All right, in news today, Walmart has leaked details and cover artwork on a 2-disc Interstellar: Collector’s Edition, apparently due to street on 3/31, that includes “a 48-page art book featuring images and copy from the Interstellar coffee table book, plus an actual IMAX film cel cut from a 70mm print of the film.” Here’s what it looks like...
Meanwhile, while we’re still waiting on details from Warner on the Blu-ray release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, it looks like Target is going to have an exclusive version that comes with LEGO figures of Bard and Bain. It also appears that Best Buy is going to have an exclusive Steel book version. See here...
In official announcement news today, Sony’s Outlander: Season One, Volume One on Blu-ray arrives on 3/3 in both regular and Limited Collector’s Edition versions. The Blu-ray is a 2-disc set which includes all 8 episodes plus 21 deleted scenes, and 6 featurettes (Outlander: An Epic Adaptation, Authentic in Design: The Dresses & Kilts of Outlander, Casting Outlander, On Location: Castle Leoch and the Magic of Scotland, Emerging a Scot: Cast Goes to Bootcamp, and Walk Through the Sets and Stages with Ronald D. Moore). The Limited Collector’s Edition also adds “a 32-page book filled with photographs, excerpts from the scripts, an introduction from author Diana Gabaldon, and a packaging placeholder for Volume Two, allowing fans to complete their Season One collection.” Here’s what that looks like (click on the image to pre-order it on Amazon.com)...
Sony has also announced Blu-ray and DVD release of the Spierig Brothers’ time travel thriller Predestination, starring Ethan Hawke. Look for it on 2/10, with extras set to include outtakes, the A Journey Through Time featurette, and the 10-part All You Zombies: Bringing Predestination to Life documentary (which includes Introduction, Casting, Pre-Production, Photography: Weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and Post Production).
Lionsgate has set the futuristic action thriller Vice for Blu-ray, DVD and digital release on 3/17. The film stars Bruce Willis. Extras include audio commentary with director Brian A. Miller and actors Ambyr Childers and Bryan Greenberg, cast and crew interviews, and the Behind the Scenes of Vice featurette.
Also today, FUNimation has set Noir: Complete Series – Classic for Blu-ray release on 4/14, followed by Freezing Vibration: The Complete Series on Blu-ray on 4/21, and D-Frag: The Complete Series on Blu-ray on 4/28.
We’ve mentioned this before, but we’ve got cover artwork for Mill Creek’s The Wild One on Blu-ray (due 3/17), starring Marlon Brando. See below.
Cinedigm and Great Point Media have set the thriller Altair, starring Matthew Modine and Olivia Williams, for DVD and digital release on 2/17.
And finally Synapse Films has announced that its 2015 lineup of horror titles is going to include Dario Argento titles’ Phenomena (aka Creepers – with three different versions of the film), Tenebre, and Suspiria (with a 4K restoration), Harold P. Warren’s Manos: The Hands of Fate, Curt McDowell’s Thundercrack!, Jim McCullough’s Creature from Black Lake, Jim Wynorski’s Sorceress, and Kurando Mitsutake’s Samurai Avenger.
We’ll leave you with more new cover artwork (click on the covers to pre-order on Amazon if possible)...
Stay tuned...
- Bill Hunt