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Arrow sets Battle Royale & Donnie Darko for 4K, plus Shout! & GKids’ Earwig and the Witch & more catalog announcements
All right, we’ve got a few new reviews for you today...
I’ve taken a look at Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium (2013) coming to 4K Ultra on 2/9 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. It’s a nice upgrade of the existing Blu-ray release. You’ll find that here.
Also, Tim has reviewed Park Chan-wook’s JSA: Joint Security Area (2000) on Blu-ray from Arrow Video.
More reviews are on the way this week, including 2012 and Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro both in 4K, plus more new and catalog Blu-rays, so be sure to watch for them.
Let’s start with some 4K Ultra HD news... [Read on here...]
- Warner Archive Collection
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- Arrow Video
- Shout! Factory
- GKids
- Vinegar Syndrome
- Severin Films
- Battle Royale 4K (UK only)
- Donnie Darko 4K
- Earwig and the Witch
- Elysium 4K review
- JSA: Joint Security Area BD review
- The Suspect BD review
- Death Has Blue Eyes
- Switchblade Sisters
- Elvira: Mistress of the Dark Steelbook
- Clapboard Jungle
- The Bermuda Depths
- Damn Yankees
- Crossfire
- Thundarr the Barbarian: The Complete Series
- Isle of the Dead
- The Great Caruso
- Ken Burns' Baseball BD
- Ken Burns' Hemingway BD
- The Greatest Show on Earth: Paramount Presents BD
- action
- Drive: Director's Cut
- MVD Rewind Collection
- Spaceballs 4K
- The Good The Bad and The Ugly 4K
Universal sets The Office: The Complete Series for Blu-ray in November, plus Blade Runner 2019 & more release news
All right, we’re working on reviews here at The Bits today, so the news post is going to be a quick one.
First things first: Universal Studios Home Entertainment has just set The Office: The Complete Series for release on Blu-ray Disc on 11/10. The SRP on Amazon is current listed as $119, but we expect their usual discount to be added soon.
What’s interesting about this is that the show has become a hit among Millennials especially during COVID isolation, with Netflix and other streaming services featuring it prominently. But it’s not only Millennials—my wife and I had never watched it when it was on NBC and we binged it a few months ago on recommendation from fellow Gen-X friends who had just done the same.
Hats off to Universal for noticing this trend and taking advantage of it. I’m sure there are LOTS of fans who would love to have it in HD on disc. So now’s your chance. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- The Office: The Complete Series BD
- Blade Runner 2019
- Titan Comics
- Michael Green
- Spirited Away BD Steelbook
- Castle in the Sky BD Steelbook
- GKids
- Shout! Factory
- From Up on Poppy Hill BD
- Princess Mononoke BD Steelbook
- My Neighbor Totoro BD Steelbook
- Amityville sequels BD
- El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
StudioCanal/Lionsgate bow Total Recall in 4K, plus Friday the 13th II footage lost no more & The Godfather III Redux
We’ve got another quick update for you as we work on new disc reviews today. Speaking of which...
I’ve just posted my in-depth thoughts on GKids and Shout! Factory’s new Blu-ray release of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2013 animated masterpiece The Wind Rises. It streets on 9/22, and like all of these new GKids/Shout! Studio Ghibli Blu-ray reissues, it’s absolutely the definitive release of the film on disc for fans in the US. Don’t miss it.
My review of Bill & Ted 4K is up next, and over the weekend I’ll be looking at Goonies and Beetlejuice 4K as well. Tim and Dennis are hard at work on reviews too. So be sure to watch for those.
Now then... the big 4K announcement news today is that StudioCanal has officially set the 4K Ultra HD release of Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall: 30th Anniversary Edition in the UK for 23 November. The 16-bit 4K scan and remaster was done from the original camera negative, with color grading in HDR10 and Dolby Vision HDR. [Read on here...]
- Paramount
- Lionsgate
- 4K Ultra HD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Total Recall: 30th Anniversary Edition 4K
- Friday the 13th Part II lost footage found
- The Godfather Part III
- Francis Ford Coppola
- StudioCanal
- The Wind Rises BD review
- GKids
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Friday the 13th Collection: Deluxe Edition
- Paul Verhoeven
- Mad Max 4K
- Justice League Zavvi exclusive 4K Ultra HD Steelbook
- Titans of Cult 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K Ultra HD Steelbook
- Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleon
- 4K restoration
It’s starting to look like Lord of the Rings 4K may arrive in December, plus new disc reviews, Showgirls 4K & more
We have some new release news, announcements, and an interesting rumor to report on today. But first, we’ve got some new disc reviews here at The Bits for you, including...
Tim’s look at Terence Fisher’s 1962 Hammer Studios production of The Phantom of the Opera, available now as a new Collector’s Edition Blu-ray from our friends at Scream Factory. He’s also taken a look at John Harrison’s Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, also available on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray from Scream.
[Editor’s Note: While you’re listening to the audio commentary with Harrison and George Romero on that disc, know that I was in the booth as it was being recorded back in November of 2001. You can see my coverage of the day here on The Bits, complete with pictures. John’s become a friend over the years, and let me tell you, George was every bit as warm and lovely a human being as you’d hope. It makes me very happy to see this film and commentary get another appearance on disc for fans to rediscover.]
Not done yet with reviews... I’ve just posted my thoughts on David Twohy’s Pitch Black, soon to arrive on 4K Ultra HD from our friends at Arrow Video. The film really does benefit from both the new 4K scan of the original camera negative and the HDR grade, though the audio is the same 5.1 DTS-HD MA mix found on the previous Blu-ray. The disc is also loaded with extras, including nearly all the legacy content and new material too. It’s a worthy upgrade for fans. Note however that the title shipped without a slipcover due to a production problem. So if you happen to be surprised that your copy doesn’t have a slipcover, that’s why. [Read on here...]
- Paul Verhoeven
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- The Irishman BD
- 4K Ultra HD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Showgirls 4K
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 4K
- The Phantom of the Opera BD review
- John Harrison
- George Romero
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie BD review
- Pitch Black 4K review
- Scream Factory
- Arrow Video
- The King of Staten Island BD review
- You Don't Nomi
- Hammer Films: The Ultimate Collection
- Mill Creek Entertainment
- Paramount and Miramax
- Rita Hayworth: The Ultimate Collection
- The Secret of Kells BD
- GKids
- Genesis II/Planet Earth
- Gene Roddenberry
- Jeremiah Johnson
- The Memphis Belle
- Warner Archive Collection
Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice in 4K, plus Wind Rises, more catalog Blu-ray, and a word on MGM & Gone with the Wind
All right, a quick update today with a bit more release news...
First up though, we have two more new disc reviews for you today. Tim has checked out Richard Jefferies’ Blood Tide (1982) on Blu-ray from Arrow Video. And Dennis has turned in his thoughts on Paul Wegener and Carl Boese’s classic German expressionist tale The Golem (1920) on Blu-ray from Kino Classics. Do give them a look.
Also, we’ve just posted a new update of the Release Dates & Artwork section here at The Bits thanks to our own Russell Hammond, and it’s full of all the recently-announced Blu-ray and 4K titles. As always, whenever you order anything from Amazon through our links, you’re helping to support The Bits and we really do appreciate it.
In other news today, here’s a nice surprise: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is releasing Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice in 4K Ultra HD on 9/1! It looks like two versions will be available: A wide release standard edition and an Amazon exclusive deluxe giftset. You can see the cover art at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- Blood Tide BD review
- The Golem BD review
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- Tim Burton
- Beetlejuice 4K
- Amazon exclusive
- Sherlock Holmes 4K
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 4K
- The Wind Rises
- Studio Ghibli
- GKids
- Shout! Factory
- Eureka!
- Masters of Cinema
- Criss Cross
- A Foreign Affair
- MVD Rewind Collection
- Split Second
- Evil Under the Sun
- DefCon 4
- MGM distribution
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- HBO Max
- Gone with the Wind
Knives Out 4K reviewed, War of the Worlds BD down under, Their Finest Hour & Katherine Johnson RIP
We’re kicking off the new week with a pair of new disc reviews here at The Bits...
It starts with my thoughts on Rian Johnson’s fantastic ‘Whodunnit?’ Knives Out, which streets on 4K Ultra HD tomorrow from Lionsgate. Not only is it a great film, it’s one of the best special editions for a new-release film I’ve seen since The Last Jedi, with a terrific feature-length documentary by our old friend Cliff Stephenson. Don’t even hesitate—just buy the disc right now here and you won’t regret it.
I’ve also reviewed Kino Lorber Studio Classics’ new Blu-ray edition of Guy Hamilton’s Force 10 from Navarone, the 1978 sequel to J Lee Thompson’s original The Guns of Navarone some 18 years in the making. The film stars Harrison Ford, Robert Shaw, and Carl Weathers. The disc streets on March 17th.
There’s not a lot in the way of release news today, but we’ve got a couple things to report... [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- 4K Ultra HD
- Knives Out 4K review
- Rian Johnson
- Steve Yedlin
- Their Finest Hour
- British WWII films
- Katherine Johnson RIP
- Hidden Figures
- NASA
- computer
- The War of the Words (1953) BD
- Force 10 from Navarone BD review
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Madman Entertainment
- Lionsgate
- Cliff Stephenson
- Promare
- GKids
- The Night Clerk
- Dunkirk
- The Dam Busters
Yesterday official, plus Scarface/Hellboy 4K pre-orders, A Discovery of Witches & the new Star Wars BD reissues on Amazon
All right, we have more news for you today. But first, a review...
Now then, Universal has officially announced the Blu-ray, DVD, and Ultra HD release of Danny Boyle’s Yesterday on 9/24, with the Digital release expected on 9/10. The 4K will include HDR10 and HDR10+ high dynamic range, with Dolby Atmos audio. The Blu-ray will also include Dolby Atmos audio. Extras on both will include audio commentary with director Danny Boyle and writer/producer Richard Curtis, an alternate opening, an alternate ending, 12 deleted scenes, a gag reel, a 3-song Live at Abbey Road Studios session with Himesh Patel (performing Yesterday, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Let it Be), and 6 featurettes (Ed Sheeran: From Stadium to Screen, Agent of Comedy: Kate McKinnon, A Talented Duo, Playing for Real, Soul Mates, and A Conversation with Richard & Ed). You can see the cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Shadow 4K
- Hellboy 4K
- Danny Boyle
- The Beatles
- Yesterday BD
- Yesterday 4K
- Men in Black: International 4K
- Scarface 4K
- Good Omens BD
- Deadwood: The Movie
- Chernobyl
- A Discovery of Witches: Season One
- Armstrong
- Star Wars BD reissues
- Disney
- Lucasfilm
- Walt Disney Studios
- GKids
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Shout! Factory
- Spirited Away: Collector's Edition
- Amazon preorders
Sony sets Guillermo del Toro’s original Hellboy for release on 4K on 10/15
All right, a quick update today...
First, we’ve just posted a trio of new Blu-ray reviews, including my thoughts on Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien from Fox, Tim’s take on Leszek Burzynski’s Trapped Alive from Arrow Video, and Dennis’ look at Michael Chaves’ The Curse of La Llorona from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
And I’m just finishing a review of Zhang Yimou’s Shadow in 4K Ultra HD from Well Go USA and should have that up before the end of the day.
Speaking of reviews, several of you have asked if we’re going to cover the new Disney and Marvel MCU titles that street tomorrow in 4K, including Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Iron Man 3, Thor, and Thor: The Dark World. We would love to, but unfortunately Disney isn’t making them available to reviewers, which means we’d have to go out and buy them. That puts indie sites like The Bits in a pickle. So the answer is, I don’t know. Maybe. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Disney
- Tolkien BD review
- Trapped Alive BD review
- The Curse of La Llorona
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- Shadow 4K
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- Wonder Woman Steelbook exclusive
- Hellboy 4K
- Guillermo del Toro
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Spirited Away: Collector's Edition
- GKids
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- John Carpenter's Vampires
Warner Archive reveals Thin Man, Bronco Billy & Merrill’s Marauders BDs, plus True Detective: S3 & Chernobyl coming
We start this week with a great new Blu-ray review, this one of Scream Factory’s Universal Horror Collection, Volume 1 box set, which includes The Black Cat (1934), The Raven (1935), The Invisible Ray (1936), and Black Friday (1940). Do give it a look.
Also, just a heads-up: We’re going to be reviewing Warner Archive’s new Jonny Quest: The Complete Series Blu-ray soon. A review copy is on the way.
And we’ve posted the weekly update of the Release Dates & Artwork section featuring all of the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K cover artwork with Amazon.com pre-order links. As always, whenever you order literally anything from Amazon after clicking to them through one of our links, you’re helping to support our work here at The Bits and we really do appreciate it. [Read on here...]
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Tim Salmons
- Shout! Factory
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Warner Archive Collection
- HBO
- True Detective: Season Three
- Chernobyl
- The Thin Man BD
- Bronco Billy BD
- Merrill's Marauders BD
- Universal Horror Collection: Volume 1 BD review
- The Black Cat
- The Raven
- The Invisible Ray
- Black Friday
- Release Dates & Artwork
- Manifest: The Complete First Season DVD
- The Intruder
- Timeless: Season Two Finale DVD
- The Missing Link
- Long Shot
- The Survivor
- The Case of Hana & Alice
- GKids
- Powerhouse Films
- Indicator
- Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg at Paramount 19301935
- Bloody Terror: The Shocking Cinema of Norman J Warren 19761987
- Django the Bastard
- Flesh Gordon
- Endless Night
- Alistair MacLean's The Secret Ways
- Shadow 4K
Cap America: Winter Soldier & Civil War 4K in April, Apocalypse Now 4K, BumbleBee & Samsung quits 4K player market
All right, today’s Bits update offers 4K Ultra HD news, some of it good and some of it bad, as well as some good standard Blu-ray news...
The good news first: We’ve learned from our studio and industry sources that Disney is bringing Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War to physical 4K Ultra HD in April. Our retail sources suggest the street date is likely to be 4/23. This makes sense as it’s the same week that Avengers: Endgame hits theaters. Keep in mind, Captain America: The First Avenger hits the format next Tuesday, 2/26. It appears that Best Buy will have exclusive Steelbook packaging and Zavvi is already taking pre-orders on a Captain America Trilogy 4K set.
We’ve also learned from our sources that essentially all of the other Marvel Cinematic Universe titles not yet released on physical 4K are coming over the next year or so. This includes Iron Man (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), Iron Man 3 (2013), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Ant-Man (2015), and Doctor Strange (2016). We would expect the next batch to arrive with the home release of Captain Marvel, somewhere around Q2 2019. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Marvel Cinematic Universe in 4K
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4K
- Captain America: Civil War 4K
- Apocalypse Now: 40th Anniversary 4K
- Samsung quits the 4K player market
- Bumblebee 4K
- The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- ffolkes BD
- North Sea Hijack BD
- Studio Ghibli
- GKids
- Ghibli Fest 2019