Fox Unleashes the Motherload for 2009

In an early announcement to retailers, Fox Home Entertainment has revealed that they will bring 11 of their best selling catalog titles to Blu-ray early next year. As these are unofficial announcements, technical specs and special features have yet to be confirmed, but we can very least assume these titles will receive the typical Fox AVC video and DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack treatment. The barrage of titles kicks off on January 13th with 'Mirrors: Unrated' followed by 'The French Connection' a week later on January 20th. Skipping into February, Fox releases four comedy titles on February 3rd - 'Little Miss Sunshine', 'Napoleon Dynamite', 'Office Space: Special Edition With Flair!', and 'Sideways' - followed the next week on February 10th with 'Raging Bull' and 'Donnie Darko: Collector's Edition'. The following week, on February 17th, Fox will release 'Passion of the Christ', followed on February 24th by 'The French Connection II' and 'Vanishing Point'. Add these to the previous announce Q1 titles from Fox, and you see an extremely impressive line-up coming from the studio. Save up that holiday cash, you're going to need it early next year. Edit: Looks like 'Ronin' on February 24th as well.
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Moefiz  » Oct 30, 2008
Wow....some pretty good titles for early next year...only wonder what is in store for the later part of the year.

AlexG  » Oct 30, 2008
Well i'm in for Napoleon Dynamite & Office Space.....

sinister184  » Oct 30, 2008
we'll see how the transfer is on Donnie Darko

tru blu  » Oct 30, 2008
Some very cool titles!!

rob1984  » Oct 30, 2008
Finally Sideways..........my personal favorite!!

BobbyB  » Oct 30, 2008

The Motherload!?! Sorry, these list some decent titles like the French Connection and Raging Bull (and maybe Passion Of the Christ for the sadists who like torture flicks), but a true Motherload would include Alien, Aliens, True Lies, The Abyss, and a couple of little films known as Star Wars! This is a nice start, however. Now let's see if they start pricing their releases sensibly and actually adding features worthy of the format to the catalog titles.

doctorD  » Oct 30, 2008
Napolean Dynamite and The Passion of the Christ for me!

SDon1969  » Oct 30, 2008
Office Space: Special Edition With Flair!', haha, with flair....great comedy. 'Ragging Bull' hopefully is a typo and not a movie about a menstrual bovine. Not sure I'd call this a motherload, but the more titles released on blu, the better!

NoQuestion  » Oct 30, 2008
@BobbyB Stop beating a dead horse about Star Wars and Alien movies. Alien movies are penciled in for sometime 2009 from what has been posted in the forums. As far as Star Wars goes, its not up to FOX when they are released so STFU about it. Back on topic. Great list of movies. I will be picking up most if not all of these.

AikonEnt  » Oct 30, 2008
Donnie Darko is a must for me.

rgrudinski  » Oct 30, 2008
So... Before I jump the gun and sell my DVD copy back... They DO mean "Raging Bull," and there isn't some movie I've never heard of called "Ragging Bull" that they're releasing on the 10th of February, right?

Lucy Diamond  » Oct 30, 2008
Hmmm...I'm oddly uninterested in any of these. :/ I dunno...maybe that is a good thing. Three people who have been working in my department for 16 years were let go yesterday. No one is safe here. I'm stockpiling money as we speak.

badchannels  » Oct 30, 2008
Not really a " Motherload " but there are a about six decent titles. I can think of far better and far more titles than this that Fox has in their catalog though that would be much more worthy of Blu release. Napoleon Dynamite, Vanishing Point, Raging Bull, Passion of the Christ, Donnie Darko and Office Space are the ones that stand out.

jhansla  » Oct 30, 2008
Yeah no way is this a motherload. Star Wars and Aliens would of been the motherload

jdc115  » Oct 30, 2008
Does Donnie Darko Collector's edition mean that it will have the theatre release as well? I never liked the director's cut so i hope they release both

dobyblue  » Oct 30, 2008
I agree with Bobby - when I saw "motherload" my heart definitely did jump with the thought that they'd finally announced the Alien Quadrilogy. No reason for people to be rude to him for his opinion. We should realise though that some of Fox's biggest titles are already out, like Independance Day.

Blu-Ron  » Oct 30, 2008
Finally some decent titles. But no way is this a Fox mother load.

Sonny  » Oct 30, 2008
There are some good ones in that lot' for sure I'd really like "Platoon" I know it an MGM release, but FOX owns MGM.

thedarkangel1975  » Oct 30, 2008
Donnie Darko, Office Space, and Little Miss Sunshine are a buy for me.

mpstjohn  » Oct 30, 2008
Can't wait for Donnie Darko and Office Space!

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