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We’re starting the week here at The Bits with three new disc reviews today, including...

Stephen’s look at André Øvredal’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) in 4K Ultra HD from Shout! and Scream Factory.

Stuart’s thoughts on The Alaskans: The Complete Series (1959-60) on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.

And Dennis’ take on Vincent Sherman’s Nora Prentiss (1947) also on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.

More reviews will follow each day this week, so be sure to stay tuned for them!

Now then, in terms of announcements this afternoon, the big news is that Paramount has just set Michael Gracey’s Better Man (2024) for 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray and DVD release on 5/13, with the Digital due to become available tomorrow, 2/11. Extras will include a pair of behind the scenes featurettes, including (Let Me Entertain You: The Making of Better Man and Monkey Business: The VFX). [Read on here...]

Afternoon, Bits readers... and welcome to the first week of February!

Tim is taking a much-deserved week off to spend time with his family, but we’ll have plenty of news content here and maybe a review or two as well in the meantime.

Last night, my wife Sarah and I attended The 52nd Annual Saturn Awards here in Los Angeles, produced by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. It was a lovely evening, a chance to catch up with industry friends, brush elbows with genre celebs (think Nicolas Cage, William Shatner, Mark Hamill, Peter Weller, Christopher Lloyd, Laurence Fishburne, tons of Star Trek cast members, etc), and to celebrate great work in genre entertainment. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two took home the Best Science Fiction Film award, as it well should! Denis himself also won for Best Film Director—a nice show of appreciation for the filmmaker, especially given that he wasn’t nominated for Best Director by the Academy this year, despite Dune: Part Two being nominated for the Best Picture. Go figure.

In the Home Media categories, the key winners were:

• Best Classic Film Home Media Release: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kino Lorber Studio Classics)
• Best 4K Home Media Release: Saw X (Lionsgate Home Entertainment)
• Best Film Home Media Collection: Batman: 85th Anniversary Collection (Warner Home Video)
• Best Television Home Media Release: Star Wars: Andor – The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

We actually had the good fortune to be seated at the same table as Kino Lorber’s VP of Acquisitions and Business Development, Frank Trazi, who—since he lives on the East Coast—I hadn’t had the chance to meet before. But trust me when I say that Frank is good people, and that KLSC’s fantastic slate of upcoming Blu-ray and 4K titles is in great hands with him. You can watch his new podcast, Shelf Space with Kino Lorber, here on YouTube.

In any case, the event was great fun and it was streamed live online here and on Roku. You can read the complete list of winners here at Deadline today. And all of us here at The Bits would like to offer our congratulations to Frank and everyone at KLSC for their win for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (you can see their actual Saturn statue below the break), to our friend Cliff Stephenson and everyone at Lionsgate for their 4K win with Saw X, and to the disc teams at Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for their wins as well!. [Read on here...]

We have just a couple of quick things to report here at The Bits today, news-wise...

First, Kino Lorber Studio Classics has just revealed that John Hughes’ Career Opportunities (1991) and Phil Alden Robinson’s Sneakers (1992) are both coming to 4K Ultra HD on 4/22, each with Dolby Vision HDR.

Second, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has added a single-film 4K Ultra HD Steelbook edition of Ivan Reitman’s Stripes (1981) for release on 4/29. Note that this version of Stripes will include Dolby Vision HDR, unlike the version included previously with the Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 2 box set back in 2021.

Likewise, Sony’s newly-announced Gandhi 4K Steelbook (which we talked about yesterday, also for release on 4/29) will include Dolby Vision as well, unlike the edition included with the Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 2 box set in 2020.

Meanwhile, Severin has set Aldo Lado’s Night Train Murders (1974) for 4K Ultra HD release on 4/29.

And Arrow Video has finally announced their complete April release slate (in addition to the previously announced Leone titles—see our column yesterday). You’ll find the details and cover artwork below the break. [Read on here...]