Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection - January 29, 2013

[Akijama]

Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection Blu-ray

A massive 50-film boxed set is planned for Blu-ray this January.

In an early announcement to retailers, Warner Brothers is readying 'Best of Warner Bros. 50 Film Collection' for Blu-ray on January 29.

The Largest-Ever Blu-Ray Collection. 50 Movies Including 16 of Warner Bros. Library’s Best Picture™ Winners on 52 Discs, Presented in Book Style Premium Packaging. Plus two all-new documentaries: Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot and The Warner Bros. Lot Tour. With hours of commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more on select films. Also includes a limited edition 27” x 40” poster, plus a postcard series of Warner Bros. movie posters designed by legendary Bill Gold. Look for these movie-poster titles on DVD.

*Best Picture™ winner

1. Grand Hotel* (1932)
2. Mutiny on the Bounty* (1935)
3. Gone with The Wind* (1939)
4. Wizard of Oz (1939)
5. Maltese Falcon, The (1941)
6. Citizen Kane (1941)
7. Mrs. Miniver* (1942)
8. Casablanca* (1942)
9. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948)
10. American in Paris, An* (1951)
11. Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
12. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
13. Gigi* (1958)
14. Ben-Hur* (1959)
15. North By Northwest (1959)
16. How the West Was Won (1962)
17. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
18. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
20. Bullitt (1968)
21. Dirty Harry (1971)
22. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
23. Clockwork Orange, A (1972)
24. Exorcist, The (1973)
25. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest* (1975)
26. Superman, The Movie (1977)
27. Shining, The (1980)
28. Chariots of Fire* (1981)
29. Risky Business (1983)
30. Amadeus* (1984)
31. Color Purple, The (1985)
32. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
33. Lethal Weapon (1987)
34. Driving Miss Daisy* (1989)
35. Goodfellas (1990)
36. Bodyguard, The(1992)
37. Unforgiven* (1992)
38. Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut) (1994)
39. Matrix, The (1999)
40. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
41. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
42. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
43. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King* (2003)
44. Million Dollar Baby* (2005)
45. Departed, The* (2006)
46. Dark Knight, The (2008)
47. Blind Side, The (2009)
48. Hangover, The (2009)
49. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
50. Inception (2010)

[Ill_Be_Back]

Interested to know what this will include..

[Akijama]

Originally Posted by Ill_Be_Back

Interested to know what this will include..

Dying to see what will be included!

[MifuneFan]

Well at least Warner is doing it at the start of their anniversary year, unlike Universal who waited till the end to have their collection released

[Talzin78]

Wonder if there is a box set if the MSRP will be around 10 bucks a title at 500, that would be a great deal. Heres hoping.

[Ill_Be_Back]

Originally Posted by akijama

dying to see what will be included!

I hope it's nothing already have...

[Scottie]

Awesome and I am definitely excited to see what is included.

I really hope that titles that have already been released (DigiBooks, for example) are not included.

[benricci]

Most likely a repackaging of existing titles. I wouldn't get too excited.

[bboisvert]

I'm guessing 49 titles that have been out for years and are featured on DVD2Blu, along with one exclusive title... just to piss people off.

[bluskies]

I wouldn't be surprised this is something they are trying to get out to fill up a January dead period and will be a gathering of what is already out. But, ohhh, what a collection it could be if it was all new. There are so many great titles to be released from Blu from my favorite studio:

Don Juan, 1926
Public Enemy, 1931
Little Caesar, 1931
I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, 1932
42nd Street, 1932
Footlight Parade, 1933
The Petrified Forest, 1936
Captain Blood, 1936
Angels With Dirty Faces, 1938
The Sea Hawk, 1941
High Sierra, 1941
Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1943
To Have and Have Not, 1944
The Big Sleep, 1946
Key Largo, 1948
and so many more!

[HD Goofnut]

I have nearly every title on that 50 movie list. Go figure.

[Vkingfan]

This would be great if I didn't already own almost half of these already. At $500 I'll pass. When/if this get under $250 I will give it serious consideration.

[wjasoncul]

Can you imagine pulling out this big set and flipping through 25 pages to find one movie? Seems like it would take a lot of time

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by wjasoncul

Can you imagine pulling out this big set and flipping through 25 pages to find one movie? Seems like it would take a lot of time

It really depends on how they package it I think. They mention a book stye packaging, and based on the width, it looks like it could be similar to the Bond 50 set. That set stores 24 discs broken into 2 books, so this set would just have to include 2 additional books, and perhaps make an extra page in each (since this set has 52 discs). I could see them breaking down into certain decade ranges which wouldn't be too hard to navigate.

[RBBrittain]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

It really depends on how they package it I think. They mention a book stye packaging, and based on the width, it looks like it could be similar to the Bond 50 set. That set stores 24 discs broken into 2 books, so this set would just have to include 2 additional books, and perhaps make an extra page in each (since this set has 52 discs). I could see them breaking down into certain decade ranges which wouldn't be too hard to navigate.

That would require two 2-disc movies. I know Ben-Hur is one, but the only other 2-disc releases I noticed (The Dark Knight & Inception) each have an extras-only disc 2 so only disc 1 will make this set. (Even GWTW fits on one BD.) What's the other one on 2 discs?

(Edit: No second 2-disc movie; Disc 52 must contain Tales from the Lot and the tour. Again, much like Bond 50.)

[Spicoli]

Looks like if anyone wants a copy of The Exorcist, I know where you can find one for about 350.00 and it comes with 49 bonus discs of some movies you might have heard about.

[Visco.]

Pointless box set. I have too many of these movies separately. I'll stick with my keep cases

[Rblu-Dblu]

Originally Posted by Visco.

Pointless box set. I have too many of these movies separately. I'll stick with my keep cases

Agreed. Most people already own a few titles from this set.

[MifuneFan]

It dropped to $367 now, which is $7.34 a movie.

[Gardenofstone10]

I almost wanna get the DVD one with 50 more movies, but most the extra ones are either movies I don't want or movies I already own. The 50 blu ray set, now that it's dropped in price, is SO worth getting for just over 7 bucks a movie. Awesome deal.