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Show me the Blu-ray! Jerry Maguire announced.
Joining the release of Rudy, Sony Pictures also announced that Jerry Maguire Blu-ray will arrive on store shelves this September 9th.
Jerry Maguire was success when it was released, receiving multiple Oscar nominations and cashing in on $273 million in box office revenue.
We’ll update you once more info is released, including what bonus features will be included.
Via HD Digest
Cult classic ‘Rudy’ scores Blu-ray release
Sony Pictures has announced that the cult classic Rudy will be released on Blu-ray on September 9, 2008.
Rudy will be presented in 1080p/AVC MPEG-4, with Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround tracks in English, French and Portuguese.
No word on extra features yet, but one can safely assume any extras from previous DVD releases will be included on the Blu-ray.
Via HD Digest
Warner Bros. announces Risky Business 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
On September 16, in celebration of the 25th Anniversary, Warner Home Video will release Risky Business, the movie that launched Tom Cruise’s career.
Risky Business 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition has been restored and remastered with 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio and wil include an all-new 25th anniversary retrospective documentary The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business.
Available exclusive to the Blu-ray edition is a video commentary with Tom Cruise, Paul Brickman and Jon Avnet and a digital copy of the film compatible with iTunes and Windows Media devices.
The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration Collection coming to Blu-ray
Update: Check out the cover art.
More than three decades after they won the Academy Award for Best Picture, director Francis Ford Coppola’s classic films The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II will once again be enjoyed by audiences as they originally were meant to be seen, thanks to a meticulous restoration by Paramount Pictures, overseen by Coppola himself.
On September 23, 2008, both fully restored films will debut on DVD and Blu-ray, along with a newly remastered version of The Godfather Part III, to be included as part of The Godfather, The Coppola Restoration Collection. All three films will be available individually or in a five-DVD collection or four-disc Blu-ray collection, which are loaded with a host of all-new special features.
The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II underwent extensive frame-by-frame examination and restoration utilizing state-of-the-art digital technology in this historic preservation effort, which required more than a year to complete. Robert A. Harris of the Film Preserve supervised the restoration under the direction of Coppola and cinematographer, Gordon Willis. Harris’ restoration credits include Lawrence of Arabia, Spartacus, Vertigo and Rear Window among others.
The new special features created by Kim Aubry, founder of Zoetrope Aubry Productions, explores the complexities of the restoration process and provides new insights and perspectives about how the film almost didn’t come to pass as we know it. “The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn’t” relates the unlikely events, intrigue, allegiances and luck that put together the unknown director with the “unwanted” cast and contains interviews with most of the living players and many of the films’ admirers. Other featurettes include “…when the shooting stopped,” and “Godfather World,” which take a look at The Godfather’s influence on popular culture today. Each film includes a commentary by Coppola.
New releases for July 1, 2008
Here are this week’s new releases.
Batman: The Movie
Ganges
Gangs of New York
Get Smart’s Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control
In the Line of Fire
Korn: Live at Montreux
Mad Men: Season One
Meet the Browns
Point Break
Sex and Death 101
Vantage Point
War, Inc.
Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Concert
Via EngadgetHD
Pirates of the Caribbean: 3-Movie Collection announced
Disney today announced Pirates of the Caribbean: 3-Movie Collection, a six-disc Blu-ray box set containing all three Pirates movies, scheduled for release on September 16, 2008.
The box set includes: Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End.
No new features are included. They are merely taking all three currently available movies and packaging together in one convenient package. Why should you care? Because this means it’ll be cheaper to buy all three films together!
Night Watch and Day Watch coming to Blu-ray
Timur Bekmambetov’s acclaimed NIGHT WATCH and DAY WATCH, about the apocalyptic battle between the forces of Light and Darkness, are coming to Blu-ray on September 9, 2008.
NIGHT WATCH will be authored in HDMV with MPEG 4 compression on a dual-layer 50GB disc; presented in widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) with Russian/English 5.1 Dolby TruHD amd English/French 5.1 Dolby Surround plus English, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin & Cantonese subtitles.
Bonus features include: Commentary with director Timur Bekmambetov; Making of Night Watch featurette; Seven deleted scenes with commentary by director Timur Bekmambetov; Comic book still gallery; Poster still gallery and much more.
DAY WATCH will be authored in HDMV with MPEG 4 compression on dual-layer 50GB disc; presented in widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio, Russian 5.1 Dolby TruHD and French/Spanish 5.1 Dolby Surround plus English, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin & Cantonese subtitles.
Bonus features include: Commentary with director Timur Bekmambetov; The Making of Day Watch featurette; Russian TV Spots; Theatrical trailers and D-Box capabilities.
1408 Blu-ray announced
The Weinstein Company announced today that 1408 will be released on Blu-ray on September 16, 2008. 1408 stars John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson, and was originally released last summer. The movie will be released on a BD-50 dual-layer disc with 1080p video and Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround audio.
‘The Counterfeiters’ coming to Blu-ray
The 2007 Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, The Counterfeiters will be released on DVD and Blu-ray by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 5, 2008.
Written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, The Counterfeiters was an official selection of the 2007 Telluride Film Festival, the 2007 Berlin Film Festival and the 2007 Toronto Film Festival. Special features on the DVD and Blu-ray will include a director’s commentary, cast and crew interviews and behind the scenes featurettes.
The Counterfeiters tells the true story of Salomon Sorowitsch, a swindler who made a name for himself as Berlin’s “King of the Counterfeiters.” However, his life of women and easy money is cut short when he’s arrested and placed in a Nazi concentration camp. With the German army on the verge of bankruptcy, Sorowitsch makes a sobering deal with his captors: in exchange for a comfortable bed, good food and fair treatment, Sorowitsch, along with the other hand-picked specialists, must counterfeit bank notes to fund the Nazi war effort. If he does as they say, he lives another day. If he rebels, he faces the same fate as the rest of the camp’s prisoners. But if he lives, will he be able to live with himself?
New releases for June 24, 2008
Here are this week’s new releases:
10,000 B.C.
House of Fury
National Geographic: Sea Monsters
Persepolis
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Step Into Liquid
ZZ Top: Live in Texas
Via EngadgetHD
