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Warner Archive Announces December Releases
Posted November 11, 2026 08:43 PM by Webmaster
Warner Archive has announced its December batch of releases. They are: Decoy (1946), The Informer (1935), Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), The Big Store (1941), Tea for Two (1950), Test Pilot (1938), Little Nellie Kelly (1940), The Abbott and Costello Cartoons: The Complete Collection (1967-1968), The Bounty Hunter (1954), and The Mask of Dimitrios (1944).
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Severin: Three New Russ Meyer Films Heading to 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray
Posted November 10, 2026 10:46 PM by Webmaster
Severin Films has revealed that it will release three newly restored Russ Meyer films on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray. They are: Common Law Cabin (1967), and Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1969), Blacksnake (1973). All three releases are scheduled to arrive on the market in late February 2027.
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The Devils 4K Blu-ray
Posted November 10, 2026 07:54 PM by Webmaster
Warner Bros. Clockwork will release on a Collector's Edition combo pack of Ken Russell's The Devils (1971), starring Oliver Reed, Vanessa Redgrave, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian, and Gemma Jones. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on April 20.
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Heart of the Beast 4K Blu-ray
Posted November 9, 2026 06:57 PM by Webmaster
Paramount Home Media Distribution will release a 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray combo pack of David Ayer's Heart of the Beast (2026), starring Brad Pitt, J.K. Simmons, Uber, Anna Lambe, and Justin Melnick. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on January 26.
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Blu-ray Sales: October 25-31: Masters of the Universe Not Frightened by Frankenstein
Posted November 9, 2026 03:22 PM by Sean Greenwood
For the week that ended on October 31st, Alliance Entertainment's Masters of the Universe (2026) remained atop the Blu-ray-only, overall packaged media and 4K UHD charts in its second week, fending off the Criterion Collection's new release of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025), which took second place. Third place on all charts went to The Frighteners, which was released on remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD by Arrow Video this week.
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This Week on Blu-ray: November 9-15
Posted November 8, 2026 07:48 PM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of November 9th, the Criterion Collection will release Blue Heron on Blu-ray, as well as Shoot the Piano Player and Marie Antoinette (2006) on Blu-ray and 4K UHD. Other new releases include The Apothecary Diaries: Season 2 from Crunchyroll, Call of the Night: Season 2 from Sentai Filmworks and Mad Bills to Pay from Oscilloscope Laboratories. Catalog titles include Blu-rays for Lock Up: Season 1, Volume 1 from ClassicFlix and Miranda from Cult Films, as well as 4K UHD releases for Planet of the Vampires from Radiance Films, Above the Law from Toy Robot Video, Four Rooms from Kino Lorber, Con Air from Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Memoirs of a Geisha from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Lovely Bones from Paramount Home Media Distribution and Paddington from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
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No Blu-ray for Burn Notice Season 3
Posted March 9, 2010 07:09 AM by Juan Calonge
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced the release of Burn Notice: Season Three for June 1. Unfortunately, it will come out in standard-definition DVD only. This is a new chapter in the erratic hidef career of this TV series: Season One was released in June 2008 on DVD only; a year later, Season Two was released on DVD and BD (but the studio still didn't release Season One on BD); and now Season Three goes back to DVD only.
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Disney Offering $10 Coupon for Old Dogs Blu-ray
Posted March 9, 2010 03:47 AM by Juan Calonge
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has a printable $10 off coupon good for the purchase of the Old Dogs Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack during its first week in stores. This coupon is redeemable at participating retailers, and there are versions available for the US and the English-speaking provinces of Canada. This promotion expires on March 16.
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Magnolia Announces Blu-ray Action Wave for May
Posted March 8, 2010 04:12 PM by Juan Calonge
Magnolia Home Entertainment has scheduled two Asian action titles for May 11. On that date, the studio will release the Korean disaster film Tidal Wave (Haeundae) and the Thai swords-and-martial-arts movie Legend of the Tsunami Warrior (Puen ya jon salad). Technical specifications have not been disclosed at the moment.
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Lightning Deal: Family 3-Pack Blu-ray for $22.99 (Sold out)
Posted March 8, 2010 02:38 PM by Juan Calonge
Amazon has now a BD-related Lightning Deal. For a very limited time, you can order the Family 3-Pack (consisting of Alvin And The Chipmunks, Ice Age and Ice Age 2: The Meltdown) for only $22.99, or $7.66 per movie. This offer expires today at 2 p.m. PST, or when stock runs out. Update: all discounts have been claimed.
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Friedkin Flaunts Control over Exorcist Blu-ray, Says No to 3D
Posted March 8, 2010 10:24 AM by Juan Calonge
In a recent interview, William Friedkin was asked about the possibility that Warner Brothers decided to convert The Exorcist to 3D. Friedkin said that would never happen, "providing I'm still alive." He stated that he has control "over every single frame of film" when converting it to Blu-ray. "If I want a scene bluer, I get that scene bluer," he added.
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Where's the Blu-ray, Lebowski?
Posted March 8, 2010 09:00 AM by Juan Calonge
Last night, when Jeff Bridges finally won his Oscar, he offhandedly drew from one of his most memorable (and most quotable) characters, The Dude: "Well, you know, [it's been] ups and downs, strikes and gutters, man." The Big Lebowski, however, is still unreleased on Blu-ray yet – as are most of Bridges's other movies, spanning four decades under directors such as Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Cimino, the Coen brothers, Francis Ford Coppola, Terry Gilliam, John Huston, Ridley Scott or Peter Weir.
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War of the Worlds Blu-ray Dated and Detailed
Posted March 8, 2010 06:03 AM by Juan Calonge
Between April and June, Paramount Home Entertainment is releasing three Steven Spielberg movies, one each month. On June 1, the studio will release War of the Worlds, the modern retelling of H.G. Wells's science-fiction novella starring Tom Cruise. Technical specifications have not been released yet. The BD carries over all the contents from the two-disc limited edition DVD.
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The 82nd Oscars and Blu-ray
Posted March 8, 2010 05:17 AM by Juan Calonge
Virtually all the award-winning titles at last night's Academy Award ceremony are already out on Blu-ray or will be soon. The Hurt Locker was the clear winner, with six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director (the first time for a female director, Kathryn Bigelow). This low-budget war movie, despite great reception at the Venice and Toronto film festivals in 2008, had a somewhat limited theatrical run in the States and grossed under $13 million. It was released on Blu-ray by Summit Entertainment in January.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Blu-ray Announced
Posted March 8, 2010 04:11 AM by Juan Calonge
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus for release on Blu-ray on April 27. This Terry Gilliam fantasy movie was beset by tragedy when actor Heath Ledger died midway through production. The project seemed doomed, but eventually Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law completed the role of Ledger's character. It received two Academy Award nominations (Art Direction and Costume Design).
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Rob Marshall’s Nine Blu-ray Announced
Posted March 8, 2010 04:09 AM by Juan Calonge
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that, on May 4, it will release the Weinstein Company production Nine on Blu-ray. This adaptation of a Broadway musical, itself based on Federico Fellini's 8½, garnered considerable buzz but fizzled at the box office. It received four Academy Award nominations (Best Supporting Actress –Penélope Cruz–, Art Direction, Costume Design and Original Song).
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Rumor: Branagh's Hamlet Coming Soon on Blu-ray
Posted March 6, 2010 05:06 AM by Juan Calonge
When Warner Home Video announced the release on Blu-ray of the recent BBC production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, we lamented that the full-text 1996 version starring and directed by Kenneth Branagh wasn't coming out on Blu-ray. Now it seems that WHV has addressed those concerns, as Branagh's Hamlet has just gone up for preorder, complete with rather official-looking cover art.
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Prince Valiant Blu-ray Announced
Posted March 5, 2010 11:43 AM by Juan Calonge
Eureka Entertainment has announced Prince Valiant for release on Blu-ray in the UK on April 26. This 1954 CinemaScope adaptation of the famous comic strip created by Harold R. Foster in 1937 was directed by Henry Hathaway and stars Robert Wagner as Prince Valiant and Janet Leigh as Princess Aleta.
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The Basketball Diaries Blu-ray in April
Posted March 5, 2010 09:31 AM by Juan Calonge
Independent distributor Palm Pictures will release The Basketball Diaries on Blu-ray on April 20. This 1995 drama, based on Jim Carroll's autobiography, stars a pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio in a bravura performance as a young poet and high-school basketball promise turned heroin addict. Note that the existing DVD release from 1998 isn't even anamorphically enhanced.
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Blu-ray Remote App for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad by sofatronic
Posted March 5, 2010 07:24 AM by Juan Calonge
Sofatronic, a provider for interactive Blu-ray features, is launching the "sofa remote app", a Blu-ray application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This app controls BD-Live players of all manufacturers in a home network and offers unique new possibilities. Every Blu-ray can deliver its own look and feel for the application and can customize the feature by the touch of a button. In that way, the company promises, "the fun of viewing a movie on the big screen in the living room can be brought to the small screen in your palm."
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HDMI Specification Version 1.4a Released
Posted March 5, 2010 04:58 AM by Juan Calonge
HDMI Licensing, LLC, the agent responsible for licensing the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) specification, announced yesterday, on behalf of the HDMI Founders, the release of HDMI Specification Version 1.4a featuring key enhancements for 3D applications including the addition of mandatory 3D formats for broadcast content as well as the addition of the 3D format referred to as Top-and-Bottom.
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Blu-ray Sells over $200m in Jan-Feb 2010, Restores Growth for Packaged Media
Posted March 5, 2010 04:37 AM by Juan Calonge
According to aggregate weekly estimates from the research department of Home Media Magazine, revenues from Blu-ray sales in the US in 2010 through February were $200.95 million, 59% more than in the same period of 2009. Additionally, thanks to Blu-ray, the revenue from packaged-media sales stopped falling and grew 3% year-on-year.
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Raging Phoenix Announced on Blu-ray
Posted March 5, 2010 02:51 AM by Juan Calonge
Cine Asia has announced the Thai martial arts movie Raging Phoenix (original title: Deu Suay Doo) for release on Blu-ray in the UK on April 12 in a special collector's edition. Technical specifications and special features are still to be confirmed. Raging Phoenix is the second film performance for actress Jija Yanin, who had debuted in Chocolate.
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The Notebook Gets Regular Edition Blu-ray
Posted March 4, 2010 08:42 AM by Juan Calonge
Blu-ray enthusiasts for whom gift sets are just cumbersome boxes and collectibles mere trinkets will be glad to hear that Warner Home Video will release the New Line title The Notebook in a regular Blu-ray edition on May 4. In January 2009, this movie had been released in a Limited Edition Gift Set, which, according to the blu-ray.com review, was "terribly impractical", although it "should make more than a few ladies grin".
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Kill Zone Blu-ray Detailed
Posted March 4, 2010 06:19 AM by Juan Calonge
Cine Asia has revealed the details for the Blu-ray release of the Hong Kong action movie Kill Zone (original title: SPL: Saat Po Long or Sha Po Lang), directed by Wilson Yip and starring Donnie Yen, which is due to hit UK store shelves on March 8. It will include the original Cantonese and an English dub, both in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, with optional English subtitles.
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Lord of the Rings Blu-ray Ditches Dolby, Goes 6.1
Posted March 4, 2010 05:44 AM by Juan Calonge
Warner Home Video has uploaded the final back cover picture for The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy, which comes out on Blu-ray in a month, and a significant change in the audio specs has taken place: while initially audio was listed as Dolby TrueHD 5.1, now it's DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1.
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Entourage and Hung Announced on Blu-ray
Posted March 4, 2010 05:02 AM by Juan Calonge
HBO, in conjunction with Warner Home Video, has announced two TV series for release on Blu-ray on June 22: Entourage: The Complete Sixth Season and Hung: The Complete First Season. Both series will come in digipacks with a slipcase, and extras will include audio commentaries and featurettes.
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Blu-ray Sales, Feb. 22-28: The Citizen Abides (Update)
Posted March 4, 2010 04:09 AM by Juan Calonge
The new releases of the week ended February 28 were unable to unseat Anchor Bay's Law Abiding Citizen from the top spot on Blu-ray, according to Nielsen VideoScan. The Blu-ray market share for Citizen also rose from 28% in its first week to 41%. The direct-to-video animated title Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths managed third place and The Informant! was tenth. Update: charts and sales figures added.
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Chevy Chase Double Feature Blu-ray BB Exclusive
Posted March 3, 2010 05:36 AM by Juan Calonge
Last week Warner Home Video released five Blu-ray double features. Yesterday, it released another one, with two movies starring Chevy Chase: Funny Farm / Spies Like Us. It is a Best Buy exclusive in the US and available in-store only, at least for the time being.
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Rumor: Gladiator Remastered Blu-ray in May
Posted March 3, 2010 05:16 AM by Juan Calonge
Confirming earlier reports, first signs of a remastered Blu-ray release of Gladiator are surfacing on the Web. A blu-ray.com forum member from Finland reported that local web retailers have already a reissue of the movie up for preorder, with a release date of May 4 and "remastered" in the item description. French retailers also have a new release of Gladiator tagged for May 11, although in this case no mention of a remaster is made.
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Calendar Bug Briefly Strikes "Fat" PS3
Posted March 3, 2010 03:10 AM by Juan Calonge
The PS3 got the Y2K bug ten years later. On Monday, March 1, a calendar-related glitch struck older PS3 consoles. The internal clock of the console incorrectly considered 2010 as a leap year, preventing users from joining the PlayStation Network and playing certain games that used trophies. However, Blu-ray playback wasn't affected. The glitch has sorted itself out without the need for a system update.
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Geek Peek: Avatar SteelBook UK Blu-ray
Posted March 2, 2010 02:12 PM by Juan Calonge
Avatar still hasn't an official Blu-ray date, but British retailers already have received cover art images for the upcoming BD edition. The image posted indicates that the UK branch of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will release James Cameron's megablockbuster in a SteelBook release with artcards and a printed "Activist Survival Guide."
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Porcupine Tree Live Blu-ray Coming Up
Posted March 2, 2010 01:14 PM by Juan Calonge
The progressive rock band Porcupine Tree announced that it is putting the finishing touches on its new live film, Anesthetize, recorded over two nights in Tilburg (Netherlands) in October 2008, at the end of the Fear of a Blank Planet tour. It will come out in April, in a cloth-bound hardback 120-page book, including the concert on Blu-ray and DVD, as well as two audio CDs of the soundtrack.
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Leap Year Blu-ray Announced
Posted March 2, 2010 09:01 AM by Juan Calonge
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced that it will release Leap Year on Blu-ray on May 4. This romantic comedy stars Amy Adams as a young woman who, tired of waiting for her boyfriend to propose to her, takes matter into her own hands and travels to Ireland, where a tradition allows women to propose to men on Leap Day.
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Today on Blu-ray - March 2nd
Posted March 2, 2010 08:40 AM by Josh Dreuth
If Hollywood needs something blown up, Roland Emmerich is the man to do it; he has made a very successful career in destroying the world over and over again for the amusement of film fans. For his latest film 2012 - which is out on Blu-ray today – Emmerich uses a Mayan prediction that the world will end in 2012 to destroy the world once again.
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Blockbuster Late Fees Return
Posted March 1, 2010 04:33 PM by Juan Calonge
In another blow for disc rentals, Blockbuster has reinstated late fees on movie rentals at its stores. Beginning March 1, the new-release movie rental period for $4.99 titles has been reduced to five days. Afterwards, a $1 per day late fee will be applied, for up to 10 days (thus capped to $10). Blockbuster hasn't announced this change officially; this information comes from store personnel whom Blockbuster has briefed.