HMV: "Zodiac: DC" on 4/28, "Hannibal Rising" on 7/1

[JBlacklow]

Yep, time to play the import pre-order guessing game again! Major UK retailer HMV has these pre-order listings up:

Zodiac: Director's Cut (from Warner Home Video)
Release date: April 28, 2008
Hannibal Rising (from Momentum Pictures)
Release date: July 1, 2008

Both of the distributors look to match up with the UK distro rights. "Zodiac: DC" will definitely be region-free. I'm not sure about "Hannibal Rising", but if anyone has confirmed the region-free/region-locked status of Momentum's releases, feel free to chime in.

But wait! There's more! Here's a bit of a bonus from Amazon France, but don't get too excited yet, because (a) this is an Amazon listing, and (b) the distro is Fox:

Braveheart [Blu-ray]
Release date: April 2, 2008

Now, the bad news for US residents is if it's in Region B and Fox, it'll be region-locked (lucky Europeans). The good news is that a quick check shows that Fox owns the rights pretty much everywhere else, including Region A countries like Japan. If Fox decides to be awesome like Warner and Sony, and release this outside of France, it'll be another big HD DVD "exclusive" gone. That is, of course, unless Paramount sees the light before April...