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There Will Be Blood DVDs
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:19 pm
by Fletch F. Fletch
Specs &
Specs & Artwork:
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced 1-disc and 2-disc editions of There Will Be Blood which stars Daniel Day-Lewis. The Paul Thomas Anderson directed film will be available to own from the 8th April. Each will carry an anamorphic widescreen presentation, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. No extra material will be included on the 1-disc. The 2-disc will include 3 featurettes (Dailies Gone Wild, The Story of Petroleum, 15), additional scenes (Fishing, and Haircut/Interrupted Hymn), and both the teaser and theatrical trailers. A HD DVD release will also be available with all of the 2-disc features.
Re: There Will Be Blood
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:33 pm
by HerrSchreck
Now
that's some good chewin tobbacca!
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:36 pm
by Antoine Doinel
I kinda wish they had gone with
the 'bible" teaser poster.
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:10 pm
by davebert
Teaser art seconded. Or I've always been partial to the posters I see on bus stops in Manhattan, with Lewis hunched over in the foreground while a geyser shoots fire off in the distance.
And I would like to know exactly how this release will play out given Toshiba's official announcement. It seems like pressing a new disc for an officially dead format would be about the stupidest thing you could do. Didn't Paramount get some clause in the contract that awarded them a huge sack of money, saying if the format officially died their exclusivity was off the hook?
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:55 pm
by exte
When you have an actor like Day-Lewis, who is about to win the Best Actor Oscar, why on earth would you not want to have him on the cover to sell the dvd? Of course, for a special edition, they by all means can do the bible cover, just like Zodiac and every other SE out there...
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 7:27 pm
by Jeff
These details were posted a few weeks ago on PTA fan site
Cigarettes and Red Vines:
i think it’s safe to let you know the few things i learned about the dvd release when i was last with paul:
> there is no commentary track, nor will there ever probably be one again. paul mentioned to me how alot of the buzz has been taken from doing them because people quote them back verbatim to him in interviews and fun/flippant comments are regarded as gospel. (not a quote, but the gist of what was said)
> the behind-the-scenes footage we reported ages ago that was being shot by austin lynch will, as of this point, not be included on the dvd as a ‘that moment’ style feature. paul said it all turned out wonderfully but that the footage might take away the magic of the film itself saying “it’s just a bunch of people in a desert standing around making a movie.”
> there is an extremely old documentary/footage that was found about mining and oil production from the era. they are planning to cut in jonny greenwood’s score over top of it and make a presentation out of it.
i can’t remember anything else specifically sticking out, but i’m sure there will be tastes of the usual things (trailers, a cut scene or two etc.) more updates as i get them.
And then a couple of days ago, this bit about the cover of the two-disc from PTA's assisstant:
The DVD will be released on April 8th, 2008 on a 2-disc collector’s edition. The cover is very classy; personally, I was hoping they’d use the original one-sheet “bible” poster, but this isn’t too bad either — it’s an image of Daniel Plainview looking down into the oil well, taken from a frame near the beginning of the movie. DDL is credited at the top; in the center lies the title “There Will Be Blood” and directly underneath “written for the screen and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson” and at the very bottom “2-Disc Collector’s Edition”.
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:40 am
by Luke M
Jeff wrote:The DVD will be released on April 8th, 2008 on a 2-disc collector’s edition. The cover is very classy; personally, I was hoping they’d use the original one-sheet “bible” poster, but this isn’t too bad either — it’s an image of Daniel Plainview looking down into the oil well, taken from a frame near the beginning of the movie.
There's nothing classy about
this.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:26 pm
by Jeff
Here is a low-res look at the real
two-disc artwork.
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:34 pm
by exte
Absolute garbage. I'm surprised PTA signed off. (It's bad enough he no longer does commentaries!)
Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:42 pm
by a.khan
Not a fan of the 2-disc artwork; and expect them to slap Academy Award statuettes all over, after tomorrow.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 6:08 am
by kekid
I am less bothered by the artwork than by the fact that this DVD does not seem to have a Blu-ray version.
Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:37 am
by pro-bassoonist
kekid wrote:I am less bothered by the artwork than by the fact that this DVD does not seem to have a Blu-ray version.
A BR version is upcoming -- not a speculation or a rumor or anything of that nature.
Dr.A
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:43 am
by manicsounds
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:45 am
by kaujot
Where is that on Amazon? I can't find it.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:14 pm
by dx23
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:49 pm
by souvenir
This is, believe it or not, a digipak, with the teaser poster part shown above the digi cover and the bottom picture the thee-tiered digi. It's like Killer of Sheep's packaging, though, and has no plastic at all. Disc 1 slides on H.W.'s side and Disc 2 slides into Paul Dano. There's also three paragraphs from Upton Sinclair's Oil! printed on the other side of the Dano picture.
Also, despite Paramount's normal policy, the discs aren't generic grey.
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:42 pm
by domino harvey
What the hell is wrong with studios that they think no-hub digipaks are good packaging
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:50 am
by a.khan
Presently, the artwork box on Amazon is empty. May be they took it down?
Edit: The package shot is up.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:19 pm
by Jeff
There will be Blu on June 12. Apparently Anderson designed the standard DVD art, but Paramount must have picked the
Blu-Ray cover. Yuck.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:36 pm
by bradass
Jeff wrote:There will be Blu on June 12. Apparently Anderson designed the standard DVD art, but Paramount must have picked the
Blu-Ray cover. Yuck.
You mean the
German release by Buena Vista? Does anyone know if they region-code their Blu-rays? As nice as the 2-disc packaging is, that cinematography deserves 1080p. According to High Def Digest, Warner UK didn't region-code
Beowulf, so
Zodiac and
Sweeney Todd should be safe for anyone interested.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:39 pm
by Jeff
Ah. My mistake. I saw that image and date posted elsewhere and assumed it was a region 1 release.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:26 pm
by kaujot
IGN reviews the 2-disc edition.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:50 pm
by souvenir
kaujot wrote:IGN reviews the 2-disc edition.
Having watched the DVD, I think that assessment of the image quality is wildly generous. There's nothing particularly wrong with it, but it's far from reference-quality. The supplements, however, are pretty nice and refreshingly different from the usual fluff. I do understand the disappointment in how few extras there are, though.
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:53 pm
by kaujot
souvenir wrote:Having watched the DVD, I think that assessment of the image quality is wildly generous. There's nothing particularly wrong with it, but it's far from reference-quality. The supplements, however, are pretty nice and refreshingly different from the usual fluff. I do understand the disappointment in how few extras there are, though.
I think it's quite sad that PTA won't do commentaries anymore. I love his
Boogie Nights commentary.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:42 am
by exte
kaujot wrote:I think it's quite sad that PTA won't do commentaries anymore. I love his Boogie Nights commentary.
He's got the touch! He's got the power!! After all is said and done....
