The Abba-centric Mamma Mia! has been listed by Universal Pictures UK for Blu-ray release on November 24th, 2008.
This is a movie of the musical that is based on the songs of Abba.
The Lost Prince has been scheduled by 2 Entertain Video for release on October 27th, 2008.
The recent Angelina Jolie action movie Wanted will be released by Universal Pictures UK on December 1st, 2008.
Hopefully we will see an official US announcement soon also.
Universal Pictures also has some TV coming - Ricky Gervias in Extras - The Christmas Specials - on November 3rd, 2008.
I see a few interesting releases in Germany from Kinowelt, HMH Hamburger Medien Haus and Ufa.
Fight Club and Dances With Wolves are coming from Kinowelt on December 5th, 2008.
Both could be very popular imports if Fox doesn’t get their act together.
The Hayden Christensen movie Awake will be released by Kinowelt on December 12th, 2008
Anna Karenina (1997), Little Fish and Heavy Petting (2007) are planned by HMH Hamburger Medien Haus for October 16th, 2008.
HMH Hamburger Medien Haus also has Poor Boy’s Game and Da Block Party 1 & 2 Doppelpack coming on November 13th, 2008
Expect Penelope (2006) from Ufa on November 10th, 2008.
Germans will have to wait until June 30th, 2009 for Wall-E!
I see that Warner has listed a number of new titles for France today, including some of the Matrix movies as individual releases as well as a number of releases already announced in the USA.
Warner have scheduled Matrix, Matrix révolutions and Animatrix for release on November 12th as single disc editions. No doubt some will be happy to buy only the first movie and Animatrix, avoiding the other two less popular movies.
Also listed for release are L.a. confidential, Entretien avec un vampire (Interview with the Vampire), Beetlejuice and Generation perdue (Lost Boys) on October 15th, Resident evil and Resident evil extinction on November 12th, and Amour de l’or (Fool’s Gold) on November 19th, 2008.
I have neglected the German releases for a while now, so I will only touch on some of the more interesting releases in this post.
Die Goonies, Interview mit einem Vampir, Gremlins and Gigi are all coming from Warner Home Video on October 17th, 2008.
I expect that US releases will arrive in a similar time frame.
I see a wide range of new titles up for UK Blu-ray release.
ITV DVD is planning the Frank Darabont classic The Shawshank Redemption for release on November 10th, 2008. ITV also has The Ipcress File on the same day.
I see some interesting listings in France this week.
Highlander and Stargate : La porte des étoiles are coming to Blu-ray from Studio Canal on October 23rd, 2008. I am hoping for a decent version of Highlander, since the USA theatrical cut should be avoided if at all possible. There can be only one!
It is apparent from the per title market share reports that different movie genres or titles have different market share when comparing Blu-ray and DVD sales.
This fact is strongly echoed by the news that, for the first time, one of the Japanese Anime titles actually sold more on Blu-ray than it did on DVD last week.
It looks like we will be getting a big dose of Hulk around the year’s end with the new Incredible Hulk movie Blu-ray Disc release as well as the earlier Ang Lee Hulk film.
In the UK, I see that Hulk has been listed by Universal Pictures UK for release on November 24th, 2008.
In France, I see that L’incroyable Hulk has been listed by Warner Home Video on January 23th, 2009.
