New Releases: Hitchcock, Trek & Mork: Updated complete downloadable R1 DVD DB & info lists

Fans of the master of mystery, Alfred Hitchcock can should put some money
aside for September 7th when Warner Brothers has something for you. On that
date they will release several classic Hitchcock films including:
Dial M for Murder
Foreign Correspondent
I Confess
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Stage Fright
Strangers On A Train
Suspicion
Wrong Man
Each title will list for $19.95 and while most reflect the original full
screen and mono a couple of titles are mastered in anamorphic wide screen.
They also have the Alfred Hitchcock Signature Series box set for $99.99.
This set also includes the previous released North By Northwest.

A.D. Vision will release Andromeda #4.1 on August 10 listing for $39.95.

Paramount will release the first season of the original Star Trek on August
31st. The list price will be $169.95.

For the die hard Treker Paramount has:
Trekkies 1 & 2 (2-Pack)
Trekkies 2
Both set for release on August 31st.

Paramount has a couple of other television seasons set for release.
September 7th
Mork & Mindy: Season #1 ($39.95)
September 14th:
7th Heaven: Season #1 ($59.95)

On September 7th Paramount will release United States Of Leland listing for
$29.95. The initial specifications stated Dolby 5.1 audio and anamorphic
video.

Paramount has announced a couple of titles now listed as discontinued:
Nutty Professor (1963/ Movie-Only Edition)
Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition)

Some titles have been announced by Kultur for release on August 31st.
Mozart: Idomeneo
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
Story Of Motoring
Tot Tap
Triumph Of Bonneville
Verdi: Ernani
Verdi: Falstaff: Royal Opera Covent Garden
Verdi: I Lombardi
Wedding Dances
Wimbledon 1980 Final: Borg Vs. McEnroe
Wimbledon 1981 Final: Borg Vs. McEnroe
Wimbledon 2004: Official Film
Baby Ballet
Ballet Class For Beginners
I Hate Exercise: I Love To Tap
I'm A Ballerina Now
Junior Jazz
Legends Of Wimbledon: Bjorn Borg
Legends Of Wimbledon: John McEnroe
Maroon 5: All Access Live

The 'R' rated variations of Universal's October 5th release of Dawn of the
Dead has been announced. Like the unrated counterparts there will be both
P&S and anamorphic in separate releases, each listing for $29.99.

Universal has also announced for an October 5th release date Thing
(Collector's Edition / 1982). It will have Dolby 5.1 audio and anamorphic
video retailing for $19.95.

Announced for release by MGM/UA on September 7th:
Soul Plane (R-Rated Version)
Soul Plane (Un-Rated Version)
List price will be $29.99 and will have Dolby 5.1

A number of titles are set for a September 7th release by MGM/UA:
This Happy Breed
Gotham
Madeleine
Moving Target
Oliver Twist (1948)
Blithe Spirit
Great Expectations (1946)
In Which We Serve
Burning Bed
Martian Chronicles
Judgment At Nuremberg
Brief Encounter
Passionate Friends
Each of these titles will list for $14.95, most with stereo audio and full
screen.

MGM also has for September 7th:
David Lean DVD Collection: Blithe Spirit / Brief Encounter / Great
Expectations / In Which We Serve / Madeleine / ...
This box set will list for $99.99.

A little error correction, the Ipcress File was mistakenly listed among the
up coming Alpha Video releases. The announcement was actually from Anchor
Bay that they have discontinued the title. My mistake, mea culpa. Must wait
until after coffee kicks in to write this stuff.

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:::jaw drop, blink blink::: You can't be serious! Does it comes
personally delivered by Shatner? Why the price?

Oh finally...

Is this the same as the current version but with anamorphic video?

Any word on how this compares to some of the Criterion releases?

Thank YOU for the post.

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Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned
out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?"

--C.S. Lewis

 

It's cheaper. On the extras side, the most any of these have is a trailer
(and Great Expectations doesn't even have that. Nor does Madeline or This
Happy Breed).

swac

 

Apparently so: the listing at

http://homevideo.universalstudios.com/details.php?childId=34777

mentions the same extras as the existing edition. (Well, except for the
isolated score easter-egg, but that wasn't listed on the old edition
either. I expect it'll be removed from the re-issue, but you never know.)

Well, the Criterion _Great Expectations_ and _Oliver Twist_ discs were both
pretty low on extras (just the theatrical trailer), and the Image disc of
_Blithe Spirit_ is bare-bones, so for those films it'll really just depend
on the quality of MGM's transfers. I've seen no mention of the MGM _Brief
Encounter_ containing the commentary from Criterion's disc, though.

Speaking for myself, I'm just pre-ordering the four titles that haven't
been released before (_In Which We Serve_, _Madeleine_, _This Happy Breed_,
_The Passionate Friends_) and will await comparative reviews before
deciding whether to replace _Oliver Twist_, _Great Expectations_, _Brief
Encounter_ and _Blithe Spirit_.

doug

 

Why the disbelief? Not that I'd ever pay close to $170.00 for old Star Trek
shows; but based on the trend of the other Star Trek series, I figured these
season sets would probably retail for around $500 each and come with no
packaging whatsoever (just a bunch of loose, unlabeled discs in an unmarked
brown paper bag).

.. . . but to specifically answer your question "Why the price?" - simply
because there are people that are willing to pay that amount and would
probably even pay more!

srt

 

Are you sure about that? Cinescape has an article up that claims
Paramount hasn't decided on the MSRP yet, but estimates it will be
around $100:

http://tinyurl.com/23q35

Dave

 

I doubt that price is legit. No season boxed set of anything ever
costs THAT much. Not even the first few seasons of X-Files. Certainly
no Trek show.

 

The announcement I received from the studio did have a retail price of
$169.95 listed. Considering the "deluxe" packaging this is not far off from
the $135-$140 they typically set for the suggested price of other Star Trek
full seasons like DS9 and TNG.

I will call the rep for the studio next week to confirm but the only list
price I've seen from them so far stated $169.95. Albeit, this would not be
the first (or last) time the announcements sent out where incorrect. I've
seen estimates of a list price of $100 but I've also seen online retailers
stating the list as $169.95.

Thanks for the heads up on this.

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Actually the article says that they estimate that the buyer can purchase
it for about 100 dollars. This is in line with the other Trek sets
prices on opening weekend at most B&M stores and their usual price at
many online stores.

dick

 

I just checked it out on Amazon.com and it listed the retail price at
$129.00, but with the 30% discount they have it at has the price for
the box set going at $90.99, which is Super Cheap when compared for
what the 2 episode discs were going for $19.99 per (most commonly
found going for $14.99)!

 

the reason star trek is so much is because the other trek series was
over a hundred a season and sold well paramont knows trekkers will buy
not me heck thats 2 month of groceries and my ac bill money im not going
to be hot so paramont can have my money

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