Upcoming Non-UK Blu-ray Releases

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

A little bit if info about the upcoming Evil Dead II blu-ray from Lionsgate. Sounds like good news.

While the studio has not yet confirmed the technical specifications for the Blu-ray, Red Shirt Pictures' Michael Felsher told Fangoria Magazine in a recent interview that "Lionsgate is aware of how dissatisfied people were with the transfer on the previous Evil Dead II Blu-ray, and are taking steps to solve that issue for the new edition."

Any idea if this is Region locked, I can't seem to find this out anywhere? If not then this is a definite day one purchase for me, groovy!


The boat can leave now, tell the crew

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Great news about the transfer and the possibility/probability of a new encoding. Although the picture quality on the BD I have isn't dreadful, it's certainly too smooth and could do with a new encoding and less digital 'tinkering'.

[nekromantik]

Who here is buyin the Criterion blu of Salo out in october?

As its Criterion I doubt it will have any harsh digital manipulation like the BFI uk disc.

[sawyer6]

Originally Posted by nekromantik

Who here is buyin the Criterion blu of Salo out in october?

As its Criterion I doubt it will have any harsh digital manipulation like the BFI uk disc.

What do you mean ''harsh digital manipulation''?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nekromantik

Who here is buyin the Criterion blu of Salo out in october?

Unless it's inordinately expensive, I'll probably buy one. Should have superlative AV quality and new extra features, so it'll be hard to say no.

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by sawyer6

What do you mean ''harsh digital manipulation''?

It has quite a bit of Edge Enhancement on the disc.

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Unless it's inordinately expensive, I'll probably buy one. Should have superlative AV quality and new extra features, so it'll be hard to say no.

It has the same extras as the new Criterion dvd released last year.
So different bunch of extras then the UK disc.

As for price it should be around the same as the other Criterion blus so between £19 - £24

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

As I don't own it on DVD -- I meant to buy it from Play.com when it was (I think) £5 -- I think the Criterion 80 is probably the way to go. If it's anything like their other BDs, it'll be worth the money.

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

As I don't own it on DVD -- I meant to buy it from Play.com when it was (I think) £5 -- I think the Criterion 80 is probably the way to go. If it's anything like their other BDs, it'll be worth the money.

Yeah Videodrome BD looked amazing!
Im sure this will too.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Just came across a couple of great upcoming titles:



Apparently due for release on 22nd November from Elite Entertainment.

Looks to be Region A locked, though.

Plus, due December 6th from Raro/E1:



Again, another that looks to be Region A locked.

Both essential purchases, imo.

[bgart13]

Twilight Time (an indie label) will be releasing the original FRIGHT NIGHT in December on blu-ray. Limited to 3,000 units, btw. Price will likely be around $40. No pre-orders yet. They'll also be releasing the Harryhausen movie MYSTERIOUS ISLAND in November.

Here's their press release:

TWILIGHT TIME joins forces with SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT to release Blu-ray editions of classic Columbia titles

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (September 1, 2011) — Specialty label TWILIGHT TIME has struck a deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to license and release classic films from the Sony-owned Columbia Pictures library in high-definition Blu-ray editions. In line with TWILIGHT TIME’s innovative limited series concept, just 3000 units of each title will be produced, aimed at the collector/classic film aficionado market, and available exclusively online through Screen Archives Entertainment, the nation’s largest independent distributor of specialty soundtracks.

The November 8th Blu-ray debut of director Cy Endfield’s and special effects master Ray Harryhausen’s 1961 science fiction/fantasy classic, Mysterious Island, will be followed by a new release on the first Tuesday of each month. Scheduled follow-up on December 13th is the original Fright Night (1985), the horror/comedy cult favorite written and directed by Tom Holland and starring Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowall.

TWILIGHT TIME—the label that has made a recent splash in the classic film home video pond with the release of such titles as The Kremlin Letter, Violent Saturday, and The Egyptian—is the brainchild of 30-year Warner Bros veteran Brian Jamieson and filmmaker/music restoration specialist Nick Redman. In his long tenure at Warner Home Video, Jamieson initiated and oversaw countless legacy restorations, including the films of Stanley Kubrick, Samuel Fuller’s The Big Red One, and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch. Redman, a film historian and Oscar nominee for his 1997 documentary, The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage, is also a prime mover behind Twentieth Century Fox’s pioneering series of limited edition soundtracks, the inspiration for TWILIGHT TIME’s release model.

TWILIGHT TIME, Jamieson explains, is motivated by a desire “to optimize the film enthusiast’s dream, providing long sought-after collectible and fully restored titles, in their original aspect ratios, all manufactured to the highest quality available, and at an affordable price.”

Unlike movies-on-demand offerings, each TWILIGHT TIME release is a BD or DVD (not a DVDr) properly pressed from a restored transfer. Each is accompanied by a collectible 8-page booklet complete with original essay, stills, and poster art. And each TWILIGHT TIME disc provides, whenever possible, that extra most coveted by cinemusic enthusiasts: an isolated score. Mysterious Island offers a particularly high incentive along these lines, featuring music by pantheon composer Bernard Herrmann.

Grover Crisp, Sony Pictures Entertainment's Executive Vice President for Asset Management, Film Restoration, and Digital Mastering, is enthusiastic about his studio's new partnership with the label. “Our collaboration with Twilight Time will allow us to make available for Blu-ray release some of our library's most collectible titles in a way fans have been asking for: restored and re-mastered with attention to detail and quality.”

And Jamieson concurs: “Sony and Twilight Time,” he says, “will be serving both the collectible drive of film aficionados, and, in a larger sense, the cause of cinema literacy.”