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Universal sets Sam Mendes’ 1917 for release on Blu-ray, DVD & 4K on 3/24 (plus a big Star Wars 4K update)
All right, we have a major new title announcement for you today, plus a significant Star Wars 4K update.
Let’s start with the announcement: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has just set Sam Mendes’ 1917 for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 3/24, with the Digital release expected on 3/10.
The film was finished as a native 4K digital intermediate, and the 4K SKU will include HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision high dynamic range, with Dolby Atmos audio.
Extras will include feature commentary with director/co-writer Sam Mendes, a second feature commentary with director of photography Roger Deakins, and 5 featurettes (The Weight of the World: Sam Mendes, Allied Forces: Making 1917, The Music of 1917, In the Trenches, and Recreating History). [Read on here...]
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- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 4K
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 4K
- Star Wars: A New Hope 4K
- Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4K
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Disney & Lucasfilm set Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker for BD, DVD & 4K UHD on 3/31—UPDATED
[Editor’s Note: This news post has been updated with final art for ALL of the Star Wars single-film 4K SKUs and Amazon.com pre-order links as available.]
All right, we expected it and now it’s finally here: Disney and Lucasfilm have just officially set JJ Abrams’ conclusion to the Star Wars saga, The Rise of Skywalker, for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 3/31—just as we thought—with the Digital release due via Movies Anywhere on 3/17. Audio will be Dolby Atmos on the 4K and 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio on Blu-ray. There’s no mention of HDR, so assume HDR10 only on the UHD disc.
The extras on the Blu-ray and DVD will include over two-hours worth of bonus content, starting with a feature-length documentary, The Skywalker Legacy.
Also included on all versions of the disc will be the featurettes Pasaana Pursuit: Creating the Speeder Chase, Aliens in the Desert, D-O: Key to the Past, Warwick & Son, and Cast of Creatures. There will also be the usual wide-release Digital exclusive featurette, The Maestro’s Finale, with composer John Williams reflecting back on his work for the saga. [Read on here...]
- George Lucas
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 4K
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 4K
- Star Wars: A New Hope 4K
- Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4K
- 4K Ultra HD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
BREAKING: New Details on the Special Features Coming on Disney’s Star Wars Films in 4K Ultra HD!
All right, what were we just saying about European studio and retail leaks? LOL. Here’s a big one for you…
Disney has yet to officially announce them (though we do expect the official word any day now), but the Swedish retailer CDON.se has just posted cover artwork for all of the catalog Star Wars films in 4K… not just the front cover art but the back details too…
… and they include special features details! So, let’s get right into them all, film by film and disc by disc… [Read on here...]
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- Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 4K
- Star Wars: A New Hope 4K
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back 4K
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 4K
- George Lucas
Criterion’s Feb slate revealed, plus the Star Wars Prequels, Rogue One & Force Awakens in 4K
All right, first things first today: Criterion has just announced its February 2020 slate of Blu-ray and DVD titles.
Look for it to include Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (Spine #1014 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 2/11, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (Spine #1013 – Blu-ray and DVD) and an updating of Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Antoni Gaudí (Spine #425 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 2/18, and Jeannie Livingston’s Paris is Burning (Spine #1018 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman (Blu-ray and DVD) on 2/25. That last set includes Journey to the Beginning of Time (Spine #1015), Invention for Destruction (Spine #1016), and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Spine #1017). You can read more here at the Criterion website.
Those are all fine titles, but Roma is particularly appreciated given that it was a Netflix release last year and hasn’t been available on physical media yet.
Also today, our own Michael Coate has a new History, Legacy & Showmanship column here at The Bits—first posted yesterday afternoon—in which he looks back at James Cameron’s The Abyss with historian Matthew Kapell in honor of the film’s 30th anniversary. It’s a great piece, so do give it a look. And who knows? Maybe it will remind the director that he’s got a new 4K HDR grade of the film to approve so we can all watch it on Blu-ray and UHD sooner rather than later. [Read on here...]
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- The Abyss: 30th anniversary
- Matthew Kapell
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K
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- February slate
- Roma
- Teorema
- Antoni Gaudí
- Paris is Burning
- Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman
- Journey to the Beginning of Time
- Invention for Destruction
- The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
New Star Wars BDs now up for pre-order, plus American Gangster, Casino, Scarface official for 4K & more
All right, today’s update is a quickie, but it’s a good one.
All of those re-issued Star Wars Blu-rays from Disney we mentioned yesterday are now up for pre-order on Amazon with a street date of 9/22 (that’s not a Tuesday, so it could be just a “week of” placeholder date until the announcement is made).
The SRP is $34.99, but Amazon’s usual sale price should kick in soon. All of them are up now except Episode IV: A New Hope, which should go live soon. In any case, you can see the cover art – now with pre-order links – below.
In 4K catalog news today, Ridley Scott’s American Gangster is now official for release on 4K Ultra HD by Universal on 10/15. You can see the cover artwork and pre-order it below. It will have DTS:X audio and HDR10 high dynamic range. [Read on here...]
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Return of the Jedi 4K
- The Empire Strikes Back 4K
- Star Wars 4K
- Lucasfilm
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- American Gangster 4K
- Scarface 4K
- Casino 4K
- Lionsgate
- The Star Wars Saga 4K
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Scarface: Gold Edition 4K
- Lock Up 4K
- Rambo (2008) 4K
The Star Wars Saga is almost certainly coming to 4K Ultra HD in 2020, plus Discovery: S2, DS9 doc in 4K & more
All right, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover today, so bear with us.
First, very quickly, we’re currently working on those disc reviews we mentioned the other day, so watch for those starting tomorrow. But breaking news – and the need to dig into it – has keep us busy yesterday and today.
Let’s get some regular announcement news out of the way first...
CBS Home Entertainment has set Star Trek: Discovery – Season Two for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 11/12. The 4-disc Blu-ray release will include audio commentary on 4 episodes (with various combinations of Sonequa Martin-Green, Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Alex Kurtzman, Jonathan Peck, and Olatunde Onsunanmi), promos, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and 8 featurettes (Star Trek: Discovery: The Voyage of Season Two, Enter the Enterprise, The Red Angel, Designing Discovery: Season Two, Prop Me Up: Season Two, Dress for Success: Season Two, Creature Comforts: Season Two, and Creating Space). You can see the cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
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- Bluray
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- The Star Wars Saga 4K
- Star Trek: Discovery Season Two BD
- What We Left Behind documentary
- Men in Black: International 4K
- Angel Heart 4K
- Studio Canal
- Red Heat 4K
- Universal Soldier 4K
- Lionsgate
- CBS Home Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie 4K
- Discotek Media
- Casino 4K
- Shaft (2019) 4K
- Aladdin (2019) 4K
- Aladdin (1992) 4K
- Scarface 4K
- American Gangster 4K
- Yesterday 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- The Jetsons: The Complete Original Series BD
- Pixar 4K
- Marvel Cinematic Universe 4K
- Disney
- Lucasfilm
- Star Wars 4K
- The Empire Strikes Back 4K
- Return of the Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 4K
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K
Batman 4K update, Toy Story 4K, Jack Ryan, Ren & Stimpy uncensored, Prototype in Blu-ray 3D & lots of 4K news
Today’s Bits postings are a double-header, and this first one will be pretty substantial. I’ve unfortunately come down with the flu, so the last few days my functionality has been limited. But, I’m going to do a couple posts today to make up for it.
Before we begin, though, we’ve posted 4 new Blu-ray reviews here at The Bits in the last few days, including... Tim’s look at The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires from Scream Factory, Ecco and The Forbidden from Severin Films, and the Region B release of Dragonwyck (1946) from Powerhouse Films and Indicator. We also have Dennis’ look at Stan & Ollie on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Enjoy!
So... first things first: We’ve confirmed with Warner Bros. that their new Burton/Schumacher Batman 4K releases will feature new Dolby Atmos audio mixes on both the 4K and the Blu-rays in the package. Those Blu-rays will be remastered too. High dynamic range will be HDR10 only on the 4Ks. And the Blu-rays will carry over all of the previous BD extras with one exception: Don’t expect to find the Batman: The Birth of a Modern Blockbuster featurette from the recent Batman: Diamond Luxe Blu-ray. Beyond that, most everything should be there. (Thanks to Bits reader Anthony DiPaola for spotting that). [Read on here...]
- Dolby Atmos
- Batman Returns 4K
- #Batman80
- Batman & Robin 4K
- Batman Forever 4K
- Batman (1989) 4K
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- 4K Ultra HD
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4K
- Captain America: Civil War 4K
- Jack Ryan: Season One BD
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires BD review
- Ecco and The Forbidden BD review
- Dragonwyck BD review
- Stan & Ollie BD review
- Toy Story 4K
- Toy Story 3 4K
- Toy Story 2 4K
- The Rumor Mill
- Goonies 4K
- 007: Daniel Craig Collection 4K
- Bond 25
- Star Wars: Episode IX
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- 4K77
- 4K80
- 4K83
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars Celebration
- The Venture Bros: Season 7 BD
- The Ren & Stimpy Show: Complete & Uncensored German BD
- Turbine Media Group
- Blake Williams
- Prototype 3D experimental film
- BD3D
- Indiegogo
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