Chameleon Films - Australia/NZ label for Asian Cinema

[dex14]

Chameleon Films
@films_chameleon
Aug 1
Thank you for being so patient everyone! I am delighted to confirm that 2 of the 3 discs have been sent to the replicator and the third will be on its way within 48 hours. I'll be able to advise the confirmed street date shortly afterwards (circa 3 weeks, fingers crossed).

[dex14]

After a long and winding journey we can finally announce a street date of August 31 for our Blu-ray releases of Breaking News, Summer Time Machine Blues and Exiled.

But keep an eye out, orders may be ready to send from our fulfillment centre in Sydney up to a week earlier so you could receive a shipping notification before the end of the month.

Shipping rates

If you have been waiting for the official release date before pre-ordering, you might want to do so in the next few weeks because our shipping rates might soon be going up a little to offset planned fee increases by our carrier (an inevitable outcome of the pandemic, war and inflation).

We will wait until after the release date before assessing if we need to update the shipping rates and in any case will continue to keep them as low as we reasonably can.

Free domestic shipping at $69 will continue to apply.

Product update

If you haven't been following us on social media you may not be aware that some additional bonus content was added to Exiled after the initial launch:

• Frank Djeng has recorded a second supplemental audio commentary where he goes into more detail about the film's style and themes

• We interviewed co-composer Dave Klotz about his experience scoring Exiled and his career so far working with Hong Kong filmmakers like Johnnie To and Ringo Lam

Coming up

We have already teased our next release in a couple of places. Standby for a proper announcement with more details soon. Johnnie To fans will not be disappointed...



Regarding future release announcements and pre-ordering, we are going to handle things a little differently. Obviously we had a very long pre-order window for the first wave of releases, and we do not wish to burden anyone with that kind of prolonged wait again.

Instead we will reveal new release information at intervals when we have something to show and share, like upcoming titles, key art, supplementary content, full packaging artwork, and so on.

Then we will only open the pre-order window once we are very confident that the release date will be just around the corner.

Staying in touch

We would love to hear from you, especially once some Chameleon discs are in your hands. Feel free to reach out to us via curtis@chameleonfilms.com.au or through our channels if you have any suggestions, questions, pictures of your awesome physical media collections, ideas for original bonus content, or whatever else you would like to bring to our attention.

Remember also to check the FAQ, which we will get around to updating with additional responses to various Qs that have arisen since the launch.

Eventually we would like to compose and publish some written content, for instance a piece on why the label was started and what steps were involved in getting it off the ground. Would that be of interest?

Until next time,

Team Chameleon

[Animatic33]

My preorder from Chameleon shipped early yesterday. I haven’t ordered from Australia before, so I’m curious to know what the shipping time will be. By all accounts I’ve read, most things from Australia take a while to get to North America.

Looking forward to these!

[ashik786]

Got the shipping notification from Chameleon last night.

[Locked1089]

Early package arrival this morning.

https://imgur.com/tMIgd47

The OFLC logo is part of the print, but they do come with reversible artwork.

https://imgur.com/Vk0Yby1

Very solid set, booklets look great, can't wait to dig in over the next week.

Congrats to the team at Chameleon Films!

EDIT: Image embedding doesn't want to work for me, hope the image links will suffice.

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by Locked1089

Early package arrival this morning.

https://imgur.com/tMIgd47

The OFLC logo is part of the print, but they do come with reversible artwork.

https://imgur.com/Vk0Yby1

Very solid set, booklets look great, can't wait to dig in over the next week.

Congrats to the team at Chameleon Films!

EDIT: Image embedding doesn't want to work for me, hope the image links will suffice.

Oh nice on the reversible covers!!!

Yeah mine showed up this morning. I'm at work though.

[Mobe1969]

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[DukeTogo84]

Glad these have covers without the rating logo. Can anyone confirm if these play on region A?

[McWestern]

I would also like to know if they play in Region A. I've been on a Johnnie To kick lately and these like awesome.

[Animatic33]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Glad these have covers without the rating logo. Can anyone confirm if these play on region A?

Originally Posted by McWestern

I would also like to know if they play in Region A. I've been on a Johnnie To kick lately and these like awesome.

They do watching Breaking News on my Panny 9000 region A locked player right now. Tested all three Chameleon discs on my backup Panny 420 region A and all work! No tricks to get them to play, put the disc in and it works and the main feature plays once you select it on the menu.

Really excited to watch this tonight!

[Mr_Orange]

Has anyone watched Exiled yet? How is the PQ and AQ?

I don't believe that Chamelon have said anything about the masters used for these initial releases so it would be nice to know what we are dealing with.

[hiwilliam]

Originally Posted by Mr_Orange

Has anyone watched Exiled yet? How is the PQ and AQ?

I don't believe that Chamelon have said anything about the masters used for these initial releases so it would be nice to know what we are dealing with.

Exiled screenshots:

[Mr_Orange]

Thanks. It looks pretty good. How is it in motion?

[A Tortured Duckling]

Originally Posted by Mr_Orange

I don't believe that Chamelon have said anything about the masters used for these initial releases so it would be nice to know what we are dealing with.

https://www.facebook.com/10285965523...7975934052793/

We've noticed you have a few questions! Rather than respond individually, hopefully the following will be useful.

* Will your Blu-ray releases be region coded?
We're usually restricted under our licensing agreements to code discs for Region B only. It will be clear in the product description when we're able to make specific releases Region Free. Region B discs will play in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. If you live outside one of these regions and wish to purchase our discs, we recommend obtaining a region-free Blu-ray player. (It's what we've done to watch all those lovely Criterions.)

* Will you ship internationally?
Yes, we will ship everywhere that our logistics provider and its carriers can reach. Shipping charges will vary. Australia is unfortunately an expensive place to ship from, but shipping rates will be less than the actual amount we're charged because we want you to be able to own and see our discs!

* Are you utilising new masters?
The announced films have not been remastered in 4K or recently restored. We are encoding from the best available existing 2K masters supplied by the rightsholders. All supplied elements will be carefully inspected for artefacts and print damage. Any issues that are discovered will be removed or fixed with professional Diamant-Film Restoration software. The feature films will be encoded at the highest possible bitrate, and all the content will be mastered for replication onto dual layer Blu-ray discs.

* Can you please release [insert title here] on Blu-ray in the future?
We'll pin a new post so you can submit the titles you would like to see released in a glorious premium Blu-ray edition. Some of the requests that have already been mentioned are high on our list.

* I have a different question!
Fire away in the comments. We'll do our best to respond stoically.

[Mr_Orange]

Originally Posted by A Tortured Duckling

https://www.facebook.com/10285965523...7975934052793/

Thanks. I don't use Facebook.

[Mobe1969]

Originally Posted by hiwilliam

Exiled screenshots:

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I'll have to see if I can get matching shots from the Italian disc.

Do you have rough timestamps for the shots?

[A Tortured Duckling]

Just ordered the trio directly from the label. Excited to finally watch Exiled.

It's crazy that I was able to get these for $75 US with shipping included.

[BuraddoRun]

My order came in today. I ordered all 3 premiere titles, which will all be first-time viewings for me.

[yoloswegmaster420]

Are we getting announcements for new releases soon? It's been over half a year since they revealed the first 3 titles.

[themp3000]

When the next releases are closer to being done and ready, they’ll announce them then.

They don’t want a repeat of constant delays with the first wave of titles.