2008 Blu-ray releases

[SeanMF]

So I'm looking at Amazon and other sites at upcoming new releases for blu-ray and hd-dvd. Neither seem to have much as far as releases for January or 2008 announced. Is more release announcements something I should expect very soon/or from CES?

[Verbal]

CES.

January is historically a pretty slow month for home video releases. Look at the movie release schedule...all the crap movies come out 3 or 4 months before January. The big releases already came out before Christmas, and the Christmas theatricals won't make their way to shelves before April or May.

[Shin-Ra]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=3112

January 2
Dragon Wars (Sony)
Resident Evil (Sony)
Resident Evil - Extinction (Sony)
Resident Evil box set (Sony) (the 3 movies)
Shoot 'Em Up (New Line)
War (Lions Gate)

January 8
Con Air (Disney)
Killing Machine and Shogun's Ninja (BCI/Eclipse)
Man on Fire (Fox)
Night Of The Werewolf (El Retorno del Hombre Lobo) and Vengeance Of The Zombies (La Rebelión de las Muertas) (Deimos Entertainment)
The Rock (Disney)
Sister Street Fighter and Sister Street Fighter II (BCI/Eclipse)
Sunrise Earth (Discovery) January 10
Sunshine (Fox)
3:10 to Yuma (Lions Gate)

January 15
Breaker Morant (Image Entertainment)
Good Luck Chuck (Lions Gate)
Mr. Woodcock (New Line)
Suburban Girl (Image Entertainment)
Went To Coney Island On a Mission From God... Be Back By Five (Starz)

January 22
The Game Plan (Disney)
Initial D (Tai Seng)
Saw IV (Lions Gate)

January 29
Dispatch: Zimbabwe - Live At Madison Square Garden (WEA)
Daddy Day Camp (Sony)
Damages: The Complete First Season (Sony)
Ganges (BBC/Warner)
The Invasion (Warner)
King Of California (First Look Studios)
Life of Brian (Sony) Collector's Edition

Looks like plenty to me.

[richard lichtenfelt]

There are plenty of titles from that list that I will be getting.
I'm impressed by the quality and quantity of titles on the horizon for blu-ray.

[Blu-Jawa]

I hope there's a Hi-Def Release of the "Ghostbusters" films next year. I saw a Commiercial that the "Universal HD" Channel will be showing Ghostbusters in Hi-Def soon.

I know Universal is on the "HD-DVD" side of the traxs, but maybe they will see the "Blu" Light soon. ether way I own Both formats.

[Verbal]

Yeah....mostly catalog titles. The "day-and-date" slate will be a bit dry for a while. We won't be getting the kind of run on "new" movies that we've had of late. This Tuesday's pretty much the end of that.

[Malosch78]

I pre-ordered Shoot 'Em Up. 2008 is up for a good start

maybe I'll go "1 new blu-ray-order pr week" for 2008

[Guinness7]

Almost every week has at least five titles which should be enough.

[PossumPete]

I've already ordered 3:10 to Yuma and Breaker Morant from Amazon.

[GregBlu5]

Realize, too, that on amazon, when you look at the new releases every week on Wednesday--as I do each week--you see new titles there (including Blu and that other kind) that have not yet made it to the main amazon Hi Def links/pages regarding existing or new releases. Each week there are titles that appear on the new release pages for the first time, and it often takes a week or two for them to then appear on the main Blu page or the General Blu list that you can link to from there.

I thought the same as you did a few weeks back regarding the 1Q of 2008 for Blu, but then every week more titles appear for Jan - May. It appears that 2008 will be far stronger than 2007 for titles coming in Blu. I really think we're all going to have to be far more selective next year regarding Blu purchases simply because I would not be surprised to see BOGOs drop off and new/catalog release titles start to come faster and more furiously.

If we thought we were often broke this year, we'd better hope the format war ends soon because--economically--we're going to have a much tougher time buying like we've been buying--to ensure that Blu wins each week because of all the new titles.

Likely, though, all the new Blu converts will pick up the slack for us as Blu sails easily to victory for 2008, as it has in 2007.

-Greg