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Blu-ray releases on March 31st 2009
There's little doubt that the best title this week is Slumdog Miliionair, afterall it did winner Best Picture. But this is also a week of classics -- and we aren't using that word loosely here either -- as Fox has South Pacific (1958) and Warner has Gigi (1958) and An American in Paris (1951). Also of note is the 10th anniversary edition of The Matrix, which more importantly is the first time the title has been offered outside of the pricey box set. The other title really worth looking out for is Seven Pounds from Sony, but we'll warn you, this isn't the normal Will Smith action movie.Slumdog Millionaire (Fox)Marley & Me (Fox)South Pacific (Fox)The Matrix (Warner)An American in Paris (Warner)Gigi (Warner)National Geographic: Journey to the Edge of the Universe (Warner)National Geographic: Kingdom of the Blue Whale (Warner)The Chronicles of Riddick (Universal)Pitch Black (Universal)Ghosts of Mars (Sony)Seven Pounds (Sony)The One (Sony)LCD/Plasma Ultimate HD Experience: Africa (Well Go USA)Serenity Travel: Vol. 1 (Mill Creek)Tell No One (MPI)Two Evil Eyes (Blue Underground)UFC: The Best of 2008 (First Look)The Way of War (First Look)
Fox cuts out the extras on rental discs
With DVD sales slipping, every studio is trying new strategies to eke out a buck, and now Fox is trying to coax people towards buying instead of renting, by selling stripped down versions of some movies to rental outlets and keeping premium extras for buyers. According to a letter obtained by Video Business, Slumdog Millionaire will be one of the first discs with the treatment, where extras like deleted scenes and commentaries go retail only on the DVD, while the rental Blu-ray edition loses the (probably useless on a rental) digital copy. At least so far the HD editions of these movies don't seem to be affected, but unless prices come down we wouldn't be surprised to see this kind desperation double dipping on the Blu-ray front as well. Still, with as many of our readers that have said they don't care about extras and the relative ease of piracy, studios may just have to learn to be happy people are paying to watch at all.[Via Switched]
Slumdog Millionaire goes from Academy Awards stage to Blu-ray disc March 31
Fresh off an Academy Awards Best Picture win (beating out Blu-ray sales king & BD screened The Dark Knight), Fox is dropping Slumdog Millionaire into homes quickly, with a DVD / Blu-ray release planned March 31. Beyond being an incredible award-winning film, it's reportedly one of the first winners filmed mostly in digital, which should let the 1080p transfer with English or Hindi 5.1 DTS-HD MA soundtracks come through exactly as the director intended. Also included are three Blu-ray disc exclusive features (From Script To Screen: Toilet Scene, Indian Short Film - Manjha, Bombay Liquid Dance Music Video) and a digital copy.[Via The HD Room]
