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This is a quick post to let you all know that our Release Dates & Cover Artwork section here at The Digital Bits has just been updated with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. Don’t forget that you can select to see just the Blu-ray, DVD, 4K Ultra HD, or even Criterion titles seperately if you like, to help you find exactly the ones you’re looking for. Just click on RELEASE DATES & ART on the menu bar above to visit the page, and use the search options in the red bar (at the top) to sort by format and date. Once you find a title you like, just click on the cover art and you’ll be taken right to the Amazon.com pre-order page. Thank you for shopping through our links and don’t forget that anytime you order from Amazon through our links, you’re helping to support our work here at The Bits and we really appreciate it! And thanks to our own Russell Hammond for the update work!
- Bill Hunt
All right folks, after 54 years, human beings finally return to the Moon today!
That’s right, today is Lunar Flyby Day for the Artemis II astronauts.
Of course, as you guys probably already know, I’m gonna be watching the hell out of this thing today. So if I’m difficult to reach or slow to respond today, that’s way.
But then you guys knew that already, didn’t you?
I do, however, have one big piece of great 4K Ultra HD news to share with you all today.
Remember how we first told you (way back in December) about Warner’s catalog 4K Ultra HD plans for 2026 (link here)?
Well, another one of those titles is now officially up for pre-order on Amazon UK, and it’s none other than Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! (1996).
You’ll find the UK pre-order link here. I don’t see it listed yet anywhere else, but I’m sure it will be soon. Now then… [Read on here...]
All right, folks… we’ve got a big day today for a bunch of reasons, so let’s get right into them!
First up, 20th Century Studios has just launched retail pre-orders for Fight Club (1999) in 4K Ultra HD, with a new remaster personally restored by director David Fincher! The disc will include HDR10 high dynamic range, lossless 5.1 DTS-HD MA audio, and it will be encoded for a 100GB disc. The legacy special features will also be included. Here’s the US Amazon link (click here) but you’ll find it elsewhere too, including DiabolkDVD, Orbit DVD & more.
Our friends at Lionsgate Limited have set Wes Craven’s Scream 4 (2011) for 4K Steelbook release on 6/9! The disc will include Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. Exclusive new extras include The Meta of Scream, Rebooting the Franchise: Scream 4 Revisited, Ghostface Revealed! and Wes Craven: The Maestro of Scream. Legacy extras will carry over too, including the commentary with Craven, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, and Neve Campbell, deleted and extended scenes, the alternate opening and extended ending, a gag reel, B-roll clips, press junket interviews, and trailers and TV spots. You can pre-order the title here and you can see the cover artwork at left.
And guess what: Scream 4 will also be available from Lionsgate Limited on VHS! Click here for that. The site currently said they’re out of stock, but don’t worry: Lionsgate is making more! So keep checking back.
While we’re talking Scream 4, my friend Alvaro Zinos-Amaro has written a great blog for the Lionsgate Limited website on the film: Plagiarizing Victimhood: How SCRE4M Skewered the Remake. It’s definitely worth your time.
Oh, but we’re not done yet with Lionsgate—they’re also releasing a 6-disc Amazon-exclusive Stallone Rambo 4K Collection on 5/26! [Read on here...]
Boy, I’ve been waiting for this today for years now—one of my favorite titles is finally official, as in the studio has just issued their press release. And there are a bunch of other great title announcements today as well.
But first as always, a few more new disc reviews…
Stuart and Dennis have turned in their thoughts on Kino Lorber Studio Classics’ Peter Sellers: Early Classics Blu-ray box set, which includes Man in a Cocked Hat (1959), I’m All Right Jack (1959), Two-Way Stretch (1960), Heavens Above! (1963), and The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963).
And Tim has reviewed Chuck Russell’s The Mask (1994) in 4K Ultra HD from Arrow Video.
More reviews are forthcoming all this week, so be sure to check back for them!
Also today, our own Russell Hammond has just posted the latest update of the Release Dates & Artwork section featuring all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD cover art and Amazon pre-order links. As The Bits is an Amazon Affiliate, whenever you order literally anything from Amazon after clicking through one of our links, you’re helping to support our work here at The Bits and we really do appreciate it.
And of course, the best way to support what we do by far is to subscribe to our Digital Bits Patreon where we talk about lots of things—including upcoming 4K titles—before we can post all the details here on the website. Monthly subscriptions start at just $6 and you can get discounts on full-year subscriptions too. So thank you, sincerely, for helping us to keep The Digital Bits going as we advocate for physical media and the issues that matter to you! [Read on here...]
Greetings, Bits readers—I hope this finds you all well!
You may have noticed that there have been very few updates here on the site this week, and also that we’ve had a lot of downtime in which the site wasn’t working or was slow to load.
There’s a reason for that, which is that we’ve been the target of relentless scaping by AI companies trying to train their LLMs. We’ve taken steps to prevent it in the past, but they don’t seem to care that when they scrape us, it causes significant disruptions for both us and you as readers. So it looks like we’re going to have to take further steps to prevent this going forward.
In the meantime, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover today, as I haven’t been able to post a news update since Monday due to these disruptions.
We’ll start with disc reviews! We’ve had a bunch for you this week, including…
My looks at Jeannot Szwarc’s Somewhere in Time (1980) in 4K from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, David Lynch’s The Straight Story (1999) in 4K from StudioCanal (a joint review with former Bits staffer Dan Kelly), Michael Crichton’s Westworld (1973) in 4K from Arrow Video, and Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way (2020-23) in 4K from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
Tim’s review of Lam Nai-Choi’s The Cat (1991) on Blu-ray from 88 Films.
Dennis’ take on Claude Leloch’s A Man and a Woman (1966) on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.
Stuart’s thoughts on Jerzy Skolimowski’s The Lightship (1985) on Blu-ray from Imprint Films and Jeffrey Dell and Roy Boulting’s Man in a Cocked Hat (1959) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
And finally, Stephen’s look at Dario Argento’s The Phantom of the Opera (1998) and Emmett Alston’s Demonwarp (1988) in 4K from Vinegar Syndrome, and Ti West’s The Innkeepers (2011) on Blu-ray from Umbrella and in 4K Ultra HD from Second Sight. Whew!
Now, let’s get to the news that’s broken since our announcement of James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash on Blu-ray and 4K on Monday… [Read on here...]