Posted Mon Nov 4, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST by D. LaFontaine
We're starting the first week of November and a rather busy release week at that. We have seen so many months of slow starts and ginormous ends that this month is an anomaly indeed. Oh and don't forget to get out and vote.
Welcome to Volume 5 Episode 23 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc the week of November 3rd - November 9th, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
UK Import Monday has two interesting releases.
One of those deluxe edition StudioCanal Vintage Classics releases first, The Third Man (1949): 75th Anniversary Edition. It's got swag, it's got extras. Sweet looking pack for those of us that like collecting these editions.
Continuing with swag editions, 101 Films' version of The Sword and the Sorcerer. Yeah, Shout! Factory did a decent release in the US, but it was a bit more plain in the packaging department.
On to Domestic Tuesday, with four New Releases.
First up from Warner Bros., M. Night Shyamalan's Trap.
Second on the new release docket, a remake of the original, The Crow. Also available as two different SteelBooks, a Walmart Exclusive and an Amazon Exclusive.
Third on the list, Kevin Smith's The 4:30 Movie, which the 4K release is only available as an Amazon Exclusive SteelBook. We have seen this configuration in the past with Best Buy Exclusives.
And the fourth title is of a category we do not see very often in the 4K New Release calendar, anime feature film One Piece Film Red - Movie.
Shout Factory gets multiple delays of titles originally slated for this week, but they do have two SteelBooks, athough the titles themselves are not new to 4K. Those titles are John Carpenter's Escape From New York and Krampus: The Naughty Cut.
The delay bug strikes again, wiping two of Kino Lorber's titles off this week's 4K release calendar. Maybe they should just automatically add 2 weeks to any future announcements, just to be safe as it seems to happen a lot. We do see two releases from them this week though, bumped from previous release dates, those would be Fright (1971) and Rules of Engagement.
Criterion Collection this week offers 1954's Godzilla.
Universal upgrades the 2019 comedy/romance Last Christmas to 4K.
Well Go USA makes an appearance with You Gotta Believe, a sports/drama with Luke Wilson.
Paramount has TWO movies this week. Starting with war drama We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson, then the 70th Anniversary Edition classic film White Christmas with Bing Crosby.
You've probably heard of this line of special edition releases, and they have been mostly overseas releases. This week though LionsGate offers us a Titans of Cult edition of John Wick, as an Amazon Exclusive. It also features a Dolby Vision grade for the first time too.
And last but not least, a somewhat double-dip at that, Warner Bros/MGM offers us The Wizard of Oz as a SteelBook/fat-pack. This package has been done with so many releases of in the UK. We could hope we would get more of these up front, not as double-dips. It's a handsome looking set.
On Wednesday, Turbine Medien Group Germany releases FOUR Hellraiser: Judgment skus:
Friday, via Amazon US, Imprint Films' Limited Edition of Suspiria (2018) can be yours for the right price.
Blu-ray counterparts of the above 4K releases include Trap, The Crow (2024), The 4:30 Movie, Fright (1971), Rules of Engagement and You Gotta Believe.
Lionsgate releases the drama thriller 1992.
Warner Bros has the Channing Tatum mystery thriller Blink Twice.
Peacock Original Melissa McCarthy comedy Genie comes to disc from Universal Pictures.
Sony Pictures comedy romance It Ends with Us comes to Blu-ray this week. On the opposite scale, the horror/thriller Afraid.
TV on disc this week includes Bluey: Seasons One - Three (Amazon Exclusive), Doctor Who: The Complete Jodie Whittaker Years, from CBS Television and Paramount, I Love Lucy: The Complete Series, Murdoch Mysteries: Season 17 and Orphan Black: Echoes - Season One.
Anime highlights include 86: The Complete First Season, Planetes - The Complete Series, Psycho-Pass: Season 1, Psycho-Pass: Season 2, PSYCHO-PASS: Providence - Movie, which also comes as a Limited Edition and The Vexations of a Shut-In Vampire Princess Complete Collection.
Friday imports (via Amazon US) include:
Seinfeld: The Complete Series is coming to Blu-ray and 4K on December 17th. Per the news article, the 4K release will have the original aspect ratio of 4:3.
It was inveitable. Last week we mentioned that LionsGate will be releasing Jackie Brown to 4K after much speculation. This week we also report that Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2 will be coming to 4K on January 17th.
Which titles are you buying this week? Which ones are on your wishlist, be it to buy as an impulse buy or to wait for the right price?
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