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[Jeff Kleist]

Any early plans for the Tron Blu-ray might be announced at Comic-Con with the big unveil of 2.0

[STARSCREAM]

jfcarbel, you left off Rocky collection which is supposed to be out this holiday season as well.

[Doctorossi]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Any early plans for the Tron Blu-ray might be announced at Comic-Con with the big unveil of 2.0

I love the way Comic-Con has turned into ShoWest-for-the-nerd-audience.

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Some of those on your list may come out before the end of the year

Have you ever considered a career in politics???

[NL197]

Originally Posted by jfcarbel

Would also not mind the extended cut of ID4 (maybe next July 4th)

That would have to come with an entire second disc full of newly produced HD extras before I would get that, and ID4 is one of my all-time favorites. Seamless branching would be the way to go for it, not a stand-alone extended cut.

The extended cut was just poorly done, with scenes literally stuck in without much thought to pacing, making the music blend, and they didn't even mix the audio - the cut scenes are in mono spread across the front channels.

The Russell Casse (Randy Quaid) scenes aren't very good because of poor acting - Miguel (James Duval) in particular comes off like he's in a high school drama class while the rest of their scenes don't amount to much or payoff the Troy is sick story. Their last scene, added to the Area 51 underground sequence in the middle of the final battle, slows even that sequence down to a crawl (and has temp score in it, 'Master Alarm' from "Apollo 13" plays low in the mix)

The rest of the cut scenes are better, but again nothing went into integrating them properly. They are great on their own, as deleted scenes. The film is better off without them as a result of that bad editing.

Speaking of July 4th, every year I watch the corresponding 'day' in the film (July 2, 3, and 4) as a silly tradition. I've always loved the film, and I always will.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by horseflesh

Have you ever considered a career in politics???

LOL and CYA Part of the gig I presume....he's got it pretty polished.

[MerrickG]

I say that we abandon this ship. We get the shuttle and just get the hell out of here. We take our chances and just hope that somebody will pick us up.

[coolmilo]

Jeff,

Has Finding Nemo completely fallen off the 2009 release list?

[The Big Blue]

[ThatArtGuy]

Mmmmm.... Tron.

[Jeff Kleist]

When it comes to Pixar catalog, aside from obvious tie-ins, picture a guy juggling and he occasionally drops something

[jfcarbel]

Originally Posted by Doctorossi

Another addition to that list would be the rest of the Star Trek movies.

And haven't there been some rumblings about Tron, too?

From Digital Bits site:

Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis) to arrive on Blu-ray Disc in time for the holidays (Dec 2009). The bottom line is that by December of this year, you'll be able to buy all three seasons of The Original Series and all of the Trek feature films on Blu-ray

[jfcarbel]

Originally Posted by NL197

That would have to come with an entire second disc full of newly produced HD extras before I would get that, and ID4 is one of my all-time favorites. Seamless branching would be the way to go for it, not a stand-alone extended cut.

I agree, not sure why the studios are not making use of this feature as it can't be that hard to do with the authoring systems.

I believe there is even a bookmark feature now in Blu-Ray but not all studios support that either. With bookmarks we could maybe actually choose the cut scenes we wanted integrated into the movie and watch it that way. Now wouldn't that be cool.

Maybe the insiders here can comment why studios are just opting for one cut and not just using the seamless branching.

[jfcarbel]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Some of those on your list may come out before the end of the year

Dare to be more specific

RE:

Apollo 13
HBO From the Earth to the Moon
War of the Worlds
Minority Report
From Dusk Til Dawn
Armageddon
Blade Trilogy
Bad Boys
Jurassic Park
True Lies
Saving Private Ryan
The Island

I know I heard some Rumors from the bits site on Armageddon

But 2 that are at the top of my list are Apollo 13 and Minority Report. What is it with Spielberg, he seems to be slow getting out his titles.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by jfcarbel

Dare to be more specific

RE:


I know I heard some Rumors from the bits site on Armageddon

But 2 that are at the top of my list are Apollo 13 and Minority Report. What is it with Spielberg, he seems to be slow getting out his titles.

Michael Bay quoted not too long ago that Armageddon would have to be remastered since the current master was destroyed in a fire or something like that.

[Jeff Kleist]

Speaking of Michael Bay

Know how everyone wished Stan Bush/The Touch was in the last movie?

Be careful what you wish for (drink heavily before viewing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_EXxwDpq0

[captveg]

Going back to the question from earlier in the thread asking if Criterion would end up releasing more live action feature films than Buena Vista on BD this year...

I had some free time this morning, so I looked up the releases from Jan-May.

Criterion: 6 (5 Catalog)
Buena Vista: 9 (2 Catalog)

However, 7 of the Buena Vista titles are New Release and only two (Pretty Woman and High School Musical) are Catalog, while only 1 of the Criterions is New Release (Benjamin Button).

Curious to see if this would continue to play out with official upcoming release info we have so far, I found the following:

Criterion: 6 (All Catalog)
Buena Vista: 10 (5 Catalog)

So, it's somewhat close, with Buena Vista leading 19-12. However, if we're talking catalog titles only, Criterion is leading 11-7.

The live action catalog titles:

Criterion

For All Mankind
The 400 Blows
In the Realm of the Senses
Kagemusha
The Last Metro
Last Year at Marienbad
El Norte
Playtime
Repulsion
The Seventh Seal
The Wages of Fear

Buena Vista

The Greatest Game Ever Played
High School Musical
Jackie Brown
Miracle
Pretty Woman
Pulp Fiction
The Waterboy

[PeterTHX]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Speaking of Michael Bay

Know how everyone wished Stan Bush/The Touch was in the last movie?

Be careful what you wish for (drink heavily before viewing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_EXxwDpq0

Sound like something that would be played over the end credits.

[Indyjones]

Originally Posted by merrick97

Jeff any comments about the rumored Alien franchose reboot.

Id be festively pissed off if Fox would DARE try to remake the first Alien.

That film holds up about as well as it could to this day.

I am intrigued about the possibilty of an Alien prequel.

Anyone remember the rumors years ago about Ridley Scott and James Cameron possibly collaborating on a Alien 5? Was there any truth to that? If so, what happened?

[Jeff Kleist]

The Scott/Cameron thing was contingent on them not doing Alien vs Predator