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Monday, 13 February 2023 16:22

Cheers comes to Blu-ray, plus more Bonanza on DVD, new WB 100th box sets, and Star Trek TNG & Superman 4K box art!

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All right, we’ve got a bunch of interesting release news to report here at The Bits this afternoon...

First, CBS and Paramount Home Entertainment have set Cheers: The Complete Series for release on Blu-ray Disc on 4/25 (SRP $129.99). This will be a 33-disc box set that includes all 270 episode of the series’ 11 seasons. You can see the cover artwork at left and also below.

While we’re on the subject of Paramount, retail and distributor sources are confirming that the studio will be releasing Mimi Leder’s Deep Impact (1998) on 4K Ultra HD in the coming months. This is in addition to The Italian Job (2003) and Shooter (2007), which we’ve mentioned previously. We believe the street date for Deep Impact will be sometime in May, but that’s still TBD.

Fans of classic Western TV series will also be pleased to know that CBS and Paramount are finally planning to release Bonanza: The Complete Twelfth Season and a Bonanza: The Complete Series box set soon, all on DVD. Street dates for those are TBA as well, but both are already listed in some online retailer databases. We would assume that The Complete Thirteenth Season and The Complete Fourteenth Season will follow on DVD eventually too. [Read on here...]

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While we’re at it, we’ve got your first look at what appears to be the final cover artwork for Paramount’s Star Trek: The Next Generation – 4-Movie Collection 4K box set (street date 4/4) and also Warner Bros’ Superman: 5-Film Collection 4K box set (street date TBA for 4/18). The artwork we have, which comes to us via our friends at the excellent HD Movie Source website, is low resolution, but this does indeed appear to be the real deal...

[8 PM UPDATE: We’ve just gotten our hands on higher resolution art and have updated the images below.]

  Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4-Movie Collection (4K Ultra HD)   Superman: 5-Film Collection (4K Ultra HD)

Rest assured, we’ll certainly post higher quality art, as well as all the official details, when the studios in question finally make their official announcements.

Now then, back to Warner Bros... the studio has just listed no less than four 25-film Blu-ray box sets for release on 4/4, each designed to celebrate the studio’s 100th anniversary this year. Each carries an SRP of $149.98. They include WB 100th 25-Film Collection: Volume One – Award Winners, WB 100th 25-Film Collection: Volume Two – Comedies, Dramas & Musicals, WB 100th 25-Film Collection: Volume Three – Fantasy, Action & Adventure, and WB 100th 25-Film Collection, Volume Four: Thrillers, Sci-Fi & Horror. Rather than list all the titles included in each box, we’ll simply share this back cover artwork instead, which lists the films in question. Clicking on each image will take you to the Amazon pre-order page for each box, if you’re interested...

WB 100th 25-Film Collection: Volume One – Award Winners (Blu-ray Box)

WB 100th 25-Film Collection: Volume Two – Comedies, Dramas & Musicals (Blu-ray Box)

WB 100th 25-Film Collection: Volume Three – Fantasy, Action & Adventure (Blu-ray Box)

WB 100th 25-Film Collection, Volume Four: Thrillers, Sci-Fi & Horror (Blu-ray Box)

In other film-related news today, Deadline is reporting that actor Vin Diesel and director David Twohy are set to return for a fourth film in the Riddick franchise, due to be called Riddick: Furya. That would seem to clinch the likelihood that The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) and Riddick (2013) will be released on 4K Ultra HD at some point between now and then. The series’ original film, Pitch Black (2000), is already available on the format and indeed we’ve reviewed it here at The Bits.

We’ll leave you with a look at the cover artwork for Cheers: The Complete Series on Blu-ray, as well as Warner’s The Maltese Falcon, Cool Hand Luke, and Rebel Without a Cause in 4K (all of which are now available for pre-order on Amazon), and also the Star Trek: The Next Generation – 4-Movie Collection and Superman: 5-Film Collection 4K box sets (which are not yet available for pre-order, but we’ll add the Amazon links as soon as they are)...

Cheers: The Complete Series (Blu-ray Disc) The Maltese Falcon (4K Ultra HD) Cool Hand Luke (4K Ultra HD)

Rebel Without a Cause (4K Ultra HD) Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4-Movie Collection (4K Ultra HD) Superman: 5-Film Collection (4K Ultra HD)

Stay tuned!

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