Here’s what they’ll all look like…

You can pre-order them here (in the US) and here (in the UK).

Also today, Fun City Editions has launched a website exclusive 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray release of Lou Adler’s Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1982). Street date is TBA, but you can pre-order the title here on their website.

Imprint has announced a Halloween I-V Limited Collection on 4K UHD + Blu-ray Steelbook with custom Jack O’ Lantern packaging. You can pre-order it here.

Kino Lorber Studio Classics has revealed a number of new Blu-ray and 4K catalog titles, including Dan Curtis’ Classic Monsters (1968-1974)—featuring Dracula (1974), Frankenstein (1973), and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)—and Dead of Night (1977) on Blu-ray on 10/28, along with Sam Wood’s For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) on Blu-ray and Paul Leni’s The Cat and the Canary (1927), Richard Stanley’s Dust Devil (1992), and Michael Winner’s Death Wish 3 (1985) all on 4K UHD that same day. What’s more, they’ve teased that Richard Attenborough’s A Bridge Too Far (1977) is “coming soon” to 4K Ultra HD.

The BFI is releasing Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925) on Blu-ray on 9/5 in the UK only, complete with a new CD score by the Pet Shop Boys.

And for you music fans, Mercury Studios will be releasing the Message in a Bottle (2023) dance/musical stage production for release on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on 10/10, featuring the music of Sting (and The Police, though the band is rarely credited these days).

Now then… if you’re a Digital Bits Patreon subscriber, I just put out a major call for feedback from our readers and physical media fans for a big editorial piece on the state of the physical media industry that I’m contemplating for The Bits in the coming weeks. You can find it at this link. You can subscribe for as low as $6 a month, and I think you’ll find it worth your while if you can afford it. If you do subscribe, please chime in and share your thoughts on that post. I’ll definitely be reading all of your comments and using that information to shape my thinking on this editorial. So thank you for your support and for your input!

That’s all for today. We’ll back on Tuesday after the Labor Day holiday here in the States.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

- Bill Hunt

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