Shin Godzilla (2016) - December 4, 2017

[UncleBuckWild]

SHIN GODZILLA シン・ゴジラ

Release Date: December 4, 2017

Shin Godzilla Blu-ray

Godzilla Resurgence Official US Trailer #1 (2016) Shin Godzilla Movie HD - YouTube

[Gizz]

Surprised that it's coming out here in the UK. I hope we might finally get the classic Godzilla films has well.

[Aclea]

Unfortunately the theatrical release is so limited - just one late night show at a cinema an hour away from me tonight only that finishes after the trains and buses stop running - there's no way I could get back without blowing a small fortune on a taxi.

Knowing Manga, the BD will probably be vanilla, so I may just go for the Australian disc that's just come out for the extras.

[unicron73]

i managed to catch it on thursday night,we had just seen despicable me 3 and saw it was about to start.so shipped my other half and daughter home and stayed to watch it,loved it and cant wait to see it again..
great godzilla film

[Hawkmonger]

Saw it on thursday and yeah, it's an Anno movie and a DAMN fine one, the fact it's ALSO a thoroughly unique Godzilla also makes me very happy. Day one pre-order, essential purchase!

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

Saw it on thursday and yeah, it's an Anno movie and a DAMN fine one, the fact it's ALSO a thoroughly unique Godzilla also makes me very happy. Day one pre-order, essential purchase!

No need to wait 4 months then get ordering from Australia or the US if you are multiregion.

[Darby1985]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

No need to wait 4 months then get ordering from Australia or the US if you are multiregion.

Or wait for the UK one and show distributors there's a market for Kaiju here rather than everyone import it and see the UK release flop....

[Hawkmonger]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

No need to wait 4 months then get ordering from Australia or the US if you are multiregion.

I'm not and I wont be. 4 more months is little longer than i've already had to wait to support localisation.

[Indiana Jones]

Guess I can understand that not that I think there is a hope in hell a studio will suddenly start releasing the other Godzilla films on BD based entirely on how Shin sells.

[Darby1985]

Why? Is the concept of supply and demand foreign?

[Hawkmonger]

Weeeeellll at the start of 2017 we had no kaiju on UK BD, now we're looking at several, it's not much of a stretch to suppose we'll see more as both neo-Millennium series continue across the US and Japan.

[Ste7en]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

No need to wait 4 months then get ordering from Australia or the US if you are multiregion.

Well, Australia is the same region as us so here is no need to wait at all...

[Indiana Jones]

Originally Posted by Darby1985

Why? Is the concept of supply and demand foreign?

No but I don't see there being a big demand for a film that had a one day cinema release that the vast majority of people didn't know about, it will be aimed at a very niche market and a lot of people that wanted it would have given up waiting months ago when it became available on Blu-ray in other countries.

I would be the first to eat my words if they started releasing Godzilla films on BD in the UK but I wouldn't get your hopes up.

[Aclea]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

Guess I can understand that not that I think there is a hope in hell a studio will suddenly start releasing the other Godzilla films on BD based entirely on how Shin sells.

In the past the problem hasn't been sales, it's been the truly absurd sums that Toho wanted for UK rights to the films. After years of selling them off at bargain basement prices to American companies (some of them for under a thousand dollars!) they seemed to go off in the other direction and ask impossibly high advances. When the 1998 film came out they wanted six figures for VHS rights to classic Godzilla titles, though Manga did manage to get a couple of the Heisa era films (Mothra and Ghidorah) out of them for considerably less in 1994.

[Ben_C]

I wonder what kind of job Manga will do with this. I don't mind waiting for domestic releases if they're going to be good, but it'd be a shame to wait all that extra time only for a flawed product.
It's a shame there's such a huge gap between the US/AUS releases and ours, it's only going to mean plenty of people importing (and I don't really blame them given that size gap), thus harming domestic sales.

I suppose we should just be grateful it's getting a blu-ray release here at all, seeing as things like The Wailing, The Tiger and The Man from Nowhere were only shoved out on DVD only.

[HippieDalek]

I've already imported the excellent Australian release so I doubt I'll be buying this one too unless Manga do something amazing with it. Glad it's coming out here though, it'll be nice to see a UK Blu Ray release of an actual Toho Godzilla film at last.* Hopefully the first of many!

*Yeah I know King Kong vs. Godzilla is available on Blu here but it's the edited and dubbed USA version.

[Fnord Prefect]

Originally Posted by Indiana Jones

No need to wait 4 months then get ordering from Australia or the US if you are multiregion.

Australia is region B so you don't need to be multi-region to import that.

However I think this is one release people should buy the UK edition, if only to encourage further UK Godzilla releases.

[MechaGodzilla]

From Facebook:

Want the lowdown on our Shin Godzilla release, coming December 4th? Look no further!

Our Shin Godzilla DVD and Blu-ray releases will both be comprised of two discs each -
Disc One: Original Japanese Version with JPN audio, untouched JPN on-screen text and ENG subtitles
Disc Two: ENG audio & localised ENG on-screen text

Housed in on-theme black cases, both DVD & Blu-ray will also include over an hour of extras in the form of ‘Pre-visuals & Outtakes’, a ‘Pre-visual Reel’ and ‘Making VFX - Shin Godzilla Visual Effects Breakdown’.

This release is shaping up nicely!

[MifuneFan]

Cheap too, just £13.99 currently at Amazon.

[Ben_C]

Wonder if it’ll end up in the HMV 2 for £25 offer before release...