HMV: "Zodiac: DC" on 4/28, "Hannibal Rising" on 7/1

[JBlacklow]

Yep, time to play the import pre-order guessing game again! Major UK retailer HMV has these pre-order listings up:

Zodiac: Director's Cut (from Warner Home Video)
Release date: April 28, 2008
Hannibal Rising (from Momentum Pictures)
Release date: July 1, 2008

Both of the distributors look to match up with the UK distro rights. "Zodiac: DC" will definitely be region-free. I'm not sure about "Hannibal Rising", but if anyone has confirmed the region-free/region-locked status of Momentum's releases, feel free to chime in.

But wait! There's more! Here's a bit of a bonus from Amazon France, but don't get too excited yet, because (a) this is an Amazon listing, and (b) the distro is Fox:

Braveheart [Blu-ray]
Release date: April 2, 2008

Now, the bad news for US residents is if it's in Region B and Fox, it'll be region-locked (lucky Europeans). The good news is that a quick check shows that Fox owns the rights pretty much everywhere else, including Region A countries like Japan. If Fox decides to be awesome like Warner and Sony, and release this outside of France, it'll be another big HD DVD "exclusive" gone. That is, of course, unless Paramount sees the light before April...

[stockstar1138]

thanks for the update, i will gladly import zodiac, i loved that movie. even if paramount announced it tommorow for blu-ray, i would import it simply because Warner deserves my business more.

[Bullseye]

Zodiac is a must have as is Braveheart.

[bkbluray]

I don't own Braveheart yet, and buying it on Blu would be a good way to get the first copy.

[dobyblue]

Braveheart is an absolute must have flick.
I would love to see Paramount see the light before then though and release it with 24-bit PCM.

[Guinness7]

We will have to see when these movie come out because there is a least one import in there for me.

[Minimejer05]

Thanks for the news