16 Warner Thrillers - July 10th and 17th, 2012

[IndyMLVC]

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=8416

This summer, Warner Home Entertainment will continue transferring its library catalog onto the HD format. The studio will release Blu-rays for nine popular thrillers, including:

July 10

Altered States
The Astronaut's Wife
Brainstorm
Coma
Frequency
Outland
Spawn

July 17

The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect 2
Cellular
Hard to Kill
Just Cause
Mean Streets
Murder in the First
Next of Kin
A Perfect Murder

While the discs' respective technical and supplementary details are still unknown, all 16 films will receive HD picture and sound upgrades.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=8416

This summer, Warner Home Entertainment will continue transferring its library catalog onto the HD format. The studio will release Blu-rays for nine popular thrillers, including:

The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect 2
Cellular
Hard to Kill
Just Cause
Mean Streets
Murder in the First
Next of Kin
A Perfect Murder

While the discs' respective technical and supplementary details are still unknown, all nine films will receive HD picture and sound upgrades.

These Blu-ray thrillers street on July 17th.

Pass on all of these except for maybe Mean Streets depending on price.

[nolfoc]

Definitely picking up Hard to Kill

[IndyMLVC]

DEFINITELY picking up Just Cause and Cellular.

[blufellas]

Mean Streets for sure!

[Veronica Mars]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=8416

This summer, Warner Home Entertainment will continue transferring its library catalog onto the HD format. The studio will release Blu-rays for nine popular thrillers, including:

The Butterfly Effect
The Butterfly Effect 2
Cellular
Hard to Kill
Just Cause
Mean Streets
Murder in the First
Next of Kin
A Perfect Murder

While the discs' respective technical and supplementary details are still unknown, all nine films will receive HD picture and sound upgrades.

These Blu-ray thrillers street on July 17th.

Do you know if The Butterfly Effect and TB2 are going to get slapped onto one disc? I only like the first one. Also hope we get both cuts. I'm pretty sure Canada has a double feature release AND a seperate release that's not labeled the director's cut, but it is according to user reviews here.

[Seymour]

Most definitely want to buy Hard to Kill, Mean Streets, A Perfect Murder, Just Cause, and The Butterfly Effect. I've never seen Next of Kin, so that's a possibility, and perhaps I'll grab Cellular sometime down the line if I ever want to revisit it.

[lobo81865]

Cellular for sure.

[tylerdurden10]

So excited for Hard To Kill, Butterfly Effect & A Perfect Murder. It looks like companies are finally breaking open the catalog vaults!

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by tylerdurden10

It looks like companies are finally breaking open the catalog vaults!

Well, Disney and WB.

Sony is still 99% MIA and, to a lesser extent, Paramount.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

Well, Disney and WB.

Well, Disney, anyway--
I'll believe Warner when they stop exiling every pre-1975 non-classic to the DVD-R Archive.

[octagon]

Originally Posted by IndyMLVC

Well, Disney and WB.

Sony is still 99% MIA and, to a lesser extent, Paramount.

Paramount is at least showing signs of life. High profile releases like Chinatown and Indy are of course great news but I was really encouraged when Paramount France announced Sabrina and Funny Face.

If Paramount starts digging that deep in the vault a lot of people are going to be very happy.

[retablo]

A load of junk except for Mean Streets... love the awful cover art compared to the classy-looking French edition.

[happydood]

Definitely picking up Mean Streets. Didn't see any cover art, though?

[bluskies]

I have an interesting behind-the-scenes story of Murder in the First, which stars Kevin Bacon, Christian Slater, and Gary Oldman.

The courtroom sequences were filmed inside a warehouse in Sylmar, CA in January 1994. I was one of the extras (as a photographer) in those scenes. We filmed at different times of the day inside there, with lights on the "courtroom" windows to make it look like daylight, even when it was pitch black outside.

One night, we were shooting very late. It was about 4:30 am when the actors and extras were told to take a break. We were just starting to walk out of the warehouse door when everything began to sway back and forth. I just thought I might have been dizzy from the hot lights but then the shaking turned really violent, and I could hear the crashing sound of things falling in the courtroom mockup and the lights went out. 4:31 am, January 17th, 1994...the Northridge earthquake. Sylmar is very close to Northridge, less than 10 miles, so we got it very bad.

Everyone stumbled out of the building, and we were told to get as far from it as possible. We were instructed to get to the sidewalk area, where many people laid down, some were injured and bloody. Luckily, there were a few medical professionals there on the set (including at least one of the extras who had medical training). I was shaken up but helped with going to different people to calm them down. Helping others helped me forget my own pain (I had banged into something inside the warehouse when the quake hit hard.)

No one was allowed to go home until the sun came up a few hours later. When it was clear enough to see, we could see a number of black clouds rising from fires in the city. (When I did get back to my apartment here in Hollywood, I saw that one cabinet had tipped over, and several things were broken, but nothing too extreme, thank goodness.)

Filming was shut down for several weeks. When it was resumed, I heard they rebuilt the courtroom set in San Francisco, where they also shot the prison scenes and other scenes.

Almost 20 years have passed, but I have never forgotten that night. I recently saw Gary Oldman at a special Q&A session for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and told him I was one of the extras that night. He remembered the incident very well.

[retablo]

Originally Posted by happydood

Definitely picking up Mean Streets. Didn't see any cover art, though?

Its on Digital Bits, along with the cover for Lawrence of Arabia. Looks horrible.

[Monterey Jack]

I'm in for Mean Streets and A Perfect Murder (I hope Dial "M" follows soon).

[DualEdge]

Only the first Butterfly Effect for me.

[Sky_Captain]

Next of Kin, please.

[Akijama]

It's always cool to see catalogue titles finding the way to Blu,but i'd love to see WB digging deeper into their catalogue,and to pick 'em more carefully(they r releasing a lot of crap),you know.They also announced today German schedule for July,and it will include "classics" like 'The Astronaut Wife','The Island of Dr.Moreu' ('96) and 'Spawn'.
Speaking of not that old titles -give us 'Fearless','After Hours','Lone Star', 'Waiting for Guffman' or 'Before Sunrise/Before Sunset'.All awesome flicks.
...And speaking of great ol' thrillers,'Point Blank'and,'Klute' would be awesome.
Other great WB titles :'Badlands','Straight Time','McCabe and Mrs. Miller','The Haunting','Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?','Splendor in the Grass',Jimmy Dean's classics,Bogey's 'The Big Sleep' and 'Key Largo',Cagney's classics,Flynn's classics,'The Bad and the Beautiful','Out of the Past','Cat on a Hot Tin Roof','Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'...i could do this 'til tomorrow

I assume it's a lot cheaper to remaster/restore relatively new titles than the older ones,thus i'm not surprised with WB selection.
This is just me whining.Feeling alot better now