So far, it looks like there will be a 4K + Blu-ray Steelbook, a wide-release 4K only SKU, and a Blu-ray. There may or may not be retailer exclusive versions as well. Either way, extras will include: 10 documentary featurettes (Inside the F1: The Movie Table Read, The Anatomy of a Crash, Getting Up to Speed, APXGP Innovations, Making It to Silverstone, Lewis Hamilton: Producer, APXGP Sets and Locations, Around the World, APXGP and F1: How it was Filmed, and The Sound of Speed). The 4K will feature Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. Here’s a look at both 4K SKUs (click on the images to visit the Amazon pre-order pages)…
Also today, our friends at the Warner Archive Collection have announced great some new Blu-ray catalog titles for release in October, including Delmer Daves’ A Summer Place (1959), Mervyn LeRoy’s Lovely to Look At (1952), Dick Richards’ Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), and John Cromwell’s The Racket (1951) on 10/14, followed by William Keighley’s The Master of Ballantrae (1953), Anatole Litvak’s Out of the Fog (1941), Leigh Jason’s The Mad Miss Manton (1938), and WS Van Dyke’s Manhattan Melodrama (1934) on 10/28.
Meanwhile, Kino Lorber Studio Classics has set Pete Walker’s Frightmare (1974) for Blu-ray release on 11/11, followed by The Ninja Trilogy (1981-1984) in 4K Ultra HD on 11/18, which will include Menahem Golan’s Enter the Ninja (1981), and Sam Firstenberg’s Revenge of the Ninja (1983) and Ninja III: The Domination (1984).
Imprint Films has announced a new 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray “hardbox” release for November, which is none other than Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (1997). Extras will include the legacy special features as well as a hardback booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri. Street date is 11/26.
Umbrella Entertainment has just revealed on their social media that they’re working on a new 4K restoration of Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000) that will be released as a new 4K UHD + Blu-ray Collector’s Edition in the coming months. Watch for official details to be announced in the weeks ahead.
And finally today, our friends at Flicker Alley have just officially announced the Blu-ray release of their Laurel & Hardy: Year Three – The Newly Restored 1929 Silents collection on 11/11. The collection will include 9 shorts in all, among them Liberty, Wrong Again, That’s My Wife, Big Business, Unaccustomed as We Are, Double Whoopee, Berth Marks (Silent Version), Bacon Grabbers, and Angora Love, plus abundant newly-created extras. Great news indeed!
We’ll leave you with a look at the cover artwork for Warner’s newly-announced Ted Lasso: The Richmond Way 4K release and more (Amazon pre-order links will be added as they go live)…
That’s all for now. Stay tuned!- Bill Hunt
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