Four studios have announced slates of titles to be ready for the soon-to-be-launched Blu-ray Disc high-definition format.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Lionsgate (formerly Lions Gate), all of which
have lent their support exclusively to Blu-ray, announced their plans Tuesday, a day before supporters of the next-generation,
high-definition optical disc format stage a formal unveiling at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Meanwhile, Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment, which has said it would support both Blu-ray and format competitor HD-DVD
with disc releases, also unveiled titles it will have ready for both formats at launch.
Sony and Fox each have earmarked 20 titles, while Lionsgate and Paramount each have lined up 10 for release on the
Sony-developed format, timed to coincide with the debut of Blu-ray hardware in North America, Japan and Europe sometime in
the early part of 2006.
First release titles include:
Aeon Flux, Behind Enemy Lines, Fantastic Four, The Fifth Element, Hitch, Ice Age, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,
Legends of the Fall, Saw.
Other films slated for Blu-ray release:
Bram Stoker's Dracula, Desperado, Dune, For a Few Dollars More, The Guns of Navarone, The Italian Job, A Knight's Tale,
Kung Fu Hustle, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Last Waltz, The Manchurian Candidate, Mission: Impossible, Mission:
Impossible 2, Mission: Impossible 3, Rambo: First Blood, Reservoir Dogs, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Robocop, Sense and
Sensibility, Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, Species, Stealth, SWAT, Terminator 2: Judgment Day,
Total Recall, U2: Rattle and Hum, We Were Soldiers, XXX
More studios are expected to announce their high-definition launch slates this week.
Blu-Ray (or BD in short) delivers the most advanced high-definition
experience available to entertainment enthusiasts today, while offering filmmakers a limitless canvas to express their
artistic vision.
Blu-ray's advantages extend beyond higher-quality picture and sound. The format's expanded storage capacity (approx 25GB
or 50GB on dual-layer) will enable studios to offer increased menu navigation and other enhanced interactive capabilities 'that
will make the movie-watching experience at home unparalleled'.
The announcements are seen by observers as a pre-emptive strike against rival HD-DVD, which shortly after the Blu-ray Disc
presentation was set for Thursday, announced a CES presentation of its own the night before.
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