This year, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will bring over thirty catalog entries to Blu-ray. The scheduled films span across Disney's different distribution branches, and while the studio has previously hinted at certain titles - such as
The Color of Money,
Cocktail,
Ransom,
Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure,
The Rescuers, and
The Aristocats - today's announcement sheds light on many more future Blu-rays.
Listed in chronological Blu-ray release order, the titles include:
- May 15th, 2012:
- Father of the Bride / Father of the Bride Part II
- Bringing Down the House
- June 5th, 2012:
- The Color of Money
- Cocktail
- Ransom
- June 19th, 2012:
- Sister Act / Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
- Evita
- Newsies
- July 3rd, 2012:
- Home on the Range
- The Horse Whisperer
- Phenomenon
- Step Up
- Treasure Planet
- Under the Tuscan Sun
- August 7th, 2012:
- The Aristocats
- Adventures in Babysitting
- Grosse Pointe Blank
- High Fidelity
- The Preacher's Wife
- Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
- August 21st, 2012
- Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
- Pocahontas / Pocahontas 2: Journey to a New World two-movie package
- The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under two-movie package
- The Tigger Movie
- September 4th, 2012:
- Arachnophobia
- Cold Creek Manor
- The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
- Hocus Pocus
- September 11th, 2012
- Ghosts of the Abyss 3D
- September 18th, 2012
- Ed Wood
- Judge Dredd
- The Great Mouse Detective
- October 2nd, 2012
- Cinderella
- Pete's Dragon
- Fall and Winter 2012:
- The Absent-Minded Professor
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire
- Babes in Toyland
- Beaches
- Brother Bear
- Dick Tracy
- Flubber
- The Santa Clause Trilogy
- Son of Flubber
- Sweet Home Alabama
- While You Were Sleeping
While the technical and supplementary specifications are still unknown for most of these features, Disney's EVP of product management Lori MacPherson noted that, "We receive many requests and comments from consumers seeking specific titles they'd like to own on Blu-ray and, as such, we carefully selected a number of popular films that will satisfy demand from fans worldwide...As we grow our Blu-ray catalog we will continue to utilize the best technologies to provide the most pristine and immersive in-home experience of our films."