Upcoming Via Vision Blu-ray Releases (UPDATED)
HomeUpcoming Via Vision Blu-ray Releases (UPDATED)
Posted August 5, 2016 05:57 PM by Webmaster
Australian label Via Vision Entertainment has informed us that it plans to release various classic and cult films on Blu-ray. Amongst them are Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Suddenly, Last Summer, The Amityville Horror Collection, and Frank Capra's Lost Horizon.
UPDATE
The label has sent us additional details about the upcoming releases. See special features listings under each release.
The Amityville Horror Collection is a four disc set packed with bonus features and includes Amityville 3 in 3D. Featuring James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger and Burt Young, the collection remains an ever popular and chilling take on a factual family massacre which has inspired many other supernatural copycat movies. Extras include cast and crew interviews, commentaries, featurettes and informative documentaries.
Fail-Safe from Hollywood master Sidney Lumet dramatises the chaotic aftermath of when a technical malfunction causes American bombers to launch a nuclear attack on Moscow. This masterpiece of cold war realism stars Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau.
Frank Capra's Lost Horizon arrives on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world. Nominated for five Academy Awards, this epic adventure has received a 4K restoration from the original negative and includes the insertion of 1 minute of salvaged, previously unseen and thought to be lost footage.
Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer gets the superstar Hollywood treatment with Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Katherine Hepburn in an explosive drama of family secrets, a traumatic event and personal resurgence in a high definition global premiere. Also available on Blu-ray: The Remains of the Day, Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil and The Toy.
Lost Horizon
A lavishly-produced classic about the enchanted paradise of Shangri-La where time stands still. After nearly 50 years, Frank Capra's timeless masterpiece, Lost Horizon was based on the best-selling novel by James Hilton. In 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment completed an all digital restoration at Colorworks, using the preservation negative created in 1998 as the primary source, scanned at 4K and integrated with the director's personal nitrate print. Additional material was located in a badly worn 16mm print of the scene of the first meeting with the High Lama, where previously missing footage had been represented by the original soundtrack and still images. With extraordinary art direction, the set of Shangri-La is considered the largest ever built in Hollywood and it remains one of the most expensive productions for its time.
Special Features:
Suddenly, Last Summer
Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received Oscar nominations for Best Actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. Beautiful Catherine Holly (Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Catherine's aunt, Violet Venable (Hepburn), tries to influence Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), a young neurosurgeon, to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilising injections of sodium pentothal, Dr. Cukrowicz discovers that Catherine's delusions are, in fact, true. He then must confront Violet about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
There will be no supplemental features on this upcoming release.
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 7.
Fail-Safe
One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever, Fail-Safe takes you to the verge of World War III. When a military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American President (Fonda) tries to call them back. But their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack, so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate. In desperation, the President offers to sacrifice an American city if his pilots succeed in their deadly mission over Moscow. A four-star techno-thriller that builds tension and suspense with every tick of the nuclear clock.
Supplemental Features:
Amityville Horror: Collection
Blood drips from the walls. A terrifying chill permeates through the rooms. Menacing eyes glow from the upstairs window and inside this charming Long Island home, an unspeakable evil lurks the halls, waiting to torment all who dare enter. Experience the ultimate in haunted house film trilogy…and delve deeper into the history of the films with vintage special features and all-new extras in a deluxe collector's boxed set.
Amityville Horror – 1979
In the first of a series of Amityville films, George (James Brolin) and Kathy Lutz (Margot Kidder), plus their cute kids, move into a riverfront home in the small town of Amityville. The house is a seemingly tranquil retreat except for one minor detail: The man who lived there prior to the Lutz family brutally killed his wife and children. Even with this knowledge, George and Kathy decide to purchase the house. As they begin unpacking their belongings, strange things start happening to them—odd nightmares, voices in the hall, and a feeling of madness that will drive them to the brink of sanity. It appears that the Lutzes are not alone inside the Amityville house, and whatever else is living with them wants them out…or dead!
Amityville Horror II – 1982
This second installment in the Amityville series is a "prequel" which traces the events leading up to The Amityville Horror. In Amityville II: The Possession, the Montelli family moves into the Amityville house replete with its demonic windows. The family's patriarch, Anthony (Burt Young), is a brutish father with a timid wife, Dolores (Rutanya Alda), two small children, and two teenagers, Patricia (Diane Franklin) and Sonny (Jack Magner). After only a few days in their new home, strange occurrences take root; the cellar produces a nasty amount of flies and feces. Malevolent voices reverberate through the halls. And most disturbing, Sonny begins to have visions of murdering his entire family. The events that follow produce a battle between good and evil that ultimately paves the way to one of the greatest horrors Amityville has ever experienced.
Amityville Horror III – 1983
In the third installment of the Amityville Horror series, the terror is not only real…it's coming to you in three dimensions! John Baxter (Tony Roberts) is a psychic investigator who spends his time debunking phony so-called "experts" of the occult. John and his wife, Nancy (Tess Harper), are recently separated with a young daughter, Susan (Lori Loughlin). John haphazardly decides to purchase the infamous Amityville house and moves in, unaware of the horrible dangers that lie inside. As John spends more and more time inside the house, he begins to endanger not only himself but also his family, friends and coworkers. It's three times the terror in Amityville 3-D!
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 28.
The Remains of the Day
Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (Howard's End) reunite with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team for this extraordinary and moving story of blind devotion and repressed love. Hopkins stars as Stevens, the perfect English butler–an ideal carried by him to fanatical lengths–as he serves his master, Lord Darlington, beautifully played by James Fox (The Servant). Darlington, like many other members of the British establishment in the 1930s, is duped by the Nazis into trying to establish a rapport between themselves and the British government. Thompson stars as the estate's housekeeper, a high-spirited, strong-minded young woman who watches the goings-on upstairs with horror. Despite her apprehensions, she and Stevens gradually fall in love, though neither will admit it, and only give vent to their charged feelings via fierce arguments. Marvelously acted by a supporting cast that includes Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant, The Remains of the Day is a powerhouse period drama.
Special Features:
Also available on Blu-ray from Via Vision Entertainment: Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, The Toy, and The Stanley Kubrick Collection.
UPDATE
The label has sent us additional details about the upcoming releases. See special features listings under each release.
The Amityville Horror Collection is a four disc set packed with bonus features and includes Amityville 3 in 3D. Featuring James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger and Burt Young, the collection remains an ever popular and chilling take on a factual family massacre which has inspired many other supernatural copycat movies. Extras include cast and crew interviews, commentaries, featurettes and informative documentaries.
Fail-Safe from Hollywood master Sidney Lumet dramatises the chaotic aftermath of when a technical malfunction causes American bombers to launch a nuclear attack on Moscow. This masterpiece of cold war realism stars Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau.
Frank Capra's Lost Horizon arrives on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world. Nominated for five Academy Awards, this epic adventure has received a 4K restoration from the original negative and includes the insertion of 1 minute of salvaged, previously unseen and thought to be lost footage.
Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer gets the superstar Hollywood treatment with Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Katherine Hepburn in an explosive drama of family secrets, a traumatic event and personal resurgence in a high definition global premiere. Also available on Blu-ray: The Remains of the Day, Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil and The Toy.
Lost Horizon
A lavishly-produced classic about the enchanted paradise of Shangri-La where time stands still. After nearly 50 years, Frank Capra's timeless masterpiece, Lost Horizon was based on the best-selling novel by James Hilton. In 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment completed an all digital restoration at Colorworks, using the preservation negative created in 1998 as the primary source, scanned at 4K and integrated with the director's personal nitrate print. Additional material was located in a badly worn 16mm print of the scene of the first meeting with the High Lama, where previously missing footage had been represented by the original soundtrack and still images. With extraordinary art direction, the set of Shangri-La is considered the largest ever built in Hollywood and it remains one of the most expensive productions for its time.
Special Features:
- Alternate Ending With Narration
- Photo Documentary with Narration by Historian Kendall Miller
- Restoration: Before & After Comparison
- 3 Deleted "Never-seen-before" Scenes, with audio commentary
Suddenly, Last Summer
Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received Oscar nominations for Best Actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. Beautiful Catherine Holly (Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Catherine's aunt, Violet Venable (Hepburn), tries to influence Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift), a young neurosurgeon, to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilising injections of sodium pentothal, Dr. Cukrowicz discovers that Catherine's delusions are, in fact, true. He then must confront Violet about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
There will be no supplemental features on this upcoming release.
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 7.
Fail-Safe
One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever, Fail-Safe takes you to the verge of World War III. When a military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American President (Fonda) tries to call them back. But their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack, so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate. In desperation, the President offers to sacrifice an American city if his pilots succeed in their deadly mission over Moscow. A four-star techno-thriller that builds tension and suspense with every tick of the nuclear clock.
Supplemental Features:
- Audio commentary by Director Sidney Lumet
- Fail-Safe revisited Documentary
- Theatrical trailer
Amityville Horror: Collection
Blood drips from the walls. A terrifying chill permeates through the rooms. Menacing eyes glow from the upstairs window and inside this charming Long Island home, an unspeakable evil lurks the halls, waiting to torment all who dare enter. Experience the ultimate in haunted house film trilogy…and delve deeper into the history of the films with vintage special features and all-new extras in a deluxe collector's boxed set.
Amityville Horror – 1979
In the first of a series of Amityville films, George (James Brolin) and Kathy Lutz (Margot Kidder), plus their cute kids, move into a riverfront home in the small town of Amityville. The house is a seemingly tranquil retreat except for one minor detail: The man who lived there prior to the Lutz family brutally killed his wife and children. Even with this knowledge, George and Kathy decide to purchase the house. As they begin unpacking their belongings, strange things start happening to them—odd nightmares, voices in the hall, and a feeling of madness that will drive them to the brink of sanity. It appears that the Lutzes are not alone inside the Amityville house, and whatever else is living with them wants them out…or dead!
Amityville Horror II – 1982
This second installment in the Amityville series is a "prequel" which traces the events leading up to The Amityville Horror. In Amityville II: The Possession, the Montelli family moves into the Amityville house replete with its demonic windows. The family's patriarch, Anthony (Burt Young), is a brutish father with a timid wife, Dolores (Rutanya Alda), two small children, and two teenagers, Patricia (Diane Franklin) and Sonny (Jack Magner). After only a few days in their new home, strange occurrences take root; the cellar produces a nasty amount of flies and feces. Malevolent voices reverberate through the halls. And most disturbing, Sonny begins to have visions of murdering his entire family. The events that follow produce a battle between good and evil that ultimately paves the way to one of the greatest horrors Amityville has ever experienced.
Amityville Horror III – 1983
In the third installment of the Amityville Horror series, the terror is not only real…it's coming to you in three dimensions! John Baxter (Tony Roberts) is a psychic investigator who spends his time debunking phony so-called "experts" of the occult. John and his wife, Nancy (Tess Harper), are recently separated with a young daughter, Susan (Lori Loughlin). John haphazardly decides to purchase the infamous Amityville house and moves in, unaware of the horrible dangers that lie inside. As John spends more and more time inside the house, he begins to endanger not only himself but also his family, friends and coworkers. It's three times the terror in Amityville 3-D!
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 28.
The Remains of the Day
Oscar winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) and Emma Thompson (Howard's End) reunite with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team for this extraordinary and moving story of blind devotion and repressed love. Hopkins stars as Stevens, the perfect English butler–an ideal carried by him to fanatical lengths–as he serves his master, Lord Darlington, beautifully played by James Fox (The Servant). Darlington, like many other members of the British establishment in the 1930s, is duped by the Nazis into trying to establish a rapport between themselves and the British government. Thompson stars as the estate's housekeeper, a high-spirited, strong-minded young woman who watches the goings-on upstairs with horror. Despite her apprehensions, she and Stevens gradually fall in love, though neither will admit it, and only give vent to their charged feelings via fierce arguments. Marvelously acted by a supporting cast that includes Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant, The Remains of the Day is a powerhouse period drama.
Special Features:
- Deleted Scenes (with optional commentary by James Ivory) (11:31)
- "Photo Opportunity"
- "Argument"
- "A Message"
- "Democracy is Finished"
- "A Different Life"
- "On the Pier"
- "Love and Loyalty: The Making of The Remains of the Day" featurette (28:37)
- "The Remains of the Day: The Filmmakers' Journey" featurette (29:53)
- "Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw" featurette (14:52)
Also available on Blu-ray from Via Vision Entertainment: Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil, The Toy, and The Stanley Kubrick Collection.
