In April and May, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment UK will release Limited SteelBook Blu-ray editions of contemporary hits and classic films from different eras. Amongst them are Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's
Fargo (1996), Richard Donner's
The Omen (1976), Tim Story's
Fantastic Four (2005), and Zhang Yimou's
House of Flying Daggers (2004).
Fargo
Jerry (William H. Macy), a small Minnesota town car salesman, is bursting at the seams with debt...but he's got a plan. He's gonna hire two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's gonna be a snap and nobody's gonna get hurt...until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand), a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom...you betcha! STREET DATE: April 7TH.
Alien
Alien is the first movie of one of the most popular sagas in science fiction history, and introduces Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, the iron-willed woman destined to battle the galaxy's ultimate creature. The terror begins when the crew of the spaceship Nostromo investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and makes a horrifying discovery - a life-form that breeds within a human host. Now the crew must fight not only for its own survival, but for the survival of all mankind. STREET DATE: APRIL 14TH.
The Poseidon Adventure
A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in an attempt to survive. STREET DATE: APRIL 14TH.
Alien³
Lt. Ripley is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Florina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's maximum security prison. Ripley's fears that an mutilated bodies of ex-cons begin to mount. Without weapons or modern technology of any kind, Ripley must lead the men into battle against the terrifying creature. And soon she discovers a horrifying fact about her link with the Alien, a realization that may compel Ripley to try destroying not only the horrific creature, but herself as well. STREET DATE: APRIL 14TH.
Fantastic Four
After exposure to cosmic radiation, four astronauts become the most remarkable, if dysfunctional, heroes of all time. Unfortunately, the mission's sponsor has also been transformed - into the world's most lethal super-villain - setting the stage for a confrontation of epic proportions. APRIL 14TH.
X-Men 3: The Last Stand
The X-Men's epic final battle is packed with nonstop action, amazing special effects and all-new heroes and villains. When a controversial mutant "cure" is discovered, peaceful leader Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) clashes with his militant counterpart, Magneto (Ian McKellen), triggering the war to end all wars. STREET DATE: APRIL 14TH.
The Omen
When Kathy Thorn (Lee Remick) gives birth to a stillborn baby, her husband Robert (Gregory Peck) shields her from he devastating truth and substitutes an orphaned infant for their own - unaware of the child's satanic origins. The horror begins on Damien's fifth birthday when his nanny stages a dramatic suicide. Soon after, a priest who tries to warn Damien's father is killed in a freakish accident. As the death toll mounts, Robert realizes his son is the Antichrist and decides he must kill the boy to prevent him from fulfilling a cataclysmic prophecy. Briskly paced and breathtakingly evil, The Omen is the first film in a classic four-part legacy of terror. STREET DATE: APRIL 14TH.
The Descent
On an annual extreme outdoor adventure, six women meet in a remote part of the Appalachians to explore a cave hidden deep in the woods. Far below the surface of the earth, disaster strikes when a rock fall blocks their exit and there's no way out. The women push on, praying for another exit, but there is something else lurking under the earth. The friends are now prey, forced to unleash their most primal instincts in an all-out war against an unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning, again and again and again. STREET DATE: APRIL 14TH.
House of Flying Daggers
Mei is an exotic, beautiful blind dancer, associated with a dangerous revolutionary gang, known as The House Of Flying Daggers. Captured by officers of the decadent Targ Dynasty, Mei finds herself both threatened - and attracted - to the most unusual circumstances. Here, her heart and loyalties battle each other, amid warriors in the treetops and dazzling combat - the likes of which have never before been seen. STREET DATE: MAY 12TH.
Vanishing Point
Barry Newman stars as Kowalski, the last American hero, who sets out to prove that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in just fifteen hours. Along the way, he meets an old prospector, a nude woman on a motorcycle, and a blind D.J. who "sees" danger ahead in this super-charged, action-packed adventure. STREET DATE: MAY 12TH.
The Thin Red Line
A powerful front-line cast - including Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson and George Clooney - explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Terrence Malick), The Thin Red Line is an unparalleled cinematic masterpiece. STREET DATE: MAY 12TH.
Big
Josh (Tom Hanks) wishes he was big. When he wakes up the next day, he's an adult! Now, Josh must hold down a job, please a new boss (Robert Loggia) and navigate a relationship with a beautiful woman (Elizabeth Perkins). Soon, Josh just wants to be a kid again, but can he? STREET DATE: MAY 12TH.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Recreate The Midnight Movie Experience in your living room and celebrate 35 years of absolute pleasure with this picture-perfect specimen of Richard O'Brien's cosmic cult classic starring Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon It's brimming with twisted humour, mind-blowing music and decadent extras. So come up to the lab...See what's on the slab... The Rocky Horror Picture Show in abundance. STREET DATE: MAY 12TH.
Legend
Tom Cruise stars in this visually-stunning fantasy adventure in which pure good and evil battle to the death amidst spectacular surroundings. Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story has Tom Cruise, a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate to undertake a heroic quest. He must save a beautiful princess, Mia Sara, and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, Tim Curry, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age. Co-starring Billy Barty and Alice Playten and directed by Ridley Scott, famed for his remarkable settings and unparalleled imagery, the incredibly realized fable is the stuff movie legends are made of. STREET DATE: MAY 12TH.
Speed
Keanu Reeves stars as an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist (Dennis Hopper) has planted on a bus. But until he does, one of the passengers (Sandra Bullock) must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour - or the bomb will detonate. STREET DATE: MAY 12TH.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day The Earth Stood Still depicts the arrival of an alien dignitary, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), who has come to earth with his deadly robot, Gort (Lock Martin), to deliver the message that earthlings must stop warring among themselves--or else. After being shot at by military guards, Klaatu is brought to a Washington, D.C. hospital, where he begs a sympathetic but frank Major White (Robert Osterloh) to gather all the world's leaders so he can tell them more specifically what he has come to warn them about. Losing patience, Klaatu slips into the human world, adapting a false identity and living at a boarding house where he meets a smart woman with a conscience and her inquisitive son. Both mother and son soon find themselves embroiled in the complex mystery of Klaatu, his message and the government's witch hunt for the alien. STREET DATE: MAY 12TH.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Settle back with your favorite sidekick and enjoy Hollywood's original buddy picture. Paul Newman and Robert Redford have never shined brighter in the roles that will forever identify them as the daring, debonair outlaws on the run - and head over-heels in love with the same beautiful woman (Katharine Ross). STREET DATE: MAY 12TH.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, The Good The Bad And The Ugly is an engrossing action shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the "Man With No Name," this time teaming with two gunslingers to pursue a cache of $20,000-and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. From sun-drenched panoramas to bold hard close-ups, exceptional camera work captures the beauty and cruelty of the barren landscape and the hardened characters who stride unwaveringly through it. Forging a vibrant and yet detached style of action that had not been seen before, and has never been matched since, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly shatters the western mold in true Eastwood style. STREET DATE: MAY 26TH.