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hawkeye, I am sure they will issue the Bourne set on Blu before we know it. Remember, Universal only changed sides to Blu about two months ago, one of the last holdouts after the war ended, so they are only starting to kick things out. Plus let us not forget Universal has been terrible about releasing classics for many years now. Universal and Paramount both. How many times have we seen the monster movies over and over? Bottom line, I think Uni/Par both just don't care about anything except their TV series. And I think that the fire they had was more serious than they have let on with regards to film materials.

SOTM is Charles Laughton. Some good Laughton pics with Rembrandt and Private Life of Henry VIII. Continuing in the British tradition, Bob?s Picks has an evening of Vivien Leigh films including Fire Over England and That Hamilton Woman. Veteran?s Day has a new documentary, Warner at War. Plus Irving Berlin?s This is the Army, Hollywood Canteen, and Stage Door Canteen. TCM Guest Programmer is Ray Bradbury, picking Phantom of the Opera and Hunchback of Notre Dame (both the Lon Chaney versions), Rebecca, and Citizen Kane. Boomerang is on. It may be the only way we will get it since the new DVD release in the U.S. appears to be help up by rights again. There looks to be a TON of B movies making their premiere and that is great! And I love the ?Dubbed by Marni Nixon? night!!! West Side Story, King and I, and My Fair Lady.

By the way, with all this talk of Blu-ray high def lately, I thought I would mention that the Amazon Gold Box deal today is the Sony S300 Blu-ray player for only $299 and includes a free movie of your choice. I have the Sony S300 and love it, but if you want to keep up with technology you might want to get the newer S350 which includes 1.1 profile (picture-in-picture capability) and 2.0 (connecting to the internet). The S300 is 1.0 profile. http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27

Two releases announced for Blu-ray today, one that will be great for those of us who grew up in the Sixties and the other that will make many of us go, "Uhh...are you sure you want to release this..?": from Blu-ray.com Warner Home Video has announced that they will bring *'Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music: Ultimate Collector's Edition'* to Blu-ray on July 28th, 2009, day-and-date with the DVD. The release will feature the four-hour Director's Cut of the film which has been remastered from the original film elements and scanned at 2K resolution. A new 5.1 audio mix has been developed under the supervision of film director Michael Wadleigh. Audio mixing of the newly found footage is being overseen by the concert's original chief engineer Eddie Kramer... Extras announced for this release filmmaker commentary, replicas of handwritten notes from Festival attendees, the 40-minute documentary "The '60s and the Woodstock Generation", studio archive letters, and other souvenir collectible items. http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1621 and here's that other item, a certain Malcolm McDowell movie: Image Entertainment has announced that they will bring the controversial film *'Caligula: The Imperial Edition'* to Blu-ray on November 4th...The two-disc set will feature 1.85:1 1080p video accompanied by a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. No special features have been announced at this time, but one would expect that all the special features from the previous DVD release of the same name would also be brought to the Blu-ray. These include: The Making of Caligula-Documentary The Making of Caligula-Featurette My Roman Holiday with John Steiner Caligula's Pet: A Conversation with Lori Wagner Tinto Brass: The **** of Power Pets Arrive in Rome Set Construction, Painting & Props Extras Make-Up John Gielgud in Make-Up Caligula's Arrival in Capri Creating Tiberius' Grotto Too Much Wine Preparing Macro's Execution Tinto Brass Directing Isis Pool Rehearsals Isis Pool Filming Preparing the Wedding Banquet Caesonia's Dance Instructor Filming the Bordello Ship Still Galleries http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1622

Region coding is so tricky, you might as well put two pieces of paper in a hat marked "Yes, it will play" and "No, it won't," draw one out and hope for the best. Actually, that's a little flippant of me. As I understand it, Warner Bros. releases are region free, but that could vary based on the title. There are some English Blu-ray I would like to have that can also play in the U.S., "Black Narcissus" and "Great Expectations." Both have gotten excellent reviews and are playable here. However, there are extra shorts on the BN title that are in PAL and are not playable here. For Blu-ray discs, the majority of them are U.S released and so are perfect for here. You can check out blu-ray.com for reviews. Near the top of each os says "Playback" with an indication of the region or if it is all regions, That helps a lot. http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/reviews.php?letter=B I believe there are some other sites with that info. .

film fatale, And a week after Interview will be the Blu version of Poltergeist.

Hi, Donna, I am certain the Beat the Devil will be a PD copy for the Blu release, which I dread by the way. What good is putting out a high def version of something that has been copied over and over? This company is going to be issuing other titles that are also PD. My concern with BTD and the other ones is that people who are just buying into Blu may buy that first because it is cheap and then get disgusted by the picture quality and and write off Blu altogether.

Web, He has seen the message and others in the past. Recently, he wrote that he saiid we "yell" at him not to do it...so that shows he has seen our messages. At one point there was even a thread started by someone else here, that I didn't agree with, and it was entitled, "Celluloid Kid's Upcoming DVD Thread" due to him posting anything and everything, mostly repeating info others had placed often only a day or two before. I believe I tried saying it shouldn't be done and it went on for page after page. Towards the end, Celluloid Kid made a very troll-like comment, "You people are funny and a blast!" In the main forums, he was also doing all his thread headers in Bold font, another way of drawing attention to himself. I posted a thread saying the practice should stop because it was disrupting the forums. It stopped. The problem is he won''t stop posting here, despite several people asking him to stop. A normal person would not continue to frequent a thread where he wasn't liked or wanted, posting without regard to others. And I repeat something I said in the most recent message to him...if he truly was interested in classic films coming out on DVD, he would be in here reading the posts to find out what was happening. Obviously, he gets a kick out of antagonizing others. That is why we are writing to the TCM Web admin. There wouldn't even be posts like this one if it were otherwise; it would be a thread dedicated to upcoming releases, which was its sole intention frrom the start. We have tried ignoring him, but it is only about a day before he is off and running posting several posts about things already mentioned. He even did one recently where he posted info and said he knew it was repeat info but that there was new material. As far as could be detected, in the several paragraphs, much of which was word for word of things we posted, all he did was add a price for the release. That's it. Just a orice. Everything else had been posted before. We're tired of it.

*Well, now we have our answer. CelluloidKid read the message and ignored it. So we know now he is in only to have his name appear on threads, no matter how much useless and repetive infomation he posts, and that he doesn't wish to be a member in good standing in this forum.* *I said in the message below that I posted that he has been ignoring other members wishes here and has been doing so for months. We have been having trouble with him since at least February. That is almost half a year. I feel we can all now write to the TCMWebAdmin now without any concern that maybe he didn't understand. We now know he wishes to be disruptive to this forum and always has.*

That is a bargain! Good work!!!

Took a trip to Costco today. Here's a rundown on some current classic stock they have and prices: Tyrone Power Matinee Idol Collection $32.99 Tyrone Power vol. 1 $32.99 Carmen Miranda $32.99 They also had the following WB boxed sets priced at $27.99 each: Errol Flynn Signature Collection vol. 1 Errol Flynn vol. 2 Cole Porter Collection Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory vol. 1 Classic Musicals etc. vol. 2 Broadway to Hollywood Judy Garland Signature Collection $22.99 each: Betty Grable Will Rogers vol. 1 Will Rogers vol. 2 Ernest HemingWay Film Collection (I can't read my own writing, this one might be $27.99) Gary Cooper Double Pack of Along Came Jones and Man of the West for $9.99

Film Fatale, obviously he doesn't. Strother Martin said it best in "Cool Hand Luke": "What we've got here is...failure to communicate." What we need is a button to automatically delete his posts. I think that maybe I better reprint my post of a few days ago. _Maybe_ he will pay attention this time: CelluloidKid, I am really **** off here. Question for you: Do you really have an interest in upcoming releases? If so, you would be in here reading the news clips that are posted here each day. And you would remember the info. As it is, I am thinking that you don't care about what is coming up, that your only interest in Upcoming Releases is just another place you can post everything and anything to get your name in. The reason I say this is because if you were a fan, you would have seen: 1. I posted the info about The Harryhausen 3-pack, as well as the info about 7th Voyage of Sinbad, on July 24th, the first day of the San Diego Comic Con, because I was there that day. In later posts, I have already listed full details of extras for each titles. 2. Though you stated in the post below about the Martini Movies, the Hitchcock set, the Classic Holiday Collections that some info was repeat info, you still listed everything we already know or needed to know from weeks past. So why bother? And so many other things in the past. On occasion, someone here may accidentally repeat info that has already been listed, but usually it is weeks past and slipped by the person. But you repeat info on an almost daily basis. You went back several pages and found info you posted about Casino Royale, but somehow in going through those pages you missed post after post talking about Harryhausen and other info which you just repeated here? CK, you have been asked time and time and time and time again (I've lost track there have been so many times!!!), not just by me but by several others here, to stop posting info that has already been listed. You could do us all a real service by not posting anything here anymore. We have tried to advise you to check on things in previous posts...there is an excellent search feature available...but you just continue to do what you want day in and day out. You've proven that you don't care about anything that others have already done the research on and posted, and you just keep posting blindly. You are not bringing anything to the forum. I hate sounding arrogant and it will sound that way to others who are just encountering this thread for the first time, but if they were to read even a little further in, they will find this has been going on for months now. I have always thought that everyone contributes something special to this column, but you, you don't contribute. You just repeat things others have listed. Why don't you stop? Please do this thread a service and don't post here. *To film fatale and others, let's not add any posts above this one for a couple of days. If he adds some new item, we will know he read this and his continued posting will be a sign that he is ignoring what's best for the forum and is just doing what he wants to do.*

I think the big problem here is that you can't tell how good Blu-ray is until you experience it. Old movie fans have nothing to fear about losing their standard DVDs with the great upconversion that is provided by a player such as the Sony S300 like I have. In fact, it is better than a strandard DVD player that upconverts. Richer color, better sound when you play them through the HDMI cable to your TV. I see it as no-lose situation. And as far as is standard good enough? Would you say that seeing a standard DVD is as good as watching it in the movie theater where it had a better picture? Or would you prefer the projectionist turn the lens so the picture is slightly out of focus? I am as big a classic movie fan as anybody, and have been around longer than many here (I'm 53), so I am not some young guy pushing the latest technology. If you have gone to the expense of buying an HDTV, why settle for an image that is less than it could be? If you want to test out your standard DVDs on a Blu-ray player, take one or two of your favorites into an electronics store, tell them you want to see how good they look on a Blu-ray player and an HDTV, that you are thinking about getting both. Or get one from a store like Costco which has the best return policy in the world (you don't like it, return it and you get your money back). These are all options but to say one won't get high def because you are afraid it will look too good is not an argument. That's kind of like saying that you would prefer to go through life with blurry vision, rather than putting on glasses and seeing the world clearly. There is only one thing to fear about getting into an excellent Blu-ray player...and this is a fact...you will not ever want to go back to anything else. Oh, and the comment that was made earlier about HD DVD. HD DVD is dead. Blu-ray won the format war. The discs for Blu-ray are not HD DVDs. They are standard DVDs and Blu-ray discs. They are not Blu-ray DVDs, either. They are different than just a DVD. You'll see. By the way, here's a selling point you may not know about. Blu-ray discs have a coating that resists scratches. I've plopped Blu discs down on a pile and picked it up with my fingers touching the movie side. Looking at it, you see the points and what appears to be a scratch. Take a kleenex to it, no liquid necessary, rub it and the "scratch" and prints are gone, looking completely new. Try that with a DVD. Here, take a read through this link. It will inform you more about what are some of the advantages: http://www.amazon.com/Blu-ray-learn-what-is-blu-ray/b/ref=ms_sbrspot_6?ie=UTF8&node=383263011&pf_rd_p=408341801&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=193640011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=117S36V7Z1NB05KN9KCW Anyway, I''ve had my say. You can look at sites like dvdbeaver.com and look at their comparisons of DVDs to Blu and see for yourself. You won't believe it, but once upon a time, I was sick of people talking about high def TVs and Blu discs, etc. I had a standard TV and stadard DVDs and I would have been delighted if people would stop talking about high def. Some of you probably feel the same when you see an upcoming release posted here that is listed as Blu, and only want to know about standard DVDs. But I am glad I made the switch. The trick is for you to try to find someone who has made the switch and wants to go back. Anyway, time to get this thread back to release news.

And you might want to look at the full review of "Great Expectations" that contains this quote: "For example the much treasured Criterion SDVD release of David Lean?s classic pales notably next to this surprisingly solid presentation." :http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=1099&show=review

Well, actually, it is in Westwood at the Billy Wilder Theater. Today: "Palmy Days" and "40 Little Mothers" at 7:30 PM Sunday: "Kiki" and "Bird of Paradise" at 7 PM Tuesday: "Footloght Parade" and "Gold Diggers of 1933" at 7:30 PM Aug. 8: "The Gang's ll Here" and "Million Dollar Mermaid" at 7:30 PM Aug. 12: "42nd Street" and "Ziegfeld Girl" at 7:30 PM Here is an article from the L.A. Times today: By Kenneth Turan, Times Film Critic August 1, 2008 "I always named 'em the Berkeley Girls, and no one picked any girls but me. I picked 'em all. Always." Busby Berkeley's voice rumbled like a semi-active volcano. "Once a producer came up to me and said, 'Buz, that one on the end looks cute,' and I said, 'Oh, sit down.' People have the damnedest ideas about beauty." It's been 37 years since I interviewed Busby Berkeley, then a crusty but still energetic 75, in a Berlin hotel room, but the memory remains vivid. Just like his singular films, which are getting a very welcome 10-picture retrospective starting today at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. You wouldn't necessarily know it from the framework UCLA has chosen, which calls the series "Sex and the Single Girl: The Escapades of Busby Berkeley" and focuses on the arcane academic notion of the "seraglio effect," but the eye-popping dance numbers Berkeley created during a long career in Hollywood need to be seen -- and seen on a big screen -- because they are, plain and simple, an enormous amount of fun. Because his name is so euphonious, it's likely that more people have heard of Berkeley than have seen his astonishing dance numbers in their entirety. These routines so dominated the films they were in that if Berkeley wasn't the director, he got second billing as the person who "created and directed" the sequences. These were not two- or three-minute interludes but super-elaborate affairs that could go on for 10 minutes each and in "Footlight Parade" make up almost all of the film's final half hour. "I never bothered with the directors who did the dramatic parts of the pictures; most of the times I'd never even see them," Berkeley told me in Berlin. "They did their job and I did mine. Of course, my sections were more expensive. We once figured out they cost about $10,000 per minute on the screen, and people yelled about that, but I hollered 'em down." Even at $10,000 per minute, Berkeley gave the studios their money's worth. To see his dizzying routines, rife with overhead shots that emphasized elaborate kaleidoscopic patterns constructed of bare female legs, is the equivalent of taking a mind-altering drug before you enter the theater. No one had seen anything like this before Berkeley thought it up, and no one has seen anything like it since. Berkeley often didn't pull his ideas together until his troops were right in front of him. "I never did much advance planning. I'd get all the people on the set before me, and when they were all there, that's when I'd start to think and go to town," he told me. "I only used one camera; I didn't need any more than that. I knew what I wanted. . . . If you use four cameras, the editor gets to choose the shot he likes. They didn't do that with my pictures. They went together the way I wanted them to go together." Whether you're familiar with Berkeley's work or not, three films have to be seen: "42nd Street," "Footlight Parade" and "Gold Diggers of 1933" were all released by Warner Bros. in 1933 and, taken together, they revolutionized the Hollywood musical. This trio has other points in common besides their year of release. For one thing, they all made references to the reality of the Depression. When a character says, "Bread line, I hear you calling me" in "Footlight Parade," you believe it. More to the point, all the films were backstage stories, valentines to the joys and agonies of putting on a Broadway musical. This allowed for the fiction that Berkeley's choreographed musical numbers were created for a show, though the reality was you'd need a theater the size of a football field to actually stage them. "42nd Street" is the mother and father of all backstage dramas, filled with gruff gangsters, secret boyfriends and theatrical imbroglios. Ginger Rogers played a been-around gal nicknamed Anytime Annie, as in "she only said no once, and then she didn't hear the question," but the performance everyone remembers is Ruby Keeler's wide-eyed ingenue. "You're going out a youngster," the show's slave-driving director memorably tells her, "but you've got to come back a star." "Footlight Parade" is blessed by having James Cagney, displaying energy, style and dancing ability to burn in his first sustained musical performance. Among its memorable numbers are "Honeymoon Hotel," "By a Waterfall" and the politically incorrect "Shanghai Lil," in which a disappointed Eastern European type complains, "She won't be mine for all of Palestine." What sets "Gold Diggers of 1933" apart, aside from the opening "We're in the Money" number sung by Rogers, is its closing sequence, "Remember My Forgotten Man," one of the most socially conscious song-and-dance routines ("You put a rifle in his hand, you shouted hip hooray, but look at him today") ever conceived by Hollywood. Also of interest because of particularly iconic production numbers are two of the films Berkeley made in color. "Million Dollar Mermaid" was built around star Esther Williams' aquatic abilities and featured mind-bending swimming pool sequences. And in "The Gang's All Here," Berkeley combined Carmen Miranda and her legendary hats with the most phallic bananas anyone's ever seen and created a legendary Latin American fantasyland. Though he was initially baffled by the continued affection for his work -- he was in Berlin all those years ago for a career retrospective -- Berkeley came to terms with it in his own way. When I asked at the end of the interview what he thought about his career, he gave me a sly smile and said, "Well, I just say to myself, 'Buz, you must have done a hell of a good job; they all like it.' " kenneth.turan@latimes.com http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-busby1-2008aug01,0,2801993.story

In case a certain poster with the initials "CK", who doesn't search before posting, is thinking of posting the official notification that just came out today of the extras in the six *James Bond* Blu discs, don't. That info was posted here back on July 29th. Thank you.

Haven't read anything about the Pioneer one, but you can keep an eye here: http://forum.blu-ray.com/forumdisplay.php?f=29

_Hi, MissG (and others),_ Maybe I should chime in since I think I am the only one here with a Blu-ray player so far. I have the Sony S300, which I love. The Blu pictures are great and _as for your question about standard DVDs, yes, it plays them and very well...it upconverts them to almost high def, so it will be better than your standard DVD player_ (you will need an HDTV, of course, to be able to see this). It is profile 1.0, which means it is not 1.1 or 2.0 capable (1.1 is picture in picture for a few Blu discs that have that special feature, usually a video commentary showing special effects by the director in a corner of the screen while the movie is playing; 2.0, also known as BD Live is for connecting to the internet, which I don't find that attractive because it basically willallow some discs to connect to movie websites where you can buy products tied into the movie or for playing games on the disc online with other movie fans around the country). The current price on Amazon is about $332. However, you might want to consider the Sony S350 which has just been released, and that Amazon currently sells for $334. It has 1.1 profile and will be cabable of 2.0 when they get the download update ready for it in a few months. Sony will also be releasing model S550 before Christmas, which will have 1.1 plus 2.0 built in and advanced sound options. The price is expected to be $499, but will likely be available cheaper for Christmas sales. None of these have the Netflix thing mentioned elsewhere, but that doesn't interest me. If you or anyone else have any questions about Blu, please post here and I will respond. _To TripleH,_ You would be very surprised at the difference if the job is done properly for an old title between standard DVD and Blu-ray. One title that I often bring up when this question is raised is the 1950s movie, The Searchers. I have the title in both standard and Blu-ray and I have done side by side comparisons. The difference is astonishing. The clarity of the Blu-ray is INCREDIBLE. When I play it over my Sony 46XBR4, I feel like I am there on location watching it being filmed. The standard DVD is good, and you can be fooled into thinking it can't be better. Ah, but just wait until you see it alongside the Blu.

Here's a link to a photo of the Planet of the Apes Blu-ray set. Looks great! http://www.digitalbits.com/#mytwocents

A few posts down I mentioned the announcement of *The Three Stooges Collection vol. 4* for October 7. Here are the details of the contents: Disc 1: They Stooge to Conga (1943) Dizzy Detectives (1943) Spook Louder (1943) Back from the Front (1943) Three Little Twirps (1943) Higher Than a Kite (1943) I Can Hardly Wait (1943) Dizzy Pilots (1943) Phony Express (1943) A Gem of a Jam (1943) Disc : 2 Crash Goes the Hash (1944) Busy Buddies (1944) The Yoke's on Me (1944) Idle Roomers (1944) Gents Without Cents (1944) No Dough, Boys (1944) Three Pests in a Mess (1945) Booby Dupes (1945) Idiots Deluxe (1945) If a Body Meets a Body (1945) Micro-Phonies (1945) Message was edited by: filmlover

Just announced: The Three Stooges Collection Vol. 4, to be released on October 7th.

Information has just been released on what extras will be in the Planet of the Apes Blu-ray box set of five films. from Blu-ray.com: Fox Home Entertainment has announced that they will bring 'Planet Of The Apes: 40 Year Evolution Blu-ray Collection' to Blu-ray on November 4th. The set, which features all five original 'Planet of the Apes' films, will feature BD-50s utilizing 2.35:1 1080p AVC accompanied by a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. The five films - 'Planet Of The Apes', 'Beneath The Planet Of The Apes', 'Escape From The Planet Of The Apes', 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes', and 'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes' - have all been specially prepared for this release, including a never-before-seen in the US unrated version of 'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'. _Extras for this release will all be presented in stunning high definition._ They include: Science of the Apes BONUSVIEW - Scientists, anthropologists and sociologists discuss the facts and fiction of the first film (BD Exclusive) "Beyond the Forbidden Zone" Adventure Game (BD Exclusive) "A Public Service Announcement From ANSA" in HD - A mission report from the agency regarding their brave astronauts (BD Exclusive) "Evolution of the Apes"- HD featurette tracing the apes story from the original novel to the screen (BD Exclusive) "Impact of the Apes" - HD featurette on how to market a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. The story behind the marketing and merchandising of one of the first ever film franchises and the series' lasting influence on pop culture through the years (BD Exclusive) HD Making-of Featurette for Each Sequel (BD Exclusive): - Beneath the Planet of the Apes - "From Alpha to Omega: Building a Sequel" - Escape from the Planet of the Apes - "The Secret Behind Escape" - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - "Riots and Revolutions: Confronting the Times" - Battle for the Planet of the Apes - "End of an Epic: The Final Battle" Each Apes sequel will have an isolated score track in 5.1 DTS Master Audio (BD Exclusive) Commentary by Composer Jerry Goldsmith Commentary by Actors Roddy McDowall, Natalie Trundy, Kim Hunter and Makeup Artist John Chambers Text Commentary by Eric Greene and Author of "Planet of the Apes as American Myth" Behind the Planet of the Apes Documentary - Includes all new interactivity and timeline Behind the Planet of the Apes Promo (1988) Planet of the Apes Makeup Test with Edward G. Robinson (1966) Roddy McDowall On-set Footage Planet of the Apes Dailies and Outtakes (No Audio) Planet of the Apes NATO Presentation (1967) Planet of the Apes Vintage Featurette (1968) A Look Behind the Planet of the Apes (1972) Don Taylor Directs Escape from the Planet of the Apes J. Lee Thompson Directs Conquest of the Planet of the Apes Six Original Theatrical Trailers Original Sketches by Costume Designer Morton Haack Photo Gallery Planet of the Apes Timeline Interactive Pressbooks Vintage Apes Newspaper Galleries Advertising and Lobby Card Galleries Behind-the-Scenes Galleries

CelluloidKid, I am really **** off here. Question for you: Do you really have an interest in upcoming releases? If so, you would be in here reading the news clips that are posted here each day. And you would remember the info. As it is, I am thinking that you don't care about what is coming up, that your only interest in Upcoming Releases is just another place you can post everything and anything to get your name in. The reason I say this is because if you were a fan, you would have seen: 1. I posted the info about The Harryhausen 3-pack, as well as the info about 7th Voyage of Sinbad, on July 24th, the first day of the San Diego Comic Con, because I was there that day. In later posts, I have already listed full details of extras for each titles. 2. Though you stated in the post below about the Martini Movies, the Hitchcock set, the Classic Holiday Collections that some info was repeat info, you still listed everything we already know or needed to know from weeks past. So why bother? And so many other things in the past. On occasion, someone here may accidentally repeat info that has already been listed, but usually it is weeks past and slipped by the person. But you repeat info on an almost daily basis. You went back several pages and found info you posted about Casino Royale, but somehow in going through those pages you missed post after post talking about Harryhausen and other info which you just repeated here? CK, you have been asked _time and time and time and time again_ (I've lost track there have been so many times!!!), not just by me but by several others here, to stop posting info that has already been listed. You could do us all a real service by not posting anything here anymore. We have tried to advise you to check on things in previous posts...there is an excellent search feature available...but you just continue to do what you want day in and day out. You've proven that you don't care about anything that others have already done the research on and posted, and you just keep posting blindly. You are not bringing anything to the forum. I hate sounding arrogant and it will sound that way to others who are just encountering this thread for the first time, but if they were to read even a little further in, they will find this has been going on for months now. I have always thought that everyone contributes something special to this column, but you, you don't contribute. You just repeat things others have listed. Why don't you stop? Please do this thread a service and don't post here.

yeah, I just saw that article about Batman on digitalbits.com and was going to post it here. It sure would be nice if Fox and Warners would get together on this.

Getting back about the James Bond extras on Blu, they look to be the same as the ultimate edition standard DVDs: Dr. No: ? "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio commentary featuring director Terence Young and cast & crew ? Featurettes: "Inside Dr. No," "Premiere Bond," "Terence Young: Bond Vivant," "Dr. No 1963 Featurette" ? "Top Level Access 007: License to Restore" - Featurette detailing the Bond Ultimate Edition film restoration process ? "Declassified: M16 Vault" - The Guns of James Bond ? "007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Dr. No ? "Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications Die Another Day: ? "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary Featuring Director Lee Tamahori and Producer Michael G. Wilson ? Audio Commentary featuring Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike ? "Declassified: M16 Vault" - From Script to Screen ? Featurettes: "Shaken and Stirred on Ice," "Just Another Day," "The British Touch: Bond Arrives in London," "On Location With Peter Lamont ? "007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Die Another Day ? MI6 DataStream ? Madonna?s "Die Another Day" Music Video ? "Ministry of Propaganda" Photo gallery Live and Let Die: ? Audio Commentary featuring Sir Roger Moore ? "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary featuring Guy Hamilton ? Audio Commentary featuring Tom Mankiewicz ? "Declassified: M16 Vault" - Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary ? Featurettes: "Roger Moore as James Bond, Circa 1964," "Inside Live and Let Die," "On Set With Roger Moore" ? Live and Let Die Conceptual Art ? "007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Live and Let Die ? "Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications For Your Eyes Only: ? Audio Commentary featuring Sir Roger Moore ? Audio Commentary featuring Michael G Wilson and Crew ? "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary featuring John Glen and Actors ? "Declassified: M16 Vault" Deleted Scenes and Expanded Angles ? Featurettes: "Inside For Your Eyes Only," "Bond in Greece, Bond in Cortina," "Neptune?s Journey ?"007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of For Your Eyes Only ? Animated Storyboard Sequences ? Sheena Easton?s "For Your Eyes Only" Music Video ? "Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications From Russia with Love: ? "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary featuring director Terence Young and cast & crew ? "Declassified: M16 Vault" - Ian Fleming: The CBC Interview ? Featurettes: "Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler," "Ian Fleming on Desert Island Discs," "Inside From Russia With Love," "Harry Saltzman: Showman" ? Animated Storyboard Sequence ? "007 Mission Control" - Interactive Guide Into the World of From Russia With Love ? Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications Thunderball: ? "The Complete Special Features Library: Mission Dossier" - Audio Commentary featuring Terence Young and others ? Audio Commentary featuring Peter Hunt, John Hopkins and Others ? "Declassified: M16 Vault" The Incredible World of James Bond - Original 1965 NBC Television Special ? "A Child?s Guide to Blowing Up a Motor Car" - 1965 Ford Promotional Film On Location With Ken Adam ? Featurettes: "Bill Suitor: The Rocket Man Movies," "The Making of Thunderball," "The Thunderball Phenomenon," "The Secret History of Thunderball" ? Thunderball Boat Show Reel ? Selling Bonds - Original 1965 Television Advertisements ? "007 Mission Control" Interactive Guide Into the World of Thunderball ? "Ministry of Propaganda" - Original Trailers, TV Spots, Photo Gallery and Radio Communications