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Criterion’s January includes more Kurosawa 4K, plus Babe & Pig in the City Ultra HDs from KLSC, The Hitchcock 9 on Blu-ray, Stir of Echoes & Toho buys GKids!
All right, we’ve got some big announcement news to report today, as well as some very interesting industry news. But first, more new disc reviews...
Stuart has turned in his thoughts on Franco Zeffirelli’s The Taming of the Shrew (1967) on Blu-ray from Via Vision’s Imprint Films label, as well as Robert Clouse’s Black Belt Jones (1974) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.
And Dennis has turned in a look at Todd Solondz’s Happiness (1998) on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.
Also here at The Bits today, we’ve posted major updates of our 4K Ultra HD Release List, as well as our Release Dates & Cover Art section, both of which feature all the latest Amazon pre-order links. So be sure to check those out, and remember that we’re an Amazon Affiliate which means that clicking through one of our links (like this one) before shopping for literally anything from Amazon is a great way to help support our work here at the site. It makes a BIG difference. So thank you!
Now then, speaking of Criterion, let’s get right to today’s big release news: Criterion has just announced their January 2025 release slate, and every single title will include 4K UHD! On 1/7, look for Yojimbo/Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa, which itself has no Spine # but which includes 4K UHD upgrades of Yojimbo (1961) (Spine #52 – 4K+BD) and Sanjuro (1962) (Spine #53 – 4K UHD + BD). Following on 1/14, you’ll get Jean Eustache’s The Mother and the Whore (1973) (Spine #1245 – 4K+BD, BD & DVD) and Richard Pryor’s Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986) (Spine #1247 – 4K+BD & BD). On 1/21, look for Stephen Frears’ The Grifters (1990) (Spine #1246 – 4K+BD & BD). And finally, 1/28 will bring Anthony Mann’s Winchester ‘73 (1950) (Spine #1247 – 4K+BD & BD). You can see the cover artwork at left and below the break. [Read on here...]
- Kickboxer 4K Steelbook
- Babe: Pig in the City 4K
- Babe 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Universal
- Release Dates & Artwork with 4K search
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray Disc
- Back the Bits
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- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- Dennis Seuling
- Imprint Films
- Lionsgate
- The Criterion Collection January 2025 slate
- The Taming of the Shrew BD review
- Black Belt Jones BD review
- Warner Archive Collection
- Happiness BD review
- Criterion Collection
- Akira Kurosawa
- Yojimbo 4K
- Sanjuro 4K
- The Grifters 4K
- The Mother and the Whore 4K
- Winchester 73 4K
- Anthony Mann
- Richard Pryor
- Jo Jo Dancer Your Life Is Calling 4K
- Universal Studios
- Alfred Hithcock: The Iconic Film Collection
- Last Christmas 4K
- The Hitchcock 9 films
- Looney Tunes Collector Choice: Volume 4 BD
- Stir of Echoes 4K Steelbook
- Toho buys GKids
- The Wild Robot 4K
- Vacation (2015) 4K
- Tag 4K
- The Intern 4K
- Bug 4K
Universal sets The Wild Robot for Blu-ray & 4K UHD on 12/3, plus new KLSC announcements & Imprint Films’ January slate!
Morning everyone!
Today is a holiday here in the States, so we’re giving the team a break. But we do have a bunch of new reviews that we’ve posted recently, including...
Tim’s look at Thomas Schlamme’s So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) in 4K Ultra HD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Dennis’ reviews of Alvin Rakoff’s Crossplot (1969) on Blu-ray from Imprint Films and Via Vision, and Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely (2007) on Blu-ray from IFC Films and Vinegar Syndrome.
Sam’s thoughts on Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker (2022) on Blu-ray from Altered Innocence.
And finally, Stuart’s look at Philip Kaufman’s The White Dawn (1974) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics and Luchino Visconti’s L’Innocente (1976) on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome.
Meanwhile, in announcement news today, Kino Lorber Studio Classics has set a pair of much-loved Universal live action films for release on 4K Ultra HD, including Chris Noonan’s Babe (1995) and George Miller’s Babe: Pig in the City (1998). Both are “coming soon” to the format, with details TBA. [Read on here...]
- Lionsgate
- Imprint Films
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Smoke BD review
- Dennis Seuling
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
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- Tim Salmons
- Bluray Disc
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
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- Universal
- Sam Cohen
- Time Salmons
- The Wild Robot 4K
- DreamWorks
- So I Married an Axe Murderer 4K review
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Crossplot BD review
- Mister Lonely BD review
- IFC Films
- The People's Joker BD review
- Altered Innocence
- The White Dawn BD review
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- L'Innocente BD review
- Babe 4K
- Babe: Pig in the City 4K
- George Miller
- Snake Eyes 4K
- Brian De Palma
- Chris Sanders
- DreamWorks Animation
- Kickboxer 4K Steelbook
- Through the Looking Glass
- The Tenant
- Film Focus: Marlon Brando Vol 2
- Corpse Mania
- Film Focus: Burt Reynolds
- Walk with a Dragon
- James Clavell
- Blaxploitation
- The Night of the Following Day
- The Nightcomers
- Last Tango in Paris
- The Missouri Breaks
- A Dry White Season
- White Lightning
- Hustle
- Gator
- The Legend of Black Charley
- The Soul of Black Charley
- Superly TNT
- Detroit 9000
Tons of New 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Titles Have Became Available for Pre-order on Amazon
Heads up Digital Bits readers: A bunch of new Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD titles have now become available for pre-order on Amazon.com, which has also been having sales on select titles this week for Prime members as well.
What’s more, it looks like the listed sale prices on some of the Disney and 20th Century Studios 4K titles are finally starting to creep down a little bit.
Knowing that many of you like and appreciate these pre-order links when we shared them (because boy—do we ever hear from you about them), here’s the latest batch...
(Don’t forget: The Bits is an Amazon Affiliate, so anytime you order literally anything from them after using our links, you’re helping to support our work at the site and we appreciate it.)
COLUMBIA CLASSICS 4K UHD COLLECTION V3 (60% OFF!)
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0B9C847Z2/tag=thedigitalbits-20
COLUMBIA CLASSICS 4K UHD COLLECTION V5
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THE HITCHER (WARNER 4K)
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THE HITCHER (WARNER BD)
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ALIEN: ROMULUS (4K+BD)
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ALIEN: ROMULUS (4K+BD STEELBOOK)
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ALIEN: ROMULUS (BD)
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0D8LC2DJ6/tag=thedigitalbits-20.
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- 20th Century Studios
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Lionsgate
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Scream Factory
- Dennis Seuling
- Stephen Bjork
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- 4K Ultra HD
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- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
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- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
Paramount bows a new Interstellar 10th Anniversary 4K Ultra HD box, plus The Crow (2024), Joker: Folie à Deux, Severance: S1 on Blu-ray, Sideways on 4K Digital & more!
We’ve got several more new disc reviews for you here at The Bits today, including...
Tim’s look at Bryan Bertino’s The Strangers (2008) in 4K Ultra HD and Kevin Tenney’s Night of the Demons (1998) in 4K Ultra HD, both from Shout! Studios and Scream Factory.
Stephen’s look at Peter Hyams’ Capricorn One (1978) on Blu-ray from Via Vision’s Imprint Films and also their new Two Films by Wayne Wang box set which includes Smoke (1995) and Blue in the Face (1995) on Blu-ray.
Dennis’ thoughts on Basil Dearden’s Woman of Straw (1964) on Blu-ray also from Imprint.
And finally Stuart’s review of Elijah Drenner’s That Guy Dick Miller (2014) on Blu-ray from Dekanalog and Vinegar Syndrome.
More reviews are on the way, so be sure keep your eyes peeled from them.
Also here at The Bits today, we’ve posted our weekly update of our Release Dates & Cover Art section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K UHD cover art and Amazon.com pre-order links. As always, whenever you order literally anything from Amazon after clicking to them through one of our links, you’re helping to support our work here at the site and we really appreciate it. [Read on here...]
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- Release Dates & Artwork with 4K search
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray Disc
- Tim Salmons
- Back the Bits
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Amadeus 4K
- Miloš Forman
- Todd Phillips
- Joker: Folie à Deux 4K
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- Stephen Bjork
- Dennis Seuling
- The Strangers 4K review
- Night of the Demons 4K review
- Shout! Studios
- Scream Factory
- Capricorn One BD review
- Two Films by Wayne Wang BD review
- Smoke BD review
- Blue in the Face BD review
- Woman of Straw BD review
- That Guy Dick Miller Bd review
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Imprint Films
- Christopher Nolan
- Interstellar: 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition 4K box set
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Lionsgate
- The Crow (2024)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- The Forge
- Joker: Folie à Deux
- Fede Álvarez
- Alien: Romulus 4K
- 20th Century Studios
- Apple TV
- Severance: Season One BD
- RLJ Entertainment
- Sideways (2004) 4K Digital
- Disney
- Searchlight Pictures
Amadeus is coming to 4K next year, plus Daylight & Dante’s Peak in Ultra HD from Kino Lorber & more!
All right, we’ve got some good 4K catalog news for you guys today, plus some more new disc reviews. But first, please allow me a brief diversion...
It’s been kind of a roller coaster week for me here at Digital Bits HQ. Last Tuesday, it became clear that one of our cats, a 17-year-old tortie named Maddie, was ailing and my wife and I needed to take her to the vet. We did immediately, and learned that she was in kidney failure—common for cats of that age. The vet recommended that we do sub-q fluids and feed her a special diet to try to get her to bounce back, which I spent most of last week administering. But by Friday, it became clear that she just wasn’t strong enough to. She’s always lived with a heart murmur, so when we adopted her the vet said she probably wouldn’t live a long time. Yet she almost made it to 18. Maddie definitely lived life on her own terms.
Anyway, we had to let her go on Friday, which was rough. Then on Saturday night, some friends invited us to join them for their 35th anniversary celebration, and that was wonderful. Then I got up at 6 AM to watch the Vikings play the Jets in London, and my team squeaked out a win—I’m a lifelong Vikings fan, having grown up in North Dakota, so their 5-0 record seems surreal. (And I’m just going to enjoy it while it lasts.) Last night, I convinced a friend—who is visiting his brother in Fargo—to drive out of town to see the Northern Lights; something he’s always wanted to experience. Well, experience it he did, and he shared pictures of it with me in real time. And today is my 57th birthday. So, it’s been a lot of good this past week, with a bit of really terrible. But I suppose that’s life.
All right, let’s knock out those disc reviews...
Stuart has offered his thoughts on Bert I. Gordon’s Empire of the Ants (1977) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
And Tim has taken a look at Roland West’s The Bat (1926) on Blu-ray from Undercrank Productions.
More are on the way, including my look at The Hitcher in 4K and also The West Wing: The Complete Series on Blu-ray, so do watch for those this week. [Read on here...]
- director's cut
- Theatrical Version
- Joker: Folie à Deux 4K
- Todd Phillips
- Daylight 4K
- Dante's Peak 4K
- Miloš Forman
- Undercrank Productions
- The Bat (1926) BD review
- Empire of the Ants BD review
- Amadeus 4K
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Tim Salmons
- Bluray Disc
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Release Dates & Artwork with 4K search
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
It’s Classic TV-a-Rama with I Love Lucy, I Dream of Jeannie & Bewitched on Blu-ray, plus new disc reviews, additional title announcements & more!
All right, we’ve got three new disc reviews for you to finish out the week, plus some more great new title announcements. The reviews first...
Stephen has taken a look at David Twohy’s The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) in 4K Ultra HD, as released by our friends at Arrow Video.
And Stuart has turned in his thoughts on Francis Ford Coppola’s You’re a Big Boy Now (1996) on Blu-ray, also from the Warner Archive Collection. And how fitting it is that we’re reviewing Coppola’s first feature film, even as what may be his last—Megalopolis (2024)—is now in theaters.
As always, more reviews are on the way, so be sure to watch for them.
Now then... the big news today is all on the classic TV front: First, Paramount Home Entertainment and CBS have officially set I Love Lucy: The Complete Series for release on Blu-ray for the first time ever! Expected on 11/5, the 33-disc set will include all 180 episodes of I Love Lucy (1951-57), plus all episodes of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957-60) remastered with long-missing footage restored, plus the newly-colorized episode Lucy and the Loving Cup. In addition, the series’ opening and closing credits have been restored along with many original cast commercials. Three long-lost “flashback” scenes have been remastered. And a portion of the 1959 CBS Fall Preview Special has been included. You’ll also get the original I Love Lucy pilot episode (remastered from original 35mm kinescope), I Love Lucy: The Movie, audio commentaries on select episodes, Lucy on the Radio broadcasts, flubs, slideshows, cast bios, photo galleries, and production notes. You can see the cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Tim Salmons
- Bluray Disc
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Release Dates & Artwork with 4K search
- Stephen Bjork
- Arrow Video
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- CBS Home Entertainment
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Via Vision
- Imprint Television
- I Love Lucy: The Complete Series BD
- I Dream of Jeannie: The Complete Series BD
- Bewitched: Seasons 1 & 2 BD
- The Chronicles of Riddick 4K review
- Scooby Doo on Zombie Island BD review
- Scooby Doo Return to Zombie Island BD review
- You're a Big Boy Now BD review
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Warner Archive Collection
- The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour
- Film Masters
- Roger Coman
- Night of the Blood Beast BD
- Attack of the Giant Leeches BD
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Alfred Hitchcock
- North by Northwest (1959) 4K trailer
- No 1 of the Secret Service (1977)
- Revenge of the Zombies
- Mountains of the Moon
- The Visitors
- 1,000 Convicts and a Woman
Twisters & Beetlejuice Beetlejuice are official, plus Deadpool & Wolverine pre-orders, Talk of the Town & Legends of the Fall in 4K from Sony & more!
We start today with two new disc reviews...
Tim has taken a look at Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs (2024) in 4K Ultra HD from Neon and Decal Releasing.
And Stephen has offered his thoughts on Michael Lehmann’s Heathers (1988) as released in 4K UHD in the UK only by the good people of Arrow Video.
Just to let you know, we’ve also updated our 4K Ultra HD Release List here at The Bits and our Release Dates & Artwork section, featuring all kinds of new Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD titles with cover artwork and Amazon pre-order links. Whenever you order titles (or literally anything) from Amazon through our links, you’re helping to support our work here at The Bits and we appreciate it!
Now then, the big news today is that Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has finally set Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters (2024) for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 10/22, with the Digital release expected next week on 10/8. The 4K disc will include HDR10 only with Dolby Atmos sound. A 4K Steelbook version will also be available. Extras on all SKUs will include audio commentary with the director, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and 6 featurettes (Tracking the Fronts: The Path of Twisters, Into the Eye of the Storm, Glen Powell: All Access, Front Seat to a Chase, Voice of a Villain, and Tricked-Out Trucks). You can see the cover artwork at left and also below the break. [Read on here...]
- The Wild Robot 4K
- Laurent Bouzereau
- Music by John Williams documentary
- Dolby Vision
- Alien: Romulus
- The Whitest Kids UKnow
- Universal
- Speak No Evil
- The Talk of the Town 4K
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- Arrow Video
- Heathers 4K review
- Decal
- Neon
- Longlegs 4K review
- Legends of the Fall 4K
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
- Stephen Bjork
- Twisters
- Release Dates & Artwork with 4K search
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray Disc
- Tim Salmons
- Back the Bits
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
The Warner Archive Collection & Shout! Studios announce a TON of November & December catalog Blu-ray & 4K titles, plus a new Pulp Fiction 4K from Paramount!
We’ve got some MAJOR announcement news to share with you all today, we’re starting things off as always with four new disc reviews...
Tim has checked in with his thoughts on Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass’ animated The Last Unicorn (1982) in 4K Ultra HD and 4K Steelbook from Shout! Studios.
And Dennis has weighed in with this take on Norman Z. McLeod’s My Favorite Spy (1951) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, as well as Serge Bourguignon’s Two Weeks in September (1967) on Blu-ray from Kino Classics.
Now then, our friends at Shout! Studios and the Warner Archive Collection have announce major slates of Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD catalog titles for release in November and December!
The Warner Archive Collection has revealed 6 new classic Blu-ray titles for release on 11/26, including Jean Negulesco’s Humoresque (1946)—mastered from a 4K scan of original nitrate camera negative—Jack Haley Jr. That’s Entertainment! (1974)—re-constructed from original negatives and preservation elements—The Complete Thin Man Collection (1934-47)—a 6-disc set mastered from 4K scans of the best surviving elements, featuring WS Van Dyke’s pre-Code The Thin Man (1934), After the Thin Man (1936), Another Thin Man (1939), and Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), as well as Richard Thorpe’s Song of the Thin Man (1944), and Edward Buzzell’s The Thin Man Goes Home (1947)—Hanna-Barbera’s animated Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972-74) TV series—featuring 48 episodes on 6 discs—Gary David Goldberg’s Must Love Dogs (2005), and finally the Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice: Volume 4 (1937-64)—including 27 classic Looney Tunes fully restored and remastered shorts, including Friz Freleng’s Streamlined Greta Green (1937), Double Chaser (1942), Meatless Flyday (1944), Peck Up Your Troubles (1945), Along Came Daffy (1947), A Bone for a Bone (1951), Muzzle Tough (1954), Stork Naked (1955), Hyde and Go Tweet (1960), Lighter Than Hare (1960), D’ Fightin’ Ones (1961), Devil’s Feud Cake (1963), and Road to Andalay (1964), Tex Avery’s The Sneezing Weasel (1938) and Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939), Tex Avery and Bob Clampett’s The Cagey Canary (1941), Chuck Jones’ Fox Pop (1942), Mouse-Warming (1952), Double or Mutton (1955), and Hopalong Casualty (1960), Robert McKimson’s The Mouse-Merized Cat (1946), Henhouse Henery (1949), Leghorn Swoggled (1951), Muscle Tussle (1953), and Quack Shot (1954), Arthur Davis’ Holiday for Drumsticks (1949), and Norm McCabe’s The Impatient Patient (1942). Whew! [Read on here...]
- Bluray Disc
- Tim Salmons
- Back the Bits
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Dennis Seuling
- The Last Unicorn 4K review
- My Favorite Spy BD review
- Two Weeks in September BD review
- Kino Classics
- The Warner Archive Collection December 2024 slate
- Shout! Studios December 2024 slate
- Humoresque
- The Complete Thin Man Collection
- That's Entertainment! (1975)
- Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
- Must Love Dogs
- Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice: Volume 4
- Shout! Studios
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- The Stephen Chow Collection
- The Dead Don't Hurt
- Viggo Mortensen
- Aguirre the Wrath of God 4K
- The Gift (2000) 4K
- Sam Raimi
- Riddick (2013) 4K
- David Twohy
- Rock N Roll High School 4K
- Silent Night Deadly Night 4K
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
- Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection 4K
- Nick Park
- A Grand Day Out 4K
- A Close Shave 4K
- The Wrong Trousers 4K
- A Matter of Loaf and Death 4K
- The Holdovers 4K
- Alexander Payne
- Robert Rodriguez
- The Faculty 4K
- Ron Howard
- Far and Away 4K
- Golden Harvest: Volume Two Shining Stars BD
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Quentin Tarantino
- Pulp Fiction: 30th Anniversary Edition 4K
Arrow’s December slate includes Demolition Man & Critters, plus Eureka’s The Secret of NIMH on Blu-ray, more Warner 4K catalog & 3-D Film Archive’s The Bubble Kickstarter!
We’ve got just a couple more reviews for you today to close out the week...
Tim has reviewed both the Blu-ray and DVD versions of DC Studios and Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment’s new Super Friends: The Complete Collection.
Watch for a bunch more new disc reviews next week—the whole team is working on more, including yours truly!
Meanwhile, the big news today is that Arrow Video has just revealed its December Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD release slate. Look for John Sturges’ The Great Escape (1963) in 4K and Blu-ray (UK only) and the Critters: A Four Course Feast! Blu-ray box set (UK only)—which includes Stephen Herek’s Critters (1986), Mick Garris’ Critters 2: The Main Course (1988), Kristine Peterson’s Critters 3 (1991), and Rupert Harvey’s Critters 4 (1992)—on 12/2, followed by Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction (1995) in 4K (UK, US, and Canada), Marco Brambilla’s Demolition Man (1993) in 4K and Blu-ray (UK, US, and Canada), Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008) in 4K and Blu-ray (UK only), and Cody Kennedy and Tim Rutherford’s The Last Video Store (2023) on Blu-ray (UK and US) all on 12/9. [Read on here...]
- George Pal
- The War of the Worlds (1953)
- The Time Machine (1960)
- Puppetoon Productions
- Flights of Fantasy screening
- Eureka Entertainment
- Arrow Video
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Tim Salmons
- Bluray Disc
- Byron Haskin
- Demolition Man 4K
- The Great Escape
- The Secret of NIMH
- Super Friends: The Complete Collection BD review
- Arrow Video December 2024 slate
- Critters: A Four Course Feast!
- The Good The Bad The Weird
- The Last Video Store
- The Addiction 4K
- Triumph of the Spirit
- California (1947)
- Cattle Drive (1951)
- The Bubble (1966) 3D restoration Kickstarter
- The 3D Film Archive
- Don Bluth
- Arch Oboler
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- The Intern 4K
- Vacation (2015) 4K
- Tag (2018) 4K
Alien: Romulus arrives on disc on 12/3, plus I Love Lucy: The Complete Series on Blu-ray (!), On the Road with Hope & Crosby, The 4:30 Movie & more!
Greetings, Bits-ers! We’ve got some great announcement news for you this afternoon, but first...
Tim has taken a look at a couple of new releases on disc for you all, including Sergio Martino’s Torso (1973), an Italian giallo title from Arrow Video in 4K Ultra HD, and also Antonio Margheriti’s Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) in 4K Ultra HD from Kino Cult. So that should take care of your schlock horror cravings for today.
Morning reviews are on the way, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled.
Now then, the big announcement news today is that 20th Century Studios has just officially set Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus (2024) for 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD release on 12/3, with the Digital release expected in a couple of weeks on 10/15. The title will come in Steelbook packaging only. Look for HDR10 high dynamic range and Dolby Atmos audio on a 66GB disc. The aspect ratio (per the press release) is 2.39:1.
[Editor’s Note: The studio press release indicates HDR10 only, but the open packaging shot—when zoomed in—reveals that the disc has the Dolby Vision logo on it. We’ve asked the studio to confirm and will post an update here when we hear back.]
[Editor’s Update – 10/1/24: Just a quick heads up to clarify... I’ve confirmed with studio sources that the Alien: Romulus 4K will indeed have Dolby Vision HDR, despite the fact that their press release suggested otherwise. However: No, Disney and 20th Century aren’t necessarily adding DV to all future Ultra HD titles. Instead, they’re making the decision to include it on a case by case basis going forward.]
Extras will include the Return to Horror: Crafting Alien: Romulus documentary, which includes 4 parts (The Director’s Vision, Creating the Story, Casting the Faces, and Constructing the World). You’ll also get 2 additional featurettes (Inside the Xenomorph Showdown and Alien: A Conversation which features Alvarez talking with original Alien director Ridley Scott). And a selection of Alternate/Extended Scenes will also be included. You can see the packaging at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Tim Salmons
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Fede Álvarez
- Alien: Romulus 4K
- Steelbook
- Torso 4K review
- Cannibal Apocalypse 4K review
- Kino Cult
- Arrow Video
- 20th Century Studios
- Ridley Scott
- Xenomorph
- On the Road with Hope & Crosby BD box
- No 1 of the Secret Service (1977)
- I Love Lucy: The Complete Series BD
- CBS
- The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour
- Kevin Smith
- The 4:30 Movie 4K
- Lionsgate
- The Criterion Collection
- Janus Contemporaries
- The Beast
- Evil Does Not Exist
- Zyzzyx Road 4K
- Dark Arts Entertainment
- Via Vision
- Field of Dreams 4K
- To Kill a Mockingbird 4K
- Eureka Entertainment
- Tank Girl BD
- Road to Morocco
- Bob Hope
- Bing Crosby
- MVD Rewind Collection
- Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend
- Men of War
- Sergio Martino
- Antonio Margheriti