Malcolm X Blu-ray

After more than a year of preliminary announcements and delays, Warner Home Entertainment will finally bring Malcolm X to Blu-ray next year. In an Academy Award-nominated performance, Denzel Washington (Glory) stars as the famed activist; director Spike Lee (Inside Man) charts Malcolm's journey from his early years as a Harlem gangster through his emergence as one of the Civil Rights Movement's most influential figures.

Supporting Washington is a powerhouse cast including Lee (Do the Right Thing), Angela Bassett (The Score), Delroy Lindo (Get Shorty), Theresa Randle (Bad Boys), Al Freeman, Jr. (Black Like Me), Christopher Plummer (Beginners), Peter Boyle (Young Frankenstein), Karen Allen (Starman), Wendell Pierce (Treme), Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad), David Patrick Kelly (The Warriors), Richard Schiff (The West Wing), and Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos).

Cancelled last January because of music rights issues, this two-disc Digibook edition will commemorate Malcolm X's twentieth anniversary, presenting the film in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 with a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track. The set also has the following bonus features:

• Commentary with Spike Lee, cinematographer Ernest Dickerson, editor Barry Alexander Brown, and costume designer Ruth Carter
• By Any Means Necessary: The Making of Malcolm X documentary
• Deleted scenes with introduction by Spike Lee
• Trailer
• Included on a DVD disc - 1972's Academy Award-nominated documentary Malcolm X

Malcolm X is expected to street on January 31st, 2012.