6K restoration last year costing a few hundred thousand and they DNR the sh@t out of it