With two early retail announcements, Paramount and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have indicated plans to bring Roman Polanski's Chinatown as well as his Carnage to Blu-ray.
One of the most beloved thrillers ever made, Paramount's 1974 release Chinatown finds Polanski paying homage to Hollywood's great film noirs with this dark tale of a private eye (Jack Nicholson, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) becoming involved with a femme fatale (Faye Dunaway, Bonnie and Clyde) and a ruthless water baron (John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) during a complex murder-and-land rights investigation.
Nominated for eleven Oscars at the 1975 Academy Awards Ceremony, the film won one for Robert Towne's original screenplay.
Release this past year, Sony's Carnage is the director's screen adaptation of the Yasmina Reza stageplay. A meeting between New York City couples Nancy & Alan (Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds) and Penelope & Michael (Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs, and John C. Reilly, Magnolia) to discuss the schoolyard conflict between their respective sons turns into a blackly comic examination of upper-class privilege as the four adults' initially civil discourse begins to curdle.
Polanski won the Little Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Film Festival for his direction of Carnage, and stars Kate Winslet and Jodie Foster are currently both nominated for the 2012 Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) Golden Globe.
The Blu-rays' separate technical and supplementary details are still unknown.
Carnage is expected to street on March 20th, while Chinatown has a tentative April 3rd street date.