The news that I’m sure that we’ve all been waiting for: Donnie Darko! Yes, it is set for Blu-ray release on 11 August. Read all the details here, but the important thing is that it is a two disc release with both the theatrical (~113 mins) and the director’s cut (~133 mins) versions of the movie, and pretty much all the available special extras.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy lobbed onto my desk this afternoon. This has the theatrical versions of the movies, and I’m pretty sure that the three movie discs are identical to the single disc editions I have previously mentioned. But you also get three DVDs: the special extras discs that came with the movies on DVD. These are all in PAL format and locked to region codes 2 & 4.
Also lobbing onto my desk was the 3 disc Blu-ray version of ‘Underbelly Uncut‘, the first series of the crime drama. I note an interesting not-quite juxtaposition: on the front of the box is a notice (printed onto both the cardboard outer container and the slick of the Blu-ray box, so they appear not to be anticipating any change). This says: ‘Not for sale, distribution or exhibition in Victoria’. On the back is the logo of Film Victoria, which presumably part funded the show.