Blu-ray releases on May 26th 2009
By Ben Drawbaugh 
posted May 26th 2009 11:28AM
posted May 26th 2009 11:28AM
All catalogs, all the time this week as we slow down for the summer theater season. Not a big deal if you're a Blu-ray fan as there are plenty of great classics to check out for the first time on Blu-ray. Most notable is that Universal is still playing catch-up and obviously still has a few recent titles that were released on HD DVD, but have still not been released on Blu-ray. Warner has a few classics too, we can't even remember the last time we watched True Romance, but no doubt we're due. Expect much of the same for the next month or so, with a few big TV shows in between. - Children of Men (Universal)
- Cinderella Man (Universal)
- Field of Dreams (Universal)
- Seabiscuit (Universal)
- Spy Game (Universal)
- Falling Down (Warner)
- True Romance (Warner)
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Warner)
- New in Town (Lionsgate)
- Powder Blue (Image)
- The Sky Crawlers (Sony)
I'm just waiting for the release of Gran Torino in a couple of weeks!
I'll be picking up Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves today.
Powder Blue was awesome. Holy Jessica Biel Stripper Dances!
If you're an anime fan, The Sky Crawlers is a big deal. Best Mamoru Oshii movie since the original Ghost in the Shell.
I hope Sky Crawlers does well enough to encourage more the release of more movie-anime on Blu-Ray. (I'll be doing my part by picking up a copy.)
Speaking of Catalogs they haven't moved over to BD yet...where's "The Game"?
That is one great movie and I have been waiting now since the war was won for this one to move over to BD.
Where is Fight Club ?!?!
Agree 100%, Seen Fight club at least 6 times, probably more like 8 or 10, that movie rocks.
It was Falling Down, another Mike Douglas movie, that made me think of The Game, but there are probably a few more I'd snatch up in a sec if they just took the time to get them out there.
I do understand releasing everything at once isn't smart for them, and it does look like Lord of the Rings is on the way, but there's a part of you that is just like "What's the holdup pal!??!"
I think Fight Club is approaching it's 10 year anniversary, hopefully they're planning something cool.
yaaaaawn....wake me up when there's something good coming out.
What kind of world do we live in where Moulin Rouge isn't on blu-ray, but Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is???? :(
We live in the kind of world where comedy movies have a bigger audience than musicals. Not trashing Moulin Rouge (great movie) but I think the reason is, it's probably cheaper and easier to release Robin Hood as opposed to Moulin Rouge which was a bigger movie.
It's the same as not releasing movies like Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, etc...
HC, I think you might be thinking of Robin Hood: Men in Tights. And I bet you anything that Moulin Rouge made more on DVD than both of those Robin Hoods combined. It had quite a following and was perfect for the medium.
Guys who own BD players are more likely to buy RH POT then Moulin. I myself have seen MR once and RH 3 or 4 times and own the dvd...and would buy BD if i like the price...maybe someday I will watch MR on cable again.
Point is they are targeting a certain demographic that owns BD players...the large one.
Children of Men is the best one the work that went into making that was crazy i have to pick that one up .
Funny thing.....on a whim, every couple of months, I do a check on when Moulin Rouge! is going to be released for BD, and today is the day that I decided to check and there happens to be a discussion about this very topic, how do you like that...what a coincidence, or maybe the topic isn't as rare as some would have use believe. Either way, I agree I am sick of waiting, especially when I see garbage films filling up the BD library. I think a film with that kind of cinematography, the colors, the music, and judging by the quality of it on Standard Defintion, would be just the film to showcase the beauty of BD and 1080p. This would then influence more people to buy BD players if they could catch a glimpse of this playing in a store. If they're just going for target demos then their view is way to myopic, they need to look at the big picture, and see just what a film like that has to offer in high def and seeing that angelic beauty Nicole Kidman in high def will help too.
Chris, here I sit on the 21st of june, not one month after your post, searching for the very same thing.
I don't know that you'll ever see this, but I completely agree that is vile that ridiculous nonsense can come out on BD, yet no sight of moulin rouge. I agree about the cinematograpy, bright explosive color and excellent quality that it would be the most fantastic thing to come out on BD in a long while.
PLEASE someone important read this and understand that Moulin Rouge NEEDS to be on BD !!!!