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(A) Editor’s Comments

  • (17 June 2006) Release dates updated to reflect all the latest press release announcements for new titles.

 

 

 

(B) Release Summary for Week Ending 18 June 2006 (Updated by the end of every week):

 

Please note:

^ denotes the title has a Dolby TrueHD track

* denotes the title has HD DVD exclusive content

And titles in bold are released on the HD DVD / DVD Combo Format disc.

 

HD DVD Titles Now Available (27 titles):

HD DVD Titles for Coming Tuesday…

·         The Last Samurai (WHV)

·         Million Dollar Baby (WHV)

·         Phantom of the Opera^ (WHV)

·         Goodfellas (WHV)

·         Swordfish (WHV)

·         Serenity (WHV)

·         Apollo 13 (WHV)

·         Doom Unrated Extended Edition (USHE)

·         Rumor Has It (WHV)

·         Training Day^ (WHV)

·         Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) (USHE)

·         Cinderella Man (USHE)

·         Jarhead (USHE)

·         Full Metal Jacket (WHV)

·         Unforgiven (WHV)

·         Blazing Saddles (WHV)

·         The Fugitive (WHV)

·         The Bourne Supremacy* (USHE)

·         The Chronicles of Riddick Unrated Director’s Cut (USHE)

·         U-571 (USHE)

·         Van Helsing (USHE)

·         Constantine*^ (WHV)

·         Firewall (WHV)

·         The Perfect Storm^ (WHV)

·         16 Blocks (WHV)

·         Happy Gilmore (USHE)

·         The Rundown (USHE)

June 20

·         Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

·         Syriana

 

Upcoming HD DVD Releases

June 27

·         Lethal Weapon

For more details on the above HD DVD titles, you may want to refer to their respective web-links in the table below.

 

Key:

PHE – Paramount Home Entertainment

USHE – Universal Studios Home Entertainment

WHV – Warner Home Video

 

 

 

(C) Full Release Schedule for HD DVD

 

Please note:

^ denotes the title has a Dolby TrueHD track

* denotes the title has HD DVD exclusive content

And titles in bold are released on the HD DVD / DVD Combo Format disc.

 

 

 

 

HD DVD Video Discs:

HD-30 (SS-DL 30GB)

HD-15 (SS-SL 15GB)

 

Supporting Studios:

Release Dates:

Titles:

 

Warner Home Video

 

18 April 2006

(Now Available)

·         The Last Samurai

·         Million Dollar Baby

·         Phantom of the Opera^

2 May 2006

(Now Available)

·         Goodfellas

·         Swordfish

9 May 2006

(Now Available)

·         Rumor Has It

·         Training Day^

16 May 2006

(Now Available)

·         Full Metal Jacket

·         Unforgiven

23 May 2006

(Now Available)

·         Blazing Saddles

·         The Fugitive

6 June 2006

(Now Available)

·         Constantine*^

·         Firewall

·         The Perfect Storm^

13 June 2006

(Now Available)

·         16 Blocks

20 June 2006

·         Syriana (day and date with DVD release)

·         Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

27 June 2006

·         Lethal Weapon

1 August 2006 (Rumoured)

·         V for Vendetta (day and date with DVD release)

2006 (Dates TBC)

·         Batman Begins

·         Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

·         Dirty Dozen

·         Dukes of Hazzard

·         The Green Mile: Special Edition

·         Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

·         The Matrix

·         Ocean's Twelve

·         Poseidon (day and date with regular DVD)

·         Superman Returns (day and date with regular DVD)

·         The Searchers (Previously June 20)

·         Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

·         Troy

·         Twister

TBA

·         Deadwood

·         The Sopranos

 

 

 

 

 

“Paramount High Definition”

 

27 June 2006

(TBC)

·         Four brothers

·         Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

·         U2: Rattle and Hum

2006 (TBA)

·         Braveheart

·         Sahara

·         Aeon Flux

·         Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow

·         The Italian job

·         Sleepy Hollow

·         We Were Soldiers

·         Manchurian Candidate

·         Mission Impossible

·         Mission Impossible 2

·         Mission Impossible 3

 

 

18 April 2006

(Now Available)

·         Serenity

25 April 2006

(Now Available)

·         Apollo 13

·         Doom

9 May 2006

(Now Available)

·         Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

·         Cinderella Man

·         Jarhead

23 May 2006

(Now Available)

·         The Bourne Supremacy*

·         The Chronicles of Riddick (Unrated Director’s Cut)

·         U-571

·         Van Helsing

13 June 2006

(Now Available)

·         Happy Gilmore

·         The Rundown

11 July 2006

·         Friday Night Lights

·         Pitch Black

8 August 2006

·         National Lampoon’s Animal House

·         Ray

·         Unleashed

22 August 2006

·         The Bone Collector

·         The Interpreter

·         Spy Game

12 September 2006

·         Backdraft

·         Traffic

 

(For European Regions)

2006 (Dates TBC)

 

·         Ali

·         Arizona Dream

·         Basic Instinct

·         Elephant Man

·         L'armée des Ombres

·         La Cité des Enfants Perdus

·         La Grande Vadrouille

·         La Haine

·         Le Cercle Rouge

·         Le Lauréat

·         Le Pacte des Loups

·         Le Pianiste

·         Les Trois Jours du Condor

·         Million Dollar Baby

·         Mulholland Drive

·         Serpico

·         Terminator 2

·         The Fog

·         Traffic

·         Voyage au Bout de l'Enfer

15 August 2006 (Rumoured)

·         Scary Movie 4

 

 

 

 

 

Magnolia Home Entertainment

 

October 2006 (TBC)

·         Bubble

·         Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

·         The War Within

·         Bikini Destinations (from HDNet Channel)

·         HDNet World Report Special: Shuttle Discovery’s Historic Mission

 

BCI

Aug/Sept 2006

(Dates TBC)

·         That’s the Way of the World

·         Night of the Werewolf

·         Vengeance of the Zombies

 

 

 

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