I'll let this thread speak for itself.

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htfo...hreadid=226720

The link contains potential info on Ben-Hur, King Kong, Wizard of Oz, New Jack City and The Outsiders SEs.

Ben-Hur: Four-Disc Collector's Edition September 2005
Special Features are scheduled to include:
*Original 1925 silent film version of Ben-Hur
*All new documentary on Ben-Hur: Ben-Hur Revisited
*Scene specific commentary by Charlton Heston
*Collectible Souvenir Booklet, reprinted from original theatrical program
*Documentary - The Making of an Epic
*Screen tests
*Photo Gallery
*Theatrical Trailers

New Jack City: Two-Disc Special Edition August 2005
Special Features are scheduled to include:
*Interviews with members of the hip-hop community as they describe their favorite moments in the film.
*Screen tests
*Making-of Documentary
*A Historical Look at Harlem
*Music Video: New Jack Hustler by Ice-T
*Music Video: I'm Dreamin' by Christopher Williams
*Music Video: I Wanna Sex You Up by Color Me Badd

The Wizard of Oz: Two-Disc Special Edition October 2005
Special Features are scheduled to include:
*New documentary on the phenomenon of Oz and its impact around the world
*Making-of documentary hosted by Angela Lansbury
*Oz composer Harold Arlen’s home movies
*Musical outtakes including the Jitterbug dance
*Filmographies, story boards, costumes, and makeup tests
*New, graduated trivia game
*Feature-length sing-a-long

The Outsiders: Two-Disc Special Edition September 2005
Special Features are scheduled to include:
*Casting director interview on discovering the amazing cast of The Outsiders.
*Screen tests and auditions.
*A private tour of the filming location with author of the book, S.E. Hinton
*Making-of featurettes.
*NBC Today Show reveals how The Outsiders sprang to life from a series of letters written by school children from Fresno, CA.
*Hollywood Closeup shows up for the movie premiere in Fresno, CA.
*Photo galleries
*Trailers

King Kong: Two-Disc Special Edition November 2005
Special Features are scheduled to include:
*3 featurettes with Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy
--Tour of Jackson’s personal Kong memorabilia
--The Magic of Kong’s Stop Motion Wizardry
--The Mystery of the Spider sequence
*Fascinating feature-length documentary on the Creator of King Kong, Merian C. Copper
*Interview with Peter Jackson on how King Kong influenced his filmmaking
*Theatrical Trailers

Ugh. It sounds like the SE is going to be little more than a tie-in to Peter Jackson's new film.

Hope it has more than that. Love Peter Jackson, but leave this for his Kong movie DVD...Interview Ray Harryhausen for God's sake...

good news on the rest....this one is my most wanted....i'll take it however it comes, but hope we get more than a Peter Jackson promo dvd


Four Disc Ben Hur is great too. I never have had the chance to see the silent version, so this is a must own. Great news

I was always wondering what hip-hop artists thought of Scarface & New Jack City.

Now, my life is complete.

The scarface one never really made sense, but New Jack is at least about the kind of life some of these rappers actually claim to have grown up in. At least this seem to be in the context of the film.

Personally will not be buying any of these but oh well. Was hoping to hear some news on one of my favorites Point Blank.
Supposedly read elsewhere The Wild Bunch: SE was pushed back. Do not ask me if this is legit just was said somewhere else and seems it could come to fruition.

The current Wizard of Oz disc is pretty good, so I will probably not double dip. King Kong sounds nice though.

A New Jack City SE, who woulda thunk it. I'm all over that one.

I'll hold off on getting Wizard of Oz to see how the movie looks because I think the current one looks pretty damn good.

King Kong and Ben Hur are must haves. As mentioned, hopefully KK is more than just a bunch of tie-ins to the remake but it'll be great just to have the movie.

Guess I'm going to have to sell off Ben-Hur now... wow. Can't wait.

I've heard rumors of Wizard of Oz getting the "ultra-resolution" treatment, I hope this is the case.

Kong & OZ! Awesome! Can't Wait!!!

I was hoping that they would include Son of Kong in the 2 disc set. They certainly could have.....

I imagine the reason behind have Jackson on the Kong disc is that materials to make featurettes are a little hard to come by given the films age.

I'll, of course buy it!

I can't believe they didn't get Van Peebles to sit down for a commentary.

And what about the infamous deleted scenes on THE OUTSIDERS?

I believe the "specs" are not complete. Warner has been placing great commentary tracks on their 2-discers and I am sure that these will be no different.

My sentiments as well. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot on the Wizard of Oz release that isn't on the original, other than some fluff. Maybe a good commentary will be added. But these Warner 2-discers seldom diappoint. I will definitely be upgrading Ben Hur, and look forward to finally having King Kong.

None for me.

Finally King Kong will be in my DVD collection!

Well God forbid we just get, oh I don't know, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY and/or FEARLESS and/or ARTHUR and/or the GRUMPY OLD MEN series in anamorphic widescreen!!! Sheesh, Warner, fix your old sins first! I'll grab the NEW JACK CITY and WIZARD OF OZ ones easily, though...


...he he, it's kind of funny to see NJC and WoOz in the same sentence...

Dont have any of those yet so prob all for me!

Def King Kong for me.

Would double dip on Wizard of Oz only if it included a secondary audio track with Dark Side of the Moon. (and that ain't happenin')

KK on DVD
KK Special Features (thus far revealed)

Finally! A COLOR ME BADD video on DVD!

Naw but for real, I'm interested in all Four of those titles. Amazing news.