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Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Mentioned in the Hannibal Lector Anthology thread, but these should probably get their own thread as well. From Blu-ray.com:
MGM Gives Blu-ray the Chills in September Posted May 27, 2009 05:25 PM by Juan Calonge MGM In an early announcement to retailers, it has been revealed that MGM Home Entertainment will release a set of highly-appreciated horror movies on September 15: 'Child's Play', 'Misery', and 'The Hannibal Lecter Anthology', which will include 'Manhunter', 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Hannibal'. No spec information is available at this time. |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Def. in for Child's Play. I'll more than likely get Misery as well.
Now announce Pumpkinhead already! |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Misery for win.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Now what are our chances of getting the rest of the Child's Play franchise in HD :)
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by Quack
(Post 9469399)
Now what are our chances of getting the rest of the Child's Play franchise in HD :)
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by Adam Tyner
(Post 9469518)
That'd be up to Universal. They did release Seed of Chucky on HD DVD, so if they play catchup...
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
I hope none of those aren't old MPEG-2 early 2007 transfers that have been sitting on the shelf. We know SOTL was.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
(Post 9469608)
I hope none of those are old MPEG-2 early 2007 transfers that have been sitting on the shelf. We know SOTL was.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by Hammer99
(Post 9469560)
I think Seed of Chucky is out or coming soon to BD in Canada.
Originally Posted by Hammer99
(Post 9469612)
I'm cool with it if they look like SOTL does, what a great BD! :up:
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by GizmoDVD
(Post 9469625)
SOTL could have looked even better if MGM did some work on it :(
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
I thought SOTL was a mixed bag as well.
The new dvd of Child's Play came out in Sept. '08, so that gives me hope this is a fresher AVC transfer. The Misery SE, however, was out in Oct. '07. But then again, they may surprise us like they did with Carrie. I would have bet money that was MPEG-2, but it was AVC. Didn't look that great though, but that's a source issue. |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
I'm okay if it's like SOTL, as long as it's NOT like The Graduate and Road House. I like the idea of including SD-DVDs instead of Digital Copies, I don't like the studios just cheapening out and using them as a way of including the special features along with a feature-free BD.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
(Post 9469648)
But then again, they may surprise us like they did with Carrie. I would have bet money that was MPEG-2, but it was AVC. Didn't look that great though, but that's a source issue.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
I'll only buy Child's Play if it's done right, so a proper encode with a high bitrate is necessary.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Wait a sec, what are these BD/DVD Combos? Does it include a SD copy, or are they just like the bastard HD/DVD Combo discs?
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Count me in for Misery! :up:
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Why the hell didn't they just release Child's Play when the dvd came out last year? It better be PHENOMENAL a/v for me to upgrade.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
MGM Home Entertainment in conjunction with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced the technical specs and special features for the upcoming Blu-ray release of Stephen King's Misery, which is scheduled to hit store shelves on September 15th, day-and-date with the DVD re-release. Video will be presented in 1.85:1 1080p AVC accompanied by a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Special features for this release includes: * Feature Commentary by Director Rob Reiner * Feature Commentary by screenwriter William Goldman * Misery Loves Company * Marc Shaiman's Musical Misery Tour * Diagnosing Annie Wilkes * Advice for the Stalked * Profile of a Stalker * Celebrity Stalkers * Anti−Stalking Laws MGM Home Entertainment in conjunction with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has announced the technical specs and special features for the upcoming Blu-ray release of Child's Play, which is scheduled to hit store shelves on September 15th, day-and-date with the DVD re-release. Video will be presented in 1.85:1 1080p AVC accompanied by a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. Special features for this release includes: * Audio Commentary with Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and Chucky designer Kevin Yagher * Audio Commentary with Producer David Kirschner and Screenwriter Don Mancini * Select Scene Chucky Commentaries * Chucky's Thoughts * The Advantages of Being Chucky * Chucky on Filmmaking * Up Close and Personal with Chucky * Evil Comes in Small Packages * The Birth of Chucky * Creating the Horror * Unleashed - Chucky: Building a Nightmare * A Monster Convention * Vintage Featurette - Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play * Chucky's Back Bitches * Designer Toy * Evil Comes in Little Packages |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
I'm guessing these will be barebones blu-rays with the dvd counterparts holding all the features... I already have the Chucky's 20th dvd but I may grab the blu-ray if the reviews are good and it gets cheap enough - if not I'll stick with the dvd.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
They're both AVC encodes. That probably increases the chances that the BDs will have the extras.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Pretty sure Child's Play was 'done' last year when the DVD was re-released (they are re-re-releasing it again?)...so good chances it MPEG4. Likely with Misery.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
* Audio Commentary with Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks and Chucky designer Kevin Yagher * Audio Commentary with Producer David Kirschner and Screenwriter Don Mancini * Select Scene Chucky Commentaries * Chucky's Thoughts * The Advantages of Being Chucky * Chucky on Filmmaking * Up Close and Personal with Chucky * Evil Comes in Small Packages * The Birth of Chucky * Creating the Horror * Unleashed - Chucky: Building a Nightmare * A Monster Convention * Vintage Featurette - Introducing Chucky: The Making of Child's Play * Chucky's Back Bitches * Designer Toy * Evil Comes in Little Packages On the other hand, "Designer Toy" and "Chucky's Back, Bitches" may be "new" featurettes that didn't fit on the SD-DVD. |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
both are already up for pre order at Amazon for 15.99....SWEET
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
I'll pre-order Child's Play now. Time to dump my DVD copy.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by mike01
(Post 9589372)
both are already up for pre order at Amazon for 15.99....SWEET
nice! now frickin' release From Beyond on bluray!!! |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
If the extras are on the BD for Child's Play, I'll buy it. Pass if not. Sounds like they should be, so far.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
HD Digest says both Misery and Child's Play will come with a dvd of the movie. Sounds like the BD's may be barebones after all.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
It appears Misery is a barebones BD with a 'bonus' DVD with all the special features. Childs Play appears to be a BD with special features + bonus' DVD with all the special features (according to a AVS poster).
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...ry_blu-ray.htm
Beaver confirms no special features on the BD. |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by doctorthodt
(Post 9698244)
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...ry_blu-ray.htm
Beaver confirms no special features on the BD. |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by doctorthodt
(Post 9698244)
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDRe...ry_blu-ray.htm
Beaver confirms no special features on the BD. |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by droidguy1119
(Post 9698387)
I love Ron Reiner though! ;)
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Just a heads up here, one of my local Best Buy's had ONE copy of Child's Play today, the other had received none.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Mine had about 5 copies of Child's play, 3 Misery and 3 Lecter sets. I was actually pretty surprised.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
I got my copy at BB but I did it for instore pickup so I don't know how many they had.
Fry's had jack shit in the way of catalog titles this morning. No CP or Misery, and no Deep Impact, AWIL and Army of Darkness for that matter. Never got last week's WB's either. So lame. |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Just got done watching "Misery" on BD via Netflix. And the glowing PQ reviews I've seen so far are spot on. The image is spectacular. Especially for a film almost 20 years old. Take note Warner Brothers. THIS is how you do older movies on BD.
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by The Monkees
(Post 9706861)
You mean Rob? ;)
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Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
Originally Posted by Daytripper
(Post 9745714)
Just got done watching "Misery" on BD via Netflix. And the glowing PQ reviews I've seen so far are spot on. The image is spectacular. Especially for a film almost 20 years old. Take note Warner Brothers. THIS is how you do older movies on BD.
I suppose my resistance to this practice is coming down, since I'm considering buying several of the MGM titles I know are like this (and I do like having a copy of the SD-DVD rather than a worthless Digital Copy disc), but it's still a bit of a pain. At the very least, they could include the audio commentaries. |
Re: Misery and Child's Play: 9/15/09
The reason why is because the disc was 'ready' when MGM didn't get a hoot about Special Features on a Blu-ray. The cost to go back, re-do a menu etc. would be to high. At this point, I just come to accept it and would rather pay $15 for a BD + DVD Special Features disc vs $30 and no Special Features.
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