Twisters & Beetlejuice Beetlejuice are official, plus Deadpool & Wolverine pre-orders, Talk of the Town & Legends of the Fall in 4K from Sony & more!

Wednesday, 02 October 2024 14:19

Twisters & Beetlejuice Beetlejuice are official, plus Deadpool & Wolverine pre-orders, Talk of the Town & Legends of the Fall in 4K from Sony & more!

by Bill Hunt

We start today with two new disc reviews...

Tim has taken a look at Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs (2024) in 4K Ultra HD from Neon and Decal Releasing.

And Stephen has offered his thoughts on Michael Lehmann’s Heathers (1988) as released in 4K UHD in the UK only by the good people of Arrow Video.

Just to let you know, we’ve also updated our 4K Ultra HD Release List here at The Bits and our Release Dates & Artwork section, featuring all kinds of new Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD titles with cover artwork and Amazon pre-order links. Whenever you order titles (or literally anything) from Amazon through our links, you’re helping to support our work here at The Bits and we appreciate it!

Now then, the big news today is that Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has finally set Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters (2024) for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 10/22, with the Digital release expected next week on 10/8. The 4K disc will include HDR10 only with Dolby Atmos sound. A 4K Steelbook version will also be available. Extras on all SKUs will include audio commentary with the director, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and 6 featurettes (Tracking the Fronts: The Path of Twisters, Into the Eye of the Storm, Glen Powell: All Access, Front Seat to a Chase, Voice of a Villain, and Tricked-Out Trucks). You can see the cover artwork at left and also below the break. [Read on here...]

WBDHE has also just announced the Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD release of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) on 11/9, with the Digital release set for 10/8 as well. This too will feature HDR10 high dynamic range only, with audio in Dolby Atmos. Once again, a 4K Steelbook edition will also be available. Extras will include audio commentary by the director and 7 featurettes (The Juice is Loose! The Making of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The Ghost with the Most: Beetlejuice Returns, Meet the Deetz, Handbook for the Recently Deceased, Shrinkers, Shrinkers Everywhere!, An Animated Afterlife: The Stop-Motion Art of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and ‘Til Death Do Us Park). You can see the cover artwork below.

Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just set George Stevens’ The Talk of the Town (1942) for release on 4K Ultra HD on 12/3. The film stars Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman. The disc will include Stevens’ restored original version of the film in 4K with Dolby Vision HDR, English mono audio in DTS-HD MA format, a new audio commentary with author Marilyn Ann Moss, and the Talking about Talk of the Town featurette. You’ll find the cover artwork below.

And here’s a very nice surprise: Sony is also releasing Edward Zwick’s Legends of the Fall (1994) in 4K Ultra HD on 12/3! We’ll have more on that soon, but you can certainly expect Dolby Vision HDR, lossless audio in Dolby Atmos or DTS-HD MA format, and all of the legacy special features.

Universal and Blumhouse have set James Watkins’ Speak No Evil (2024) for release on Blu-ray and DVD on 11/19, with the Digital version now available. Extras will include audio commentary with the director and 3 featurettes (Nuclear Families, A Horrifying Crescendo, and The Farmhouse of Horrors).

Shout! Studios is releasing The Whitest Kids U’Know: The Complete Series (2007-11) in a 10-disc DVD box on 12/3. The set includes news bonus content, plus Seasons 4 and 5 which are new to disc.

Also today, Amazon.com is now taking pre-orders on the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD release of Chris Sanders’ animated The Wild Robot (2024) from Universal. Street date is TBA, but you can see the cover art below.

Shawn Levy’s Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) is also now available for pre-order on Blu-ray, 4K, and 4K Steelbook on Amazon from Marvel and Disney. The street date is 10/22. You can see the cover art below with links. Note that the Amazon listings currently show full price, but the usual discount will eventually be applied and whatever the price is when you pre-order, you always get the discounted price when it appears.

A quick update on a title we mentioned the other day: We’ve confirmed with the studio that Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus (2024) will include Dolby Vision HDR when it arrives in 4K UHD on 12/3. But we’ve also been told that the studio isn’t necessarily including Dolby Vision on all 4K titles going forward—instead, it will be decided on a case by case basis. But still, good news. Now if we could just get the studio to commit to using 100GB discs, they’d really be cooking with gas.

Finally today, Disney+ has just dropped the trailer for Laurent Bouzereau’s forthcoming Music by John Williams (2024) documentary, which drops on the streamer on 11/1. It looks pretty fantastic. Here’s a peek...

All right, we’ll leave you with a look at the cover artwork for a bunch of the titles mentioned above and more, with Amazon pre-order links if available...