Some great news for fans of Mike Meyers.
New Line Home Video has Austin Powers Collection coming to Blu-ray on December 2nd, 2008.
The set will contain the three Austin Powers movies in a Shagadelic Edition, loaded with extra mojo.
Amazon has another sale going on with up to 45% savings on a handful of Warner/New Line titles.
Titles include Shoot ‘Em Up, Pan’s Labyrinth, Mr Woodcock, Ocean’s Thirteen, Lady in the Water, The Fountain, Syriana and Rush Hour 3.
A Blu-ray release that I have been hoping for was listed today.
Warner Home Video will be releasing Run Fat Boy Run on Blu-ray on September 23rd, 2008. After the UK release was coded for Region B only, I was a bit worried that it might not get a US compatible release.
As previously mentioned, Universal Studios will be releasing Forgetting Sarah Marshall on Blu-ray Disc on September 30th, 2008. This movie featuring ‘Veronica Mars’ and ‘Jackie from That 70s Show’ is one of the better ones I have seen this year. Retail will be $39.98, only $26.95 at Amazon.
I must admit I was a little excited when I read that New Line is going to release Blow on Blu-ray Disc on the increasingly busy release date of September 23rd.
My excitement was a little short lived when I discovered that Warner appears to have taken over the New Line catalogue for real - and have infected New Line with their Dolby Digital sound tracks.
We have a number of weekend listings for you tonight.
Forbidden Kingdom, featuring Jet Li and Jackie Chan, will be released by Lions Gate on September 9th, 2008. Retail will be $39.99, the Amazon price - only $27.95.
In a fairly small week for Blu-ray releases by recent standards, we have some Day and Date releases from Warner and some catalogue releases from Sony.
First up from Warner we have Be Kind Rewind, the latest film from Michel Gondry. Michel is famous for his quirky movies including The Science of Sleep and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (a personal favourite). New Line has presented us with a nice release including DTS-HD Master Audio 24bit 7.1 sound track and a number of featurettes. Save 31% at Amazon: $24.95
My Harold and Kumar enthusiasm continues:
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay has been freshly listed by New Line Home Video, scheduled for a July 29th, 2008 release. Retail is set at $35.99, pre-order at Amazon for only $24.95.
Now all I need is a listing for Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and I will be set!
Well, I didn’t have to wait long for the news I was waiting for…
After pining for the original Harold and Kumar movie in this post, I read at DVD Times - not only the specs for the sequel - but also that the original film will be joining on the same day on Blu-ray Disc. Count me in as a happy camper!
In any case, while features for the first film are scarce, the sequel will feature a bonus digital copy, an interactive feature allowing you to select from new and alternate scenes to change the course of the film, commentaries with the director and stars, The World of Harold and Kumar featurette, 27 additional scenes and a Bush PSA.
Sounds like a great list - really looking forward to July 29th now!
DVD Active is reporting a July 29th release date for Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. The original film, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle didn’t do a lot of business at the box office (roughly $18M) but did very well on DVD. The sequel has an estimated $36M so far, but this title may again be expected to do better on home video.
Not much in the way of details on the disc sadly - I really hope they release the original along with the sequel myself…
Also for release soon is one of my favourites from the shortened television season, Pushing Daisies. DVD Times is reporting the US Blu-ray Disc release of Pushing Daisies Season 1 on 16th September 2008, retail priced at $39.99.
It is interesting to see these ‘inexpensive’ TV box sets, no doubt due to there being only nine episodes on the disc. We also get short changed on the audio - Dolby Digital 5.1 is reported. I know it is only TV but is it really that hard to encode the audio with TrueHD or even just leave it as LPCM? Perhaps there was some desire to hit BD25 discs with this one, making lossless audio a little tricky..?
