And if you’re a subscriber to our Digital Bits Patreon, you guys knew about Pee-wee weeks ago. (So if you’re not yet a subscriber, that’s another good reason to support us there!)
You can read more about all of these titles here on Criterion’s website (where they’re having a 30% off 4K titles sale until 9/19), and here’s a look at the cover artwork (Amazon pre-order links will be added when available)...
Also today, our friends at the Warner Archive Collection have just announced their October slate of Blu-ray titles which will include John Cromwell’s The Racket (1951), Dick Richards’ Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), Mervyn LeRoy’s Lovely to Look At (1952), and Delmer Daves’ A Summer Place (1959) on 10/14, followed by WS Van Dyke’s Manhattan Melodrama (1934), Leigh Jason’s The Mad Miss Manton (1938), Anatole Litvak’s Out of the Fog (1941), and William Keighley’s The Master of Ballantrae (1953) on 10/28.
Not done yet: Anderson Entertainment has just announced the 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release of Space: 1999 – Breakaway (1975). That’s the pilot episode of the 1970s British sci-fi series. Street date is TBA for Winter 2025. But it won’t be cheap—the SRP is $50. However, in addition to the episode itself (with HDR10), you’ll get a new 75-minute documentary on the series Space: 1999 – 50 Years Out of Orbit. You can pre-order it here.
Also today, for you Universal Horror fans, Kino Lorber Studio Classics has just revealed that they’re releasing Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953), and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) on 4K Ultra HD on 11/11.
Grindhouse Releasing has just revealed that they’ve restored every single frame of Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust (1980) in 4K for their forthcoming Ultra HD release, including going so far as to scan all of the Alan Yates “Green Inferno” documentary footage from the original 16mm camera negative in its native 1.37:1 aspect ratio for the very first time. The Theatrical Version of the film is also being preserved for the release (the street date for which is still TBA).
And finally today, here’s a quick exclusive: Lionsgate Limited is about to announce the 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release of Adrian Lyne’s Jacob’s Ladder (1990), the 4K Ultra HD (non-Steelbook) release of Eli Roth’s Knock Knock (2015), and the Vestron Video Blu-ray release of Matthew Patrick’s Hider in the House (1989). Street date for all three is 10/14.
Whew!
That’s all for today! Stay tuned…
- Bill Hunt
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