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"Barbarosa" (1982) is coming to Blu-ray
Nice, as I rewatched director Fred Schepisi's "Mr. Baseball" not too long ago, and was interested in seeing this one after reading about it.

Movie Movie (Stanley Donen, 1978) - February 2016

Content and Special Features:

• NEW high-definition transfer
  NEW interviews with Harry Hamlin, Kathleen Beller and Barry Bostwick
  Introduction by George Burns

The long-rumored Scorpion release of Bogdanovich's Saint Jack is up for pre-order at Amazon, though it's DVD only. I asked Scorpion on Facebook what happened to the blu-ray release, and their response was, "can't comment at this time." Interesting. Hopefully someone puts out this film on blu-ray! It's Bogdanovich's only 70s film that I thought was less than very good, which has made me all the more eager to revisit it.

At least the DVD is cheaply priced and looks to be a new transfer from the original camera negative. Otherwise, I think the special features replicate what was on the previous release.

• Brand New HD Master From the Original Negative (1.78:1)
• Audio Commentary by Director Peter Bogdanovich
• Interview with Director Peter Bogdanovich
• Interview with Producer Roger Corman
• Original Trailer

Emak-Bakia wrote:The long-rumored Scorpion release of Bogdanovich's Saint Jack is up for pre-order at Amazon, though it's DVD only. I asked Scorpion on Facebook what happened to the blu-ray release, and their response was, "can't comment at this time." Interesting. Hopefully someone puts out this film on blu-ray! It's Bogdanovich's only 70s film that I thought was less than very good, which has made me all the more eager to revisit it.

At least the DVD is cheaply priced and looks to be a new transfer from the original camera negative. Otherwise, I think the special features replicate what was on the previous release.

• Brand New HD Master From the Original Negative (1.78:1)
• Audio Commentary by Director Peter Bogdanovich
• Interview with Director Peter Bogdanovich
• Interview with Producer Roger Corman
• Original Trailer

The original DVD release was 4x3 letter boxed so this will be a big improvement.

It's likely to be the same deal as the The Wild Eye, Nashville Girl etc., right?
A blu-ray exclusively available through Screen Archives.

Just signed two crime films/neo-noirs from the early 90's. One stars two Oscar winners and that guy who is in all the QT films, its sort of a quirky road crime film. Other was voted one of the best of the year by Ebert and is a masterpiece in my opinion. The current UK blu is seriously lacking, so I am hoping to do a brand new 2k scan. Hopefully these two will click unlike everything else non genre I released so far. And nope, they are not horror films, they are crime dramas

From their Facebook page...

The second title has to be The Last Seduction, right?

Kiss Of Death remake for the first one? Cast includes Samuel L Jackson and two Oscar winners in Nic Cage and Helen Hunt, so seems to fit.

When oh when will Red Rock West have its day?

Kiss of Death remake is Fox, I don't think they have a distro deal with them. It's also not a road picture

I think the first clue might be for Deceiver, which is MGM and the QT guy is Michael Parks

The "guy who is in all the QT films" could be Tarantino himself. Somebody to Love is a quirky crime picture, although it only stars one Oscar-winner (Anthony Quinn), unless you count Tarantino there too, and a bunch of nominees (Rosie Perez, Stanley Tucci, Harvey Keitel).

It's Trouble Bound.

Little Odessa also fits the cast perimeters

And Don't Come Knocking

I was thinking of the Dennis Hopper film with Jodie Foster and a bunch of other people; it had a couple of different titles depending on who put it out, but I remember it as Back Track. Can't think of who the Tarantino reference is for, though.

Also, the Ebert pick could be Carl Franklin's One False Move. That was also a neo-noir from the '90s that ended up on Ebert's best-of list.

EDIT: Actually, disregard this one. I didn't see the qualifier about the UK blu-ray release.

Another possibility for the first movie is The Getaway (1994), with Oscar-winners Kim Basinger and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and QT guy Michael Madsen.

Three new Scorpion Releasing Blu-rays

Barbarosa (Fred Schepisi, 1982) - August 9, 2016

Special Features:

• Interview with director Fred Schepisi
  Interviews with cast members

Force: Five (Robert Clouse, 1981)

Special Features:

• Original trailer

The Haunting of Morella (Jim Wynorski, 1990)

Special Features:

• Audio commentary by Jim Wynorski
  Deleted Scenes
  Interview with Roger Corman
  Original Trailer
  Watch this in Nightmare Theater Mode

City on Fire (Alvin Rakoff, 1979) - September release

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (Clive Donner, 1981)

That's an amazing tagline

domino harvey wrote:That's an amazing tagline

Bill Olsen denies that he wrote it...

Blu-ray of Losey's Steaming forthcoming.

Limited edition Blu-rays of Silent Scream and Saint Jack coming in November

Saint Jack! Great news.

Scorpion posted this on facebook. So it looks like they are the ones that picked up the US rights to Two Evil Eyes.