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Jurassic Park Trilogy Coming To Blu-ray

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
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Digital Bits has some news I felt obligated to share, mostly so I could do the caption above and laugh to myself, so alone.  Jurassic Park is coming to Blu-ray in 2011; it should be before the holidays and will include the sequels.  Steven Spielberg’s classic still holds up well today, I can’t say I felt the same watching it recently as I did when I was 8 years old, but it’s still a pretty awesome time.  Blu-ray.com has some expected box art for us to get the point across, but looks like filler for the time being.  Was I the only one wondering why by the third movie, John Hammond wasn’t locked away forever for getting so many people killed?  What a jerk.

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It is time. The Lion King 3D Blu-ray Trailer & Full Theatrical Re-Release

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

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Disney released The Lion King in 1994 during it’s golden years (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin) and it’s still considered their best film.  A lot of people own the original VHS and DVD that came out in 2003 (including me), but Disney isn’t fooling around when they threaten a movie to their “vault” after a short period of time, so it went away.

Well good news is here, The Lion King will be getting a full theatrical 3D re-release on September 16 before the Blu-ray release October 4.  The trailer is below and should take you back to your childhood instantly. (more…)

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Slow Clap: Lucasfilm’s Excluding Special Features on Star Wars Blu-ray

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

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Lucasfilm’s today officially announced the special features for the September 12 Blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Complete Saga [see our August announcement here]. The nine-disc set of all six movies in the series, is said to have brand new features, material from previous releases – and the news of the day is that it’s missing great features from those same releases.  The set contains the special editions of the original trilogy.  Mind you, I don’t think a lot of people were thinking Lucas would take the time to remaster the original trilogy for Blu-ray.

When this hits the street, the revolt will begin.  The new “archival footage” may just be reworked footage we have all seen before, but will have a new graphic in the bottom corner.  I’ve seen it happen too many times.

Here’s the full press release: (more…)

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The Superman Blu-Ray Anthology Is Here

Monday, April 4th, 2011

supermanWarner Bros.  has officially confirmed for US release, Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology.  It will be released on June 7, 2011 in an eight-disc set that contains all five films (Superman: The Movie, Superman II, Superman III, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, and Superman Returns) as well as the alternate versions of the first two movies and  over 20 hours of special features.  These are new HD masters for the theatrical cuts of the four Christopher Reeve movies and a new 1080p master for the expanded cut of Superman : The Movie. [thedigitalbits]

Here’s a trailer and after the jump all the specs!

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The Lord of the Rings Limited Extended Edition Blu-Ray, Pre-Order NOW

Monday, March 7th, 2011
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The Lord of the Rings was released on Blu-ray last year, but to some it wasn’t the real deal as it was the theatrical versions, not the extended.  Well calm down my nerds, Warner Bros. has announce The LOTR Extended editions on Blu-ray are coming and are ready for pre-order.  Hit the jump for a spec list. (more…)

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The Incredibles Blu-ray Coming Spring 2011

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

IncrediblesThe Pixar Blog revealed that a promotional booklet found inside the Toy Story 3 Blu-ray (in stores Nov. 2) confirms that The Incredibles will be arriving on Blu-ray Disc next spring, in a BD+DVD+digital copy combo pack.

Pixar has slowly but surely been releasing their previous films on Blu-ray, now with The Incredibles on the calendar, some may be wondering where Finding Nemo is.  No news to report there.

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Inception Blu-ray Art, Details and Release Date

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

Warner Home Video has announced that Christopher Nolan’s Inception will be getting released on Blu-ray and DVD on December 7.  We have the front art as well as the back art that lists the extras.  All in text below for you anyways, I’m a nice guy what can I say.

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Back To The Future Trilogy Blu-Ray Trailer

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Back to the Future Blu-RayThe Back to the Future trilogy is finally coming to Blu-Ray on October 26th 2010.  Here’s the trailer for the 25th Anniversary Special edition.

Writer/Producer Bob Gale had this to say about the conversion: The HD transfers for all three films are simply breath-taking, they actually look better than they did in the theater because of the incredible job that was done on dirt clean-up. (And the film grain is preserved, so they still look like movies should look.)

We listed all the specs for the DVD and Blu-Ray here.  You can get your copy ordered with savings at Amazon here (.ca) and here (.com).  I got mine and felt better about myself, don’t you want the same? (more…)

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Star Wars Coming to Blu-Ray, Lucas Still Doesn’t Get It

Monday, August 16th, 2010

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At something called Star Wars Celebration V, George Lucas made the big announcement that the entire Star Wars saga would be released in a Blu-Ray box set in Fall 2011. According to IGN, the set will feature “all six live-action Star Wars feature films, with the highest picture and audio quality,” along with extensive extras like “documentaries, vintage behind-the-scenes moments, interviews, retrospectives and never-before-seen footage from the Lucasfilm archives.”

Lucas went on to confirm that you’re getting the 2004 clean-ups of the 1997 Special Editions with a hint that a future release may include the restored original releases.  Lucas said that releasing the original trilogy was “kind of an oxymoron because the quality of the original is not very good.” This just in:  George Lucas doesn’t go on the Internet. Ever.  Of course the nerds want the poor quality George, don’t you see?  It’s nostalgia, not your generic and boring storytelling with polish on top.  We want to watch the scratchy film and remember when you didn’t have such a boner for action figures [read about said boner here].  I’m over it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0[/youtube]She understood it better than me.

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Full Grindhouse DVD/Blu-Ray Details, Now With Art

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

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As you probably know and or picked up in one of my many rage posts, when Grindhouse was released in theaters, it was a double feature featuring Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror, Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof, and a few faux trailers at the beginning and in between. It was the best time you could have at the movies. Not enough people saw it for some reason and thus it became a flop [see here].  When the films were released on DVD, they were distributed as separate movies, with the trailers omitted from both releases. That’s what no one wanted you see, and so they went ahead with it anyways. Sense no that makes.

Grindhouse (for real this time) will hit stores on October 5th 2010.  My birthday is October 9th, just saying.  Veivendi Home Entertainment has the following specs: (more…)

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