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8/26/10 at 1:46pm
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BAZ LUHRMANN’S CULTURE-SHIFTING MODERN CLASSICS
“MOULIN ROUGE!” 
AND
“WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO+JULIET” 
REMASTERED IN HIGH DEFINITION AND AVAILABLE 
ON BLU-RAY DISC FOR THE FIRST TIME
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Acclaimed Groundbreaking Films Debut On Blu-ray Disc October 19, 
Featuring New High-Definition Transfers From The Original Camera Negative Supervised By Director Baz Luhrmann, Brand New Content And Never-Before-Seen Material.
 
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LOS ANGELES, CA. (Aug. 25, 2010) – Two of famed director Baz Luhrmann’s unconventional, poetic and mesmerizing films get the star treatment October 19, when Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment debuts William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge! on Blu-ray Disc.

Flaunting a new high-definition transfer and spectacular picture-in-picture experience, both Blu-ray discs of the award-winning films boast new uncut footage, BD-LIVE: Live Lookup™ Powered by IMDb&reg, as well as a host of other never-before-seen material produced by Luhrmann and his creative team at Bazmark. And for first time ever, Moulin Rouge! includes an alternate opening sequence featuring the Cat Stevens hit “Father & Son”.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge! Blu-ray Discs will each be available for the suggested retail price of $34.99 U.S. / $37.99 CAN. Pre-book is September 8.

Widely credited with reinventing the modern movie musical, Moulin Rouge! exploded onto screens when it debuted in 2001. Celebrating some of the best-loved popular music of the twentieth century, the film found audiences ready to enjoy the same break-into-song storytelling currently enjoying its latest reincarnation in the popular television series Glee.

Along with a multi-platinum selling soundtrack led by the single “Lady Marmalade,” the film went on to broadly influence fashion, music, design and popular culture, and was nominated for eight Academy Awards&reg including Best Picture, winning two for Catherine Martin’s production design and costume design.

Nicole Kidman (The Hours, Australia) sizzles in her Oscar&reg-nominated role as Satine, the seductive courtesan and star of a popular French nightclub that caters to society’s decadent elite. When she unwittingly draws Christian, a struggling writer played by Ewan McGregor (Amelia), into her spell, true love turns to tragedy. Moulin Rouge! offers a kaleidoscopic ride through a world of song, dance, romance and drama that celebrates truth, beauty, freedom and above all things, love.

Inventive, unconventional, controversial, Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated adaption of William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet finds the star-crossed lovers in the modern world of Verona Beach where Romeo drives a car and Juliet packs a gun. Set to a thumping soundtrack, amidst the threat of gunfire through and the delicate embrace of forbidden love, the audience is invited to drink from an intoxicating cinematic cocktail that takes them on a ride from Romeo and Juliet’s budding love, their first kiss, through to their separation and ultimate demise.

Considered a modern classic, this iconoclastic film adaptation that redefined the timeless tale for a new generation stars a pre-Titanic Leonardo DiCaprio (Shutter Island, Inception) and Claire Danes (The Family Stone, Shopgirl), as the youthful star-crossed lovers. The film went on to achieve box office success and widespread acclaim, a multi-platinum soundtrack album, and won four BAFTA Awards including the David Lean award for best direction and two Berlin Film Festival awards including the Silver Bear for Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance as Romeo.

Luhrmann says: 
“As a fan, I’ve seen examples where the technology is so powerful, a much-loved film goes in for a Blu-ray treatment and, somewhat like a friend who has had too much surgery, you no longer recognize them.

“Mindful of the relationship evolved with many fans of these two films, the esteemed digital intermediate colorist Jan Yarbrough, who recently completed color restorations of North by Northwest and The Godfather films, and I sat together day in and day out seeking to maintain the color philosophy forged in the cauldron of shooting, while giving full reign to the power of high-definition technology to deliver a Moulin Rouge and an R+J that audiences will recognize but are nevertheless realized at the highest possible visual quality.

“As a filmmaker you never know whether you will ever have a chance to revisit movies again, and so we have gone about this with the attitude that this could be for the last time.”

Moulin Rouge! Blu-ray Disc (Catalog # 2264218)
  • New High Definition Transfer supervised by Director Baz Luhrmann
  • Spectacular, Spectacular Picture-in-Picture Mode* with Audio Commentary by Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Donald M. McAlpine and Craig Pearce and featuring Behind-the-Scenes Footage and Stills
  • All-New Featurette A Creative Adventure and Introduction by Baz Luhrmann A Word from Baz
  • Uncut Footage from the Bazmark Vault including:
    • Father & Son – A Look at an Alternate Opening
    • Nicole Kidman’s First Vocal Test
  • Production Featurettes and Interviews: The Stars, The Writers, The Design, The Dance, The Music and The Cutting Room
  • The Making of Moulin Rouge and More!
  • BD-LIVE:** Live Lookup™ powered by IMDb®
William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet Blu-ray Disc (Catalog# 2264219)
  • New High Definition Transfer supervised by Director Baz Luhrmann
  • Shaking Up Shakespeare Picture-in-Picture Mode with Audio Commentary by Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Donald M. McAlpine and Craig Pearce and featuring Behind-the-Scenes Footage and Stills
  • Uncut Footage from the Bazmark Vault
  • Romeo + Juliet: The Music Documentary
  • Filmmaker and Interview Galleries
  • BD-LIVE**: Live Lookup™ powered by IMDb®

The Moulin Rouge! and William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet Blu-ray Disc releases are just one aspect of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s yearlong campaign to honor the studio’s 75th birthday. This year the division will debut several select fan-favorites on Blu-ray for the first time ever including The Sound Of Music 45th Anniversary Edition, The Rocky Horror Picture Show: 35th Anniversary, The Last of the Mohicans and the Alien Anthology.

About Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC (TCFHE) is a recognized global industry leader and a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company. Representing 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Digital Copy, Video On Demand and Digital Download. The company also releases all products globally for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce throughout the world.

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MOULIN ROUGE!
Street Date:October 19, 2010
Pre-book Date:September 8
Screen Format:Widescreen
Audio:English 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio, English 5.1 Descriptive Audio, Spanish and French 5.1 Dolby Digital, and Brazilian Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish
U.S. Rating:PG-13
Total Run Time:127:40
Closed ClosedYES

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE’S ROMEO+JULIET
Street Date:October 19, 2010
Pre-book Date:September 8
Screen Format:Widescreen
Audio:English 7.1 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 DTS Stereo and Brazilian Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish
U.S. Rating:PG-13
Total Run Time:120 minutes
Closed ClosedYES

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post #2 of 20
8/26/10 at 2:23pm
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Moulin Rouge brings back so many good personal memories for me.

 

A few months prior to its release  I remember driving onto the Fox

lot and seeing a huge banner promoting a musical starring Nicole Kidman.

I remember thinking to myself, "This is going to garbage.  Who is 

going to want to see a musical in this day and age?"

 

But Fox was very high on this film.  I remember speaking with 

the people at the Home Entertainment division who were raving

about the movie.  Despite all this, I chose not to see it theatrically.

 

When the movie was due for release on DVD for the very first time,

the studio sent me a test disc.  They really wanted me to see this

film.  When I finally did watch it, I was completely blown away. This

was no ordinary musical by any means.  Baz Luhrmann filled the

screen with vivid imagery, imaginative costumes and erratic edits

intended to quicken one's pulse.  Best of all, instead of the film being 

bogged down with original music that may not have connected with

all audiences, we are given a soundtrack of very familiar modern songs

reworked to perfectly coincide with the story.

 

Brilliant! Moulin Rouge became one of my all-time favorite films.

 

A week after receiving the test disc, I was invited to a press event

that Fox threw in New York City where they transformed an entire

floor of a hotel into a turn of the century Parisian underworld.  It was

there that I got to meet Baz Luhrmann and was personally able to

tell him how immensely I enjoyed his film.  

 

I have never seen a studio so proud of a film.  Fox really went 

to great lengths in promotion Moulin Rouge and you could tell

that although its premise was very daring (and was probably a

huge gamble for the studio), they really believed in its success.  

 

Very much looking forward to this Blu-ray release -- especially

for the (hopeful) fix in the sync issue that plagued the DTS track

on the DVD.

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post #3 of 20
8/26/10 at 3:16pm
It is cool to see a press release like this one where the director is able to approve and be really involved in bringing his films to HD, and knowing how to have the right balance on presenting the beat transfer possible. sounds like Baz knows when to lay off and let the film speak for itself



The transfers should be really great.
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post #4 of 20
8/26/10 at 9:07pm

If only parts of "Moulin Rogue" could be re-edited so the viewer can actually see the scene before it cuts to the next shot. This film has something like 40 edits per second. What kind of stuff were the editors snorting?

 

I often wonder if Mr Luhrmann will be able to sit through his film the older he gets

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post #5 of 20
8/26/10 at 10:01pm
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Flaunting a new high-definition transfer and spectacular picture-in-picture experience, both Blu-ray discs of the award-winning films boast new uncut footage, BD-LIVE: Live Lookup™ Powered by IMDb&reg, as well as a host of other never-before-seen material produced by Luhrmann and his creative team at Bazmark. And for first time ever, Moulin Rouge! includes an alternate opening sequence featuring the Cat Stevens hit “Father & Son”.


Moulin Rouge! Blu-ray Disc (Catalog # 2264218)
  • New High Definition Transfer supervised by Director Baz Luhrmann
  • Spectacular, Spectacular Picture-in-Picture Mode* with Audio Commentary by Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Donald M. McAlpine and Craig Pearce and featuring Behind-the-Scenes Footage and Stills
  • All-New Featurette A Creative Adventure and Introduction by Baz Luhrmann A Word from Baz
  • Uncut Footage from the Bazmark Vault including:
    • Father & Son – A Look at an Alternate Opening
    • Nicole Kidman’s First Vocal Test
  • Production Featurettes and Interviews: The Stars, The Writers, The Design, The Dance, The Music and The Cutting Room
  • The Making of Moulin Rouge and More!
  • BD-LIVE:** Live Lookup™ powered by IMDb®
 
 

 

Yay!  This sounds wonderful!    Especially the alternate opening sequence.
 

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post #6 of 20
8/27/10 at 4:58am

I remember all the hype about this film here at HTF when it originally hit SD-DVD for the first time. I made this a blind buy based on all the positive feedback. When my wife and I sat down to watch the film, for the first several minutes we looked at each other in disbelief -- we both thought it was quite bad and almost shut the film off. Then all of a sudden things just "clicked" during one of the early musical numbers, and we both did a complete 180 degree change in our attitude. It has since become one of our favorite musicals.

 

I do not recall ever having such a drastic change in reaction to any other film I've watched.

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post #7 of 20
8/27/10 at 9:31am

The opening music number is very disorienting (intentionally so).  But man, I still love this movie.  And I love that so many people at HTF loved it as well.

 

Both are these are easy purchases for me.

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post #8 of 20
8/27/10 at 9:53am

One of my all-time favorites, Moulin Rouge. A must own come street day.

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post #9 of 20
8/27/10 at 9:56am

I love this film too - the Roxanne sequence being the highlight. I especially enjoyed the extras on the DVD such as the unedited sequences from different angles for each sequence. Hope they are included.

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post #10 of 20
8/28/10 at 4:35am
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I love this film too - the Roxanne sequence being the highlight. I especially enjoyed the extras on the DVD such as the unedited sequences from different angles for each sequence. Hope they are included.


The Roxanne piece was the first I saw of this movie. We watched it in music class, for one reason or another, and after it I decided to rent it immediately. The first time I watched it, the Roxanne bit was definitely the highlight of the movie, because I didn't really like the rest that much. However, I bought the DVD later anyway, because it was a reference disk, both in terms of PQ and AQ, and extras. Something clicked with me, and I really loved it then, and it has been that way for many years. I can't wait to watch this on Blu-ray, if only for the absence of that annoying PAL speedup.

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post #11 of 20
8/28/10 at 6:02am

I remember watching this for the first time and wondering what the hell I'd walked into until Nicole Kidman appeared . Then it just sort of clicked into place and worked. Dont get me wrong i like the opening now but at the time it seemed bizarre and i could understand why some were initially put off.

 

However, the Roxanne sequence just grabbed me as an amazing sequence. The editing is nigh on perfect but I remember being very pleased to be able to watch each part of the sequence unedited because every moment was so well done, you wanted to see it all.

 

Its the kind of film that makes me want to buy a new sound system too!!! 

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post #12 of 20
8/28/10 at 8:35am

I'm in for both! MR also has a lot of HTF memories tied to it. Not just the hype and the support it got here, but the various local HTF meets we had around the time tended to play parts, if not all, of that movie.

 

October 19 - it's marked on my calendar!

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post #13 of 20
8/29/10 at 9:46am
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Originally Posted by Carlo Medina View Post

I'm in for both! MR also has a lot of HTF memories tied to it. Not just the hype and the support it got here, but the various local HTF meets we had around the time tended to play parts, if not all, of that movie.

 

October 19 - it's marked on my calendar!


Yes it does Carlo. It's the film we watched at the meet I held, very long ago.

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post #14 of 20
8/29/10 at 10:15am

Hi Ron - the man himself! I still fondly remember that meet and your Green Room! IIRC wasn't that the time when Gregg flew out to calibrate your TV as well (and a bunch of other HTFers in SoCal)?

 

Good times...

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post #15 of 20
8/29/10 at 6:03pm

Now we just need Miramax to release Strictly Ballroom on BD and the "Red Curtain Trilogy" will be complete.


Edited by Stephen_J_H - 8/30/10 at 3:32pm
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post #16 of 20
8/30/10 at 4:59pm
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Originally Posted by Carlo Medina View Post

Hi Ron - the man himself! I still fondly remember that meet and your Green Room! IIRC wasn't that the time when Gregg flew out to calibrate your TV as well (and a bunch of other HTFers in SoCal)?

 

Good times...


Yep Carlo, you remember correctly. Very good times indeed! I miss doing those...

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post #17 of 20
8/30/10 at 7:46pm

I remember that as well!  Gregg did my TV too that weekend.  Good times.

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post #18 of 20
8/31/10 at 4:23pm

Hey Jeff, how are ya? Anyone remember what year we did that meet, just curious.

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post #19 of 20
8/31/10 at 10:11pm

I usually avoid musicals like the plague but I saw a "making of" a few weeks before MR opened and I decided to go see it Day 1 (June 1, 2001) since I was starting a new job the following Monday (I never go see movies the day they open).

 

Since the release date would have been Marilyn Monroe's 75th birthday, I thought it was an audacious choice by Fox to open the movie that day considering the opening number is "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend".  I was captivated right from the opening sequence and caught the film again two more times on the big screen (again, something I never do - seeing a movie theatrically more than once).

 

Lastly, I remember the HTF Hollywood Meet that September and my bugging Peter Staddon wanting to know when the DVD would be released.

 

Needless to say, a day 1 purchase for me.

 

Rob

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post #20 of 20
8/31/10 at 10:54pm

I'm doing well, thanks!  Still in the neighborhood, a little further away than CM though; now in Foothill Ranch.

 

I sold that TV Gregg calibrated that weekend in Jan '03, so it would have had to have been 2002 or sooner. 
 

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Hey Jeff, how are ya? Anyone remember what year we did that meet, just curious.

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