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BREAKING: Disney sets ANDOR, OBI-WAN, MOON KNIGHT & THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER for Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD on 4/30!
All right, we’ve been talking a lot about Disney over the last couple of weeks here at The Digital Bits.
So it’s only fitting that we’re back early this morning here at the site to bring you some great breaking 4K Ultra HD news from the studio.
And for those of you eagerly awaiting the studio’s next wave of Disney+ streaming titles, I think you’ll agree that you simply couldn’t ask for a better selection of titles than the ones they’re announcing this morning!
You’ll find the studio’s complete official press release below, along with expanded-packaging images of each of the Steelbooks in question.
Then I’ll be back at the end of this post (below the break) with some additional comments of my own...
FOR THE FIRST TIME ON 4K UHD AND BLU-RAY!
THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER SEASON 1, MOON KNIGHT SEASON 1,
ANDOR SEASON 1 & OBI-WAN KENOBI
BURBANK, CA. (MARCH 5, 2024) – The Walt Disney Company today announced four new Collector’s Editions of popular Disney+ Original series from Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm will be available on 4K UHD and Blu-ray for fans to add to their collections. These special releases feature Steelbook packaging, concept art cards and some never-before-seen bonus features.
The titles, all to be released on April 30, 2024 are:
- Marvel Studios’ The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: The Complete First Season
- Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight: The Complete First Season
- Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi – The Complete Series
- Star Wars: Andor – The Complete First Season
All titles will be available to pre-order from March 12, 2024.
Like the previous Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm Collectors Editions released last year, each of these new releases will be available nationally on 4K UHD and Blu-ray Steelbook with brand-new box art designed by popular artist Attila Szarka and collectible concept art cards. [Read on here...]
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: The Complete First Season 4K
- Cassian Andor
- Andor: The Complete First Season 4K
- Moon Knight: The Complete First Season 4K
- Obi Wan: The Complete Series 4K
- Attila Szarka
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- Breaking News
- Disney+ streaming series on 4K Ultra HD
- Lucasfilm
- Marvel Studios
- Star Wars
- The Walt Disney Company
- Steelbook packaging
Paramount lists Primal Fear & Major League for 4K Ultra HD, plus a new Star Wars movie announced & Tom Cruise teams up with Warner
We’re just chiming in here quickly again today with a few more pieces of industry news…
The first is physical media related: Paramount Home Entertainment has just listed Gregory Goblit’s Primal Fear (1996) as a new 4K Ultra HD Paramount Presents release on 3/26.
Paramount has also listed David S. Ward’s Major League (1989) for release in 4K Ultra HD and 4K UHD Steelbook format on 4/2 in honor of the film’s 35th anniversary.
We don’t have further details on these yet, but we except the studio to make an official announcement very soon. You can see the cover artwork at left and also below the break. [Read on here...]
- Shout! Studios
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Scream Factory
- Paramount
- Primal Fear: Paramount Presents 4K
- Major League 4K Steelbook
- Star Wars
- Lucasfilm
- Tom Cruise teams with Warner Bros
- The Mandalorian & Grogu
- Jon Favreau
- Ahsoka: Season 2
We’ve got big new disc reviews, plus Killers of the Flower Moon, Darkman & more Shout/Scream February titles & Daniel Langlois RIP
Afternoon, Bits readers! It’s been a few days since we’ve done a major news update here on the site, and the reason is that we’ve been very focused on completing new disc reviews for you guys. This is the time of year when all of the big fourth quarter titles start arriving for review, and we’re right in the thick of it now. So today we’re pleased to offer you...
My reviews of James Mangold’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), along with The Mandalorian: The Complete First Season (2019) and The Mandalorian: The Complete Second Season (2020), all in 4K Ultra HD from Lucasfilm via Disney, as well as my review of James Cameron’s Titanic: 25th Anniversary Limited Edition in 4K Ultra HD from Paramount.
We also have Stephen’s reviews of WandaVision: The Complete Series (2021) in 4K Ultra HD from Marvel via Disney, as well as Tommy Wirkola’s Violent Night (2022) in 4K UHD via Universal, and Michael Crichton’s The Great Train Robbery (1978) on Blu-ray from MGM via Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
And Stuart has weighed in on Henry Decoin’s Strangers in the House (1942) on Blu-ray from Gaumont via Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
Rest assured, we have many more new disc reviews on the way as well, so be sure to watch for them. [Read on here...]
- Stuart Galbraith IV
- Paramount Home Entertainment
- Universal Studios Home Entertainment
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Darkman 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Support The Digital Bits via Patreon
- Back the Bits
- Titanic 4K
- James Cameron
- Stephen Bjork
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 4K review
- Titanic: 25th Anniversary Limited Edition 4K review
- James Mangold
- The Mandalorian: The Complete First Season 4K review
- The Mandalorian: The Complete Second Season 4K review
- Star Wars
- Lucasfilm
- Disney
- WandaVision: The Complete Series 4K review
- Marvel
- Disney+
- Violent Night 4K
- The Great Train Robbery (1978) BD review
- Strangers in the House (1942) BD review
- Gaumont
- Martin Scorsese
- Killers of the Flower Moon Digital streaming
- Father Knows Best DVD
- The Terminal Man BD
- Into the Abyss DVD
- The Canterville Ghost DVD
- Willy's Wonderland 4K
- Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny BD
- Discovery
- Sony PlayStation Store removes Digital content
- Daniel Langlois RIP
- The Abyss
- Softimage software
- Jurassic Park
BREAKING: Lucasfilm & Disney set INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY for Blu-ray, DVD & 4K UHD on 12/5!
All right folks, here’s an announcement we know some of you have been waiting for…
ON DECEMBER 5, THE FINAL ADVENTURE COMES HOME!
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY ARRIVES ON 4K, BLU-RAY & DVD WITH OVER 2 HOURS OF EXTRA CONTENT!
Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Comes to Physical Media December 5 with bonus features including an exclusive new score-only version of the movie!
Also Available: Exclusive Best Buy Steelbook Design and a Walmart Exclusive Including Enamel Pin
BURBANK, CA (October 10, 2023) – From Academy Award–nominated writer-director James Mangold (Logan, Walk the Line) comes the final chapter in the saga of one of cinema’s greatest heroes. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny sees Harrison Ford reprise his iconic role as the whip-smart archaeologist one last time for a “rip-roaring adventure” (Maureen Lenker, Entertainment Weekly) full of “exciting action, wonderful banter and fantastic twists and turns” (Germain Lussier, Io9). [Read on here...]
Sony sets Rudy for 4K in November, plus Dr. Caligari, Kino Cult, 4K street date updates & a good Walter Murch interview
We’ve got a couple quick updates for you over the long Labor Day weekend here at The Bits...
The big one is that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just set David Anspaugh’s Rudy (1993) for release on 4K Ultra HD on 11/11, complete with both the 114-minute Theatrical Cut and a new 127-minute Director’s Cut in 4K, with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. Both are fully restored from original camera negative and the process was approved by the director. The 4K disc also includes English 5.1 DTS-HD MA for both versions, plus 2.0 audio for the Theatrical Cut. You also get a new commentary with Anspaugh and screenwriter Angelo Pizzo on the Director’s Cut, 5 additional deleted scenes, and the film’s trailer.
The package will also include the previous Blu-ray that offers 5.1 audio and 3 legacy featurettes (Rudy: The Real Story, Production, and First Down with Sean Astin). It comes in Steelbook packaging. You can see the cover artwork at left and also below the break.
Also today, Mondo Macabro and CAV have set Stephen Sayadian’s Dr. Caligari (1989) for release on 4K Ultra HD on 11/14, featuring both full frame and 1.85 theatrical versions, an isolated music and effects track, audio commentary with the director, and several interview featurettes. Audio will be 2.0 DTS-HD MA. [Read on here...]
- Decal
- Bleeker
- Neon
- Jules DVD
- The Boys: Season Three BD
- Alexander 4K
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 4K
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
- Oliver Stone
- JFK 4K
- Kino Cult
- Mondo Macabro
- CAV
- Dr Caligari 4K
- Rudy: Director's Cut 4K
- David Anspaugh
- Shadow of Death BD
- The Sinister Dr Orloff BD
- Lorna the Exorcist
- Alien Outlaw
- The Dark Power
- Underworld (1985) 4K
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- The Naked Gun 4K
- David Zucker
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One 4K
- Blue Beetle 4K
- DC Studios
- Warner Bros Discovery Home Entertainment
- The Nun II 4K
- Gran Turismo 4K
- The Equalizer 3 4K
- Stand by Me 4K
- The Guns of Navarone 4K
- Black Hawk Down 4K
- A Few Good Men 4K
- Walter Murch
- American Graffiti 4K
- Lucasfilm
BREAKING: Disney sets LOKI, WANDAVISION & THE MANDALORIAN: SEASONS 1 & 2 for Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD!!
This is no joke, folks! We’ve got more great Disney 4K Ultra HD news to report for you today.
And no, it’s not the long-awaited James Cameron titles, but have faith—those are definitely still coming (and should be announced in the next few months). But in its way, this news is just as good.
Remember how we said that Disney might be turning a corner with their physical 4K UHD releases? Well, today we bring you breaking news of the company’s first Disney+ original series coming to Blu-ray and 4K! And these are some major titles!
Here’s the studio’s official press release (be sure to read to the very end for some additional comments of our own)...
FOR THE FIRST TIME ON 4K UHD AND BLU-RAY!
LOKI SEASON 1, WANDAVISION, AND THE MANDALORIAN SEASONS 1 AND 2
NEW COLLECTOR’S EDITIONS FROM MARVEL STUDIOS AND LUCASFILM WITH STEELBOOK PACKAGING, EXCLUSIVE ART AND NEW BONUS FEATURES
BURBANK, CA (August 21, 2023) – The Walt Disney Company today announced a number of popular series from Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm will be available on Collector’s Edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray for fans to add to their movie collections, featuring Steelbook packaging, concept art cards and some never-before-seen bonus features.
The titles and dates announced are:
- Marvel Studios’ Loki: The Complete First Season – September 26, 2023
- Marvel Studios’ WandaVision: The Complete Series – November 28, 2023
- Star Wars The Mandalorian: The Complete First Season – December 12, 2023
- Star Wars The Mandalorian: The Complete Second Season – December 12, 2023
All four titles will be available to pre-order from August 28.
Each title will be available nationally on Blu-ray Steelbook with cohesive and collectible brand-new box art designed by popular artist Attila Szarka and collectible concept art cards. [Read on here...]
- Attila Szarka
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- Breaking News
- Disney+ streaming series on 4K Ultra HD
- Lucasfilm
- Marvel Studios
- WandaVision: The Complete Series 4K
- Loki: The Complete First Season 4K
- The Mandalorian: The Complete First Season 4K
- The Mandalorian: The Complete Second Season 4K
- Star Wars
- The Walt Disney Company
- Steelbook packaging
- Grogu
- Baby Yoda
- This Is The Way
BREAKING: Lucasfilm sets Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny for Digital on 8/29, Discs to be announced later
History’s Greatest Hero Returns! Harrison Ford reprises his role as the legendary archaeologist when Lucasfilm’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny Arrives on Digital August 29
BURBANK, CA (August 14, 2023) – From Academy Award–nominated writer-director James Mangold (Logan, Walk the Line) comes the final chapter in the saga of one of cinema’s greatest heroes. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny sees Harrison Ford reprise his iconic role as the whip-smart archaeologist one last time for a “rip-roaring adventure” (Maureen Lenker, Entertainment Weekly) full of “exciting action, wonderful banter and fantastic twists and turns” (Germain Lussier, io9).
The film will be available from all major digital retailers including Prime Video, Apple TV, and Vudu on August 29, with never-before-seen bonus content including five chapters that chart the making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Join the cast and crew on an epic, globe-trotting adventure showcasing new characters, stunts, music, locations, production design, and visual effects.
Film Synopsis
Harrison Ford returns to the role of the legendary hero archaeologist for this highly anticipated final installment of the iconic franchise—a big, globe-trotting, rip-roaring cinematic adventure. Starring along with Ford are Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Antonio Banderas (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish), John Rhys-Davies (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Shaunette Renée Wilson (Black Panther), Thomas Kretschmann (Das Boot), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Olivier Richters (Black Widow), Mads Mikkelsen (Doctor Strange) and newcomer Ethann Isidore. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment
- Lucasfilm
- James Mangold
- Harrison Ford
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 4K
- Digital announce
- Breaking News
- George Lucas
- Steven Spielberg
- Phoebe Waller Bridge
- John Williams
- Kathleen Kennedy
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back turns 43 today!
Afternoon, folks!
This is just a quick and rare weekend My Two Cents here at The Bits in celebration of the fact that today marks a major movie anniversary: 43 years ago today, The Empire Strikes Back was released into theaters!
As many of you can attest firsthand, the event was certainly life changing for all those of us who were there to experience it as teenagers.
And to celebrate the occasion, I’d like to call your attention to a trio of great History, Legacy & Showmanship columns here at The Bits written by our own Michael Coate:
Empire @ 40: Remembering the Early 70mm Cut from 12/21/20.
Betting the Ranch: Remembering "The Empire Strikes Back" on its 40th Anniversary from 5/21/20.
The Force Defeated: Remembering "The Empire Strikes Back" on its 35th Anniversary from 5/21/15.
But that’s not all! [Read on here...]
Across the Stars: Remembering “Attack of the Clones” on its 20th Anniversary
“Attack of the Clones represents George Lucas’ forward-thinking perhaps more than any of his other films.” – Stephen Danley, Star Wars at the Movies
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the 20th anniversary of the release of Attack of the Clones, the second and middle episode in George Lucas’s Star Wars prequel trilogy.
For the occasion of Attack of the Clones’s recent anniversary, The Bits features a multi-page article consisting of a Q&A with a trio of Star Wars historians and enthusiasts who reflect on the film.
It also contains detailed box-office data and statistics, passages from film reviews, and a reference listing of its North American first-run D-Cinema and IMAX presentations. [Read on here...]
- The Digital Bits
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- George Lucas
- Star Wars: Episode II
- Attack of the Clones
- John Williams
- prequels
- 20th Anniversary
- Ewan McGregor
- Natalie Portman
- Hayden Christensen
- Ian McDiarmid
- Christopher Lee
- Samuel L Jackson
- Lucasfilm
- Jedi
- Sith
- Stephen Danley
- Richard Woloski
- WR Miller
Shout!’s October slate includes Bill & Ted, more Halloween films & Return of the Living Dead in 4K, plus RIP Nichelle Nichols
All right, we’ve got some great catalog 4K Ultra HD news to report today, but first we have one more new review...
I spent some time this weekend looking at Stanley Kubrick’s landmark war film Paths of Glory (1957) thanks to a fine new 4K Ultra HD release from our friends at Kino Lorber Studio Classics. For the first time, the image has been scanned from the original camera negative in native 4K—Criterion’s 2010 Blu-ray release was only a 2K scan of a fine-grain master positive—so this is unquestionably the best the film has ever looked at home. It’s a beautiful presentation and not to be missed by Kubrick fans and cinephiles.
All right, now for that catalog news... VCI Entertainment has set Bob Clark’s Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1972) for release on 4K Ultra HD on 10/11 as a new 50th Anniversary Edition. The release will include a new video introduction and Q&A with actor Alan Ormsby, along with a new 90-minute documentary on Clark’s horror films called Dreaming of Death. You’ll get lots of legacy special features as well. And you can see the cover artwork below the break. [Read on here...]
- Shout! Factory
- Wargames 4K
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Scream Factory
- Paths of Glory 4K review
- Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things 4K
- Army of Darkness: Collector’s Edition 4K
- Bad Santa 2 BD
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure 4K
- The Return of the Living Dead 4K
- When Marnie Was Here BD
- Ocean Waves BD
- Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers 4K
- Halloween: H20 4K
- Halloween: Resurrection 4K
- The Halloween 4K Collection (19942002) 4K
- VCI Entertainment
- Fargo 4K
- Wargames 4K
- Imprint Films
- The Beast BD
- Ballyhoo Motion Pictures
- Nanawatai!: Inside The Beast
- Star Wars: Andor trailer
- Nichelle Nichols RIP
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- NASA
- Disney+
- Lucasfilm