First Blu-Ray Films Hit in May
Video Business reports Sony’s announcement:
The late-May launch will include eight titles from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and four from Lionsgate, the two studios said Monday. Sony will release seven more catalog titles June 13, while Lionsgate will chip in another six.
Among the first wave of releases from Sony, are 50 First Dates, House of Flying Daggers and MGM’s The Last Waltz.
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Lionsgate titles include Crash, Saw and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. The Lionsgate titles will retail for $30 to $40 each. Sony doesn’t include suggested retail prices with its releases, but catalog titles from the studio are expected to retail for about $25, while new releases will go for about $30.
Sony’s Blu-Ray film partners 20th Century Fox and Disney were silent.
No news on how this impacts the delayed-PS3. I tend to agree with those who think the delay won’t hurt Sony. I still think that Sony will win the next-generation war because, well, it has to.
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