Paramount and Dreamworks Movie Summary
August 29th, 2007
These are the films immediately affected by their decisions !
With so many Studios to consider in the format "war", we wanted to give you a quick summary of how the brand new decision by these two studios, Paramount and Dreamworks, will affect the HD Optical Media landscape.
Both studios have said that they will terminate Bluray support immediately, and that they will not supply any additional copies of Bluray titles they have already released, meaning that you can pretty much write off what has been released to Bluray to date.
In addition, they have both announced new titles to HD DVD - word has it that an additional 30 titles will be announced to ship this year.
To start with, in the immediate future, HD DVD will now get Shrek The Third, Transformers and Blades of Glory - and Bluray will not. Please remember to go to the "ACTION" page and send you emails to the studios, the time is perfect for us to act and it will only take you 10 or 15 minutes.
Here is a summary of what we know so far:
Blu-ray loss of current releases
Bluray will lose these 33 existing releases that will now disappear from the list of BD titles available:
Disturbia
Shooter
The Untouchables
The Warriors: Ultimate Director's Cut
Black Snake Moan
Hustle & Flow
Coming to America
Norbit (DreamWorks)
Flags of Our Fathers (DreamWorks)
Trading Places
Freedom Writers
M:I-2
Mission: Impossible
Dreamgirls (DreamWorks)
Failure to Launch
Payback: Straight Up - The Director's Cut
Babel
Black Rain
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
We Were Soldiers
World Trade Center
Nacho Libre
Reds
Mission: Impossible - Ultimate Missions Collection
Mission: Impossible III
The Italian Job (2003)
Sahara
Aeon Flux
U2: Rattle and Hum
Four Brothers
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleepy Hollow
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Blu-ray loss of current HD DVD releases
There are also currently 26 titles announced for HD DVD that will not be released on Blu-ray
Blades of Glory
Saturday Night Fever
Next
Top Gun
A Mighty Heart
The Jack Ryan Collection
Face/Off
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season One
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Dreamworks)
Old School
Shrek The Third (DreamWorks)
Flashdance
Ghost
An Officer and a Gentleman
Zodiac
Braveheart
Coach Carter
Forrest Gump
Grease
Save the Last Dance
School of Rock
Son of Paleface
Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie
Star Trek: First Contact
The Ultimate Star Trek Collection
Vanilla Sky
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Blu-ray loss of announced releases
There are 3 titles that were previously announced for BD that will now not be released on Blu-ray
Spongebob Squarepants: The Movie
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: The Original Series
That's a shift of almost 60 titles - this certainly brings the content battle a lot closer. You can see ongoing updates on AVS Forum, in this thread.
The Bluray fansites are rallying their supporters to try to get Warner to go BD exclusive - See our ACTION page here, to get busy - Now is the Golden Hour for us to act and let the studios hear how we feel.
I encourage you strongly to see this page and send the emails to all entities we have linked for you. It may only take you 15 minutes.
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