Info and cover on the Umbrella Entertainment release of Tickle Me has been put out. Shame there's nothing but the trailer in terms of extras, but not surprising honestly.
Warner will be (re)releasing Jailhouse Rock, and Viva Las Vegas in the UK with soundtrack CD included. This is due to the new Elvis film coming out of course. It is the first time Viva is getting a release in the UK too.
With Baz Luhrmann's Elvis movie coming out this week, Paramount has upgraded a couple of Elvis Presley's movies digitally:
Yesterday, Blue Hawaii was upgraded to 4K on iTunes. So far iTunes is the only place to get it in 4K. If you previously bought it in HD on iTunes, you now have a free upgrade to 4K. https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/bl...ii/id298586817
A few days ago, Paramount finally upgraded Girls! Girls! Girls! to HD digitally. So far it is only available at Amazon and the price is much higher than usual ($22.99): https://www.amazon.com/Girls-Norman-...dp/B001D6H8EG/
I've only had to time to skim through it but it looks very nice. If you aren't a die-hard fan, I'd wait for Paramount to add it to the other digital retailers and lower the price to something more reasonable.
Newly restored in 4K Ultra HD with HDR-10 and Dolby Vision, Blue Hawaii will arrive on 4K UHD Digital for the first time on June 21. Blue Hawaii will arrive on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray as part of the Paramount Presents collection later this year.
This movie critic correctly predicted three weeks ago that Blue Hawaii would appear on digital retailers in 4K on June 21 so it's obvious the source for their information is Paramount.
Two new interviews with Paramount's Senior Vice President of Asset Management (Andrea Kalas) about the restoration of King Creole and Blue Hawaii:
An episode of the Movie Geeks United podcast:
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The Movie Geeks welcome Andrea Kalas, the Senior Vice President of Asset Management for Paramount Pictures, to discuss the new restoration of Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii, as well as her previous efforts to restore Elvis' King Creole.
In the SlashFilm interview, she says Paramount has recently discovered something and it seems to be related to Blue Hawaii and it will be a "surprise":
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For a movie like this, I'm kind of curious in terms of supplemental material or cut scenes, was there anything left from the filming of interest in that regard?
There's one thing ... I don't know if I can tell you about it, actually.
Oh.
Maybe a surprise coming up later.
Okay.
I'll leave it at that. There's something we discovered recently that maybe we'll be revealing later. I don't know. I never know what I'm supposed to talk about. So I'm going to just say that.
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Interesting. Well, I'm really curious about what the thing that you can't reveal is, and I hope that we'll be hearing about that soon.
I'm sure you will. I'm sure you will. So, a little teaser for you. Sorry.
I wonder if this is why the disc releases of Blue Hawaii won't come out until later this year?
Last edited by whiteberry; 07-18-2022 at 11:49 PM.
Info and cover on the Umbrella Entertainment release of Tickle Me has been put out. Shame there's nothing but the trailer in terms of extras, but not surprising honestly.
Elvis Presley 24-Hour Free Streaming Channel Goes Live
The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll is getting a hunk, a hunk of streaming love.
The Elvis Presley Channel is now available on platforms in the U.S. representing 100 million-plus devices, offering a continuous, linear free stream of Elvis concerts, documentaries, specials and movies as well as other lifestyle and entertainment programming. The channel is operated by Cinedigm, which launched it in partnership with Elvis Presley Enterprises and Authentic Brands Group.
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The Elvis Channel features two 12-hour blocks (aka “wheels”) of content. Cinedigm will regularly refresh the programming on the channel, with upwards of 175 hours of Elvis and Elvis-adjacent material expected to be featured each month.
Programming on the channel will include films and specials such as “Singer Presents…Elvis” (aka “The ’68 Comeback Special”),” “Elvis Aloha From Hawaii,” and both the broadcast and unedited versions of TV movie “Elvis by the Presleys.”
Themed programming blocks include Elvis’s Favorites, Friends of Elvis, Elvis-Inspired Reality and Lifestyle Programming, African American Artists That Inspired Elvis, and 50’s Rock N’ Roll Rebel Movies. The channel also is stocked with some of Presley’s favorite TV shows and films including “The Beverly Hillbillies,” John Wayne movies such as “Angel and the Badman,” “Blue Steel” and “Riders of Destiny,” and movies starring Bruce Lee — who was a fan of Elvis, and vice versa — like “Warrior’s Journey” and “The Man, The Myth.”
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The Elvis Presley Channel free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel is now available in the U.S. on LG Channels, Amazon Freevee (formerly IMDb TV), Vizio’s WatchFree+, Comcast’s Xumo, Plex, Allen Media Group’s Local Now and Dish Network’s Sling TV. Additionally, the Xfinity What to Watch channel on Xumo will feature a curated collection of films and documentaries from the Elvis Channel during primetime starting the weekend of July 2, and continuing weekly throughout the rest of July.
For now, the Elvis Presley Channel is not on three of the most popular free-streaming services: the Roku Channel, Paramount’s Pluto TV and Tubi. Opeka said “we have conversations brewing with everybody” in the space and that Cinedigm expects the channel to be “fully distributed” in due course.
Fly away to paradise in Blue Hawaii. This classic Elvis film has never looked or sounded better! See it restored with HDR-10 and Dolby Vision, now available on Digital in 4K Ultra HD
A few days ago, Paramount finally upgraded Girls! Girls! Girls! to HD digitally. So far it is only available at Amazon and the price is much higher than usual ($22.99)
It's about a month and a half away and I can't find any pre-order listings for this in the U.S. Online stores have always sold Via Vision's BD titles and I see others are listed that have been announced after the Elvis movie but still no listing for Paradise, Hawaiian Style or The Matchmaker (a Shirley Booth film which is releasing on the same day).
It's about a month and a half away and I can't find any pre-order listings for this in the U.S. Online stores have always sold Via Vision's BD titles and I see others are listed that have been announced after the Elvis movie but still no listing for Paradise, Hawaiian Style or The Matchmaker (a Shirley Booth film which is releasing on the same day).
If you see anything, please post it to both Elvis Groups.
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