GoodFellas (1990) (25th Anniversary Edition)

[MifuneFan]

Update: Great news, this will feature a new 4K Remastering, supervised directly by Scorsese himself!

GoodFellas 25th Anniversary Blu-ray.com Review

Press release:

Martin Scorseses All-Time Classic of Life Inside the Mob

GoodFellas
Remastered for 25th Anniversary On Blu-rayTM and Digital HD on May 5 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Includes New Documentary and 36-Page Photo Book

Burbank, Calif., January 22, 2015 On May 5, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) will release GoodFellas on 2-Disc Blu-ray featuring a new documentary with interviews from Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta and more, and a 36-page photo book exploring the films far-reaching influence. The book also includes a letter written by Martin Scorsese.

The 25th Anniversary Blu-ray release of GoodFellas, cited by film critic Roger Ebert as the best mob movie ever, has been remastered from a 4k scan of the original camera negative, supervised by Martin Scorsese. The Blu-ray release also includes Digital HD with UltraViolet and will be available for $34.99 SRP. Fans can also own GoodFellas on Digital HD via purchase from digital retailers.

GoodFellas explores the criminal life like no other movie. Following the rise and fall of a trio of gangsters over 30 years, its an electrifying, fact-inspired tale of living and dying. Based on the true-life best seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi, the film earned six Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director and was named 1990s Best Film by the New York, Los Angeles and National Society of Film Critics. In 2000, GoodFellas was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the US Library of Congress.

Scorsese was awarded the Silver Lion Award for Best Director in Venice. Robert De Niro received wide recognition for his performance as veteran criminal Jimmy The Gent Conway, and Joe Pesci, as the volatile Tommy DeVito, walked off with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar®. Academy Award® nominees Lorraine Bracco, Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino also turned in electrifying performances.

SPECIAL FEATURES will include all previously released special features along with:

· ALL-NEW Documentary includes interview with the Director, cast and some of your all-time favorite movie gangsters! Join some of Martin Scorseses greatest gangsters Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Jack Nicholson and Joe Pesci to discover what its like to work for perhaps the greatest gangster director of them all.

GoodFellas: 25th Anniversary

Street Date: May 5, 2015

Feature Running Time: 146 Minutes; Rated: R

Order Due Date: March 31, 2015

Catalog #: 1000529318

Pricing: $34.99 SRP

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Original post:

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Warner will have another release of GoodFellas, this time for the film's 25th Anniversary on May 5th, 2015. Right now there is no word on any remastering done, but there are some new interviews included with Scorsese, and cast, as well as a 36-Page Photobook.

• All-New Interviews with Martin Scorsese and Cast
• Includes a 36-Page Photo Book Exploring the Film's Far-Reaching and Featuring a Letter from Martin Scorsese

Source: WHV Press

[stvn1974]

This film is the Evil Dead of blu-ray releases. I would finally pick it up with a new transfer.

[tama]

This could be interesting as a digibook has already been released. hmm

[HeavyHitter]

If they don't finally release a new transfer for this, I don't know what to say.

[Axl Rose]

my favorite movie of all time

if its a new transfer i'll buy

[BaerGriggs]

I'll probably end up buying it anyway but I am really hoping for a new transfer and lossless audio, as is pretty much everyone else I assume.

[Retroj23]

Originally Posted by BaerGriggs

I'll probably end up buying it anyway but I am really hoping for a new transfer and lossless audio, as is pretty much everyone else I assume.

The only way in hell I would ever buy this again is IF it's mastered in 4K or giving some sort of remaster treatment and lossless audio. If this only contains a few new extras like interviews or whatever along the same ole video and audio, it will be Warners, or for that matter, any studios most epic fail since BD was introduced.

[PowellPressburger]

This has to be a brand new transfer and finally Dts HD 5.1 audio or I can't imagine Scorsese being involved without this film finally getting its due.

[Nice Guy Eddie]

Originally Posted by PowellPressburger

This has to be a brand new transfer and finally Dts HD 5.1 audio or I can't imagine Scorsese being involved without this film finally getting its due.

[Pike Bishop]

Being that it's Warner I wouldn't hold my breath on a new transfer...but it sure would be nice.

[HeavyHitter]

After all of these re-releases, it (new scan) has to happen at some point especially with 4K Blu to be released in a year.

[TauHeel05]

Great news. Let's hope for a new transfer.

[lolwut]

If this isn't a remaster with lossless audio I'm gonna plotz

[slasherdisc]

I can see Warner giving us lossless audio but no remaster but I hope I'm wrong.

[I KEEL YOU]

Even if they have a 4K scan of Goodfellas, it's still not certain that they will release it. Remember A Clockwork Orange.

Hell, it's even possible that much like the 40th anniversary edition of A Clockwork Orange, they will include 4K clips of Goodfellas in this newly announced bonus featurette/s, but still have the ancient transfer for the main feature to troll us extra hard.

[Cards_Fan_15]

I'm picturing this edition to be packaged similarly to the recent Blazing Saddles release from last year.

[Geoff D]

But 4K finishes for "newer" titles are also few and far between unless you're Sony (who are getting more apathetic to physical media by the day), so just where will the titles come from if not the back catalogue?

[HeavyHitter]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

But 4K finishes for "newer" titles are also few and far between unless you're Sony (who are getting more apathetic to physical media by the day), so just where will the titles come from if not the back catalogue?

That most certainly is an issue. Is there any word in the industry about finishing more new films in 4K? I doubt there will be a ton of titles on the format regardless, but I'd like to be wrong.

[Maggot]

I'd love a new master, but like so many, I have my doubts considering the amount of repackages the industry does all the time. With regard to 4K discs, that's going to be another 3D flop. Physical media is a dying breed. The compact disc should tell you that. Considering the emphasis these days on everything being a "service" or in the "cloud" from programs like Adobe Photoshop to streaming like Netflix, it's very apparent that even the collector may soon become a dying bread as well. Why get you to collect, when you'll have to rent a movie every time you want to see it like back in the days of VHS rental stores.

[Midnight Rambler]

Originally Posted by Maggot

I'd love a new master, but like so many, I have my doubts considering the amount of repackages the industry does all the time. With regard to 4K discs, that's going to be another 3D flop. Physical media is a dying breed. The compact disc should tell you that. Considering the emphasis these days on everything being a "service" or in the "cloud" from programs like Adobe Photoshop to streaming like Netflix, it's very apparent that even the collector may soon become a dying bread as well. Why get you to collect, when you'll have to rent a movie every time you want to see it like back in the days of VHS rental stores.

And what will happen when their grand illusions of streaming and cloud use fail due to the lack of network capability to support it ?

And how about the huge population of people who still live outside of broadband's reach ? I live just outside a very large city, which also happens to be home to TWC. Yet you go less than a mile down my road and there is no service available except for satellite, which is a joke.