So anecdotally, I do a sort of annual wander-around of retail stores to survey the changing landscape, from how things are merchandised to what places seem to be cutting back, and so on. Chain-wide, Target stores pulled all their 4K/Blu/DVD some weeks back...due to simple re-merchandising of...
can confirm that the mysterious "Target Exclusive" version of Spirited Away Live On Stage is the exact same packaging and art...with a folded reversible poster tucked inside the slipcover. Mystery solved!
A warning: I redeemed the digital copy code for Batman:TAS, and Vudu gave it to me in...SD. Vudu doesn’t carry it in HD (yet?). iTunes carries it in HD, but the code only redeems on Vudu. I’m a disc fiend like everyone here, but I really looked to that redemption as a nice perk, being able to...
Inside Llewyn Davis is it for me this week. Glad to see the Coens enter the Criterion Collection in the "New Modern" (DVD and later) Era of their releases.
With Lauzirika being so consistently involved on Ridley Scott releases, I feel like a more apt comparison might be to his work on Bay's Pain and Gain, which was completely barebones and then double-dipped the same calendar year. Now, Pain and Gain was nowhere near the awards contender that "Best...
The Image Revolution and Bitter Rice are it for me this week.
I wish I could say I'm getting The Martian, but I'm pretty firmly convinced that there's a "bigger" release of The Martian planned for later in the year. This release lacks any of the sort of heft I expect from recent Ridley Scott...
Anyone have any idea on Target's "30 minutes of additional content" exclusive? The reason I ask is that Walmart has the exact same "round tin" edition in-store, only visibly different than the Target one (which itself doesn't detail what those 30 minutes are, even on the back cover!) by lacking...
An addition for the roundup!
Under-the-radar due to a no-name distributor, but Miyazaki's directorial debut Lupin the 3rd: Castle of Cagliostro: Collector's Edition is available on Blu-ray for $14.99 each at Amazon and Best Buy (who apparently seem to actually stock it in stores!).
The DVD...
I seriously, seriously doubt that. It's been very successful and profitable for WB in general, and even with the recent layoffs, merging their web-store infrastructure just seems like cost-savings.
I've actually spent the better part of this year investing in and researching the wide swath of "retailer exclusives" that've started to troublingly trend toward "off-disc" extras, which retailers have locked to their respective streaming services (STID's Best Buy extras on CinemaNow, Captain...
I can confirm that the advertised EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT on the Target release of Captain America 2 is neither on the disc (same disc as all retail copies), nor is it included in your Target Ticket library when you redeem it there as instructed. Doesn't show up on Marvel.com or Disney Movies...
It seems more and more like TV product is getting pushed back into junk food commoditization. There are prestige things like CBS has done on Blu-ray, but the last wave of Fox seasons (LOUIE, BOB'S BURGERS, etc) were all MoD DVDs with zero extras and no companion Blu-ray releases.
I don't know...
They sent me the DVD discs in paper sleeves, which arrived Saturday. I'm just plowing through the commentaries as I work, getting closer to the featurettes and so on that I assume are all lumped at the end.
They are getting really cagey about any review material for Marvel-specific stuff.
I'm...
The movie chopped out hunks of the play. See it live with a non-Hollywood cast (like with most plays) and you'll be shocked at how different an experience it can be.
Agreed. I would add THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY (a recent WAC title), STAGECOACH, NAKED KISS and SHOCK CORRIDOR, myriad Chaplin films, and the sadly-OOP LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, among many, many others. A Blu-ray release can make remastering and restoration possible for titles that have...
Three words, Mike: New Yorker Films.
Their stuff has always had stupid-high MSRPs that are the reason so few of us who actually would buy their stuff end up actually buying things. They can never justify it like Criterion Collection or Kino can, with superior presentation and extras. They've...
Oh my god! I'm so sorry to hear Mike is ill, especially in such a bad way. I worried something serious was wrong, because if anything is a testament to Mike, it's the better-than-the-rest-of-the-internet punctuality of the RoundUp each week.
Positive vibes to his family.
I think it's disgusting that the Target-exclusive extra content is only available on THEIR new streaming service, as if we need one more account to keep up with, or want to only access that extra when connected to the net on the right device.
I know for a fact, from both hearing the WAC podcast and reading interviews, that The Court Jester is one of George Feltenstein's favorite movies, and if there is a single person in film preservation whom I believe in to pull off the impossible, it's him by a country mile.
Even though it's...
Having materials good enough to remaster for DVD is one thing. Having good enough materials to master for Blu-ray is a whole other matter. I appreciate the emotion and passion behind the "Blu-ray or GTFO" attitude, but it is shortsighted and terribly disrespectful of the people working insanely...
It was a full-on WAC-specific panel.
They also officially announced that Batman: Brave and the Bold would start coming to Blu-ray this year from WAC one season at a time at their Hanna-Barbera panel, where they announced a DVD edition of Space Stars.
They just confirmed to me, on the record, that not only are they doing this, but that they absolutely are retaining all extras. "All of these will retain their original extras, just like the WB DVD titles we bring back into print".
Warner Archive just "leaked" that they're adding OOP Paramount titles. I compiled the list of 13 (listed below) and the "leak" video in question here:
OOP Watch: Warner Archive Adds...Out of Print Paramount!
The Naked Jungle
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Hello Down...
On a Mac running the latest Safari on Lion (10.7), the biggest formatting issue I see is there's a tab indent worth of space between $ signs and prices. I like the alternating colors, helps focus/differentiate titles with the actual corresponding price.
I second Cameron's assessment of the color, contrast, and general PQ as a solid uptick. The only reason I've watched it is that we got it for my dad as a Father's Day gift. The price is oppressive for what I consider a very, very solid visual improvement.
Regarding the cropping: I can't say...
Crawdaddy becomes Smackdowndaddy for a moment. Works.
Totally separate thing: I just realized the Disney discs from last week (minus Atlantis) shove all the extras onto the DVDs, including commentary. I noticed this after putting the discs in and searching in vain. Wish I'd never bought them...
Having plowed through the Mad Max Trilogy set, here are my proviso'd recommendations to my fellow Lords Humongous:
Prices on the single Mad Max 2 and Beyond Thunderdome discs are bound to drop before the end of the year.
If you have the MGM Mad Max Blu-ray and don't care about Beyond...
As noted in all reports on Best Buy's last earnings call, we're only going to see more "mini-shops" pop up in their stores. Apple's original ploy has turned into Best Buy's new revenue model: landlord for consumer electronics brands.
I wouldn't be surprised if BB HQ has a giant set of floorplan...