In (sort-of) announcement news today, here’s a surprise: Warner Media has announced that director Zack Snyder’s much fabled Justice League: The Snyder Cut will FINALLY see the light of day in 2021... exclusively on their new HBO Max streaming service. But hey, great news for the director’s many fans who have long been campaigning for the film. You can read more here at Variety. Zack is a good guy, by the way—I’m really glad to finally see this happen for him.
Also today, we’ve wrapped up our Tom Cruise 4K Ultra HD giveaway on The Bits’ Facebook page. We’ll be announcing the winners in a little while (and we’ll add them here when we do).
[Editor’s Note: All right, we’ve picked our winners in the Tom Cruise 4K giveaway on Facebook! First though, let me just say that you guys told some great stories about why you liked these films. We’re proud to have you all as Bits readers and Facebook followers. Now then... selected at random, here are our winners:
Patrick Murphy – Days of Thunder
Robert Corlew – War of the Worlds
Matt Fuller – Top Gun
I’ll contact each of you shortly to confirm and to get your mailing addresses. Thanks again to all of you for participating! We’ll try to do more of these giveaways in the weeks and months ahead, so be sure to stay tuned. Cheers!]
Here’s at the site this afternoon, we’re very pleased to bring you a great new retrospective feature from our own Michael Coate, looking back at The Empire Strikes Back on the occasion of its 40th anniversary today. The piece includes a look back at the original release, details of its 70mm exhibition, and a new roundtable interview with historians Justin Berger, W.R. Miller and Richard Woloski. You’ll find the feature in Michael’s History Legacy & Showmanship column here at The Bits. Don’t miss it!
And finally today, following up on my comments from earlier (and the other day), the collapse in online advertising caused by this pandemic means these are difficult times for websites like The Digital Bits. So whether you’re a longtime reader or new one, if you appreciate what we do here at the site, please consider supporting us by making a donation via this PayPal link (or by clicking on the image below). Every little bit helps us to keep the lights on, pay our server costs (etc)—we really do appreciate it.
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All right, that’s all for today. Stay tuned...
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