Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection - January 29, 2013

[Akijama]

Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection Blu-ray

A massive 50-film boxed set is planned for Blu-ray this January.

In an early announcement to retailers, Warner Brothers is readying 'Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection' for Blu-ray on January 29.

The Largest-Ever Blu-Ray Collection. 50 Movies Including 16 of Warner Bros. Library’s Best Picture™ Winners on 52 Discs, Presented in Book Style Premium Packaging. Plus two all-new documentaries: Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot and The Warner Bros. Lot Tour. With hours of commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more on select films. Also includes a limited edition 27” x 40” poster, plus a postcard series of Warner Bros. movie posters designed by legendary Bill Gold. Look for these movie-poster titles on DVD.

*Best Picture™ winner

1. Grand Hotel* (1932)
2. Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935)
3. Gone with The Wind* (1939)
4. Wizard of Oz (1939)
5. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
6. Citizen Kane (1941)
7. Mrs. Miniver* (1942)
8. Casablanca* (1942)
9. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
10. American in Paris, An* (1951)
11. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
12. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
13. Gigi* (1958)
14. Ben-Hur* (1959)
15. North By Northwest (1959)
16. How the West Was Won (1962)
17. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
18. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
20. Bullitt (1968)
21. Dirty Harry (1971)
22. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
23. Clockwork Orange, A (1972)
24. Exorcist, The (1973)
25. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest* (1975)
26. Superman, The Movie (1977)
27. Shining, The (1980)
28. Chariots of Fire* (1981)
29. Risky Business (1983)
30. Amadeus* (1984)
31. Color Purple, The (1985)
32. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
33. Lethal Weapon (1987)
34. Driving Miss Daisy* (1989)
35. Goodfellas (1990)
36. Bodyguard, The(1992)
37. Unforgiven* (1992)
38. Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut) (1994)
39. Matrix, The (1999)
40. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
41. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
42. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
43. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (2003)
44. Million Dollar Baby* (2005)
45. Departed, The* (2006)
46. Dark Knight, The (2008)
47. Blind Side, The (2009)
48. Hangover, The (2009)
49. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
50. Inception (2010)

[Ill_Be_Back]

Interested to know what this will include..

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by Ill_Be_Back

Interested to know what this will include..

Dying to see what will be included!

[MifuneFan]

Well at least Warner is doing it at the start of their anniversary year, unlike Universal who waited till the end to have their collection released

[Talzin78]

Wonder if there is a box set if the MSRP will be around 10 bucks a title at 500, that would be a great deal. Heres hoping.

[Ill_Be_Back]

Originally Posted by akijama

dying to see what will be included!

I hope it's nothing already have...

[Scottie]

Awesome and I am definitely excited to see what is included.

I really hope that titles that have already been released (DigiBooks, for example) are not included.

[benricci]

Most likely a repackaging of existing titles. I wouldn't get too excited.

[bboisvert]

I'm guessing 49 titles that have been out for years and are featured on DVD2Blu, along with one exclusive title... just to piss people off.

[bluskies]

I wouldn't be surprised this is something they are trying to get out to fill up a January dead period and will be a gathering of what is already out. But, ohhh, what a collection it could be if it was all new. There are so many great titles to be released from Blu from my favorite studio:

Don Juan, 1926
Public Enemy, 1931
Little Caesar, 1931
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932
42nd Street, 1932
Footlight Parade, 1933
The Petrified Forest, 1936
Captain Blood, 1936
Angels With Dirty Faces, 1938
The Sea Hawk, 1941
High Sierra, 1941
Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1943
To Have and Have Not, 1944
The Big Sleep, 1946
Key Largo, 1948
and so many more!

[MifuneFan]

Here are some movies that I'd expect them to include:

2001 A Space Odyssey
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Cool Hand Luke
Ben Hur
Blade Runner
Bonnie and Clyde
Dirty Harry
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
The Goonies
Gone with the Wind
The Green Mile
How the West Was Won
LOTR Trilogy
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
North by Northwest
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Searchers
Seven
The Shawshank Redemption
Watchmen
The WIld Bunch
Willy Wonka
Wizard of Oz

[Akijama]

The Big Sleep
Key Largo
To Have and Have Not
Jimmy Dean's films
Out of the Past
Get Carter (Caine)
Klute
Point Blank
McCabe & Mrs.Miller
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset
After Hours
Elia Kazan collection
Lone Star
The Haunting ('63)
Packinpah westerns;few more noirs;good ol' gangsta flicks.

These are my most wanted Warners.I will settle for nothing less than getting all these on BD,Warner

[Ill_Be_Back]

I want something new from Warner next year like the unreleased Seagal films like on deadly ground and the glimmer man...

[The Dragon]

No ENTER THE DRAGON?

[PuppyJonathan]

I wouldn't be surprised if Harry Potter was on here

[CinemaScope]

I don't know who buys these boxes, I mean if you wanted the movies you'd already have them. I'm sure it will work out a great price per film, but it will still be a big outlay.

[Sky_Captain85]

Should Citizen Kane, Wizard of Oz, and Gone with the Wind be included as they weren't originally released by Warner?

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by Sky_Captain85

Should Citizen Kane, Wizard of Oz, and Gone with the Wind be included as they weren't originally released by Warner?

Excellent question.

[aggienader08]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Here are some movies that I'd expect them to include:

2001 A Space Odyssey
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Cool Hand Luke
Ben Hur
Blade Runner
Bonnie and Clyde
Dirty Harry
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
The Goonies
Gone with the Wind
The Green Mile
How the West Was Won
LOTR Trilogy
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
North by Northwest
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
The Searchers
Seven
The Shawshank Redemption
Watchmen
The WIld Bunch
Willy Wonka
Wizard of Oz

That is a highly ambitious listing and seems more like a wishlist. No way would they lump all those high profile films into one 50 film collection. Sorry. This is probably just a compilation of older classic films.

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by aggienader08

That is a highly ambitious listing and seems more like a wishlist. No way would they lump all those high profile films into one 50 film collection. Sorry. This is probably just a compilation of older classic films.

It says "Best of Warner", and they're more than likely going to include titles already released (this is Warner afterall), so what titles do you possibly think Warner would put in a 50 film Best of Warner collection that's being released for their 90th Anniversary? I actually think many on my list are pretty safe bets if this is a collection of existing releases, but feel free to list some movies that you feel are more likely.