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Blu-ray titles announced the week of December 10th, 2010
This week's batch of Blu-ray announcements was fairly light compared to the pre-holiday push of titles shared in November. Saw: The Final Chapter was the only film announced in 3D. On the 2D front, two big re-releases of famous classics were announced: the single disc edition of Blade Runner will arrive on January 4th and forgo the oodles of bonus features found on previous versions in favor of just the movie and some commentary by Ridley Scott while the 30th anniversary edition of Raging Bull will come slightly later in January and include 50 minutes of new features. Noteworthy new titles coming to Blu-ray for the first time include Steven Spielberg's A.I., which was originally developed by Stanley Kubrick in the 70s, and Steven Soderbergh's cult classic Out of Site starring George Clooney and J. Lo. That said, we know Birddemic: Shock and Terror and The Dorm That Drips Blood are really the two titles you've been hankering to watch in glorious 1080p. To view our full roundup of announcements this week by release date, read on after the break.
Blu-ray titles announced the week of December 3rd, 2010
If you were hoping this week's announcements might contain exciting teases of new 3D titles to watch on that holiday gift you're expecting to soon be "surprised with", unfortunately it was a 2D sweep. Movies recently in theater including Red, Stone and Buried seem like decent titles though to start the Netflix cue off right in the new year, since all will be released by the end of January. Reading that Christopher Nolan's cult classic Memento is ten years old has also left us wondering where the time went. Finally, classic movie buffs should perk up over vague details about the ultimate collector's edition Blu-ray release of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane -- thought by many to be the greatest film of all time -- which will apparently arrive sometime next year, along with Charleston Heston's Ben-Hur. To view our full roundup of announcements this week by release date, read on after the break.
Blu-ray titles announced the week of November 19th, 2010
Plenty of upcoming Blu-rays were announced over the last week -- unfortunately most aren't terribly exciting. TV fans should keep an eye out however for the first season of FX's well-received Justified, in addition to season two of Nurse Jackie and season six of Weeds. On the movie side, both Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and the romcom Going the Distance are scheduled to be available on Blu-ray a mere three months after their theater debuts and conveniently just in time for Holiday stocking stuffing. Along those lines, if you were thinking Pamela Anderson's Barb Wire in HD would make a good thank you gift for your boss, sadly it's not releasing until February -- so go with plan B, bub. For a complete look at our roundup of announcements this week by release date, take a gander at the list after the break.
Don't forget: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind comes to Blu-ray January 25th
Come January, if your recollections of 2010 leave you wishing for a full brain reformat, unfortunately science -- at least in its legal incarnations -- can't help you. Universal's decision to release Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on Blu-ray this coming January though will at least let you live vicariously through the trippy shenanigans of Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet. Available for pre-order now from Amazon for just shy of $20, the 1080p version will ship as a single 50GB dual-layered Blu-ray disc and feature a DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio soundtrack along with a host of extras, like interviews with the cast and short documentaries on the film's production. Now that you've been alerted, if you try to pull the I don't remember card come January, we'll know Frodo, Kirsten Dunst and Mark Ruffalo stopped by your crib in the middle of the night.
Cameron says the Avatar extended edition Blu-ray is the last 2D release left... for reals
Wondering when the Avatar Blu-ray release madness might end? Well James Cameron thankfully clarified at a recent press event that the Avatar extended edition Blu-ray on November 16th will be the last 2D, 1080p, iteration of his Blue Man Group epic before the 3D version arrives. He also slightly adjusted his previous November 3D Blu-ray release predictions made during a Wall Street Journal interview -- stating vaguely that the highly-anticipated format would instead arrive "maybe one, [or] two years out." That's much more in line with statements made by his Fox handlers (coincidence?) and now leaves Panasonic as the only party still claiming their anointed 3DTV owners will bring the Avatar 3D Blu-ray "experience" home sometime this year. Still, while we certainly don't know who at this point would fail the polygraph, we're not Na'vi enough to ignore how Panny's time line helps attract consumers to buy 3DTVs over the holiday season. As with most rumors though, only time will tell who in this debacle had the date right, so for now we'll content ourselves watching the Alien Anthology.
Aliens Blu-ray screenshots re-stir our appetite for upcoming anthology, not a hole in the chest
Watching the Alien Anthology Blu-ray trailer definitely left us itching for the epic sci-fi collection's Blu-ray release on October 26th. But seeing Sigourney Weaver all HD'd up without an SD reference point did make it hard to tell how much effort has gone into the transfer process. Screenshots leaked on AVSForum of the Cameron-supervised remastering of Aliens for Blu-ray though show that the king of the world has clearly been busy de-graining his work to shine in 1080p. The SD to HD shot-for-shot comparison in the gallery below however does highlight some heavy use of blue filtering, hinting James' time on Avatar may have left him with permanent Navi goggles. Still, making the Alien Queen slightly more smurf-ish doesn't mean she's any less scary -- or gooey for that matter. To see for yourself, hit up the gallery below. %Gallery-104699%
Blu-ray releases for the week of May 17, 2009
California taxpayers should be grateful. Schwarzenegger actually canceled plans to purchase a platinum bust in his likeness and just ordered one of these babies for the governor's office. Head past the break for the complete list of Blu-ray video releases for the week.
Blu-ray releases for the week of May 10, 2009
Did you hear? There's a new Star Trek movie out. Time for Paramount to dust of the "Original Motion Picture" collection and burn it on some Blu-ray discs. Unfortunately, there was only time to polish up The Wrath of KKHHHAAAANNN! -- the one feature from the six-flick bundle actually restored in high definition. Thankfully, there's no shortage of true HD options this week, which makes up for Paramount's untidy cash-in collection. The full list of Blu-ray videos releases is posted after the break.
Blu-ray releases for the week of May 3, 2009
Look. We've all got our guilty pleasures. Far be it from us to judge another who relishes teenage romantic-fantasy films. But, if you're gonna do it, we do ask that you do it right. Do it in Blu-ray.Continue on for the complete list of Blu-ray video releases for the week.
Blu-ray releases for the week of April 26, 2009
Anything with "Wars" in the title must be bloody epic in high-def ... right? Here's the week in Blu-ray video releases: Amazing Journeys (IMAX) Bride Wars Brideshead Revisited (2008) Connected [Chinese] The Da Vinci Code (Extended Cut) Fast Company Giulio Cesare [Italian] Hotel for Dogs In the Realm of the Senses (Criterion Collection) JCVD Luisa Fernanda [Spanish] Orlando [Italian] The Reader Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 Tamerlano [Italian] The Uninvited What Doesn't Kill You
Blu-ray releases for the week of April 19, 2009
With the Wolverine prequel launching in theaters on May 1, it sure is an opportune time to finally release the complete X-Men trilogy on Blu-ray -- thanks Fox! Sin City's been re-cut, re-packaged and re-released, as well. And a pair of critics picks, Frost/Nixon and The Wrestler, rounds out the highlights for the week in Blu-ray video releases: Arctic Tale The Arrival [1996] Frost/Nixon Gary Moore & Friends: One Night in Dublin - A Tribute to Phil Lynott Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth & Sea [Japanese] Hellraiser The Last Word Notorious [2009] Sin City (includes Recut Version) Styx & the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland: One with Everything The Wages of Fear (Criterion Collection) The Wrestler X-Men X2: X-Men United X-Men: The Last Stand (Special Edition) X-Men Trilogy (X-Men / X2: X-Men United / X-Men: The Last Stand)
Q1 Blu-ray sales double over last year
Adams Media Research has busted out the microscopes and attempted to get to the bottom of all this Blu-ray business, reports Blu-ray.com. In dissecting multiple discs (and perhaps a few of the people that purchased them last year), Adams Media Research has determined that Blu-ray sales for the first quarter of this year have been greater than those during the same period last year. Science!Over 9 million Blu-rays were sold in Q1, crushing the 4.5 million sold last year. The research firm points to the sudden explosion in Blu-ray-enabled homes, which are now estimated to comprise 10.5 million households. The majority of these homes aren't just watching Blu-ray on their PS3s, either, as 75% (7-8 Million) own standalone Blu-ray players (twice as many as last year). With so many folks hopping on the Blu-ray train, maybe now we can finally get those American Ninja flicks on Blu-ray!
Blu-ray releases for the week of April 12, 2009
We're not sure what exactly an "acoustic reality experience" is, but it sounds fantastic! Here are the week's Blu-ray video (and audio) releases: 7.1 Music Classical Collection - Acoustic Reality Experience 8 Mile Cranford Don Pasquale [Italian] IMAX: Deep Sea/Into the Sea The Last Kiss Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Bali Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Olympic Rainforest Living Landscapes: Earthscapes - Wild Africa Mean Girls Music Experience in 3-Dimensional Sound Reality Collection Pride & Prejudice The Seven Year Itch The Spirit Splinter The Story of India Strange Wilderness The Thirteenth Floor Universal Soldier: The Return
Blu-ray releases for the week of April 5, 2009
Gawd he's provocative in Blu-ray high-definition! And so are the rest of the week's releases in Blu-ray video (posted after the break). As in: It's weeks like this one (mediocre new releases mixed with plenty of stuff we've seen before) that provoke us to rethink that new $4 monthly Netflix charge for unlimited Blu-ray access ...
Blu-ray releases for the week of March 29, 2009
The Matrix is ten years old tomorrow -- and Warner Home Video is celebrating this "classic" (it officially qualifies now, ya know) with a special 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray release. Best of all: You don't have to shell out extra for the sequels that ruined it all. (Sometimes we wish the world really was perpetually stuck in 1999 -- sometimes ... ) Continue past the break for the complete list of this week's Blu-ray video releases.
Blu-ray releases for the week of March 22
007's always been more lover than fighter. But which Bond is the primo secret agent of the bedroom? You decide: vote in our "Best Bond" poll after the break! But first, here's the full list of this week's Blu-ray video releases: The 400 Blows Animalia: Talent-O-Topia Bolt Big Stan The Fast and the Furious Trilogy Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension James Bond Collection, Vol. 3 (Goldfinger, Moonraker, The World is Not Enough) James Bond: Goldfinger (Connery) James Bond: Moonraker (Moore) James Bond: Never Say Never Again (Connery; non-canon) James Bond: Quantum of Solace (Craig) James Bond: The World is Not Enough (Brosnan) Kite Runner The Last Metro Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Import) A Mighty Heart Seeing in the Dark Things We Lost in the Fire UFC: The Best of 2008 The Venture Bros.: Season 3 Watchmen: Tales of Black Freighter & Under the Hood Wild Asia 1: In the Realm Of The Red Ape
Blu-ray releases for the week of March 15
Inconceivable! The week in Blu-ray video releases is scant, but at least something will be on the shelves. (The same can't be said for the week's game releases.) Here's your (potential) shopping list: The Company of Wolves (1985) Hounddog Johann Strauss: The New Years Concert in Vienna (Acoustic Reality Experience) Lady Death: The Motion Picture Magic Kitchen The Matador National Lampoon's Van Wilder: Freshman Year Oh Happy Day: Sunday Morning Music Paramore: The Final Riot! The Princess Bride Punisher: War Zone Quo Vadis The Robe (1953) Rollerball (2001) Rules of Attraction (2002) Verdi: La Traviata - Los Angeles Opera Orchestra & Chorus
Blu-ray releases for the week of March 8
Why was Gotham's protector benched for nearly a decade before Batman Begins rebooted the film franchise? Relive the dark descent of the 20th century -- now for the first time -- in Blu-ray high-definition. Here's this week's complete list of Blu-ray video releases: Another Day in Paradise Batman: The Motion Picture Anthology (1989-1997) Battle in Seattle Brokeback Mountain Cadillac Records Cruising Bar 2 Dark Reel Girls Gone Wild: Fan Favorites Let the Right One In Max Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels (1939) Milk Pinocchio (1940) Primal Fear Rachel Getting Married Role Models Romeo Et Juliette (French) Snakes & Arrows Live South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season (Thanks SmilinGoat!) Stevie Wonder: Live at Last Synecdoche, New York Transporter 3
Blu-ray releases for the week of March 1
The movie set in Australia, starring Wolverine ... an Australian, and titled Australia has failed to pique our interest -- until now! After all, Blu-ray makes anything watchable, right? Here's the short list (literally) of Blu-ray video releases for the week: Australia Beverly Hills Chihuahua Brokeback Mountain I've Loved You So Long In the Electric Mist NFL Super Bowl XLIII: Pittsburgh Steelers Champions Paramore: The Final Riot! The Silence of the Lambs Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic Wonder Woman
Blu-ray releases for the week of February 22
What's the sound of Kaneda screaming "TETSUOOOO!" in full 1080p 192khz/24-bit Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround sound? Find out -- in another exciting edition of weekly Blu-ray video releases: Akira The Bird with the Crystal Plumage The French Connection The French Connection II Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder Hurricane on the Bayou Kill Switch The Matador (2008) Neil Young: Archives Volume One - (1963-1972) Ronin Vanishing Point What Just Happened The Who: Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970
