Toomorrow

[MichaelB]

From the latest BFI press release:

22 June: TOOMORROW on Blu-ray

The final release in June is TOOMORROW, coming to Blu-ray for the first time in the UK. The film stars Australian pop legend Olivia Newton-John as a singer in a band that becomes entangled with a group of aliens. Set in the still-swinging London of 1970, this pop-sci-fi hybrid has been newly scanned and remastered by the BFI and US distributor Deaf Crocodile.

...who are bringing it out in Region A at roughly the same time.

[MichaelB]

Full specs announced:

Olivia Newton-John in
TOOMORROW
A film by Val Guest

4K Restoration by the BFI and Deaf Crocodile

Released on BFI Blu-ray on 22 June 2026 and Apple TV and Amazon Prime on 13 July 2026

This bizarre 1970 kitsch-cult classic – written and directed by British cinema veteran Val Guest (The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Expresso Bongo) – was the result of music mogul Don Kirshner and James Bond producer Harry Saltzman’s attempt to concoct a Monkees-style pop group for the 1970s. Lost in the void for more than 50 years, Toomorrow has now been fully restored for Earth re-entry. Released by the BFI on 22 June, special features include an audio commentary by Andrew Sandoval, a new video essay by Celeste de la Cabra and archival interviews with Val Guest.

Groovy songbird Olivia Newton-John is out of this world as the lead singer of pop combo Toomorrow in this space-age Swinging London musical. One minute, she and her bandmates are busy laughing, getting laid and taking part in student sit-ins, the next aliens are beaming them up to their sparkly spacecraft. Turns out these squares from another galaxy need life-giving vibrations they can only get from Toomorrow’s experimental synth, the Tonaliser. Might the answer to all their problems be a bubblegum-pop freak-out at London’s Roundhouse, before levitating the building? Dig it!

Special features
• Restored in 4K from the original camera negative and presented in High Definition
• Audio commentary by pop music historian Andrew Sandoval
• Tomorrow Night in London (1969, 5 mins): London swings – but gently – in this patchouli-permeated promo film for the world’s coolest capital
• The Nose Has It! (1942, 8 mins): silly little Arthur Askey mucks about with hankies in this wartime winner from Val Guest
• The Guardian Interview: Val Guest (1998, 62 mins): Guest revisits his career in this onstage retrospective interview
• The British Entertainment History Project: Val Guest (1988, 10 mins): candid reflections upon Toomorrow’s troubled genesis, accompanied by rare promotional images from the BFI National Archive
• If I Could Turn You On (1969, 13 mins): US troupe Living Theatre rouse London hipsters at The Roundhouse with a provocative interactive performance
• Chimp-Mates: Alice Goes Pop! (1975, 17 mins): Public Funk Chimpanzee No. 1 Alice picks up her sticks and kicks out the jams for a Children’s Film Foundation extravaganza
• Toomorrow: Musical Humanism Through the Stars (2026, 12 mins): extraterrestrial encounters of the groovy kind via this video essay by Celeste de la Cabra
• **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet featuring new writing on the film by Matthew Hild, on Val Guest by the BFI’s Dr Josephine Botting and an essay by Jay Rathbone on manufactured pop groups, plus notes on the special features and film credits

Product details
RRP: £19.99/ Cat. no. BFIB1569 / Cert 15 (feature classified 12, added-value material classified 15)
UK / 1970 / colour / 94 mins / English language with optional descriptive subtitles original aspect ratio 2.39:1 / BD50: 1080p, 24fps, LPCM 2.0 mono audio (48kHz/24-bit)

[MichaelB]

And here's a comparison with the Deaf Crocodile release.

COMMON TO BOTH
• Audio commentary by pop music historian Andrew Sandoval
• The Guardian Interview with Val Guest (1998), 60/62 mins - despite the running-time discrepancy, this is clearly the same thing at base.
• The Nose Has It! (1942, 8 mins)
• If I Could Turn You On (1969, 13 mins)
• Toomorrow: Musical Humanism Through the Stars (2026, 12 mins)

UNIQUE TO THE BFI
• Tomorrow Night in London (1969, 5 mins)
• Chimp-Mates: Alice Goes Pop! (1975, 17 mins)
• Booklet featuring new writing on the film by Matthew Hild, on Val Guest by the BFI’s Dr Josephine Botting and an essay by Jay Rathbone on manufactured pop groups, plus notes on the special features and film credits (first pressing only)

UNIQUE TO DEAF CROCODILE
• New art by Beth Morris
• Hard slipcase featuring new artwork by Beth Morris (limited edition only)
• 60-page illustrated booklet featuring a transcript of a 2002 Q&A with Val Guest at the American Cinematheque, conducted by Dennis Bartok, a new essay on Val Guest & Yolande Donlan by Deaf Crocodile’s Dennis Bartok, and a new essay by film critic Walter Chaw (limited edition only)

UNCLEAR
The British Entertainment History Project on the BFI release and the visual essay on the DC one share the same source and may well be the same video piece, but it's impossible to be certain from current info.

And both will of course be region-locked.