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Licorice Pizza, The Boys: Seasons 1 & 2, Drive 4K from Second Sight, a new Mad Max 2 4K replacement disc update & more
The big piece of announcement news today is that Universal Studios Home Entertainment has set Paul Thomas Anderson’s excellent and Best Picture-nominated film Licorice Pizza for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 5/17. The Digital version is already available (including 4K), though there are no current plans for a physical 4K Ultra HD release. Extras on the Blu-ray will include camera tests, a deleted scene, a Fat Bernie’s Commercial, and a Behind-the-Scenes featurette. You can see the cover artwork at left and also below.
Also, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially set The Boys: Seasons 1 & 2 Collection for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 5/17. Of course, the Amazon-exclusive series is already available for streaming on Amazon Prime. This release is no doubt timed to support the 6/3 debut of Season 3 on Prime. Extras on the discs will include deleted scenes and a blooper real for each season, plus Butcher: A Short Film. Again, you can see the cover artwork below.
One hopes that the this means Sony might consider releasing other series it produces for streamers on physical media eventually, including (hopefully) Apple TV’s outstanding For All Mankind (which I’d kill to own on physical 4K). [Read on here...]
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- John Sturges
- Licorice Pizza
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Amazon Prime
- The Boys: Seasons 1 & 2 BD
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Second Sight Films UK
- Drive 4K
- The Witch 4K
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Isao Takahata
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Panda! Go Panda! BD
- GKids
- Shout! Factory
- Studio Ghibli
- The Handmaid's Tale: Season Four DVD
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- Mad Max: The Road Warrior 4K replacement program
- Marvel
- Morbius 4K
- Arrow Video
- True Romance 4K
Scream Factory sets the first two Happy Death Day films for 4K release on 4/26, plus more new announcements
We begin the day with a pair of new Blu-ray reviews from Stephen... Bill Forsyth’s Breaking In (1989) from Kino Lorber Studio Classics and Harry Watt’s The Overlanders (1946) from Umbrella Entertainment.
Also here at The Bits today, we’ve got another “bonus” History, Legacy & Showmanship column for you that’s leftover from 2021, in which Michael and film historian/author Raymond Benson celebrate the 50th anniversary of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (1971). Enjoy!
In title announcements today, the big news is that Scream Factory has officially set Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2U for release on 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo on 4/26, just as we’ve been expecting for the last week or so.
Expect at least HDR10 high dynamic range and we’ll post the other AV details when we have them. [Read on here...]
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Scream Factory
- Wes Craven
- Happy Death Day 4K
- Happy Death Day 2U 4K
- Shout Factory
- GKids
- Studio Ghibli
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Raymond Benson
- Peter Bogdanovich
- The Last Picture Show
- Breaking In BD review
- Stephen Bjork
- The Overlanders
- Only Yesterday BD Steelbook
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya BD Steelbook
- Armageddon
- The Abominable Dr Phibes
- Dr Phibes Rises Again!
- Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema VIII
- Son of Samson
- Night Creatures BD
- Cursed BD
Severin’s Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee set, His Dark Materials: S2, new Ghibi Steelbooks from Shout!/GKids & Abkco’s Jodorowsky singles are NOT 4K
All right, I’ve had a pretty steady stream of plumbers and carpenters here the last couple days as my wife and I work get our water leak sorted out. On top of which, yesterday was our annual visit to the tax man. LOL. So I appreciate your patience with the lack of an update yesterday.
We did at least get Tim’s Facebook problems resolved today. He’s back up and able to access his account there. Turns out it being disabled was just an error on Facebook’s part, so special thanks to a friend of the site who helped us to sort it all out.
While he was off the Book, Tim completed work on a new Blu-ray review for Arrow’s excellent He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefe Collection box set, which includes Sting of Death (1965), Death Curse of Tartu (1966), The Hooked Generation (1968), The Psychedelic Priest (1969), The Naked Zoo (1970), Mako: Jaws of Death (1976), and Whiskey Mountain (1977). You can find that here.
In announcement news today, HBO has set His Dark Materials: Season Two for Blu-ray and DVD release on 12/31, presumably not long before the BBC and HBO debut of Season Three in very early 2022. The second season has been available in the UK since December of last year. [Read on here...]
- Arrow Video
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Tim Salmons
- He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefe Collection BD review
- His Dark Materials: Season Two BD
- HBO
- The Watch: Season One
- 12 Monkeys Steelbook
- Giants and Toys
- The Wind Rises BD Steelbook
- Shout! Factory
- GKids
- Studio Ghibli
- The Secret World of Arrietty BD Steelbook
- Severin Films
- The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Abkco
- El Topo BD
- The Holy Mountain BD
- Fando Y Lis BD
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- The Sting 4K
- Shrek 4K
- National Lampoon's Animal House 4K
- Psycho 4K
- The Birds 4K
- Cherry
- Santa Sangre 4K
Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice in 4K, plus Wind Rises, more catalog Blu-ray, and a word on MGM & Gone with the Wind
All right, a quick update today with a bit more release news...
First up though, we have two more new disc reviews for you today. Tim has checked out Richard Jefferies’ Blood Tide (1982) on Blu-ray from Arrow Video. And Dennis has turned in his thoughts on Paul Wegener and Carl Boese’s classic German expressionist tale The Golem (1920) on Blu-ray from Kino Classics. Do give them a look.
Also, we’ve just posted a new update of the Release Dates & Artwork section here at The Bits thanks to our own Russell Hammond, and it’s full of all the recently-announced Blu-ray and 4K titles. As always, whenever you order anything from Amazon through our links, you’re helping to support The Bits and we really do appreciate it.
In other news today, here’s a nice surprise: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is releasing Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice in 4K Ultra HD on 9/1! It looks like two versions will be available: A wide release standard edition and an Amazon exclusive deluxe giftset. You can see the cover art at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- Blood Tide BD review
- The Golem BD review
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- Tim Burton
- Beetlejuice 4K
- Amazon exclusive
- Sherlock Holmes 4K
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 4K
- The Wind Rises
- Studio Ghibli
- GKids
- Shout! Factory
- Eureka!
- Masters of Cinema
- Criss Cross
- A Foreign Affair
- MVD Rewind Collection
- Split Second
- Evil Under the Sun
- DefCon 4
- MGM distribution
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- HBO Max
- Gone with the Wind
Cap America: Winter Soldier & Civil War 4K in April, Apocalypse Now 4K, BumbleBee & Samsung quits 4K player market
All right, today’s Bits update offers 4K Ultra HD news, some of it good and some of it bad, as well as some good standard Blu-ray news...
The good news first: We’ve learned from our studio and industry sources that Disney is bringing Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War to physical 4K Ultra HD in April. Our retail sources suggest the street date is likely to be 4/23. This makes sense as it’s the same week that Avengers: Endgame hits theaters. Keep in mind, Captain America: The First Avenger hits the format next Tuesday, 2/26. It appears that Best Buy will have exclusive Steelbook packaging and Zavvi is already taking pre-orders on a Captain America Trilogy 4K set.
We’ve also learned from our sources that essentially all of the other Marvel Cinematic Universe titles not yet released on physical 4K are coming over the next year or so. This includes Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Ant-Man (2015), and Doctor Strange (2016). We would expect the next batch to arrive with the home release of Captain Marvel, somewhere around Q2 2019. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Marvel Cinematic Universe in 4K
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4K
- Captain America: Civil War 4K
- Apocalypse Now: 40th Anniversary 4K
- Samsung quits the 4K player market
- Bumblebee 4K
- The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- ffolkes BD
- North Sea Hijack BD
- Studio Ghibli
- GKids
- Ghibli Fest 2019
Criterion’s January includes Breakfast Club, plus Blade Runner: 2049 pre-orders, Twilight, Olive & more
Morning, folks. We’re going to be working on more reviews here at The Bits today, but we do have some interesting release news to report for you before we get started on those.
First, it appears that whatever was going on to delay the Amazon pre-orders for upcoming 4K titles from Warner seems to have been resolved. You can now pre-order Blade Runner: 2049 on 4K (and also Blu-ray – keep in mind the title hasn’t officially been announced, so there’s no street date yet and we don’t know if there will be the 3D and deluxe SKUs in the US) and also Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – one of the four remaining Potter titles due on 11/7. We expect the others to appear soon and we’ve updated our 4K Ultra HD Release List too. [Read on here…]
- My Neighbors the Yamadas
- The Cat Returns
- Studio Ghibli
- GKids
- Shout! Factory
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Harry Potter 4K preorders
- Blade Runner: 2049 4K
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Criterion January Slate
- The Breakfast Club
- Kundun
- Olive Films
- Twilight Time
- Young Mr Lincoln
- I Daniel Blake
- Kameradschaft
- Westfront 1918
Cars 3 & Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy on 4K (but not on Amazon), plus Interstellar & more GKids Ghibli BDs
Morning, folks! Hope you all had a great weekend. We’ve been very busy here working on new reviews for you.
Along those lines, here’s my thoughts on Warner’s Peanuts Holiday Collection in 4K Ultra HD, Lionsgate’s American Gods: Season One on Blu-ray, PBS’ The Farthest: Voyager in Space and The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick on Blu-ray, GKids’ new Blu-ray editions of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s animated Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, and Spirited Away, and Tim’s look at Arrow’s new A Fish Called Wanda: Special Edition and Robert Englund’s 976-EVIL from Sony, both on Blu-ray. Whew!
Rest assured, we’ve got more new reviews coming this week, including a bunch more 4K titles, Baby Driver and Spiderman: Homecoming included. So be sure to watch for those. [Read on here…]
- Blade Runner: 2049 4K
- Harry Potter 4K preorders
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- Shout! Factory
- Cars 3 4K
- The Dark Knight Trilogy 4K
- Batman Begins 4K
- The Dark Knight 4K
- Interstellar 4K
- GKids
- Studio Ghibli
- The Cat Returns
- My Neighbors the Yamadas
- Cyborg: Collector's Edition
- Scream Factory
- Release Dates & Artwork
- Peanuts Holiday Collection 4K review
- American Gods: Season One BD review
- The Farthest: Voyager in Space BD review
- The Vietnam War BD review
- A Fish Called Wanda: Special Edition BD review
- Spirited Away BD review
- Ponyo BD review
- Princess Mononoke BD review
- 976EVIL BD review
- Terminator 2 4K delay
The Red Turtle, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter & Fifty Shades Darker all officially announced
Tim has posted a pair of new Blu-ray reviews today, featuring his thoughts on Lew Lehman’s The Pit from Kino Lorber and Jeffrey Delman’s Deadtime Stories from Scream Factory. Both are worth a look for fans, so do check them out.
I’m also going to be working on more new 4K reviews this afternoon, so watch for them to be posted here on the site later today and tomorrow morning. We’ll mention them here in tomorrow’s My Two Cents column.
By the way, I wanted to invite you all to follow The Bits on Facebook and Twitter if you don’t already. More importantly, I wanted to invite you to follow me personally (Bill Hunt) on Facebook and Twitter, if you’d like as well. Do keep in mind, however, that on my own personal pages I tend to talk more about other things of interest to me than just Blu-ray, 4K, and DVD specifically – films, great books, science topics, spaceflight, history, technology, and the like. You’re always welcome to communicate with me that way, particularly via Facebook Messenger, as e-mail these days seems to be inundated with junk and SPAM. Maybe I’ll see you there. [Read on here…]
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- DePatie Freleng Collection
- The Blue Racer
- Sheriff Hoot Kloot
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Tim Salmons
- Deadtime Stories BD review
- The Pit BD review
- The Red Turtle
- Studio Ghibli
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 4K
- Fifty Shades Darker: Unrated Edition
- The Paradine Case
- Arrow Academy
- The Sorrow and the Pity
- The Taishio Trilogy
- Aquarius
- The Space Between Us
New Rogue One date, Sing official, Trainspotting 2 4K in the UK, Ocean Waves & classic catalog BD news
All right, today is a work holiday for many here in the U.S., but we do have some interesting new release news for you all regardless.
First up, new signals from retail sources (including Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and others) are suggesting that Disney and Lucasfilm are planning to release Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, and DVD on 4/4, instead of the date previously listed by retailers which was 3/28. Until this weekend, Best Buy was taking pre-orders with no date listed, but that’s now been pulled, suggesting that an official announcement may be coming any day. Stay tuned for official details.
Speaking of Disney, the studio has confirmed that it’s currently working on new Walt Disney Signature Edition Blu-ray releases of Fantasia and Bambi. The latter film has been out of print on Blu-ray here in the States for a number of years now, so that’s certainly good news for fans. You can learn a bit more here. [Read on here…]
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story release date
- Sing
- Trainspotting 4K
- Ocean Waves
- Studio Ghibli
- I Can Hear the Sea
- The Vampire Bat
- The Film Detective
- Bambi: Walt Disney Signature Edition
- Fantasia: Walt Disney Signature Edition
- Suddenly!
- Beat the Devil
- Patterns
- Another Man's Poison
- Miss Annie Rooney
- Psycho Circus
- Little Nikita
- Punchline
Criterion’s May slate, Amazon/Disney issues, Ocean Waves & more
We’ve got a pair of new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray reviews for all of you to enjoy here at The Bits today. I’ve given Warner’s The Accountant and Sony’s Inferno a spin on the format, both of which are recent releases, and have a few things to say about each. Do give them a look.
Also today, it’s become fairly clear that Amazon and Disney are having another one of their strange business tiffs that involves Amazon pulling all of Disney’s forthcoming Blu-ray titles off of pre-order. Case in point, Moana, Doctor Strange, etc. This may also be why Disney and Lucasfilm have not yet announced the Blu-ray release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, even though it’s already available for pre-order on other retail sites. While they no doubt have their reasons, these actions are a major inconvenience to both Amazon’s customers and Disney’s Blu-ray consumers, so these two companies should get their act together. [Read on here…]
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Shout! Factory
- Shout Select
- Scream Factory
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Criterion's May slate
- Ghost World
- Orson Welles' Othello
- Dheepan
- Good Morning
- Jeanne Dileman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles
- Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No 2
- Studio Ghibli
- Ocean Waves
- Willard
- Ben
- Never Too Young to Die
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold Complete Season Three
- Warner Archive
- The Valley of Gwangi
- The Spiral Staircase
- ESPN 30 for 30
- Inferno 4K review
- The Accountant 4K review
- Disney vs Amazon