Cardiac161

From Blu-ray.com:
Warner Home Video has announced that they will bring 'Ghost Ship', 'Contact', and 'Number 23' to Blu-ray on October 16th. Technical specs have not been announced at this time, though you can expect to see 1080p VC-1 video accompanied by a Dolby TrueHD soundtrack.

Special features for these releases includes:

* Ghost Ship Max on Set: Ghost Ship {AKA Documentary)
* Secrets Of The Antonio Graza featurette
* Visual Effects Featurette
* A Closer Look at the Gore
* Designing the Ghost Ship
* Club Reel: Not Falling
* Theatrical Trailer

Contact
* Behind the Story
* Commentary by Jodie Foster
* Commentary by Robert Zemeckis (Director) & Steve Starkey (Producer)
* Commentary by Ken Ralston & Stephen Rosenbaum (Visual Effects)
* The Making of the Opening Shot
* The Making of the NASA Machine Destruction
* The Making of the Harrier Landing
* The High Speed Composition Reel
* Machine Fly By
* Hadden's Plane
* NASA Control Room
* Extras
* 5.1 music only track

Number 23
* Commentary with director Joel Schumacher
* Making of The Number 23 (featurette)
* Creating the World of Fingerling (featurette)
* The 23 Enigma (featurette, the legacy behind the obsession of the number 23, )
* How to Do Your Numbers (Game, the history of numerology, HD)
* Introduction
* Calculating Your Number
* Number Summaries
* Additional scenes
o Alternate Opening
o Walter Chases Ned
o Nathaniel's Institute
o Walter in Bedroom with Book
o Engine Problems
o Spying on the Suicide Blonde
o More Engine Problems
o Empty Truck
o Happy Birthday from the Suicide Blonde
o Alternate Bookstore Clerk Scene
o Emotional Leave
o Fingerling Finds Note
o The Police Sergeant
o Robin Asks About Mailbox
o Laura and Kyle Buy Knife
o Alternate Ending
* Theatrical Trailer

Gizmo

Meh. $10 or so I might grab Number 23...though my DVD is still sealed.

GenPion

Hooray for Contact! That's one of my all time favorites.

Michael Corvin

Are those new features for Contact? Isn't the DVD bare bones?

TheMovieman

I don't think so. I at least remember there being the 2 or 3 commentaries so I assume the rest are on the DVD as well.

matome

Hmm, I might pick up Ghost Ship for the opening wire scene in HD.

Mr. Cinema

The featurettes are new. They're not listed on the old dvd back cover and I don't remember ever seeing them on the disc.

They may have added those for a dvd re-release as well.

emachine12

Nope, the feaurettes are from the DVD. They only did one DVD release for the movie.

These releases are the same in terms of extras as the DVDs but now have TrueHD audio and 1080p video.

Willh51

Have Ghost Ship, may do Contact, but Number 23 is awful.

jackson walker

As in "awful good"?

lisadoris

Can't wait for Contact.

Willh51

No, but I confess I watched it a day after getting my wisdom teeth out. Like I can talk anyway since I own Ghost Ship.

Maxflier

I love Ghost Ship so i'll be getting that one for sure. Couldn't care less about the other 2.

tofferman

Another snapper bites the dust. Contact is a welcome surprise.

PhantomStranger

Ghost Ship...Warner has thousands of movies to pick from and they give us Ghost Ship? Even as a Halloween tie-in it is a weak choice. The other two at least have positives going for them with well-known stars that can be promoted.

Daytripper

I agree that Warner keeps picking headscratchers titles from their catalogue. When I saw the subject line my first thought was "Good, crap, crap". "Number 23" is just as bad as "Ghost Ship".

WMAangel

Basically this must be Warner's new catalog BD strategy: Release not so popular catalog movies no one is really asking for at a cheap, affordable price point, and only release the highly requested popular classics in stupid, overpriced deluxe sets stuffed with useless junk.....
Way to go asshats! You finally move away from all your lossless audio complaints and instead find some other way to screw up pushing BD adoption!

ian959

As long as they don't do a half-assed back catalogue effort on Contact, it should look pretty damn good in hi-def. Definitely one off my most wanted list.

Groucho

I would buy Ghost Ship if it only included the first 23 minutes.

I would buy Contact if it didn't include the last 23 minutes.

JimRochester

Contact was one of the early titles on DVD and even suffered from "DVD rot". I remember a lot of the copies had to be replaced. I would probably grab this for sentimental reasons, like Twister.

GenPion

I'm very excited for Contact. I hope they treat it well. What a classic film...

Gizmo

There are many people who will buy sub-par movies just to build up their collection. Many of us did it with DVD when that was fresh and I imagine the next gen is doing it with Blu-ray. I have 200 BDs and 330 HDs...I'm set. I picked up many of my HDs for $4 or less so even sub-par films for that price I can deal with...but I won't spend $15 on Ghost Ship.

JimRochester

Of course back when DVD was in it's infancy we were so desperate for even mediocre movies they were being gobbled up upon release. I did the same thing. I bought almost anything and just figured I would sell or trade if I didn't like it or got tired of it. I ended up with hundreds of unopened crappy movies I never did anything with while they were worth more than 25¢.

I too picked up a bunch of HD's I wouldn'y normally own or have upgraded but once the bottom fell out and they were

PrometheusUFO

I didn't start getting Blu-ray until after HD-DVD had already been defeated. Contact was my very first DVD and I still recall that day I went to the theater to see it, so I wish it could have been my first Blu-ray too. But I cannot wait to upgrade nonetheless. And good riddance to another snap case..

Neeb

GHOST SHIP?

Who the f--- asked for GHOST SHIP?