Once again, I’ve managed to score an amazing trade with a great German friend of mine. Without further ado, here are the 4 beasts:

Death Race (Extended Version) / Body of Lies (Special Edition)
El Orfanato / Wanted

Just got this in. Sexy looking SteelBook.
Too bad there’s a little dent in the lower right corner, but it seems to be on every single copy so…

Seems like Australia will be getting the SteelBook of Transporter 3 as well! That’s the third version we’re going to see of this movie.

Slated for June 10th 2009 (just after the German release).

Artwork (TBC):

Big announcement today! The Lord of the Rings trilogy is coming to Blu-ray soon in the US. Sadly for us in Europe, it seems we’ll only be getting them towards the end of the year. Amazon.de have announced their Exclusive SteelBook editions for November 27th.
It also seems like it’ll only be the Theatrical cuts of the movies. Better than nothing, right?

Without further ado, here are the covers with their pre-order links (EDIT: Amazon.de pages have been removed, probably for an update):

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / Amazon.de

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers / Amazon.de

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King / Amazon.de

They weren’t kidding when they said Priority Shipping with FedEx. I understood the 13€ worth when I came back today to see I had been delivered. Not something to get excited about except for the mere fact that it was sent the day before! I know, riiight?

Anyway, here’s the two Italian beauties I was lacking:

The Interpreter / Memoirs of a Geisha

EDIT: To take with a grain of salt, these covers are actually a photoshop job by DEMON23 and there is no evidence of such a release.

Okay so here’s the second post for today with an announcement of a new SteelBook coming (I think) on May 8th: The Day the Earth Stood Still, the 2008 remake with Keanu Reeves. Yes another MediaMarkt Exclusive.

Here’s the cover(s) (Thanks to DEMON23) – I have a theory that it’s either going to be two covers OR that it’ll be a lenticular cover:

If you’re looking to get the three Italian Blu-ray SteelBooks available, you should head to dvd.it, they’re all 19.99€ a piece:

The Interpreter:

Memoirs of a Geisha (Memorie di una Geisha):

Shoot ‘Em Up Limited Edition (it doesn’t come up as SteelBook but in the description it says “Edizione da collezione, in elegante cofanetto metallico steelbook, a tiratura limitata”):

An official press release by Aurum (the movie’s distributor in Spain) seems to confirm Twilight (Crepúsculo in Spanish) will be a SteelBook, and the first in Spain at that.

Besides that, here are the front and back covers (click on the thumbs for higher resolution):

Seems to be locked to Region B.

I also took advantage of the last day of the get 4 Blu-rays for 50€ at my usual Fnac store. I had a 30€ voucher from previous purchases which brought it down to 20€ for the 4 BDs. That’s 5 bucks a movie! Now if that isn’t sexy, I don’t know what it is.
I chose these: Be Kind Rewind (I lack comedies in my Blus); Black Hawk Down (never seen this Ridley Scott movie, I’ve heard it’s really good); Casablanca (a classic I got for my mother who’s a fan) and No Country For Old Men (which I’ve heard was amazing).

According to Amazon.de, Clint Eastwood’s newest movie, Gran Torino, will be getting a German SteelBook release (July 10th 2009). An innovation to counter the new German FSK laws that force companies to print the rating on the cover (which, as you can see, ruins the artwork) is to print said rating on a slipcover in which you put a logoless SteelBook.

Just when I was about to lose all faith in humankind, I received one of the sexiest gifts ever from a friend I’ve been doing deals with for a while now and I must say that I feel truly honoured to know that person. So thank you so much, you’ll know who you are.

So here we have the Japanese Terminator 2: Judgment Day Premium Edition (First Press Limited Edition) Blu-ray SteelBook:

EDIT: Instead of writing yet another blog post for something so related to this one, I thought I’d just edit it in.
There’s been recent rumours that now, not only will France, The Netherlands and the UK get a SteelBook release for Terminator 2, but Germany and Finland (yes, Finland) will also be getting their own.

EDIT 2: Might as well make an edit about this: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines will also be getting a German SteelBook! Already up for pre-order on Amazon.de.