HD DVD Releases for January 29, 2008
by Pravin on January 29th, 2008 in movies.
The January movie doldrums continue this week with nothing incredibly spectacular in the few disc releases that managed to squeak through. It would have been this way even if Warner hadn’t chosen this week to start their “We’re going to screw HD DVD by putting out the movies three weeks later” policy (The Invasion should have come out today, but will come out in February instead). Interestingly enough, this policy caused them to modify their plans: Warner recognized that I Am Legend would probably sell reasonably well on HD DVD, and they had to extend their May deadline by a few weeks so that the movie would be available on our format. Huh? Isn’t that admitting that the format is worth releasing on?
We’ll have to wait a few more weeks before the releases start to get interesting on a more consistent basis. This time around, we’ve got a couple of music-oriented titles, one being a Strauss operetta and the other is a three hour benefit concert by Dispatch. Both of these discs are from studios that use Warner to distribute their titles. The BBC has indicated that they’re going to keep putting out discs on HD DVD, so that’s going to be another interesting situation with at least those Warner discs continuing to be made beyond Warner’s own deadline.
Die Fledermaus is actually comedic, but there’s also a more traditional comedy this time around. The King of California stars Michael Douglass as a dad who’s just been let out of a mental institution, and tries to convince his daughter that there’s a magnificient treasure buried beneath a Costco.
The last disc is scheduled to release on January 31, according to the Amazon ordering page, and it’s another in the series of landscape/nature discs, this time focusing on Costa Rica.
(all links go to Amazon ordering pages)
 Dispatch: Zimbabwe - Live at Madison Square Garden (2008)Dispatch Not Rated |
 Die Fledermaus (2004) by Johann Strauss IIPamela Armstrong, Thomas Allen, Lyubov Petrova, Malena Engman Sirected by Vladimir Jurowski Not rated |
 King of California (2007)Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood, Willis Burks II, Laura Kachergus, Paul Lieber Directed by Mike Cahill Rated PG-13 |
 Living Landscapes HD Costa Rica
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January 29th, 2008 at 6:07 am
blah. we need some better releases soon!
January 29th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Invasion did come out today the 29th of january
January 29th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Officially, Invasion should be out in a few weeks, but I think this Warner policy update probably came out after stores already received their shipments.