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Disney Plans to Release 30+ Blu-rays for 2012!

To satisfy consumer demand and serve the growing base of Blu-ray households, The Walt Disney Studios today announced plans to add more than 30 popular and iconic films to its ever-expanding Blu-ray library. Each film selected for release has been fully digitally remastered, with dirt and anomalies cleaned to a pristine level, offering viewers optimum high definition picture and sound quality of some of their favorite films. The films selected for release appeal to families, film-lovers and collectors with a wide-breadth of Live-Action, Animated, Romance titles that range from Beaches to While You Were Sleeping and Pocahontas to The Santa Clause. Many are celebrating special 10th, 15th and 20th Anniversary Edition releases, many are Academy-Award Winning Films like Dead Poets SocietyEvita, Dick Tracy, and many are back by popular demand including Hocus Pocus, Adventures in Babysitting, and The Color of Money.


THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS TO RELEASE MORE THAN 30 ICONIC FILMS

FOR THE FIRST TIME ON BLU-RAY IN 2012

 

BURBANK, Calif. – March 16, 2012 – To satisfy consumer demand and serve the growing base of Blu-ray households, The Walt Disney Studios today announced plans to add more than 30 popular and iconic films to its ever-expanding Blu-ray library.  Each film selected for release has been fully digitally remastered, with dirt and anomalies cleaned to a pristine level, offering viewers optimum high definition picture and sound quality of some of their favorite films.

The films selected for release appeal to families, film-lovers and collectors with a wide-breadth of Live-Action, Animated, Romance titles that range from Beaches to While You Were Sleeping and Pocahontas to The Santa Clause. Many are celebrating special 10th, 15th and 20th Anniversary Edition releases, many are ACADEMY AWARD-Winning Films like Dead Poets SocietyEvita, Dick Tracy, and many are back by popular demand including Hocus Pocus, Adventures in Babysitting, and The Color of Money.

“We receive many requests and comments from consumers seeking specific titles they’d like to own on Blu-ray and, as such, we carefully selected a number of popular films that will satisfy demand from fans worldwide,” said Lori MacPherson, Executive Vice President, Product Management, The Walt Disney Studios. “As we grow our Blu-ray catalog we will continue to utilize the best technologies to provide the most pristine and immersive in-home experience of our films.”

In 2011, consumers’ high-definition packaged media purchases continued to rise with Blu-ray disc sales in the U.S. tallying more than $2 billion.  The Studio’s titles were among the most popular of the year with ACADEMY AWARD nominee The Help, Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Disney’s The Lion King, Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2 and Disney’s Tangled all ranking in the industry’s Top 10 Blu-ray releases, according to the DEG.

The year-long campaign launched in January 2012 with the release of Good Morning, Vietnam and Dead Poets Society for the first time on Blu-ray. Both films earned Robin Williams an OSCAR nomination for Best Actor and are the perfect addition to any in-home movie collection.

Beginning in May, the Studio will start to celebrate a number of film anniversaries, introducing multiple great films to Blu-ray including Father of the Brideand Bringing Down the House releasing on May 15th; The Color of Money, Cocktail and Ransom releasing on June 5th; Sister Act and Evita releasing on June 19th; and The Horse WhispererUnder the Tuscan Sun, PhenomenonStep Up, Home On The Range and Treasure Planet releasing July 3rd.

In the Fall, a perfect mix of feel-good films, anniversary releases and nostalgic favorites will debut, including Adventures in Babysitting, Grosse Pointe Blank, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, The Rescuers, High Fidelity, Ed Wood, Judge DreddGhost of the Abyss 3D, Lady And The Tramp 2: Scamp’s AdventurePocahontas, The Tigger Movie, The Aristocats and Pete’s Dragon.

And just in time for Halloween and the holidays, a wide array of titles that make perfect stocking stuffers for film fans will include titles such as Hocus Pocus, Arachnophobia, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Son of Flubber, Cold Creek Manor, The Santa Clause Trilogy, The Absent-Minded Professor, Flubber, While You Were Sleeping, Sweet Home Alabama, Beaches, Babes in Toyland, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Brother Bear and Dick Tracy.

 

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11 Responses to “Disney Plans to Release 30+ Blu-rays for 2012!”


  1. Matt Goodman

    Grosse Point Blank! I’m so excited as is Aaron I’d imagine.

  2. Brian White

    Flubber!

  3. Aaron Neuwirth

    Matt called it. My favorite film finally gets something more than the crappy DVD.

    Plus so many others that I hope will at least have decent transfers: Dick Tracy, High Fidelity, Ed Wood

  4. Gerard Iribe

    /facepalm

  5. Sean Ferguson

    There’s a lot of good ones in here!

  6. Kyle

    Treasure Planet ftw. Been waiting on it’s release, can’t wait to see what it looks like on blu.

  7. Kyle

    …and of course Grosse Point Blank, High Fidelity, and…………..Dick Tracy.

  8. Aaron Neuwirth

    Well Matt called it. My favorite movie finally on Blu (hope the transfer is decent), along with High Fidelity, Dick Tracy, and Ed Wood

  9. Gregg

    Dick Tracy & Cocktail!

  10. Sean Ferguson

    Arron you’re favorite movie is Grosse Point Blank?

  11. Aaron Neuwirth

    Between that and Fight Club.