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007: Casino Royale Collector's Edition first Blu-ray Disc to double-dip

by Darren Murph posted Aug 14th 2008 at 12:57AM

Studios just love to re-release older titles just before a follow-up film hits the silver screen, and Sony's making darn sure it milks the 007 franchise for every dime it's worth prior to Quantum of Solace landing in theaters. Not only are six Bond classics slated to hit Blu-ray on October 21st, but now one of Sony's best-selling 007 BD titles will be joining 'em. Yep, 007: Casino Royale will be re-released in a Collector's Edition with seven hours of new material, free e-Movie Cash to catch the aforesaid QoS in cinemas, Bonus View picture-in-picture visual commentary with Director Martin Campbell and Producer Michael G. Wilson and a "Know Your Double-O" BD-Live-enabled multi-player trivia game. To our knowledge, this is the first Blu-ray title to double-dip, as we're not counting the whole Fifth Element fiasco as a true double release. Prepare to spend $38.96 for the 2-disc Blu-ray set or $29.95 for the 3-disc DVD package.

[Thanks, Chris]

Six James Bond movies due on Blu-ray in October spec'd, priced

by Richard Lawler posted Jul 30th 2008 at 6:39PM

More info on all six of the James Bond pictures coming to Blu-ray October 21 is finally available, the individual discs of Dr. No, Die Another Day, Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia With Love and Thunderball will carry a pretty standard $34.98 MSRP, or as two separate volumes of three with an $89.98 SRP. The special features and 4K Lowry transfers seen in the Ultimate Edition Bond DVDs return here, so if you've already got those the net benefit is 1080p and possibly better sound (and a Quantum of Solace movie ticket), although it wasn't specified. Still, if you're awaiting the best looking home editions of these Bond movies yet there's no doubt these are the ones you're looking for.

Sony: Casino Royale first HD release over 100k shipped

by Richard Lawler posted Mar 27th 2007 at 10:14AM Breaking News

Sony just announced that Casino Royale has become the first high definition release to ship over 100,000 units, with over 50% of those sold through to consumers. Apparently its success surprised even Sony, according to The Hollywood Reporter, it only shipped 50k initially, resulting in a complete sellout after only a few days. Following up on its quest to not only surpass rival HD DVD, but supplant the existing DVD format, Sony Pictures counts only 9 months since Blu-ray's launch to the first 100,000 unit shipped mark, compared to eleven months for the first DVD to hit that number (Air Force One). With a 700 percent increase in disc sales since the PlayStation 3 launched, and all of its just-announced upcoming releases on the once rare 50GB discs, Sony sees all this as a clear sign Blu-ray is pulling away in the format war, not only in the U.S. but worldwide, as the U.K. release of Royale sold 10,000 in the first week despite being the PS3 pack-in bonus. Blu-ray was a slow starter last year, and now with one big title under its belt, we'll see if the format war is as close to being over as the BDA keeps telling us it is.

Read - SPHE press release
Read - Hollywood Reporter

Casino Royale worked Blu-ray onto Amazons Top 25 list

by Matt Burns posted Mar 21st 2007 at 8:39AM

Bond, James Bond, that is, has earned his rights on Amazon's illustrious top 25 selling DVD selling list. As of writing, the standard DVD is holding the 16 spot strong while the Blu-ray flavor is only ranked one behind at 17. Apparently however, we are a few days behind on reporting this as according to at least one site the Blu-ray flavor even cracked the Top 10 list and reached the number eight spot. Granted, that happened a day after it was released so honestly, the ultimate guy flick selling great right of the get-go isn't so much of a surprise as its maintaining this selling pattern a week out of the gate - plus, it's the first Blu-ray disc to do so.

[via HighDefDigest]

Bond, James Bond coming to VOOM HD

by Matt Burns posted May 12th 2006 at 11:01AM

So glad you could join us Mr. Bond.

Oh James Bond. How you have a cult following and we are guessing that a big portion of our readers are part of it; the three of us are. The classic spy films can always be found on some random TV station but VOOM's FILMFEST is running all 17 of them in June. Best of all the movies will be uncut and commercial free too. The only issue we can see is that for some odd reason David Hasselhoff is going to be the host.




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