Universal plans on rush releasing their Oscar darling quickly after the planned Feb. 24th ceremony.

Expect an announcement the next day with full details to follow~

vary excited for this, awesome film!

Looking forward to watching this a second time...thanks for the heads-up!

Excellent! This is the best movie I have seen all year (as in Feb. 2007 - now). Do you have a source?

wouldn't be great if they released Atonement giftset with the soundtrack just like what they recently did with Pride & Prejudice? Atonement score was friggin' awsome.

nice, indeed.

I wish they'd rush release titles on Blu-ray. That's the only way I will ever own this one.

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/atonement.html

bareva,

Thanks for the UK link...my date is for the Region 1 release!

HD-DVD same date?

r2 transfer is excellent, are the extras same for r1 release?

What's the Best Buy exclusive in Canada?

Specs released....seperate widescreen and full frame releases, as well as an HD/SD combo release planned (these may have been pressed already and not able to be released on BluRay yet...)

AUDIO:
English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround

SUBTITLES:
English SDH
French
Spanish

PICTURE: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

BONUS MATERIALS :
• Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Director Joe Wright
• The Making of Atonement
• Novel to the Screen
• Feature Commentary with Director Joe Wright

Goodie. Looks like I'll have to stop by Hollywood Video around that time and pick up a "used" copy...

i might wait for this to go on sale in hd before i pick it up.

Oh, Jesus... Amazon just changed it's artwork from the beautiful theatrical poster to this mess.

That's just the sales artwork. The retail artwork is marginally (but not a lot!) better:

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/atonement4.html

Meh, it's a bit better but I hate how studios are starting to put borders around box art nowadays.

It's Focus Features, I expected this after the Brokeback art

i actually prefer this artwork versus the poster artwork. one the few times that's the case, but i do. probably will hold off on this until it's either really cheap or a possible re-release. i'm figuring this will happen seeing as it did for pride and prejudice.

Woo! I picked this up yesterday for $17 and it even came with a free paperback copy for the book, which was a good deal. It's only at Best Buy though if you want the book deal.

I was trying to find one w/o the book. I bought the book when the movie was released. That's something I don't need doubles of.

High Def Digest gave the HD-DVD a four and half star rating for video, but of the two times I've seen this in the theatre, the 35mm print looks exceedingly grainy, whether that was the intent, it sounds like it's less obvious in HiDef, how does it look on standard DVD?