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[Maglorfin]

Received yesterday:

[Miles Prower]

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=8930

In October, Warner Home Entertainment will bring Little Shop of Horrors to Blu-ray. This 1986 adaptation of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's popular off-Broadway musical - which, in turn, took its inspiration from Roger Corman's 1960 cult classic - stars Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters) as Seymour Krelborn, a meek florist who forms an unusual bond with a man-eating plant called Audrey II (voiced by Four Tops member Levi Stubbs).

Warner will include two digitally remastered versions of the film on one disc - the theatrical edition and a director's cut, which features a restored twenty-minute alternate ending. The Blu-ray also contains the following supplements:

• Commentary by director Frank Oz
• Frank Oz and Little Shop of Horrors: The Director's Cut introduction
• A Story of Little Shop of Horrors behind-the-scenes featurette
• Outtakes
• Deleted scenes
• Theatrical trailers

Huge fan of this movie, I could quote it from beginning to end when I was a kid. Doesn't even matter that it's a digibook (the only other one I have is Citizen Kane, so it'll be in good company), day one purchase.

[Richard Penna]

Got Hugo 3D for my birthday. It has substantially more ghosting than other 3D films due to the darker palette and a lot of metal, but it's a wonderful film.

[filmmusic]

Anyone that liked this film?



Coming on October!

[Joey]

the Howard Hughes obsession, very entertaining film!

Ti Tanic's release date is moved a few days ahead to 09-10-12

[Maurizio]

Grabbed a bunch of titles at bargain price (9€ each): War of the Worlds, Inception, Pulp Fiction and North By Northwest.

I also noticed the Jurassic Park films has been released as single discs, all with their extra features ported over (I thought they were available only as a boxset).

[filmmusic]

Oh, North by Northwest features an exceptional restoration!!!!
Did you get the digibook?

[Maurizio]

No, digibooks are never released over here apparently. The only ones I saw are the recent Universal 100th Anniversary editions.

[filmmusic]

well, not here either, but I mostly make my BLuray purchases from the internet (amazon.com, play.com, amazon.co.uk)
It's very expensive here in Greece.
Some times the triple amount of that in Amazon.
(eg. I purchesd Fantasia & Fantasia 2000 for 20 euros in amazon, and if I got the 2 movies from here, it would be 62 euros!!!)

The Twilight time Blurays' price for which many are complaining, is the regular price of BLurays here..

[Joey]

I wanted the Sting digibook, but I found the Sting at walmart for 11.96 with the blu and dvd and all the features.

couldn't pass that up

[filmmusic]

ΟΗ......ΜΥ..........GOD!!!!!

(worrying though for those cases. Look like cupboard cases)


Universal's 14-movie Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Blu-ray set is available to pre-order for the first of October on Amazon UK now. The handsome package includes hours of bonus features, a collectible 15 page hardback book, art cards, costume sketches, correspondence, photographs and more.

[alicebrallice]

that looks awesome.

[E.T. & Elliott]

It's Universal though, 13 chances to botch video transfers.

[Ren]

That does look AMAZING!!!!

I neeeeeeeed this

[Quint]

Have they cleaned everything up especially for Blu? If they have then I'm all over it.

If not, meh.

[Koray Savas]

Why isn't that available in the US? Looks sexy.

[BloodBoal]

Don't think it's been mentioned here...

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Blu-ray Exclusive Spaceship Limited Edition

Universal is releasing an Exclusive to Amazon Limited Spaceship Edition of the 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Disc of Steven Spielberg's E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) in Germany. The Collectible set is available to pre-order from Amazon.de for its 25th of October release for the price of €159.99

Bonus material included on the disc:

• Steven Spielberg & ET: A brand new interview with Steven Spielberg, in which he talks about his work with the children and talks about his current and comprehensive view of ET.
• The ET Journal: Behind the Scenes material of the Oscar winner John Toll (cinematographer). This piece gives the audience the unique feeling of being on location and experience with stress, as it was offset to shoot the aliens.
• Deleted Scenes
• A Look Back: Making-Of, including interviews with Cast and Crew
• The ET Reunion: The reunion: Cast and crew meet and express their thoughts on film.
• The Evolution and Creation of ET: From idea to script, about the casting to the shooting.
• The Music of ET: A Discussion with John Williams: interviews and footage of the long-standing relationship between John Williams and Steven Spielberg.
• The 20th Anniversary Premiere: The composer John Williams on the occasion of the premiere of the new release of the film ET ET live music played at the Shrine Auditorium. This section allows us to look behind the scenes of this performance.
• Original Trailer

[Quint]

I take it that bonus material is on the standard release as well?

I seriously doubt the John Williams segment is new, but it'd be nice.

[Maurizio]

The only new extra features are the Spielberg interview and the full John Toll behind-the-scenes footage (part of which was used in the 1996 Laserdisc and the 2002 DVD documentaries). All the other extras are ported over from the previous DVD release.

[Alexcremers]

- Limitless

- True Blood S4

[Quint]

The only new extra features are the Spielberg interview and the full John Toll behind-the-scenes footage (part of which was used in the 1996 Laserdisc and the 2002 DVD documentaries). All the other extras are ported over from the previous DVD release.

Pfft.

And that "replica" is hideously tacky.

[Joey]

that's what I was thinking, truly cheap looking.

[Wojo]

Maybe they couldn't get the rights to make a Speak'n'Spell replica. That would have been way cooler.

[filmmusic]

This is the US box that adds North By Northwest into the set!
Which one do you prefer?



While the exact technical specifications are still unknown for the individual discs, Universal's press release notes that the fifteen pictures have been "digitally restored from high-quality film elements."

in addition to the lots of extras in the individual discs, Torn Curtain features
Selected scenes scored by Bernard Herrmann
No isolated score unfortunately for Family Plot.

[Jason LeBlanc]

I don't like separating COCK onto its own line

[crocodile]

Jason, you devil!

Karol

[Quint]

Methinks that vertigo spiral O was a design necessity.

[Miles Prower]

Given the whole 'repressed sexuality' thing, it seems appropriate.

[Joey]

I want Sabatour and Sabatoge from Hitchcock, neither are GREAT films, but both are entertaining as hell.

[E.T. & Elliott]

Well, the other Hitchcock box is obviously better-looking. The American box seems more compact and practical, even if it appears like they just ran out of room for Hitchcock's name with a big font size. I wish we were getting another new movie instead of North By Northwest.

The E.T. spaceship from the German set is awful. Looks like a big McDonald's toy, grossly inaccurate to the legendary McQuarrie ship. The thrusters are comically oversized.

[Drax]

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Decided to pick this up after receiving the LLL CD. Can't really blame the sub par quality of the music since they hadn't done a restoration yet, but the picture quality is awful, the amount of DNR applied makes it look like an embossed image in Microsoft Photo Editor. Strangely the theatrical trailers included looked beautiful with all natural film grain present. It's not quite as bad as The Untouchables, so some dickhead at Paramount doesn't know what he's doing.

[filmmusic]

Strange.
The review here is very favourable of the picture quality of the first film.
http://www.blu-ray.c...ay/4190/#Review

[Drax]

You can't always trust reviews on that site. The amount of detail that's been scrubbed out of the picture is very distracting.

[filmmusic]

You can't always trust reviews on that site. The amount of detail that's been scrubbed out of the picture is very distracting.

well, i always see the reviews on that site, and I know they aren't usually favorable of DNR either. That's why it sounded strange to me.
Although I don't know if it's the same reviewer, with the other reviews i have seen..

[Alexcremers]

The 30th Anniversay Collector's Edition will be available the 2nd October of this year.

[Jason LeBlanc]

Sweet. I like my 5 disc set but honestly the content would fit on 2 Blu Rays (dual-layer).

I wonder if there will be any new content? Or if they will spread the film(s) out over 2 layers to up the video bitrate?

[Quint]

Ultraviolet? And why would anyone who is buying that want the dvd?

[Jason LeBlanc]

It's how Warner Brothers home video department operates!

[Joey]

Ultraviolet? And why would anyone who is buying that want the dvd?

I generally give them to my mom.

Ultraviolet is unimportant to me. I bought a big flat panel to allow for big viewing at home. I don't want to watch these movies on tiny phone or tablet displays.

[Alexcremers]

I wonder if there will be any new content?

It would be nice but then again it would mean that I have to buy it.