Eastwood Films on DVD/Blu-Ray (Upcoming Releases, News, Reviews etc)

[Philo Beddoe Jr]

The Good Bad & Ugly on 12th May...

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

Yahoo!!

[right turn clyde]

Changeling is a great BD from Universal Studios it's a real shame Warners don't put in the same effort for Clint's films. Good 'making of' documentary and the movie has the 'film window' feature so you can see Clint directing the scene that is playing on the big screen. Immaculate transfer in terms of picture quality.

[Philo Beddoe Jr]

From a discussion at website hometheaterforum.com with a Warners rep:

Date: Monday, March 23, 2009

<warnerbros> JOSEY WALES will be coming to BLU RAY next year

<warnerbros> WHERE EAGLES DARE coming to BD next year

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/chat/warner09.txt

[DonPacollo]

genial, great Clint.

[Brendan]

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

In announcement news today, Warner has just set Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino for release on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 6/9 (SRP $28.98 and $35.99). The DVD will include at least 2 featurettes (Manning the Wheel and Gran Torino: More Than a Car). The Blu-ray will add The Eastwood Way featurette, BD-Live and a Digital Copy disc. Additional features may also be announced.

[right turn clyde]

Cover art for GT (scroll down)...

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

[Christopher]

Cool, I've been looking to see when Gran Torino would be released.

[Brendan]

The Digital Bits:

We received word today from WHV (Warner Home Video) that they have secured the rights to put together a COMPLETE Eastwood filmography on DVD and Blu-Ray. Obviously this was hard to pull off since Eastwood has made movies for other studios. Not sure how it'll all work out in terms of profit sharing but look for it to street around October/November. They didn't give us an exact price but they said it could be around $299.99 for the DVD version and $699.99 for the Blu-Ray (yikes!).

Wow.

April Fools!

 

[Dan Dassow]

The Digital Bits:

We received word today from WHV (Warner Home Video) that they have secured the rights to put together a COMPLETE Eastwood filmography on DVD and Blu-Ray. Obviously this was hard to pull off since Eastwood has made movies for other studios. Not sure how it'll all work out in terms of profit sharing but look for it to street around October/November. They didn't give us an exact price but they said it could be around $299.99 for the DVD version and $699.99 for the Blu-Ray (yikes!).

Wow.

I wonder what WHV means by a complete Eastwood filmography. Does it only include films in which he stars or does it also include films that he directed, such as Changeling, in which he does not appear on camera. Although it would be highly unlikely, it would be fun to include Clints first credited film, Francis in the Navy (1955).

[KC]

Wow.


I wonder what WHV means by a complete Eastwood filmography. Does it only include films in which he stars or does it also include films that he directed, such as Changeling, in which he does not appear on camera. Although it would be highly unlikely, it would be fun to include Clints first credited film, Francis in the Navy (1955).

Click the link, Dan ...

Well done, Brendan ... you little  ! 

[Dan Dassow]

Click the link, Dan ...

Well done, Brendan ... you little  ! 

I bought that story hook, line and sinker.   

[Brendan]

 

[right turn clyde]

A new BD review for The Gauntlet.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=1046&show=review

[right turn clyde]

Some GB&U BD details...

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=2590

[iconfan]

You know what?
I got burned last time with Flags of Our Fathers because when that came out on DVD, knowing full well that Eastwood RARELY if EVER allows for audio commentary extras let alone any decent behind the scenes extra featurettes (though Unforgiven, Bridges, Blood Work and Space Cowboys had some sort of decent featurettes attached) thats over 10 minutes in length, I bought the DVD, figuring, well, I own the definitive version of the film

And then they released it later on with some bonus features

So now comes Gran Torino. A film I went and saw in the theater and loved. I feel it's one of his top ten best works in his career. So, as I said, I went to the theater to support the man's efforts and then I went home to wait for the DVD, which comes out in June.

I saw news today about the upcoming DVD release--which only has two (count them TWO) features .....get this.....about cars and how they help men "bond" or whatever.

Which is fine and dandy since it looks like their obviously going for the "male" market (a market that obviously LOVES cars)
But the ironic thing here (in my opinion) is that the car itself, the Gran Torino,  is just, if anything, a "B" character in the film. (not even that, since it's only seen in maybe ten total minutes in the whole film!)
The film is about so much more than just "cars"

It's about getting along with others and racism and tolerance and violence etc etc etc. To add to my pain is the fact that the DVD  looks to be about 23 bucks!!! And yes, Walmart or similar markets will have it on sale for around 17 bucks if I really go out of my way to search for a deal. (But then they wonder why alot of people are saving money  and just getting a burnt copy from Joe Blow at work. So I have to wait another 7 months or so and see if a double dipped copy with some sort of better bonus features will be included (like behind the scenes of the film, a chat with the screenwriter who did an amazing first draft, a look at the Homung culture (a culture that had more screentime than the CAR)

sigh. Anyone else have the feeling of being slightly ripped off by this news? (Amazon has artwork of the backcover where you can zoom in and read the text of the **cough** bonus features)