Rumours

New Dark Knight: Ultimate Collector's Edition Blu-ray coming soon?

By Brenden ⋅ June 18, 2010 ⋅ One comment

Do you see that video up above? That’s a clip from a new Dark Knight featurette called “Truck Flip”, detailing one of the practical effect shots from the film, with director Christopher Nolan and special effects supervisor, Chris Corbould narrating. This featurette is not included on the Blu-ray edition of the film that you probably already own. And it’s only a part of a package of 31-minutes of brand new, never before seen bonus content, only just revealed. Could this mean that Warner is preparing one of their Ultimate Collector’s Edition box sets for the film? …Continued…

Predator: Extended Edition Coming to Blu-ray in June?

By Brenden ⋅ April 26, 2010 ⋅ One comment

I’ve been looking out for some news of an updated Blu-ray release of the original 1987 Predator film, seeing as how the new sequel starring Adrien Brody is set for a July release and the original disc from Fox was disastrously light on special features. And now I’ve finally uncovered it. …Continued…

Lord of the Rings Blu-ray transfer and encode issues?

By Brenden ⋅ March 25, 2010 ⋅ 23 comments

Members of the AVS Forum who have had a chance to preview the upcoming Lord of the Rings Blu-ray set are reporting that the transfer/encode does not live up to expectations. The first film in the series, The Fellowship of the Ring is noted as purportedly being particularly soft and subject to overuse of Digital Noise Reduction. …Continued…

Criterion preparing Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line for Blu-ray?

By Brenden ⋅ March 22, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

I never thought I would say this but I freaking love Twitter! About an hour ago, Ben Lim, one of the fine fellows who work for The Criterion Collection tweeted a photo with the note “Screening the HD master of an upcoming release…“. That image appears to be from Terrence Malick’s brilliant The Thin Red Line providing evidence that my favourite home video label is preparing to release the 1998 film! …Continued…

Tron Blu-ray in November 2010, Lion King in October 2011?

By Brenden ⋅ March 19, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

The Digital Bits is confirming the rumour we reported last week, that the original 1982 Tron will be released on Blu-ray for the holidays this year. Specifically, the disc should hit shops in November, a good month before the sequel comes to theatres. In addition, the Bits has revealed that The Lion King will be making its way to Blu in about a year and a half, currently scheduled for an October 2011 release. Hakuna matata… …Continued…

Criterion working on bringing House (Hausu) to Blu-ray?

By Brenden ⋅ March 18, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Killer lampshades. Girl-hungry grand pianos. Spooky cats with sparkling eyes. Hausu is, without question, the freakiest, most peculiar horror film ever made. And now, it seems that Criterion have gotten their mitts on it and are preparing it for home video! …Continued…

1987 Animated G.I. Joe: The Movie coming to Blu-ray!!

By Brenden ⋅ March 5, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

Holy crap! I never thought I would be typing these words – the 1987, animated G.I. Joe: The Movie is going to be released on Blu-ray! It’s true, folks. And I have proof!! …Continued…

Original Tron updated for Blu-ray, coming in December?

By Brenden ⋅ March 3, 2010 ⋅ One comment

While all the buzz around the nerd-nets recently has been surrounding Tron Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 hit film, AICN has uncovered some information about a possible Blu-ray release of the original feature! …Continued…

James Cameron's Avatar Blu-ray Preview, Release date

By Brenden ⋅ March 3, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

All right. I guess I’ve been avoiding a couple of things on the blog lately. Specifically, I haven’t posted any of the multitude of rumours about James Cameron’s epic hit film, Avatar coming to Blu-ray. And I’ve also been avoiding the whole 3D thing. While the two topics seem to be intrinsically attached, I’m going to try to focus on Avatar alone today. I’ve got so much to say about this whole 3D-in-the-home business that I think it warrants its own article. …Continued…

Miyazaki's Nausicaä to be the next Ghibli Blu-ray release?

By Brenden ⋅ February 21, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Remember how we told you that it looked like My Neighbors the Yamadas would be the next Ghibli film to make it to Blu-ray? Well, it seems that Disney, Ghibli’s distributor has other plans. At the conclusion of an airing of the film on Japanese TV, the studio made the announcement that Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind would be the next Ghibli film to hit Blu! And it’s apparently going to be released this coming summer in Japan. …Continued…