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Shanghai Triad, Adaptation, Comic-Con at Home, Bugs Bunny, Superman, and Flintstones Blu-rays from Warner & more
All right, we’ve got a few good bits of news and such to wrap up the week...
First up though, we’ve just updated our Release Dates & Artwork section with tons of new Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. As always, whenever you pre-order literally anything from our links here at The Bits, you’re helping to support our work and we surely do appreciate it.
Now then, we have word that Mamoru Oshii’s much-loved 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell will indeed street on 4K Ultra HD from Lionsgate on 9/8 (though do keep in mind that this date—while leaked by multiple retail sources now—is not yet officially announced by the studio). What’s more, it’s now available for pre-order on Amazon (here and also by clicking on the art below the break).
Also up for pre-order in 4K from Lionsgate is Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream. No street date is yet listed, but sources tell us it’s likely to arrive on 10/13. Again, you can see the cover artwork below. [Read on here...]
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Release Dates & Artwork update
- Superman: The Animated Series BD
- The Flintstones: The Complete Series BD
- Bugs Bunny: 80th Anniversary Collection BD
- Adaptation: Shout Select BD
- Shanghai Triad BD
- ComicCon at Home
- You Don't Nomi BD
- Ghost in the Shell (1995) 4K
- Mamoru Oshii
- Requiem for a Dream 4K
- Darren Aronofsky
- Jack Ryan: Season 2 BD
- The Warner Archive Collection
- Go Like Hell book
- Ford v Ferrari 4K
- Le Mans 66
- Event Horizon
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Princess Mononoke Steelbook
- My Neighbor Totoro Steelbook
- The Shakedown (1929)
- Cecilia BD
- Jess Franco
- AJ Baime
Dailies – Indie Horror (Severin Films & Intervision Releases)
When it comes to the depths of obscurity, few companies manage to put out consistently under the radar material like Severin Films, as well as Intervision Pictures. While the former deals primarily in everything from cult horror oddities to lost exploitation classics, the latter tackles many shot-on-video features from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although both companies also occasionally do contemporary titles, little known and underappreciated cinema is their bread and butter. Some of each company’s most notable releases include Bloody Moon, Hardware, BMX Bandits, Santa Sangre, The Other Hell, Cathy’s Curse, Things, Murderlust, Phobe, and Sledgehammer, just to name a few.
Today, I’m going to cover some of their more recent releases, but I’ll start off with one we haven’t managed to include on The Bits before. [Read on here...]
- Tim Salmons
- The Digital Bits
- Dailies
- Severin Films
- Intervision
- Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties
- Dark Harvest
- Escapes
- Axe
- Kidnapped Coed
- Bluray
- Bluray Discs
- DVD
- DVD Discs
- The Otherworld
- Suffer, Little Children
- Jess Franco
- Frederick R Friedel
- Richard Stanley
- Alan Briggs
- David Steensland
- James I Nicholson
Network sets UFO for Reg B Blu-ray in November, plus new Kino Lorber & Warner Archive, SpaceX Goes to Mars & more
All right, the big news today is that Network Distributing Ltd. in the U.K. has announced the Region B release of Gerry Anderson’s UFO: The Complete Series on Blu-ray on 11/14 (SRP £69.99). The series is restored in high-definition and includes all 26 episodes with audio in the original mono as well as new 5.1 mixes, and a ton of new and legacy special features. Among them is a brand new feature-length documentary called From Earth to the Moon, featuring interviews, archive video, audio, and stills (some never-before-seen). There’s also the new The Women of UFO documentary, a newly-produced SHADO “briefing film” called Identified: SHADO New Recruits Briefing, textless episode title backgrounds, textless end titles, stock footage, TV spots, extra footage for Identified and Exposed, unused footage from Timelash and The Long Sleep, Italian trailers, audio commentaries on Identified (with Gerry Anderson) and Sub-Smash (with Ed Bishop), S.I.D. Computer Voice Session and audio outtakes for these sessions and Kill Straker!, an archive Ed Bishop audio interview from 1996, the Tomorrow Today: Future Fashions with Sylvia Anderson featurette, extensive image galleries (with previously unseen images), and an exclusive 600-page book on the making of the series by archive television historian Andrew Pixley. [Read on here…]
- Region B
- BD
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- UFO: The Complete Series
- Kino Lorber
- The Warner Archive
- Elon Musk
- SpaceX Mars colonization plan
- Porky's II
- Porky's Revenge
- The Blue Racer
- Sheriff Hoot Koot
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- The Mike Tyson Mysteries
- The ID
- Mr Church
- 99 Women
- Blue Underground
- Jess Franco
- Black Water Wilderness
- Man in Space
- Mars and Beyond
Enterprise: S2 on 8/20, Kino's August, Mach GoGoGo BD (in Japan), Criterion’s Slacker & more!
All right… yesterday’s My Two Cents was a quickie so we’re making it up to you today with a nice long post and lots of news, given that this is (almost) our last post before Memorial Day weekend. More in a minute.
First up this morning, some disc reviews…
The good Dr. Jahnke has turned in new musings on Twilight Time’s Philadelphia and Scream Factory’s The Town that Dreaded Sundown, both on Blu-ray Disc. Philadelphia is a limited release of just 3,000 copies, available as always here through Screen Archives Entertainment (SRP $29.95).
Also today, we’ve upgraded more of Tim’s Blu-ray reviews from the old Bits website including Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, the Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition, Super, The Host: Collector’s Edition, Brooklyn’s Finest and the American Graffiti: Special Edition. Enjoy!
Next up… some release news…
- Star Trek: Enterprise Season Two
- Kino August
- Mach GoGoGo, Speed Racer, Criterion Slacker, Before Midnight, Richard Linklater
- Battlestar Galactica: 35th
- Annoying Orange, Ace Ventura
- Xbox One
- Jess Franco
- Steve Forrest
- Bud Elder, Gary Busey
- Sword and the Stone
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits