Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just announced their Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 5 box set for release on 10/1. The package will include Robert Rossen’s All the King’s Men (1949), Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront (1954), Fred Zinnemann’s A Man for All Seasons (1966), Sydney Pollack’s Tootsie (1982), Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence (1993), and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019), along with an 80-page book and over 20 hours with of new and archival special features. All of these films will include Dolby Vision HDR and all but All the King’s Men will include Dolby Atmos audio as well (along with legacy audio mixes). You can see the cover art here...
Sony has also set Brian De Palma’s Body Double (1984) for 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release on 9/24, in honor of the film’s 40th anniversary. This will include Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio, legacy special features, and two new ones—an Archival EPK with Brian De Palma, Craig Wasson, and Melanie Griffith interviews, as well as Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s Relax music video. Here’s what that looks like...
In other release news, Lionsgate has set Taylor Sheridan’s Wind River (2017) for 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Steelbook release on 9/10 (SRP $42.99), exclusively at Walmart. Extras will include deleted scenes and a behind-the-scenes video gallery. Look for it to include Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio.
In terms of regular Blu-ray titles, Crunchyroll has set One Peace: Collection 34 and Vinland Saga: Season 2 Part 2 for release on 10/15, along with Afro Samurai: Director’s Cut (Walmart exclusive) and an Afro Samurai: Resurrection – Director’s Cut on 10/22, and finally One Piece Film: Gold on 10/29.
And for you music fans, Mercury Studios is releasing Black Sabbath: The End and Eric Clapton: Slowhand at 70 – Live at the Royal Albert Hall each in 4K Ultra HD on 9/13.
In other news today, we’ve got a sneak peek for you at Nico Mastorakis’ The Naked Truth (1992), which is featured in the forthcoming Nico Mastorakis Collection from Arrow Video, due on 7/30. Here’s a look at that...
Also, my dear friends Robert Meyer Burnett and Mike Bawden have just kicked off their Kickstarter campaign for a really exciting project they’ve been working on, which is an immersive audio drama of Max Allan Collins’ True Noir: The Assassination of Anton Cermak! Collins, as some of you may know, is a terrific fiction writer whose work includes the Nathan Heller series of hard-boiled crime novels set in the 1930s and 40s, as well as the Road to Perdition series of comics (that was turned into a 2002 Sam Mendes film starring Tom Hanks). The cast for this radio drama so far includes the likes of Adam Arkin, Curtis Armstrong, Barry Bostwick, P.J. Byrne, Corey Landis, Kris Carr, Jeffrey Combs, Devin Conrad, Rob Roy FItzgerald, Saverio Guerra, C. Thomas Howell, Anthony LaPaglia, Louis Lombardi, Don McManus, Bill Mumy, Vincent Pastore, Katee Sackhoff, Bill Sadler, Bill Smitrovich, Jesse Spencer, and Renée Taylor! What’s more, the project is being mixed in both 2.0 stereo and also 5.1 surround. And you can support the Kickstarter to get a Digital download of the final project, or even a physical Blu-ray and CD! Click here on the image below or here to visit the Kickstarter, watch the project pitch, listen to proof-of-concept audio clips in stereo and surround, and to support the effort. And tell ‘em The Bits sent you!
Finally today, our friends at Kaleidescape have just announced a new and slightly more affordable digital movie player, the Strato V (SRP $3,995) that includes Dolby Vision playback with lossless audio support. You can learn more about it here or by clicking on the image below.
All right, that’s all for this afternoon. Back tomorrow with more.
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