Topic: Blu-ray Release Schedule

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OCT. 20
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (US)
Paramount Pictures | 2009 | 150 mins | Rated PG-13 |




Features include:

    * The ALLSPARK Experiment—Viewers get their chance to unleash the power of the recently recovered ALLSPARK shard on Earth vehicles. Begin by selecting and customizing a vehicle with a selection of parts and accessories. Then apply the ALLSPARK to this creation and watch what happens. Applying the ALLSPARK to certain custom combinations enables four new robot characters with special powers. If viewers discover all four, they unlock a fifth vehicle, which reveals a top secret message about the future of the TRANSFORMERS movie franchise.
    * NEST: Transformer Data-Hub—A database of some of the TRANSFORMERS characters that appear in the new film, offering users access to each robot’s confidential file including:
          o Innovative 3D spin galleries of each robot
          o A timeline for each TRANSFORMERS character charting its origins, back story and design evolution from toys to animated series to comics and finally feature films
    * Giant Effing Movie – A very personal look at the making of the movie.
    * The Matrix of Marketing—An archive of the film’s promotional media including trailers, posters and television spots.

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OCT. 27
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (US)
Umvd/Visual Entertainment | 360 mins | Not rated |

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OCT. 13
Adoration (US)
Sony Pictures | 2008 | 101 mins | Rated R |




A high school French teacher, gives her class a translation exercise based on a real news story about a terrorist who plants a bomb in the airline luggage of his pregnant girlfriend. The assignment has a profound effect on one student, Simon, who lives with his uncle. In the course of translating, Simon re-imagines that the news item is his own family's story, with the terrorist standing in for his father. Years ago, Simon's father crashed the family car, killing both himself and his wife, making Simon an orphan. Simon has always feared that the accident was intentional. Simon reads his version to the class and then takes it to the Internet. In essence, he has created a false identity which allows him to probe his family secret. As Simon uses his new persona to journey deeper into his past, the public reaction is swift and strong. Then an exotic woman reveals her true identity. The truth about Simon's family emerges.

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SEPT. 29
Yellowstone: Battle for Life (US)
BBC | 2009 | 150 mins | Not rated |




In a land of beauty and peril, the dramatic lives and fortunes of these animals are inexorably bound together. Intimate and emotional, epic and engaging, Yellowstone - Tales from the Wild reveals the grandeur of this unique place as its animals struggle to survive over the course of three vividly changing seasons.

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SEPT. 29
Labyrinth (US)
Sony Pictures | 1986 | 101 mins | Rated PG |




Fifteen-year-old Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is so resentful of her baby brother Toby that she hopes he will just disappear. Her dream becomes reality when goblins kidnap the boy--but Sarah unexpectedly finds herself horrified by the loss. So she sets forth to retrieve him, and finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime. To accomplish her task, she will somehow have to reach the center of the fantastical labyrinth where the wicked Goblin King (David Bowie, who performs two songs) has imprisoned the lad. But the task is easier said than done, for the maze is filled with strange creatures and mind-bending puzzles that confuse the girl. Directed by Jim Henson and penned by Monty Python's Terry Jones, 'Labyrinth' is a distinctive, beautifully designed dark fantasy for all ages

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SEPT. 22
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (US)
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 100 mins | Rated PG-13 |





Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women... in that order. A committed bachelor who thinks nothing of breaking up with multiple women on a conference call, Connor's mockery of romance proves a real buzz-kill for his kid brother, Paul, and a houseful of well wishers on the eve of Paul's wedding. Just when it looks like Connor may single-handedly ruin the wedding, he is visited by the ghosts of his former jilted girlfriends, who take him on a revealing and hilarious odyssey through his failed relationships--past, present and future. Together they attempt to find out what turned Connor into such an insensitive jerk and whether there is still hope for him to find true love...or if he really is the lost cause everyone thinks he is.

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NOV. 10
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Disney / Buena Vista | 2009 | 96 mins | Rated PG |

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NOV. 17
Darwin's Darkest Hour (US)
National Geographic | 2009 | 90 mins | Not rated |




Starring Henry Ian Cusick ("Lost") and Frances O'Connor ("Mansfield Park") – Darwin’s Darkest Hour depicts the professional and personal trauma Charles Darwin endured the year before the publication of On the Origin of Species. Darwin’s life's work, what he called "his abominable volume," is in danger of being scooped by Alfred Wallace; at the same time, one of his children is stricken by scarlet fever and one with diphtheria. His wife, Emma, is his rock, helping him through the turmoil even though his work challenges her deep Christian faith.

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OCT. 06
Wolf (US)
Sony Pictures | 1994 | 125 mins | Rated R |




When a mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor (Jack Nicholson) gets bitten by a wolf, it gives him a shot of confidence over younger colleagues, highly tuned senses and a few new lycanthropic appetites. Like a clever New Yorker cartoon, this urbane horror film satirizes middle age in New York's cutthroat social and business worlds.

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OCT. 06
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (US)
Sony Pictures | 1994 | 123 mins | Rated R |

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OCT. 13
The Craft (US)
Sony Pictures | 1996 | 101 mins | Rated R |




For Sarah, moving to Los Angeles is just another chance to be an outsider. She is all alone among the tightly-knit student body of St. Benedict's Academy... until she meets three young women who also have found themselves banished to the outermost reaches of high school's inevitable pecking order. Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle will never fit in with the "in" crowd. They barely fit in with each other. But together with Sarah, their outer and inner lives are about to change in ways they never suspected. They are about to learn that being an outsider has its own kind of power. They are about to learn "The Craft."

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NOV. 03
North by Northwest (US)
Warner Bros. | 1959 | 136 mins | Not rated |




A suave, succesful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his tail. Filmed in VistaVision.

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NOV. 03
Two Girls and a Guy (US)
20th Century Fox | 1997 | 84 mins | Rated NC-17 |




Two girls are standing outside a SoHo loft, each waiting for her boyfriend. They soon realize its the same guy. The girls, Carla and Lou, decide to wait for Blake, so they break into his loft. On his return from LA, the women confront Blake with his declared love for them both, throw it back in his face, and listen to his feeble explanations.

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NOV. 17
Star Trek (US)
Amazon exclusive Limited edition Replica Gift Set
Paramount Pictures | 2009 | 127 mins | Rated PG-13 |




The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.

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NOV. 17
Galaxy Quest (US)
DreamWorks | 1999 | 102 mins | Rated PG |




They're not astronauts... they only played them on TV. For four seasons, from 1979 to 1982, the crew of the N.S.E.A. Protector donned their uniforms and set out on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space--then their series was canceled. Nearly twenty years later, the five stars of the classic sci-fi series "Galaxy Quest" are still in costume, making appearances at science fiction conventions for legions of faithful fans...but some of those fans have a little too much faith. The Thermians, a race of aliens from Klatu Nebula, have mistaken intercepted television transmissions of the show for historical "documents." Arriving on earth, they wisk "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart" and his crew into space to help them defeat an all-too-real and very deadly adversary. With no script, no director and no clue about real space travel, the actors have to turn in the performances of their lives to become the heroes the Thermians believe them to be.

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SEPT. 15
Child's Play (US)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1988 | 87 mins | Rated R |

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SEPT. 08
Requiem for a Dream (US)
Lionsgate Films | 2000 | 102 mins | Rated R |




Twin stories about different kinds of addiction: A young man (Jared Leto) who along with his best friend (Marlon Wayans) and girlfriend is addicted to herion, dreams of transcending his life of hustling and owning a store in New York City, while his mother (Ellen Burstyn), depressed and obsessed by television and diet pills envisions her chance to shine again on a game show.

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NOV. 10
Logan's Run (US)
Warner Bros. | 1976 | 120 mins | Rated PG |




In the Year of the City 2274, humans live in a vast, bubbled metropolis, where computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs so everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday, when anyone who’s 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth.

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OCT. 06
A Charlie Brown Christmas (US)
Warner Bros. | 1965 | 25 mins | Rated G |




Christmas lights may be twinkling red and green, but Charlie Brown has the Yuletide blues. To get in the holiday spirit, he takes Lucy's advice and directs the Christmas play. And what's a Christmas play without a Christmas tree? But everyone makes fun of the short, spindly nevergreen Charlie Brown brings back - until the real meaning of Christmas works its magic once again.

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OCT. 20
Blood - The Last Vampire (US)
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 88 mins | Rated R |




On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year old girl, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400 year-old "halfling." Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner, obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts. When she is sent to an American military base in Tokyo by the clandestine organization for whom she works, Saya immediately senses that this may be her opportunity to finally destroy Onigen, the evil patriarch of all vampires. Using her superhuman strength and her sword, she begins to rid the base of its evil infestation in a series of spectacular and elaborate showdowns. However, it is not until she forms her first human friendship in centuries with the young daughter of the base's general that Saya learns her greatest power over Onigen may well be her ability to make a human connection...

Features include:

    * 1080P 2.35:1 Widescreen
    * English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    * English, English SDH and French subtitles (Film only)
    * BD Exclusive: Storyboard Gallery
    * The Making of Blood: The Last Vampire
    * Battling Demons: Behind the Stunts

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NOV. 03
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (US)
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 106 mins | Rated R |




Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) is a New York City subway dispatcher whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. Ryder (John Travolta), the criminal mastermind behind the hijacking and leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train's passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs his vast knowledge of the subway system in a battle to outwit Ryder and save the hostages. But there's one riddle Garber can't solve: even if the thieves get the money, how can they possibly escape?

Features include:

    * 1080P 2.40:1 Widescreen
    * English, French and Spanish (Castilian) 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
    * Catalan 5.1 Dolby Digital
    * English Audio Description Track
    * Subtitles (Main Feature): English, English SDH, Catalan, French, Portuguese, Spanish (Castilian)
    * Subtitles (Extra Features): Spanish (Castilian), Portuguese
    * Commentary with Director Tony Scott
    * Commentary with Writer Brian Helgeland and Producer Todd Black
    * No Time to Lose: The Making of Pelham 123
    * The Third Rail: New York Underground
    * Marketing Pelham
    * From the Top Down: Stylizing Character
    * BD-Live: Cinechat & MovieIQ
    * Digital Copy

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OCT. 20
Toto: Falling In Between Live (US)
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2007 | 142 mins | Not rated |




Toto were formed in LA in the late 70’s by a group of friends who were all much in demand session musicians. They went on to epitomize the classic American pop/rock sound of the 80’s and 90’s with hit albums and singles including Hold The Line, Africa, I’ll Be Over You and the multi-Grammy winning worldwide hit Rosanna. This concert was recorded at Le Zenith in Paris in March 2007 in front of a wildly enthusiastic sell-out crowd. It captures the band rocking at their hardest and most powerful and giving a new life to all their best loved tracks.

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NOV. 17
Earth, Wind & Fire: Live At Montreux (US)
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 1997 | 105 mins | Not rated |




This BD features the whole July 1997 concert, which features a couple of tracks from the (then-new) release In The Name Of Love album surrounded by classic hits such as: Saturday Nite, September, Let’s Groove, Fantasy, Devotion, After The Love Is Gone, Shining Star, Can’t Hide Love, That’s The Way Of The World and Boogie Wonderland.

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NOV. 17
Carlos Santana Presents Blues at Montreux (US)
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2004 | 250 mins | Not rated |




The Montreux Jazz Festival goes back to its roots with this very special blues concert. Filmed in 2004, the show features some of the finest blues guitar playing around from three of the genre's greatest luminaries: Bobby Parker, Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, and Buddy Guy. Guitar legend Carlos Santana provides the musical direction, bringing a touch of America's Deep South to the shores of Lake Geneva.

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NOV. 10
The General (US)
Kino Video | 1926 | 78 mins | Not rated |




Johnnie loves two things: his train and the lovely Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War breaks out he enlists as a soldier, but it is decided that he is too valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it is because he is a coward. When Union spies capture Johnnie with Annabelle on board, Johnnie "The General" must recue both his loves.

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NOV. 03
Two Girls and a Guy (US)
20th Century Fox | 1997 | 84 mins | Rated NC-17 |




Two girls are standing outside a SoHo loft, each waiting for her boyfriend. They soon realize its the same guy. The girls, Carla and Lou, decide to wait for Blake, so they break into his loft. On his return from LA, the women confront Blake with his declared love for them both, throw it back in his face, and listen to his feeble explanations.

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OCT. 27
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (US)
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 94 mins | Rated PG |




The sub zero heroes are back. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever elusive nut, while maybe finding true love. Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth. Diego the saber toothed tiger wonders if he's growing too soft and Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna, run amuck and meet a relentless, one eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.

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OCT. 20
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (US)
Paramount Pictures | 2009 | 150 mins | Rated PG-13 |

Do u think the casing will have a slipcase like before? or is this it? the casing looks to "regular" for a movie which will definitely bring alot of money on blu...

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Do u think the casing will have a slipcase like before? or is this it? the casing looks to "regular" for a movie which will definitely bring alot of money on blu...

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NOV. 24
The Sopranos: The Complete First Season (US)
HBO | 780 mins | Not rated |