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Warner Home Video 2007 High Definition Slate Best Films of 2006 and 2007 and Classic Favorites on HD DVD
2007 International CES

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In 2007 Warner Home Video (WHV) will offer consumers a dynamic slate of titles on HD DVD including the critically acclaimed and highly anticipated Martin Scorsese gangster drama The Departed on February 13. The Departed is the proud recipient of six Golden Globe™ nominations this year including Best Motion Picture, Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Supporting Actor (Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg), Best Director (Martin Scorsese) and Best Screenplay (William Monahan). The Departed will be available on HD DVD Combo for $39.99 SRP.

Since the inception of the format in April 2006, WHV has released 53 titles on the HD DVD format and has six of the top 10 selling HD DVDs for 2006 including the #1 selling title, Superman Returns.

Also coming to HD DVD will be the riveting thriller The Wicker Man which will be available on January 30 and includes an alternate ending not seen in theaters. The slapstick comedy Beerfest (Unrated) from the Broken Lizard comedy group will also arrive to stores on the 30th. Both HD DVD titles will be available for $28.99 SRP. All bonus materials on the standard DVD version will be included on the high definition versions.

Warner Bros. recent theatrical hit Happy Feet and the critically acclaimed films Blood Diamond and We Are Marshall will make their HD DVD debuts in 2007. Dates and specifics for these titles will be announced soon.

WHV will be opening the vaults and bringing out fan favorites and top franchises for all genres. Planned releases for 2007 include The Matrix franchise, all of the Harry Potter films and Oceans 11 and Oceans 12. Other classic titles to be released in the first quarter of 2007 include Bullitt and The Getaway (1972) starring Steve McQueen. Also being released in 2007 is Alexander Revisited: The Unrated Final Cut.

Warner Home Video, which has the largest film library of any studio, will continue to release a wide variety of the most successful titles from its collection on HD-DVD and Blu Ray Disc to bring the high definition viewing experience home to more consumers than ever before. In 2006, Warner Home Video released The Forbidden Planet Ultimate Collector’s Edition HD DVD and will continue to release Ultimate Collector’s Edition HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs to meet high definition and collector consumer needs.

Warner Home Video HD DVDs offer resolution six times higher than standard definition DVDs, as well as extraordinarily vibrant contrast and color and beautifully crisp sound. HD DVDs also provide a higher level of interactivity, with instant access to extra features via a seamless menu-bar where viewers can enjoy features without leaving or interrupting the film.

With operations in 90 international territories, Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.

Blood Diamond and The Departed.

Awesome.

I'm gonna be spending too much this year!

time to get a job :)

Blood was really good.

Just give us the Matrix Trilogy in Dolby TrueHD with IME!!!!

Excellent news. The Departed, Matrix (all), Harry Potter (all), Oceans 11/12... excellent movie releases. I'm really looking forward to these.

Its nice to see a flurry of good news for HD-DVD now that CES is underway. Hopefully it just keeps on rolling. In the week leading up to CES, we saw quite enough "sky is falling" posts to last a lifetime.

Ah, The Departed will fit nicely next to my Goodfellas and Casino HD-DVDs. Wouldn't mind filling out a bit more of the HD-DVD Scorcese collection down the road, if possible. The Matrix movies will predictably look awesome in HD, though I still have yet to finish the special features of the Matrix Ultimate Collection from a few years back!

:) HappY FeeT :)
:eek: BuLLiTT :eek:

I'm DEFINITELY looking forward to seeing the new Battlestar Galactica released on HD-DVD!! Not to mention Blade Runner. I hope it includes all the versions and features announced for the multi-disc "final cut" edition coming out on SD-DVD soon. If Blade Runner turns out to be just an HD upgrade of the current release, I will be disappointed, as it would be nice to own ALL the versions in HD.

:) HappY FeeT :)
:eek: BuLLiTT :eek:

Yep. Really looking for this one too.

I hope it includes all the versions and features announced for the multi-disc "final cut" edition coming out on SD-DVD soon. If Blade Runner turns out to be just an HD upgrade of the current release, I will be disappointed, as it would be nice to own ALL the versions in HD.

Y'know Warner has done so many things consistently well, that I would have thought there was no chance of BR not being a deluxe multi disc set- that is until I saw how they 'cut to fit' the first Superman movie, left off the original theatrical cut (with original audio) and never included any of the new SE material like the vintage making of special and the Fleischer shorts.
I was disappointed in how perfunctory the release was.

I hope we get multi cuts of BR too, but the precendent so far isn't very encouraging.

Its nice to see a flurry of good news for HD-DVD now that CES is underway. Hopefully it just keeps on rolling. In the week leading up to CES, we saw quite enough "sky is falling" posts to last a lifetime.

if anything, I'm actually more concerned now. Only one of the titles mentioned was a surpise and not something fully expected because it is a new D&D release, or mentioned for the last 8 months on various MSFT, or TLASOP lists.
I would have thought that Universal would have issued a joint release, especially in lieu of Warners adding nothing really new to the mix. And I'll be more worried if the show closes and there is no big promotion from Universal.

I'm not familiar with how CES goes as it progresses, but I would have thought since yesterday was the big HD DVD event, that everything of substance that was going to be said would have been issued there.

Would it be likely that software compaines would be dolling out info all week at a show designed for hardware promotion? does software in general here get promoted heavily on its own?

Yup, as time is going on, there still aren't any titles added with definite dates in the near future. Shouldn't they be announcing the street dates of titles through March by now?

Yup, as time is going on, there still aren't any titles added with definite dates in the near future. Shouldn't they be announcing the street dates of titles through March by now?


I only hope that a full slate of release dates is their counter to the BD Press Conference.

We know there are titles coming - why not just announce when.

We know the following are coming, just give us dates:


2001: A Space Odyssey
Above the Law
American Pie (Unrated)
American Pie Presents: A Naked Mile
Angels in America
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Aviator, The (2006)
Awake
Band of Brothers (Series)
Battlestar Galactica: Miniseries (2003)
Black Dahlia, The (2006)
Blade
Blade Runner
Blood Diamond
Blues Brothers, The
Braveheart
Brazil
Breaking and Entering
Bubble
Bullitt
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Catwoman
Clockwork Orange, A
Coach Carter
Conan
Contact
Dante's Peak
Dark City
Deadwood-Season One
Decameron
Dog Day Afternoon
Dirty Harry Collection
Elizabethtown
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Eraser
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind
Executive Decision
Eyes Wide Shut
Final Destination
Flags of our fathers
Forrest Gump
Friday
Friends: Season One
From the Earth to the Moon
Getaway, The (1972)
Ghost
Gothika
Grease
Green Mile, The
Grind House
Hard to Kill
Happy Feet
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Idlewind
Killshot
King Kong (1933)
Last Legion
Lemon Drop Kid, The
Libertine, The
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Maltese Falcon, The
Mask, The
Matrix, The
Matrix Reloaded, The
Matrix Revolutions, The
Maverick
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Music Man, The (1962)
Mystic River
New World, The (2005)
Next of Kin
North by Northwest
Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Twelve
Passenger 57
Player, The
Red Planet
Return, The
Rush Hour
Save the Last Dance
School for Scoundrels
School of Rock
Scoop
Se7en
Shining, The (1980)
Shawshank Redemption
Shuttle Discovery's Historic Mission
Sin City 2
Snakes on a Plane
Soldier
Son of Paleface
Spawn
Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek Collection (original series)
Stagecoach (1939)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
TransAmerica
Twister
U.S. Marshals
Vanilla Sky
Vengeance of the Zombies
War Within, The
We are Marshall
Wild Wild West
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Wizard of Oz, The (1939)
Young Hannibal

We know the following are coming, just give us dates:
...

some of these I haven't seen mentioned before
like Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane.
Did they just update the Look and Sound.... list recently?
I didn't see these on the list I downloaded a couple weeks back.

some of these I haven't seen mentioned before
like Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane.
Did they just update the Look and Sound.... list recently?
I didn't see these on the list I downloaded a couple weeks back.


They were mentioned in the DigitalBits Warner live chats.

And two others are Conan and Brazil, which Canadian resellers have down for Jan 30.

We know the following are coming, just give us dates:



Did you decide to state your wish list as fact?? A lot of those movies have not officially been announced to be released. Lord of the rings has not been officially announced, and it is said that it would be 2008 at the earliest, though I wish it would be before then. Sin city 2, did I fall off the face of the planet when this movie was released in theaters?

I have also seen "Singing in the Rain" with no release date in CAnada.

Did you decide to state your wish list as fact?? A lot of those movies have not officially been announced to be released. Lord of the rings has not been officially announced, and it is said that it would be 2008 at the earliest, though I wish it would be before then. Sin city 2, did I fall off the face of the planet when this movie was released in theaters?


Of course they havent been officially announced. These are titles I have accumulated from industry talks, trailer snippets, brochures and press releases for HD DVD from the publishers, HD DVD group schedule etc.

Its not a wish list (I dont like many of those titles), Ive just been adding ones as soon as I see them mentioned from reputable sources. Im doing the same for Blu-ray.

There is an LOTR snippet thats just been added to thelookandsoundofperfect official site, that was enough for me to add it to my list. Who cares if its coming in 2007 or 2008, it is coming.

No need to get ornery about it.

I just hope the "coming in 2007" promise isn't the same as the "coming in 2006" promise, because I don't want to have to wait until 2008 to get the 2007 titles. But so far what Warner HAS released has been excellent for the most part. And sooner is always better that later.

Of course they havent been officially announced. These are titles I have accumulated from industry talks, trailer snippets and brochures for HD DVD from the publishers, HD DVD group schedule etc.

Its not a wish list (I dont like many of those titles), Ive just been adding ones as soon as I see them mentioned from reputable sources. Im doing the same for Blu-ray.

There is an LOTR snippet thats just been added to thelookandsoundofperfect official site, that was enough for me to add to my list. Who cares if its coming in 2007 or 2008, it is coming.

No need to get ornery about it.

Ahaha, I didn't know that there was a snippet of LOTR released, thanks for enlightening me. Sorry if the above post seemed hostile, its just whenever says anything about LOTR, my favorite series, it gets my hopes up. But now a snippet, Im going to check that out :D

Ahaha, I didn't know that there was a snippet of LOTR released, thanks for enlightening me. Sorry if the above post seemed hostile, its just whenever says anything about LOTR, my favorite series, it gets my hopes up. But now a snippet, Im going to check that out :D


Heya Inca, I just checked out the snippet again and Im not sure if its from LOTR. It might be a battle shot from the Scorpion King. Can you cast your expert eye on it and report back, I am more than happy to be corrected on this.

The Matrix Trilogy is the one I want most of all. However, what about The Devil's Advocate?

Happy Feet! Cool, we can use some more animated films.

Heya Inca, I just checked out the snippet again and Im not sure if its from LOTR. It might be a battle shot from the Scorpion King. Can you cast your expert eye on it and report back, I am more than happy to be corrected on this.

Arggg, no its not from LOTR, I think that its from Troy, but it could be from Scorpion King. But the one thing I did notice was official New Line Cinema support for HD-DVD, which may be old news, but still. :p

Looks like it is going to be a Warner year! :eek:

I'm in as long as it isn't those awful total hd discs. I won't pay for something I'm never going to use/lose disc artwork so warner can save a few pennies pressing discs. If they release HD DVD only versions I'll have no problem picking up quite a few

Definitely enticing, but "sometime in 2007" doesn't fill me with a whole lot of hope. The Matrix has been touted on every HD DVD disc since the beginning, and we still don't have a firm date.

However, what about The Devil's Advocate?

I'm pretty sure Warner is not trying to kill HD DVD.

Good to hear officially ALL of the Harry Potter movies are coming.

I'm in as long as it isn't those awful total hd discs. I won't pay for something I'm never going to use/lose disc artwork so warner can save a few pennies pressing discs. If they release HD DVD only versions I'll have no problem picking up quite a few

And as long as they kill the combo releases on the good stuff so that I don't have to pay more for nothing.

Great.......more promises of titles..........no street dates....................
wow I had no idea the Matrix was coming! *sarcasm*