Criterion’s Feb slate revealed, plus the Star Wars Prequels, Rogue One & Force Awakens in 4K
All right, first things first today: Criterion has just announced its February 2020 slate of Blu-ray and DVD titles.
Look for it to include Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma (Spine #1014 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 2/11, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema (Spine #1013 – Blu-ray and DVD) and an updating of Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Antoni Gaudí (Spine #425 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 2/18, and Jeannie Livingston’s Paris is Burning (Spine #1018 – Blu-ray and DVD) and Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman (Blu-ray and DVD) on 2/25. That last set includes Journey to the Beginning of Time (Spine #1015), Invention for Destruction (Spine #1016), and The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (Spine #1017). You can read more here at the Criterion website.
Those are all fine titles, but Roma is particularly appreciated given that it was a Netflix release last year and hasn’t been available on physical media yet.
Also today, our own Michael Coate has a new History, Legacy & Showmanship column here at The Bits—first posted yesterday afternoon—in which he looks back at James Cameron’s The Abyss with historian Matthew Kapell in honor of the film’s 30th anniversary. It’s a great piece, so do give it a look. And who knows? Maybe it will remind the director that he’s got a new 4K HDR grade of the film to approve so we can all watch it on Blu-ray and UHD sooner rather than later. [Read on here...]
- Star Wars Trilogy
- Disney+
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Michael Coate
- James Cameron
- The Abyss: 30th anniversary
- Matthew Kapell
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K
- The Criterion Collection
- February slate
- Roma
- Teorema
- Antoni Gaudí
- Paris is Burning
- Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman
- Journey to the Beginning of Time
- Invention for Destruction
- The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
New Star Wars BDs now up for pre-order, plus American Gangster, Casino, Scarface official for 4K & more
All right, today’s update is a quickie, but it’s a good one.
All of those re-issued Star Wars Blu-rays from Disney we mentioned yesterday are now up for pre-order on Amazon with a street date of 9/22 (that’s not a Tuesday, so it could be just a “week of” placeholder date until the announcement is made).
The SRP is $34.99, but Amazon’s usual sale price should kick in soon. All of them are up now except Episode IV: A New Hope, which should go live soon. In any case, you can see the cover art – now with pre-order links – below.
In 4K catalog news today, Ridley Scott’s American Gangster is now official for release on 4K Ultra HD by Universal on 10/15. You can see the cover artwork and pre-order it below. It will have DTS:X audio and HDR10 high dynamic range. [Read on here...]
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Return of the Jedi 4K
- The Empire Strikes Back 4K
- Star Wars 4K
- Lucasfilm
- Disney
- American Gangster 4K
- Scarface 4K
- Casino 4K
- Lionsgate
- The Star Wars Saga 4K
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Scarface: Gold Edition 4K
- Lock Up 4K
- Rambo (2008) 4K
The Star Wars Saga is almost certainly coming to 4K Ultra HD in 2020, plus Discovery: S2, DS9 doc in 4K & more
All right, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover today, so bear with us.
First, very quickly, we’re currently working on those disc reviews we mentioned the other day, so watch for those starting tomorrow. But breaking news – and the need to dig into it – has keep us busy yesterday and today.
Let’s get some regular announcement news out of the way first...
CBS Home Entertainment has set Star Trek: Discovery – Season Two for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 11/12. The 4-disc Blu-ray release will include audio commentary on 4 episodes (with various combinations of Sonequa Martin-Green, Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Alex Kurtzman, Jonathan Peck, and Olatunde Onsunanmi), promos, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and 8 featurettes (Star Trek: Discovery: The Voyage of Season Two, Enter the Enterprise, The Red Angel, Designing Discovery: Season Two, Prop Me Up: Season Two, Dress for Success: Season Two, Creature Comforts: Season Two, and Creating Space). 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
- The Star Wars Saga 4K
- Star Trek: Discovery Season Two BD
- What We Left Behind documentary
- Men in Black: International 4K
- Angel Heart 4K
- Studio Canal
- Red Heat 4K
- Universal Soldier 4K
- Lionsgate
- CBS Home Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie 4K
- Discotek Media
- Casino 4K
- Shaft (2019) 4K
- Aladdin (2019) 4K
- Aladdin (1992) 4K
- Scarface 4K
- American Gangster 4K
- Yesterday 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- The Jetsons: The Complete Original Series BD
- Pixar 4K
- Marvel Cinematic Universe 4K
- Disney
- Lucasfilm
- Star Wars 4K
- The Empire Strikes Back 4K
- Return of the Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens 4K
- Solo: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story 4K
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 4K
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi 4K
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 4K
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones 4K
- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith 4K