Official Warner release list for 2010

[Jerome]

From the Warner Press website in France


3 Mars :
MicMacs à tire larigot (New Jean-Pierre Jeunet film)
7 Avril:
Neverending Story
Mystic River
Where Eagles dare
Kelly's Heroes
12 Mai:
A Star is born (1954)
Poseidon
2 juin:
The Rookie (Eastwood)
Absolute power7 juillet
Moonwalker
4 aout:
Ghost Ship (2002)
Insomnia
6 octobre:
Mars Attack
The Exorcist
Forbidden Planet
3 novembre:
Treasure of the sierra madre
Maltese Falcon
Excalibur
Three Kings1 décembre:
2001 Space Odyssey: Ultimate Collector's Ed.
Last of the Mohicans (Mann version)

[Sky_Captain]

Quite a few must-haves on there.

[TraderGator]

Oh man, Excalibur!

2001 is going to be a another must have.

[McCrutchy]

Wow, a re-release of 2001 as a UCE? Typical Warner. I know they won't re-do the AV even though it could benefit from a new HD transfer (though to be fair the 2007 disc was good), so no dice on that one.

[HumanMedia]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Wow, a re-release of 2001 as a UCE? Typical Warner. I know they won't re-do the AV even though it could benefit from a new HD transfer (though to be fair the 2007 disc was good), so no dice on that one.

My thoughts exactly. Its shot on 65mm so there is a lot more detail that wasn't on the mildly DNRd current release. I bet the UCE just adds lobby cards or something.

Still news of all these releases is great!

[JonBidinger]

Wow, quite a number of solid rentals or purchases on there. Quite pleased with this list as it is sure to be just a fraction of their titles. Can't wait to see what interesting titles we get with new Warner/NL budget waves. I want the rest of the New Line F13 flicks, and perhaps Mortal Kombat.

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Wow, a re-release of 2001 as a UCE? Typical Warner. I know they won't re-do the AV even though it could benefit from a new HD transfer (though to be fair the 2007 disc was good), so no dice on that one.

The only thing that could make it even remotely worthwhile, imho, would be to add a "smilebox" version to it, like they did with How the West Was Won, to simulate the way it looked in a curved screen

And, yes, I know 2001 wasn't filmed in true Cinerama.

Rather than a 2001 UCE, I wish WHV would release a set of Kubrick on blu-ray - they still own more of his movies than any other studio.

[bygberbrown]

I would buy 2001 again if it was a new transfer. Anything else I don't need. I love too many movies to buy trinkets.

I'm pretty excited about seeing an entire schedule for 2010 from any studio. I like how classics-heavy this list is, and assume most of the modern releases get added in as time goes by (). Still, a number of super-exciting classics other than Treasure and was Maltese were just added to Bluray.Com's "just listed" with no release dates, so I hope they're 2010! I guess they could be other studios properties...

Also, I'm worried: No Ben Hur!

[Bruce Morrison]

Originally Posted by JonBidinger

Wow, quite a number of solid rentals or purchases on there. Quite pleased with this list as it is sure to be just a fraction of their titles.

I certainly hope this represents just a fraction of their 2010 output. Apart from the Bogart classics, there are only two titles among the more recent films in that list that I would buy - 'Mystic River' and 'Insomnia'.

I keep hoping they'll announce more of their classic titles from the 1970's but they seem to be ignoring that era at the moment. When are we going to get BDs of films such as 'All The President's Men', 'Klute', 'McCabe & Mrs Miller', 'Badlands', 'Barry Lyndon', 'Network', 'The Wind And The Lion', 'The Man Who Would Be King', 'Mean Streets' and 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'?

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by bygberbrown

Also, I'm worried: No Ben Hur!

Since they already missed the chance to release a 50th anniversary edition, there should be no rush. Better than they get the restoration right, because that's such an amazing widescreen movie and it really needs to be done just right - then it will be one of the most impressive classic titles on blu-ray.

Originally Posted by Bruce Morrison

I keep hoping they'll announce more of their classic titles from the 1970's but they seem to be ignoring that era at the moment. When are we going to get BDs of films such as 'All The President's Men', 'Klute', 'McCabe & Mrs Miller', 'Badlands', 'Barry Lyndon', 'Network', 'The Wind And The Lion', 'The Man Who Would Be King', 'Mean Streets' and 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore'?

Those are all great movies, but I wonder if they've got the sales potential to justify expensive restorations. When it comes to the 70s, aside from the sci-fi movies, very few titles are still likely to sell a lot of copies these days - The Godfather movies, which were already released, and maybe Apocalypse Now, The Exorcist, and Jaws.

[Bruce Morrison]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

Those are all great movies, but I wonder if they've got the sales potential to justify expensive restorations. When it comes to the 70s, aside from the sci-fi movies, very few titles are still likely to sell a lot of copies these days - The Godfather movies, which were already released, and maybe Apocalypse Now, The Exorcist, and Jaws.

You may well be right I suppose, but it's a sad commentary on modern tastes. I'm in my early 60's and, although I like many films from all decades including the current one, I still reckon the 1970's was the best ever decade for American cinema. It's sad to think that so many people seem to be denying themselves the enjoyment of such films just because they are "old".

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by Bruce Morrison

It's sad to think that so many people seem to be denying themselves the enjoyment of such films just because they are "old".

Well I watch a lot of classic cinema, especially from the 30s and 40s, and I would agree that it's sad there isn't a greater appreciation for movies from earlier decades.

But at the same time, I'm aware that the majority of folks who aren't serious film buffs will watch mostly the movies their friends and coworkers are talking about. And it would be a pretty weird world if the majority of friends and coworkers people had tended to spend most of their time talking about movies from the 70s (Or the 30s or 40s or 50s).

Fortunately, there's still a few "heavyweight" titles among classics - like Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, etc. - to at least occasionally remind the mainstream viewers that some pretty good movies were being made 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80 years ago...

[sokh1985]

Finally The last of the mohicans !!!

If they do their job like for HTWWW, it's gonna look incredible!

More than a year to wait...

[garyrc]

[QUOTE=BluBonnet;2438350]The only thing that could make it even remotely worthwhile, imho, would be to add a "smilebox" version to it, like they did with How the West Was Won, to simulate the way it looked in a curved screen
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"What Aristotle meant by the Object of Sight was the Arc of Vision" -- Paul Goodman

IMO, the many, many 70 mm curved screen and Cinerama movies I've seen didn't quite look like the shape of Smilebox, which probably simulates the shape you would get if you were sitting on a ladder directly in line with the center of the screen top to bottom and side to side. From most seats, the curve of the top of the screen appears to be different than the curve of the bottom, and more importantly, the screen is so big, and the curve so palatable, that you tend to lose awareness of it after a short time -- after that, you are just "in the picture," as the advertizing used to say. This was part of the original intention ... to suggest the arc of vision in a most natural way, and the arc of vision is how we are used to seeing. In a widescreen film, the director is in charge of moving our heads and eyeballs.

I think having a moderately curved screen in the home would be a better choice than Smilebox. We did that with a homemade screen in my former house, and we are about to in our current one. In the old house we were able to get the right and left edges out 5" from the plane, over a 10 foot expanse, without losing focus or causing one side of the screen to reflect on the other. That tiny curve actually increased the feeling of immersion! With "constant height" and the wider images just reaching farther toward the sides, shapes of all aspect ratios looked good, as did 8 & 16 mm movies and 35 mm slides.

2001, was, as you say, not in three panel Cinerama, and was filmed in 70 mm, but it was projected on fairly recently installed versions of Cinerama's patented "vertically oriented venetian blinds" screens. The aspect ratio was 2.2:1, milder and better, IMO, than Cinerama's extreme AR. Yet Cinerama corp. got their name on the bilboards, thanks to providing the screens (also used for the 70 mm releases of Grand Prix and The Halleluja Trail). In some cities It's a Mad, Mad World, and The Greatest Story Ever Told used the original Cinerama screen, and the old Cinererama aspect ratio, having been filmed in Ultra (as opposed to Super) Panavision 70. Super (2.20:!) is much more natural to look at, and helps in the suspension of disbelief, IMO. 2001 was filmed in Super. The most deeply curved screens were the ones made by Cinerama Corp, whether for three panel or 70 mm, and the early 70 mm Todd-AO screens.

[Kynch]

Here's a fuller list, taken from Ecranlarge.com:

13 janvier 2010

- Sarah Connor Chronicles - Saison 1 (DVD & BRD)

- Numéro 9 (M6 Vidéo : DVD & BRD)



16 janvier 2010

- District 9 (Métropolitan : DVD & BRD)



27 janvier 2010

- Vexille (M6 Vidéo : DVD & BRD)



10 février 2010

- Fame (2009) (DVD & BRD)

- The Informant (DVD & BRD)



17 février 2010

- Destination finale 4 (Métropolitan : DVD & BRD)



03 mars 2010

- Micmacs à tire-larigot (DVD & BRD)



10 mars 2010

- Saw VI (Métropolitan : DVD & BRD)



07 avril 2010

- De l'or pour les braves (BRD)

- L'Histoire sans fin (BRD)

- Le Choc des titans (1981) (BRD)

- Mystic River (BRD)

- Quand les aigles attaquent (BRD)



21 avril 2010

- Max et les Maximonstres (DVD & BRD)



05 mai 2010

- Esther (DVD & BRD)



12 mai 2010

- Une étoile est née (BRD)

- Grand Prix de John Frankenheimer (BRD)

- Poséidon de Wolfgang Petersen (BRD)



02 juin 2010

- Guet-Apens (1972 + 1994) (BRD)

- Invictus (DVD & BRD)

- La Relève (BRD)

- Les Pleins pouvoirs (BRD)

- Les Révoltés du Bounty (1935 + 1962) (BRD)



09 juin 2010

- Sherlock Holmes (2010) (DVD & BRD)



07 juillet 2010

- Moonwalker - Michael Jackson (BRD)



21 juillet 2010

- Couple of cops / A Couple of Dicks (DVD & BRD)



04 août 2010

- Insomnia de Christopher Nolan (DVD & BRD)

- Le Vaisseau de l'angoisse (2002) (BRD)



11 août 2010

- Le Choc des titans (2010) (DVD & BRD)



15 septembre 2010 (Métropolitan)

- Les Griffes de la nuit (2010) (DVD & BRD)



06 octobre 2010

- Docteur Jivago (BRD)

- L'Exorciste (The Extended Director's Cut + Theatrical Cut) (BRD)

- Mars attack (BRD)

- Planète interdite (BRD)

- Sex and the city 2 (Métropolitan : DVD & BRD)

- Vol au dessus nid coucou - Ultimate Collector Edition (BRD)



03 novembre 2010

- Excalibur de John Boorman (BRD)

- Le Faucon maltais (BRD)

- Jonah Hex (DVD & BRD)

- Les Rois du désert (BRD)

- Le Trésor de la Sierra Madre (BRD)



24 novembre 2010

- Inception (2010) (DVD & BRD)



01 décembre 2010

- 2001, l'odyssée de l'espace - Ultimate Collector Edition (BRD)

- Le Dernier des mohicans de Michael Mann (BRD)



15 décembre 2010

- Comme chiens et chats 2 (DVD & BRD)

[bygberbrown]

Thanks Kynch, was hoping someone would keep this updated...