Canada to get Wave 1 of Warner Bros. SteelBooks™ (Nationwide Release)

[Exist2Inspire]

A new wave of SteelBooks is coming from Warner Bros. It's all catalog titles and similar to the DVD ones.

As was previously noted on the forum, the market will see more and more Steelbooks being produced by the studios directly for national distribution amongst all retailers who choose to bring them in. This will primarily be on older catalogue titles as the industry looks for new ways of creating some excitement and driving more sales for Bluray. While this is bittersweet for FS as we have been the leaders in Steelbook and pushing this cool packaging option for years as our thing, ultimately it's about you the customer and making sure as many of your diverse movie needs are fulfilled with Steelbook. The reality is we would have never been able to produce some of these Steelbooks on our own as the minimum packaging runs are pretty high, so we cherry pick older titles and often times work internationally to partner with other countries.

This first wave coming from Warner will also be bitter sweet for some of you as it's some old/new titles coming back in Steelbook format. My understanding is the artwork is different than before so there shouldn't be crossover where they are bringing something back that was sold as an FS exclusive a few years ago.


Two things you can expect that will make this exciting for you: because of our leadership position around Steelbook (which is really about you guys and all the active members we have here in our forum) we will get first look at upcoming Steelbooks here. We have also worked out with Warner an exclusive opportunity to vote for Wave 2 and have a direct say in what movies go Steelbook. You asked for this and we brought it to you. The poll is up now on the right hand side of the movies forum page. The window is short so you have until Sept. 30th to cast your vote. We're really exited about finally being able to being this to you and are working to do more of these with other studios in the future.

I will post the graphics for Wave 1 into individual postings to not have 1 massive graphics heavy posting. Let me know what you think about what's coming. Hopefully you guys are excited!

Brana

The Departed


V For Vendetta


The Dark Knight (Re-Release)


Superman Returns


I Am Legend (Re-Release)


10,000 BC


Ocean's 13


300

[kaliraver]

I was just about to post this. Excellent news for some, not so much for others. Watch out for Tiger for all the SteelBook collectors this will be very welcome news! IAL re-release is madness...

[Sparrow06]

In related news...the value of The Dark Knight and I Am Legend is about to plummet.

[SatinKzo]

Wow, so much for the theory that Futureshop steels didn't get re-releases. One can only wonder if others will follow WB.

[Exist2Inspire]

While I for one am happy that I Am Legend got re-released, I know that a lot of people will literally shit bricks.

[halamadrid]

Not only that, but the re-release of IAL actually looks better since it eliminates the blue band on top. This one is going to sting a lot of folks that's for sure....

...one thing that I don't understand is re-releasing the Dark Knight as that was a huge run in a lot of countries and the FS version can still be found for cheap.

[Billz]

No Matrix steelbook introduced in this new line?!? Blasphemy!

WE WANT A MATRIX BD STEELBOOK DANG IT!

[Hep]

Neat. I like the re-releases since they get rid of the Blu banner. I will probably pick up many of those if the price is right.

[halamadrid]

Originally Posted by Hep

Neat. I like the re-releases since they get rid of the Blu banner. I will probably pick up many of those if the price is right.

+1 ... I'm all for that trend of eliminating the blue banner on top.

[Billz]

I hope this happens with Paramount steelbooks at FutureShop. They said in the quote in the first post:
"Steelbooks on our own as the minimum packaging runs are pretty high, so we cherry pick older titles and often times work internationally to partner with other countries.".

Somebody get FutureShop to partner with HMV, with a re-release of Paramount steelbooks so that we can get "that" Iron Man BD steelbook over here!

[MC930]

Did I miss when these were going to be released?

[kaliraver]

Originally Posted by MC930

Did I miss when these were going to be released?

November 23rd.

[pcdawg]

Originally Posted by Sparrow06

In related news...the value of The Dark Knight and I Am Legend is about to plummet.

I dotn think TDK value isnt too high to begin with.

Happy for some of the releases. Hopefully the prices are cheaper since they are catalog titles.

[crystal_sun]

yep, I bought one from you not too long ago . I guess I might get this re-release version since I prefer not having the blu-ray line in front.

Originally Posted by pcdawg

I dotn think TDK value isnt too high to begin with.

Happy for some of the releases. Hopefully the prices are cheaper since they are catalog titles.

[ahwang826]

wow i cant believe they're re-releasing i am legend.

[Hawkeye379]

Argh.

I just bought Heat the other day, guess it's time to return it, it's still sealed. I bought The Departed a while back, which is still sealed, but out of the return period.

I almost bought I Am Legend the other day too. I've already got 300 as well.

Man this whole Steelbook thing is starting to get under my skin and is taking over me!

It's just a fancy case right!?!?

[ArrestedDevelopment]

They're using the exact same DVD steelbook design of Superman Returns for the BD steelbook. I still have the DVD steelbook sitting on my shelf.

[mikeyt912]

i'm soooooo glad i gave up major collecting

[jstn]

Lol, oh dear.

[Marcus Wright]

Originally Posted by kaliraver

I was just about to post this. Excellent news for some, not so much for others. Watch out for Tiger for all the SteelBook collectors this will be very welcome news! IAL re-release is madness...

I am buying 100 ccop[iiiies of IAL.