Yea its a video distributor for a bunch of Independent video stores. I no longer work for that video store nor does that store even exist anymore, but the online account still works and i have access to our old rep who helps me out.

Thanks. I noticed it on this site too:

http://www.releaselists.com/BLURAYNorthAmerica.html

Well at least it didn't have kids who were annoying as all fuck introduced halfway through.

Any Given Sunday: Director's Cut - January 27

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/ques...373554CVB/#/10

Hmmm - I wonder if W is possibly coming to home video that same day.

Oh MAN! First Oliver Stone movie I ever saw, and a very underrated one at that. On a side note, this was the movie that made me believe Jamie Foxx would become a star, and he's great in this (as are Pacino, Woods, Modine, Quaid et al), possibly robbed of an Oscar nom. Also one of the few sports movies I like, if only because it's not inspirational at all.

From blu-ray.com. The Mask has TrueHD:

http://i35.tinypic.com/34xovtj.jpg

Well it would seem that Hamlet 2 is being released on standard DVD on December 23rd. Has anybody heard any grumblings on the interwebs about a BD release?

:blush:

Yeah, saw that too. Well, given the it's low budget film style (like "Juno"), I'm o.k. with just a standard DVD for this. But will buy the day it's out. Funniest movie I've seen in years.

It's from Focus Features, so that probably means Universal. I wouldn't count on it.

Hopefully Burn After Reading will receive a Blu release.

That combined with the fact that it tanked makes it unlikely. However when I did see Hamlet 2, it was a DLP presentation...Burn After Reading on the other hand did fairly well at the Box Office, so I'm sure we'll see a BD for that one.

Tanking at the box office means nothing when it comes to BD releases. Take for example "In the Name of the King". Hell, even "Southland Tales" which made only $275,380 is getting a BD release.

Neither of those were day and date though. What I was really getting at was that Universal has really gone for the stereotypical demographic with action, sci-fi, and mainstream comedies, perhaps more than other studios.

Yeah, neither of those releases you mentioned are Universal titles... they aren't in the habit of putting out titles like this on BD (I'm still sitting, waiting, wishing for In Bruges)... I think if Hamlet 2 was a big hit, it would street day and date on BD, so saying that tanking had NOTHING to do with it is slightly off base IMO. So far it's track record isn't great - if DVD proves otherwise, we'll probably see a BD in the future.

Who knows, maybe they'll announce it and are just behind the 8 ball...but Universal isn't handling titles the same way these other studios are. Fox will release most genre pics and Sony will release just about ANYTHING on blu-ray... I'm guessing both of those titles performed well enough on DVD to justify these releases... like I said if Hamlet 2 is a dvd smash, then Universal will take note and you'll probably see it a few months down the road...

I guess I won't be holding my breath. Thanks for the info, guys. :(

Fox did skip out on Lars and the Real Girl, Charlie Bartlett, The Darjeeling Limited and Waitress. All studios have skipped releasing certain films which is just mind-boggling especially if they think Blu-ray is the next format. Everything should be released on it, period.

I don't know why that happens. Does it really cost more to release something Blu-ray? Or do they only see a profit if they sell XXX copies?

I'd imagine it probably still costs quite a bit to release on Blu-ray: more, at least, than the studios are willing to shell out for titles which they feel probably aren't going to sell very well.

Also, aren't they limited -- based on the availability of manufacturing facilities -- as to the number of titles they can put out? Especially with regard to BD50s, which I thought was one of the reasons why Warner and Universal are releasing so many BD25s . . .

I thought Universal said that starting with Doomsday, all day & date titles would get a BD release.

I seem to remember hearing something like that, but I guess that doesn't necessarily hold true for Focus Features, even though they're under the Universal umbrella: Doomsday hit Blu-ray in July, but Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day came out on DVD in August without a release on Blu-ray.

What about Mongol? I thought that was announced for a Blu-ray release?

It was, it's out,I just bought it Tuesday at walmart.

Yeah Mongol was released on Tuesday.

with supposedly non-lossless audio (according to the back of the disc)