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Re: Warner Random Speculation

#51 Post by eerik » Fri Jul 29, 2011 5:21 pm

matrixschmatrix wrote:Oh, damn, I didn't know Goodfellas was the same until just now. I'm going to go get the older release for $8 from the record store.
Goodfellas digibook release wasn't not only the same encode, but it was exactly the same disc. They changed nothing on the disc. Just a different packaging and bonus DVD.

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Re: Warner Random Speculation

#52 Post by Finch » Fri Jul 29, 2011 5:26 pm

What I'd like to know is when Warner is going to give The Big Red One the Blu treatment it deserves? Enough with Kubrick already...

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Re: Warner Random Speculation

#53 Post by eerik » Mon Aug 15, 2011 5:27 pm

eerik wrote:There were some legal issues with the soundtrack of Malcolm X if I remember correctly, but the discs were pressed and some of them even made it to the stores.

List of upcoming catalog titles from thedigitalbits.com:
The Postman Always Rings Twice (TBA 2011)
A Streetcar Named Desire (TBA 2011)
Meet Me in St. Louis (TBA 2011)
The Right Stuff (2012)
Camelot: 45th Anniv. UCE (2012)
Casablanca: 70th Anniv. UCE (2012)
Singin' in the Rain: 60th Anniv. UCE (2012)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane: 50th Anniv. UCE (2012)
Lethal Weapon 1-4: 25th Anniv. UCE (2012)
Lolita: 50th Anniv. SE (2012)
Full Metal Jacket: 25th Anniv. SE (2012)
Meet Me in St. Louis announced for December 13. I guess the other 2011 titles will also be announced soon.

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Re: Warner Random Speculation

#54 Post by med » Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:01 pm

Jeff wrote:Also, this, from an article Domino linked in the Soderbergh B-Sides thread:
Warner Bros. will release [End of the Road] on Blu-Ray in October as part of their re-discovered cinematic treasures series
Hopefully the start of a "Not Quite as Awful as We Were the Last Couple of Years" campaign.
October's come and gone. No news on this?

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#55 Post by kneelzod » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:56 pm

med wrote:
Jeff wrote:Also, this, from an article Domino linked in the Soderbergh B-Sides thread:
Warner Bros. will release [End of the Road] on Blu-Ray in October as part of their re-discovered cinematic treasures series
Hopefully the start of a "Not Quite as Awful as We Were the Last Couple of Years" campaign.
October's come and gone. No news on this?
Count me in as very eager for this END OF THE ROAD Blu-ray, the initial news of which somehow passed me by.

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#56 Post by captveg » Sat Dec 10, 2011 7:22 pm

New release date for Malcolm X is 1/31/12

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Assorted Warner Blus

#57 Post by domino harvey » Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:51 pm

On July 17, Warners is releasing these movies for some reason:

The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect 2
Cellular
Hard to Kill
Just Cause
Mean Streets
Murder in the First
Next of Kin
A Perfect Murder

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#58 Post by tarpilot » Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:50 pm

Hard to Kill does contain the high point of Seagal's career...

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#59 Post by BillWatkins » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:49 pm

On July 10th they're releasing:

Altered States
Outland
The Astronauts Wife
Brainstorm
Coma
Frequency
Spawn: Director's Cut

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#60 Post by domino harvey » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:51 pm

Seriously, what the fuck is going on at Warners

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#61 Post by knives » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:52 pm

They discovered teens have lots of disposable cash?

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#62 Post by swo17 » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:52 pm

Pulling names out of a hat?

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#63 Post by domino harvey » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:55 pm

I'm just trying to figure out the target audience rushing out to Best Buy to be the first to buy Coma in high definition

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#64 Post by knives » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:03 pm

Crichton fans?

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#65 Post by What A Disgrace » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:04 pm

Altered States will probably be the first Warner Blu I've bought since early last year.

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#66 Post by The Narrator Returns » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:17 pm

Wait til you see their next announcement...

Mr. Love
The Butterfly Effect 3: Electric Butterfloo
Free Willy 3: 15th Anniversary Edition
Steel (featuring a Shaquille O'Neal commentary)
The Candidate
Her Alibi
Mom and Dad Save the World

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#67 Post by tarpilot » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:37 pm

The Narrator Returns wrote:Steel (featuring a Shaquille O'Neal commentary)
I would buy this in a heartbeat.

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#68 Post by knives » Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:40 pm

Wasn't it in the Archives for at least a minute?

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#69 Post by Brian C » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:05 pm

knives wrote:Crichton fans?
For what it's worth, I was a huge Crichton fan in my early teens, and it never once occurred to me that I ought to rent Coma even though I knew full well it existed. I did seek out The Great Train Robbery, though.

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#70 Post by Forrest Taft » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:13 pm

I'm getting Outland for sure! The former release is one of the truly terrible looking early DVDs from Warner - along with the first Blade Runner release - and I have been waiting a long time for an upgrage. Long overdue. So is a re-issue of Fearless, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they're dumping an OAR version of that one in Archive Hell.

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#71 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:15 pm

Brainstorm (aka the pre-Strange Days), Altered States and Outland (aka High Noon in space) are definite must buys! These also surely provide more than enough spectacular effects to make Blu-rays understandable.

By the way Outland has a great title sequence and opening scene that is very obviously showing the influence of Alien. Not just another excellent Jerry Goldsmith score but the way that the title slowly looms out of the darkness (and ends in a burst of white light anticipatory of the title of Aliens, years before that was made!) and also the titles introducing the mining colony and its inhabitants are very reiminiscent of the earlier film.
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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#72 Post by domino harvey » Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:53 pm

Chariots of Fire July 10th-- based on their recent announcements, maybe they mistook it for Streets of Fire

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Re: Assorted Warner Blus

#73 Post by captveg » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:50 pm

Most studios, Warner included, have "tiered" titles when it comes to catalog Blu-ray releases. These titles would be "Tier 3" titles: low expense, no bonus to create or even port over from prior releases (I'd be surprised if these have more than their trailers).

A "Tier 2" title would be something like the upcoming Eastwoods, Empire of the Sun and Chariots of Fire releases - sometimes a digibook, decent amount of bonus to port over from DVD, films with names attached, award winners, etc., but not necessarily tied to an anniversary or a big market push.

"Tier 1" titles are the ones that get the deluxe treatment, like a Citizen Kane or Gone with the Wind, or are anniversary digibook releases (or, annoyingly, double dip releases like Casablanca, Deliverance, and so on).

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Re: Warner Catalog Titles on Blu

#74 Post by hearthesilence » Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:37 am

How do you think it feels to have your movie in Tier 3?
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Re: Warner Catalog Titles on Blu

#75 Post by Jonathan S » Sat Mar 31, 2012 1:45 pm

hearthesilence wrote:How do you think it feels to have your movie in Tier 3?
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Too late for tiers...

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