Which Blu-ray announcement of 2020 surprised you the most?

[lilboyblu]

Originally Posted by hasslein

Original Ending

Time to import; I didn’t even realize a release with the Saul Bass ending was available. Goodbye, Olive Blu-ray!

[willieconway]

My only wishlist title for years and it went straight to UHD!

[Rzzzz]

I thought all of these would remain in Dvd/bootleg hell forever....

[whiteberry]

Physical media is supposedly dead but there were so many great, surprise announcements this year, many never released on DVD or with no prior blu-ray. Off the top of my head, here are my personal favorite announcements:

• Africa Screams (1949)
• Alice In Wonderland (1933)
• Barefoot In The Park (1967)
• Blood Games (1990)
• Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits (1971-1981) with 2K theatrical version of Enter The Dragon
• Cattle Annie And Little Britches (1981)
• Crash (1996)
• Fraternity Vacation (1985)
• Ghost Breakers, The (1940)
• Gotcha! (1985)
• Heavenly Kid, The (1985)
• Hot Dog...The Movie (1984)
• Jack Lemmon Sony MODs
• Just One Of The Guys (1985)
• King Creole (1958)
• Kitten With A Whip (1964)
• Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
• Munster, Go Home! (1966) with 2K Munsters' Revenge
• Mystery Of The Wax Museum (1933)
• Never Steal Anything Small (1959)
• Our Gang/Little Rascals from ClassicFlix
• Outside The Law (1920)
• Paleface, The (1948)
• Penelope (1966)
• Pretty In Pink (1986)
• Pretty Smart (1987)
• Rad (1986)
• Roman Holiday (1953)
• Romance On The High Seas (1948)
• Scenes From The Class Struggle In Beverly Hills (1989)
• Sign Of The Cross, The (1932)
• Sunday In New York (1963)
• Tex Avery Screwball Classics
• Tony Curtis Collection from Kino
• Urban Cowboy (1980)
• Wild Life, The (1984)
• Wizard, The (1989) 4K remaster
• Wonder Woman TV show

There were a few disappointments:

• Criteron's Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - Mentioned by John Kapelos in a November 2017 article but still not officially announced. I really want to see the deleted scenes with Kapelos.
• Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations - A DNR mess.
• Rankin/Bass' Here Comes Peter Cottontail (1971) - Universal just repackaged the old interlaced and cut disc instead of fixing the issues with the original disc.
• The ClassicFlix Our Gang/Little Rascals Indiegogo campaign failing. Thankfully they said they are still going to release them on blu-ray.
• To Catch A Thief 4K remaster - Embarrassing 4K restoration by a major studio who inexplicably defended their work after fans complained.
• Twilight Time officially closing shop.
• Twins (1988) - We waited over a year after Shout Factory's announcement and we ended up just getting the old scan.

All in all, I think it was a very good year and impressive since Covid was around for most of the year. I can't wait to see what is announced in 2021!

[LT.Schaffer]

[Jay H.]

Running Time (Synapse - coming in 2021)

[Page14]

This probably pleasantly surprised me the most. I thought it was long forgotten and would never happen..

The Point

[hanshotfirst1138]

On a much less upbeat note, I am at the moment surprised and disappointed that Wong Kar Wai has gone all Lucas on his own films .

[tangerinewolf]

The War of the Worlds (1953). Glad it was finally released here in the US as well as across the pond.

[DR Herbert West]

Tremors
The Beastmaster
Running Time

[jzbadblood]

The Barbarians. Peter and David Paul don't get a lot of love these days so it was nice to see a good release of one of their films.

[hudson4k]

Honestly, the best announcements to me are never-on-disc titles I haven't heard of, rescued from being forgotten. Give me more movies like American Rickshaw!

[Member-222782]

Any other year this question would've been easy to answer but 2020 has mostly been a blur. I didn't see Beastmaster coming so I guess this would be my choice but it's not an HD premiere so it loses some of the specialness. I'd have to go through my collection to give better-informed answers. A lot of people tend to forget the early part of the year when they make these lists.

[happydood]

Curse Of Frankenstein

[SpazeBlue]

[RCRochester]

All of the Paramount catalogue blu-ray releases, both the ones they released themselves and the titles they licensed out to other labels.

I had once resigned myself to never seeing many of these titles on blu-ray and now Catch-22 is the only Paramount DVD I have left to upgrade.

[bsend]

I never thought this movie would be released and it was in my email sig. It's not a great movie, but one I really like.

[BluRay Charles]

[starman15317]

Dawn of the Dead 4K and the Essential Fellini set for me

[hasslein]

Originally Posted by Page14

This probably pleasantly surprised me the most. I thought it was long forgotten and would never happen..

The Point

That is my #1 blind buy this year. Loved it.