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releaselists.com has Evil Dead (1981) down for an August 31 release!!!!!

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amazon.com has it available for pre-order as well!!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Evil-Dead-Blu-...dp/B003IY48PS/

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About damn time.

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What are the odds that Within the Woods is included, preferably cleaned up and in HD?

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Slim and none, and slim left town.

Honestly, I've seen Within the Woods (I have a bootleg of it) and it really wasn't all that great. I's VERY low budget and cheep-looking and was basically a promo film made to raise money for the production of Evil Dead. It was interesting to watch and I can see why a lot of Evil Dead fans want it, but don't get your hopes up for it and when/if it does get released, don't expect much.

The BD will probably include the extras that were on the Ultimate Edition.

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More Hitchcock, please!

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I know, I was just hoping it would be included for the sake of completion.

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Surprised to see The Player scheduled for September 7th. I think this is a brilliant film.

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Alice in Wonderland (Michael Conroy) scheduled for June 29, 2010.

http://z2-ec2.images-amazon.com/imag...216898772_.jpg

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Alice+in...0blu&lp=2&cp=1

http://www.amazon.com/Alice-Wonderla...4616329&sr=8-2

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That...looks creepy.

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Agreed.

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I would have just bought season 4 on dvd had I known this last year. Thanks FOX.

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They don't care. Expect them to do the same next year with any poor performing BD release.

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4 more titles from MGM in August:
Blood Simple
Bull Durham
Escape from New York
Kalifornia

Since MGM was not sold, looks like they will resume releasing some BDs here and there. Bill Durham is apparently already out at Best Buy and all will be BD/DVD Combos...

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Wow, Kalifornia, very cool.

Sure makes me even more confused about what makes a studio decide to release a BD, because I thought that my standard DVD would remain on my shelf for a long time.

The other 3 were critically acclaimed.

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I'll be grabbing 3 of those 4.

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I'm not sure either. Must be a tie-in I'm missing here.

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From Penton-Man on Blu-ray.com:

"In my quick search of the News section, I don’t think “Juan” has provided any recent news about Apocalypse Now Redux.

Given that, I’d like to throw out a bit of good news to fans of the film. It is currently undergoing a new HD master from a new scan of the available film element. Watch for the remastered product in the future on Blu-ray."

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Beautiful. Hopefully both cuts will be included, but I'm in either way.

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Yeah, for sure one of my most wanted.

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King Kong (1933) - Sept 28


source: bluray.com

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Not interested in Apocalypse Now unless the original cut is included.

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Sept. 7th
THE SKELETON KEY (non-flipper)
THE BLACK DAHLIA (non-flipper)

meh...

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No kidding. I suppose it's a good sign they're releasing another catalog title which wasn't on HD DVD - it just happens to be a stinker.

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Flippers dead? They don't seem to be releasing anything on Flippers besides the Bourne titles and that 3 title wave.

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it seems like the fan outcry worked

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^Now if only they'd hear the DNR outrage, we'll be in good shape ;) But I agree with most around here - The Black Dahlia? Are you shitting me? One of the worst movies I've seen in recent memory.

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Could be retailers didn't want to dump DVD so soon with these replacements.

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I'm not sure what leads you to that conclusion. There was a 3+ month gap between Bourne and the last batch of flippers, which came out barely a month ago. I doubt they're scrapping it after 2 small waves, both of which probably have seen pretty normalized sales for catalog titles.

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^ :thumbsup:

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3 Bourne titles and 3 random catalog releases. Since Bourne came out Universal has announced - and released - a bunch of Universal BDs. All non-flippers. Either sales were not high enough to continue with the Flippers or retailers didn't see an big enough increase in sales to dump their current DVD copies for these DVD/BD Flippers (which was the whole idea). Universal will likely try again, but by skipping several releases they might just not see them being needed right now (or anymore).

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I'd buy "The Skeleton Key" if it were a flipper. With a good movie on one of the sides.

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For anyone that cares, The Illusionist came out today and was a BD + DVD Package. As one might expect, the BD has no Special Features but the included DVD does.

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It's been reported that the BD is the same disc from the Alliance release. Peoples' biggest complaint though is that there are supposedly no English subtitles on the Blu-ray.

Fuck Fox, though.

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Yes, DVDBeaver reported this. Same disc. Which I'm kind of glad of. Because I already have it. And I'm happy with the PQ.

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Definitely picking this up (I've held out the whole time for an eventual BD release). But between this, Walk The Line theatrical only, and a likely Predator hack job, Fox is starting to get a little sketchy on their catalog releases. (and they've started using the Eco cases - even more points off)

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Started? They were actually the first studio to use them, and they've been using them for about a year now....

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Same here. I was trying to look for a place to report that bit of news but didn't find any dedicated thread for the Fox release. I'm glad I didn't hold off getting the Alliance release when it was $4.99 a month or so ago.