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KL Studio Classics bows Good, Bad and Ugly in 4K, plus Stargate SG1 on BD, Akira 4K exchange program, MGM open to sale & more
Hey, looks like we do have a little bit of new announcement news for you today...
First up though, we’ve got a quick Amazon Deal of the Day to report: Network’s Monty Python’s Flying Circus: The Complete Series Blu-ray is just $75 for today only on Amazon (42% off). It’s the same 7 discs found the Deluxe Edition (reviewed here on The Bits), just without the books and deluxe packaging. So strike fast if you’re interested. Here’s the Amazon link.
Also today, we have word that FUNimation’s Akira 4K Ultra HD release doesn’t have HDR. The version released in Japan does, but apparently the discs released in the US and the UK do not. FUNimation has now established an exchange program to get a proper 4K with HDR disc sometime in February via the mail. You can find those details here and here (below):
“For those of you who would like to request the 4K HDR version of AKIRA, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (US/CA) or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (UK/IRE) with “AKIRA 4K” as the subject, and provide your name, mailing address, email address and proof of purchase (receipt or confirmation email and photo of the disc).”
Okay, now for that announcement news: Kino Lorber Studio Classics has just officially set Sergio Leone’s The Good, The Bad and The Ugly for release on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray combo on 4/27. You can see the cover artwork above left. [Read on here...]
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Mill Creek Entertainment
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Sergio Leone
- The Good The Bad and The Ugly 4K
- Stargate SG1: The Complete Series BD
- FUNimation Akira 4K exchange program
- MGM
- Network
- Monty Python's Flying Circus: 50th Anniversary BD sale
- Amazon Deal of the Day
Sony sets GATTACA for 4K in March, plus new Mill Creek titles & the Great Conjunction tonight
All right, we’ve got just a quick update for you today with some great 4K Ultra HD announcement news.
First though, I wanted to let you all know that we’re likely going to be posting fewer news updates over the next week or so, given the forthcoming Christmas holiday. Announcements are sort of ramping down, so while we’ll pop in as needed, it’s quite likely that there won’t be a lot of news to report this week.
Nevertheless, we will check in with new disc reviews now and again over the next week. So there should be new content going up over the holiday.
We do have a great piece of 4K Ultra HD announcement news for you today, however... [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- GATTACA 4K
- 4K Ultra HD
- Mill Creek Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Great Conjunction 2020
- Christmas Star
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- astronomy
- astrophotography
- Rad BD
- My Girl BD
- My Girl 2 BD
- Babe BD
- Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain BD
- Gorillas in the Mist BD
Sony is prepping Elysium, Looper, and GATTACA for 4K, plus Giant from the Unknown (1958) & more
All right, first things first today: I’m pleased to report that we did not have to evacuate from these wildfires here in SoCal after all. But it was a long night while we waited to find that out. Thankfully, when I stepped out this morning, it appeared that the fires had moved farther away from us, not closer. And this afternoon the evacuation orders all around us were lifted. So... whew!
It’s going to take a couple days to get back to normal around here, but I count that as a good problem to have, considering the alternative.
Now then... the big news today is that our industry and retail sources are telling us that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is quietly preparing to release Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, Rian Johnson’s Looper, and Andrew Niccol’s GATTACA in 4K Ultra HD early in 2021. Elysium and Looper are already available digitally in 4K, and a few European retailers have listed GATTACA for physical 4K release in March. [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Elysium 4K
- Looper 4K
- GATTACA 4K
- Giant from the Unknown BD
- The Film Detective
- TENET 4K
- Christopher Nolan
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Mandabi
- StudioCanal
- Ousmane Sembène
- The Rental
- We're No Angels BD
- Wonder Boys BD
- Richard E Cunha
- Scream Factory
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- IFC Midnight
- Neill Blomkamp
- Rian Johnson
- Andrew Niccol
Breaking 4K news: Tremors, Army of Darkness, Collateral, Final Countdown, Beastmaster, Ladykillers, Ip Man & more!
All right Bits readers, we’ve got a pretty significant news update for you today...
We’ve been tracking many of these titles, but a few of the 4K catalog titles we’re going to talk about today are breaking news, thanks to our old friends over at Media Play News.
They’ve just issued the September 2020 Digital edition of their magazine, which features an extensive look at the recent surge of 4K Ultra HD catalog releases. The publication’s editor, Stephanie Prange (who, full disclosure, I’ve known for many years), wrote a great longform piece for the issue called 4K Ultra HD: Into the Vaults about the process of preparing classic catalog films for release on the format.
Not only is it informative (and I should note that I was among the people interviewed therein), it includes some great news about forthcoming titles. [Read on here...]
- Arrow Video December 2020 slate
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- The Mask of Zorro 4K review
- Media Play News
- 4K Ultra HD: Into the Vaults
- Stephanie Prange
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Army of Darkness 4K
- Sam Raimi
- Universal
- Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
- Michael Mann
- Collateral 4K
- Well Go USA
- Ip Man: The Complete Collection 4K
- Maniac Cop 2 4K
- Maniac Cop 3 4K
- Fire and Ice 4K
- The Final Countdown 4K
- Dead & Buried 4K
- Blue Underground
- The Lord of the Rings 4K
- The Hobbit 4K
- StudioCanal
- The Ladykillers 4K
- Tremors 4K
- Arrow Video
- Versus BD
- The Beastmaster 4K
- Ron Underwood
- Ryûhei Kitamura
- Don Coscarelli
- Dial Code Santa Claus 4K
- Fade to Black BD
- The New Mutants 4K
- Disney
- Fox
- Marvel
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Drive 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Second Sight
- George Romero
- Dawn of the Dead 4K
- 4K Ultra HD Release List update
Sony wants your input for their Columbia Classics 4K UHD Collection: Volume 2 set, plus a Zavvi discount for Bits readers!
Afternoon, folks!
Today’s post is a quick one, but we’ve got a couple good things for you. First, a couple title announcements...
Universal has announced a direct-to-video sequel to American Pie for release on DVD and Digital on 10/6: American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules. Apparently, it’s on its way to Netflix as well.
Also, MVD Entertainment Group has set Seniors, A Documentary for DVD and VOD on 9/29.
Powerhouse Films and Indicator in the UK have their Samuel Fuller at Columbia: 1937-1961 Limited Edition box set on sale right now for just £34.50 in honor of Fuller’s birthday. It includes the films It Happened in Hollywood (1937), Adventure in Sahara (1938), Power of the Press (1943), Shockproof (1949), Scandal Sheet (1952), The Crimson Kimono (1959), and Underworlds USA (1961). [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- 4K Ultra HD
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 2
- Digital Bits discount code for Zavvi US and Canada
- Sony 4K poll
- American Pie Presents: Girls’ Rules
- Seniors A Documentary
- Powerhouse Films
- Indicator
- Samuel Fuller at Columbia: 19371961 Limited Edition
- Sweet Charity
- The Fu Manchu Cycle: 19651969 Limited Edition
Update: Official details on 300 and The Resident Evil Collection in 4K Ultra HD
All right, 300 and the Resident Evil 4K releases are now official with details, so we’ll get to those in a moment...
And Dennis has given a Something Weird/Kino Classics title a look on Blu-ray too, a double feature of Sam Newell’s She Should’a Said No! and W. Merle Connell’s The Devil’s Sleep, each released originally back in 1949.
They’re all a hoot, so do give them a look.
Now then, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has issued its press release, making Zack Snyder’s 300 official for 4K Ultra HD on 10/6. [Read on here...]
- Milla Jovovich
- Paul WS Anderson
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 4K
- Resident Evil: Retribution 4K
- Resident Evil: Extinction 4K
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse 4K
- Resident Evil: Afterlife 4K
- Resident Evil 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- The Back to the Future Trilogy 4K
- Ghost in the Shell (1995) 4K
- Resident Evil Collection 4K
- Zack Snyder's 300 4K
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- Bloodstone BD review
Warner sets Zack Snyder’s 300 for 4K in October, plus Sony bows a 6-film Resident Evil 4K Collection for November
All right, this is a quick early morning update here at The Bits to let you all know that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is officially releasing Zack Snyder’s 300 on physical 4K Ultra HD on October 6 (SRP $27.99). You can see the cover artwork at left and also below.
Extras will include all of the features from the previous Blu-ray release, including audio commentary by Snyder, deleted scenes, webisodes, multiple behind-the-scenes featurettes and more. It appears that high dynamic range on the 4K disc will be standard HDR10, with Dolby Atmos audio. The package will also include the film on Blu-ray, as well as a digital copy.
But that’s just the first of two big 4K surprises this morning... [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Zack Snyder's 300 4K
- Resident Evil Collection 4K
- Ghost in the Shell (1995) 4K
- The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection 4K
- The Back to the Future Trilogy 4K
- Pitch Black 4K
- Flash Gordon 4K
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Resident Evil 4K
- Resident Evil: Afterlife 4K
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse 4K
- Resident Evil: Extinction 4K
- Resident Evil: Retribution 4K
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 4K
- Paul WS Anderson
- Milla Jovovich
Game of Thrones: Complete 4K official, plus District 9, Westworld: S3, The Thing, Philip K. Dick Festival, Criterion’s WoW reviewed & more
All right, we’ve got some GREAT release news to report for you today. But first, we a couple more new Blu-ray reviews...
Dennis has taken a good long look at Criterion’s lovely new edition of Byron Haskin’s 1953 classic The War of the Worlds on Blu-ray. He talks about the film, the extras (as compared to the recent Imprint Blu-ray) and more. And it looks like Criterion did indeed correct the 4K remaster’s color grade issue (so the opening shot of Mars is now properly red, as it should be). You can find that here.
Also today, Tim has reviewed Jean-Marie Pallardy’s outlandish actioner White Fire (1984), newly released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video. Enjoy!
Now then, on to that big release news...
It’s official: HBO and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment have set Game of Thrones: The Complete Collection for release on 4K Ultra HD on 11/3 (SRP $254.99, though expect the usual retailer discounts to be applied soon). There will also be a Best Buy-exclusive Steelbook box set that same day (SRP $285.43, though again expect the usual discount to be applied to that). [Read on here...]
- Tim Salmons
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Dennis Seuling
- White Fire BD review
- The War of the Worlds (1953) BD review
- Game of Thrones: The Complete Collection 4K
- HBO
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- District 9 4K
- The Thing 4K
- Westworld Season Three: The New World 4K
- Charles de Lauzirika
- Blade Runner: The Final Cut
- The Philip K Dick Film Festival
- Lawrence of Arabia 4K BD extras replacement disc
Superman: Man of Tomorrow, District 9 4K, Apocalypto, Westworld: Season 3, Criterion’s Ghost Dog & more
Today’s is a quick update, but we do have a couple interesting items to report...
First, Tim has turned in another new Blu-ray Disc review, this of Gene Fowler Jr.’s B-movie classic I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958) from Paramount via Aussie indie Imprint Films/Via Vision Entertainment. The disc is ALL REGION.
In announcement news today, Warner Bros. and DC have just officially set the DC Universe animated movie Superman: Man of Tomorrow for release on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD on 9/8 (the Digital release is set for 8/23).
Extras on both disc versions will include Lobo: Natural Force of Chaos, Martian Manhunter: Lost and Found, Look Back: Justice League vs. The Fatal Five, Look Back: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, From the DC Vault: Superman: The Animated Series – The Main Man, Part I, From the DC Vault: Superman: The Animated Series – The Main Man, Part II, trailers for Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, and Superman: Red Son, and A Sneak Peek at the next DC Universe Movie. You can see the cover artwork above left and also below. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- I Married a Monster from Outer Space BD review
- Superman: Man of Tomorrow 4K
- DC Universe
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Neill Blomkamp
- District 9 4K
- Criterion Collection
- Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
- Batman: Death in the Family
- Mel Gibson's Apocalypto
- 21 Jump Street 4K
- Westworld Season Three: The New World 4K
- Jim Jarmusch
The Invisible Man official, plus classic Dr. Who films on BD & Sony’s Columbia Classics 4K Collection detailed
All right, we’ve got some more release news today and a follow-up on recent news as well...
First though, Tim has turned in his thoughts on Andrew Lane’s Jake Speed (1986), recently released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video.
Now them, first up today: I’ve officially confirmed with Universal Studios Home Entertainment that they have not officially announced the release of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws on 4K Ultra HD yet. HOWEVER... they will be doing so soon. So we’ll have the officially details for you when they do.
I guess this is a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing, or more likely there are simply a LOT of people who need to weigh in and approve such things before they get officially announced. Which we expect to happen soonish. [Read on here...]
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Steven Spielberg
- Jaws: 45th Anniversary Edition 4K
- Tim Salmons
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 1
- Lawrence of Arabia 4K
- Mr Smith Goes to Washington 4K
- Dr Strangelove 4K
- Jerry Maguire 4K
- A League of Their Own 4K
- Scream Factory
- Gandhi 4K
- The Invisible Man 4K
- Sherlock Holmes 4K
- Bloodshot 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- classic Dr Who films on BD
- Jake Speed BD review