What Paramount Universal and DreamWorks titles are you waiting for to go Blu? (1 Viewer)

[TravisR]

I wonder how the people who paid $200 on eBay for the Blu Ray copies of that that leaked out feel now?

 

[Marc Colella]

They probably felt royally ripped off... even moreso if they actually watched the movie.

 

[MatthewA]

Paramount:
Samson and Delilah
Sunset Boulevard
The African Queen
Sabrina
Roman Holiday
The High and the Mighty
White Christmas
To Catch a Thief
The Ten Commandments
Funny Face
Breakfast at Tiffany's
El Dorado
True Grit
Peanuts feature films
Chinatown
Saturday Night Fever
Grease (and would it KILL them to include the original soundtrack and logos?)
Airplane!
Terms of Endearment
Beverly Hills Cop
Top Secret!
Naked Gun trilogy

Universal:
Scarface '32
Dracula
Frankenstein
The Bank Dick
Double Indemnity
The Lost Weekend
Alfred Hitchcock films
Pillow Talk
Spartacus (if they can't do a good transfer, let Criterion have it)
Flower Drum Song
Charade
Arabesque
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Sweet Charity (uncut)
Duel
The Sting
Jaws
The Jerk
E.T. (original unmolested version)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Monty Python's the Meaning of Life
Fletch
Out of Africa
Back to the Future trilogy (it looked fantastic on HDNet Movies, imagine what the Blu-Rays would look like)
Schindler's List

 

[Ron Reda]

Of the ones that we'll probably be seeing quickly, I'd like to see them put Transformers out correctly, IE with a lossless PCM track. When I see my huge robots fighting, I want to hear some destruction in high-res!

 

[RickER]

Of the stuff thats already out on HD DVD...Add me for the Bourne films, i would also like to see Dune, The Frightners, and Tremors on Blu from Universal.
From Paramount, not much, just some Trek movies and TOS on Blu.

 

[Matt Hough]

Naturally, I'd love to see the Universal Hitchcocks on Blu-ray.

Was there any talk at all earlier about putting them out on HD DVD?

 

[Jeff_HR]

Star Trek - TV & Movies

Shogun

The Winds of War

Ten Commandments

 

[Paul McElligott]

Uni:
Spielberg's Universal titles, esp Jaws, Schindler's List and Jurassic Park.
The Andromeda Strain
Apollo 13
Battlestar Galactica - season sets
The Bourne Trilogy
Heroes - Season sets
King King '05
Serenity

Paramount:
Apocalypse Now
Braveheart
Chinatown
The Godfather I & II
The Hunt for Red October
Star Trek II, VI and First Contact
The Untouchables

Dreamworks:
Saving Private Ryan
Galaxy Quest
Gladiator
Minority Report

 

[Jari K]

It seems that the "older" Blu-ray-titles from Paramount are slowly coming back to the stores:
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"..Amazon.com is offering some of Par's late 2006/early 2007 Blu releases like Mission Impossible II and III, Babel, The Italian Job, among others, which streeted prior to the studio's mid-2007 switch to HD DVD-only. A number of them pop up if you search Paramount Blu-ray on the site."

Titles like "Blades of Glory" is still unconfirmed. E-bay leeches, your days are numbered!

 

[MatthewA]

I would also like to see I Love Lucy in Blu-Ray in 4x3 1080p with an option to reconstruct the original broadcasts including original openings and commercials. No, they won't get me to start smoking; my dad is a radiation oncologist so I know the risks from someone who knows.

 

[Adam Gregorich]

If you have a HD DVD player or are planning to get one on fire sale this is a good plan. I think the Bourne movies, Children of Men, American Gangster and other theatrical releases on HD DVD will probably be made available sooner rather than later (12 months). I don't expect many of their catalog HD DVDs to make to Blu-ray for 2-3 years at the earliest. I know WB has said that they will release all their HD DVD exclusive discs onto BD too, but only 5 of them sold over 10K copies, so I would expect the big titles (Matrix, Batman, etc) sooner (12 months), but some of the others may take a while too.

 

[RomanSohor]

I really want to see Sweeney Todd, I would have made it a blind buy now that it's out, but I feel really silly buying it in SD now that I know it's not HD DVD exclusive... especially since I just bought the darned BD player.

 

[Gregory Vaughan]

I've definitely been wondering what the first previously released HD-DVD exclusive to be announced on Blu-ray will be and when. Any guesses?

 

[AlexCosmo]

I'm waiting on:
Zodiac
The Thing

 

[Dave_P.]

I'm wondering what the status of these current "caught in transition" titles like Into The Wild, Beowulf, etc. will be on BD?

 

[Jason_V]

To answer the orginal question in a nebulous, general sort of way...

As long as there's quality to the release, I'll be there. I'd almost definitely grab anything Trek-related (even Enterprise). I'd like to grab Children of Men and Jarhead and the Bourne movies...that's just among the things which are currently out and coming to mind right now.

 

[Reagan]

Let's see, Raiders and..., pretty much just Raiders.

There are more that would be netflix-worthy, but that's it for purchases from Paramount and Universal. Most of my entertainment money goes to Disney.

-Reagan

 

[Ray_R]

Time for a huge list!!!

Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future Part III
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Saving Private Ryan
DUEL
Schindler's List
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
JAWS
JAWS 2
Jurassic Park
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park III
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
1941
Always
Minority Report
Catch Me If You Can
A Beautiful Mind
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop III
Collateral
Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Destroyer
The Conversation
The Duellists
Forrest Gump
LEGEND
Road to Perdition
1492: The Conquest of Paradise
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek
Tucker: The Man and His Dream

 

[John Kwong]

All the Universal Hitchcock movies!!!

- Godfather (trilogy)
- Indiana Jones (four films)
- The Thing (1982)
- Back to the Future (trilogy)
- Jurassic Park (trilogy)
- Animal House
- American Graffiti
- Apocalypse Now

 

[Ray_R]

Here're more Paramount titles:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop III
The Italian Job (1969)
The Molly Maguires
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Alfie (1966)
Gallipoli
Once Upon a Time in the West
Paycheck
DragonSlayer
Apocalypse Now
The Conversation
The Duellists
Braveheart
Fire in the Sky
Galaxy Quest
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Godfather Part III
Murder on the Orient Express
Rat Race
Top Secret!
The Truman Show
War of the Worlds (1953)
WITNESS
K-19: The Widowmaker
Tucker: The Man and His Dream