It seems 2006 may have been the year to introduce Blu-ray and HD DVD format discs and hardware to consumers, but 2007 looks like it will be the year that studios finally open their vaults and make available some of the bigger hits with releases that consumers really want.
Fox Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video have weighed in with updates on their 2007 high-definition release schedule and it reads as follows:
January 30: Flyboys, Hart’s War
February 13: The Sentinel, Entrapment, Broken Arrow, Phone Booth, Planet of the Apes (2001), Chain Reaction, The Marine, The Usual Suspects
March 13: Ice Age, Dodgeball, Commando, From Hell, Dances with Wolves, The Thomas Crown Affair, Hoosiers
April 3: The Fly (1986), Tristan & Isolde, Me, Myself & Irene, Dude, Where’s My Car?
April 17: Turistas
April ’07: The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal
May ’07: Master & Commander, Man on Fire, Edward Scissorhands, Predator, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Siege, Platoon, The Graduate, Battle of Britain, A Bridge Too Far
June ’07: Independence Day, I, Robot, Cast Away, Ronin, To Live & Die in L.A., A Fistful of Dollars, Out of Time, Walking Tall, Bull Durham
TBA 2007: A Night at the Museum, Eragon
January 30: Open Season
February 6: The Tailor of Panama, Running with Scissors
February 20: Vertical Limit
February 27: Stranger Than Fiction
March 13: Casino Royale, Layer Cake
TBA 2007: Hostel, Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men
February 6: American Psycho, Rambo First Blood, Reservoir Dogs, Young Guns
TBA 2007: “Ultimate Avengers,” “Ultimate Avengers 2,” “Weeds,” House of 1000 Corpses, National Lampoons Van Wilder, Waiting, “The Dead Zone,” Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Cabin Fever, Monster’s Ball, Dune, Belly
February 13: The Departed
TBA 2007: Happy Feet, Blood Diamond, We Are Marshall, The Matrix franchise, all of the Harry Potter films, Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s 12, Bullitt, The Getaway, Alexander Revisited: The Unrated Final Cut
April 3: King Arthur (Director’s Cut), G.I. Jane
May ’07: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
June 8: Con Air, Crimson Tide, The Rock
Summer ’07: Cars, The Recruit
In other high-definition home video news LG is set to release a combo HD DVD/Blu-ray Disc player in February for $1,199 and you can get full details on that here.
