Huge HD-DVD Flood Coming (if you live in the UK)!
(Updated with US news after the jump!) Stuff Magazine has the latest HD-DVD news out of England. From the Matrix Trilogy, 2001, to Blade Runner — 161 freakin’ HD-DVD titles will be released this year…
Blade Runner, 2001: Space Odyssey and Goodfellas - not only three of the best films ever made, but three of the 161 HD-DVD titles that will get a UK launch before the end of 2006.
Also on the menu are modern blockbusters such as The Matrix trilogy (pictured above), and a massive 14-disc Superman Ultimate Collector’s Edition.
With rival format Blu-ray only touting approximately half that number, it’s not completely beaten. The HD-DVD line-up flatters to deceive in some areas, with such ‘classics’ as Scary Movie 4, Doom, and Paris Hilton’s big screen debut, House of Wax.
Source: Stuff UK
The brilliant dudes over at High-Def Digest have been sneakin’ around the newly launched HD-DVD promo site, where tons of US titles are featured. Good job being organized, HD-DVD. Blu-ray, get your friggin’ act together…
But best of all is the newly-expanded HD DVD “Coming Soon” section. As close to confirmed as you can get next to a studio press release, some of the titles here are a big dodgy, but overall the pickings look exciting. The list now includes upcoming goodies like:
‘Accepted,’ ‘An American Werewolf in London,’ ‘The Aviator,’ ‘The Black Dahlia,’ ‘Black Rain,’ ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘The Breakfast Club,’ ‘Coach Carter,’ ‘Conan the Barbarian,’ ‘Decameron,’ ‘The Deer Hunter,’ ‘Forbidden Planet,’ ‘Gothika,’ ‘Grease,’ ‘The Green Mile,’ ‘Grind House,’ ‘Hard to Kill,’ ‘Hulk,’ ‘The Libertine,’ ‘Lucky Number Slevin,’ ‘The Maltese Falcon,’ ‘Miami Vice’ (2006), ‘Maverick,’ ‘Mrs. Henderson Presents,’ ‘The Mummy’ (1999), ‘The Music Man,’ ‘North By Northwest,’ ‘Passion of the Clerks,’ ‘The Polar Express,’ ‘Pulse,’ ‘Scoop,’ ‘Sin City 2,’ ‘Twister’ and ‘Waterworld,’ to name just a few…
Source: High Def Digest