Month: March 2008 (Page 3 of 5)

April 15th will mark the release date of A Passage to India, the first Blu-ray in Sony’s new Columbia Classics series.

The film will include audio commentary with producer Richard Goodwin and seven making-of featurettes and an all-new graphic and subtitle trivia track.

Specs: 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 video, English and French Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround audio and  English, French and Spanish subtitles.

Sony Pictures announced today details for the upcoming Blu-ray of Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Sony revealed that the disc will support BD-Live features which include three downloadable “mini-featurettes” with star Bill Hader.

Other extras on the disc will include: audio commentary with Judd Apatow, director Jake Kasdan, and stars John C. Reilly & Lew Morton; six making-of featurettes; an additional “Last Interview with Dewey Cox”; deleted & extended scenes; additional full song performances and song demos; a mock “A Christmas Song with Dewey Cox” music video; “Cox Sausage Commercials” with outtakes; and a “Line-O-Rama.”

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story will be available in stores on both DVD and Blu-ray on April 6, 2008.

J&R is currently having a huge sale on select Blu-ray movies. Deals start as low as $7.99 for Terminator 2, The Devil’s Rejects, Total Recall and more. There’s also the TV show WEEDS, available for $10.99 (season 1) and $13.99 (season 2). Hurry because I think the sale is only good through the weekend and as always, it’s while supplies last.

Sony today announced that system software update v.2.20, for the PS, planned for release in late March, will add Blu-ray Disc (BD) Profile 2.0 (known as BD-LIVE). With this new update comes the ability to take full advantage of interactive features, such as downloadable video content, ringtones, games, and more.In addition to BD-LIVE, the system software update will enable photo and music playlists on a PS3 to be copied to a PSP, as well as other new features.

To access Blu-ray Profile 2.0, users require an Internet connection and at least 1GB of local storage. Movies with BD-LIVE are scheduled for release next month.

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Metal God Entertainment and Rob Halford (of Judas Priest fame) announced today that HALFORD’s 2001 double-live CD “Live Insurrection” will makes its debut in Blu-Ray Hi-Definition 5.1 Surround Audio September 23, 2008. “Live Insurrection – Remastered” Blu-Ray will feature a custom-designed digipak, original Rob Halford autograph and 20-page booklet including rare pictures and exclusive liner notes.

Best Buy is giving $50 gift cards to customers who purchased an HD DVD player or HD DVD Xbox 360 attachment from its U.S. stores before February 23, 2008. Customers will get a gift card for each player or HD DVD attachment that they purchased. Through this program, Best Buy will distribute more than $10 million in gift cards to customers across the country.

Most Best Buy customers won’t have to do anything to receive their gift card. Best Buy will proactively mail cards to all customers that the company can identify as having purchased an HD DVD player. Members of the Best Buy Reward Zone program, customers who purchased Performance Service Plans (PSPs) or who made their purchase on BestBuy.com should look for their gift cards in the mail by May 1. Other customers who may not be easily identified can call (888) BEST BUY to receive their gift cards with proof of purchase through a credit card or their Best Buy receipt.

Why is Best Buy doing this? Because they want you to use that gift card to hopefully purchase a Blu-ray player, some movies and some of those overpriced Monster cables.

Image Entertainment today announced their upcoming Blu-ray releases and the fact that they have selected Sony DADC for the authoring and compression of said discs.

Image’s first Blu-ray titles, released earlier this year, were the romantic comedy, Suburban Girl and the Australian war classic Breaker Morant. The Blu-ray special edition of Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead will be released on April 15. The Air I Breathe will debut on Blu-ray May 6.

May 20 is set as the release date for Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award winning musical, Company. A special edition of cult classic, Short Circuit, will also be released on Blu-ray May 20.

Image Entertainment’s bestselling music titles will also come to Blu-ray this spring and summer:

Chicago / Earth, Wind & Fire: Live at the Greek
Heart: Alive in Seattle
Moody Blues: Lovely to See You Live
Roy Orbison: Black and White Night
Barry Manilow: Live

Sony is planning to invest nearly $110 million in new equipment and property improvements to upgrade its Terre Haute, Indianapolis plant following Blu-ray’s victory in the “high-def war”.

Sony will invest more than $101 million in new equipment and more than $7.4 million in property improvements, for a total of $108.5 million. Along with new equipment, the company will hire at least 65 new employees.

New release Tuesday will only see two new Blu-ray movies: Enchanted and I Am Legend. Two movies that were huge successes at the box office that will no doubt sell quite well on Blu-ray.

Warner Bros. is finally releasing Batman Begins on Blu-ray Disc on July 8, just in time to cash in on the July 18th release of its sequel, The Dark Knight. It’s not like Warner Bros. needs any help getting this to sell as its one of the most requested and anticipated Blu-ray releases.

The film will be released in two versions. A single disc edition for $28.99 and a limited-edition gift set for $49.99 which includes a Batman Begins motion art lenticular, exclusive photos, script pages, storyboards, five postcards and $7.50 in movie cash toward… you guessed it… The Dark Knight. Both versions will also include an exclusive comic book prologue to The Dark Knight.

Oh and a friendly reminder letting you know that July 8th is also the release date for Batman: Gotham Knight, the animated collection of Batman shorts created by renowned writers and animators.