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Posted by admin in Blu-ray, SteelBooks on March 13th, 2009

Received this Indy 4 FutureShop Exclusive Blu-ray SteelBook this morning from my good friend, Gui (a.k.a. tiger).
This brings the number to 3 out of the 4 FS Exclusive BD SteelBooks I’m after and the fourth one (I Am Legend) is in transit right now. Can’t wait.

I also took the time to go check out the “4 for 50€” offer at Fnac and picked up some new movies, two of which I’ve never seen before: Blood Diamond and The Pianist; and then Totall Recall and The Rock to fill my action fix!

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Max Payne MediaMarkt Exclusive SteelBook?

Posted by admin in SteelBooks on March 11th, 2009

Rumoured to be released on March 20th (same day as Body of Lies), the Max Payne SteelBook would be added to ever-growing list of MediaMarkt Exclusives.

To be confirmed.

Source: bluray-disc.de forums

EDIT: My good friend Helmar went and asked at his local MediaMarkt if they knew anything regarding the release and nothing came up in their database besides the normal amaray.
I guess people like launching rumours just for the sake of it.

EDIT 2: My friend asked in another store which gave him the opposite answer. A very strong maybe then.

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Terminator 2: Skynet Edition Endoskeleton & SteelBook in France

Posted by admin in Blu-ray on March 10th, 2009

I know this might not interest a lot of this blog’s readers (unless I’m the only one who reads it?).

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that the Skynet Edition Terminator 2 re-release that’s coming out in Germany, in the UK (Play.com Exclusive) and in the USA is also getting a French release.

It will be sold for 99€ and comes out on May 26th (unless we get a delay like everywhere else).
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Source: DevilDead.com

I’d also like to point out that it’ll be a chance for studios to release the other movies (yet still no Terminator):
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day on May 26th 2009 (SteelBook!)
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on May 20th 2009

It’s good to see that T3 will be getting a proper release compared to its old, and now discontinued, American counterpart which had lossy audio and a 1080i resolution.

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Worldwide SteelBook Release List

Posted by admin in SteelBooks, Website on March 7th, 2009

Okay, so a friend of mine whom I trade with a lot keeps asking me if I know what SteelBooks have been released up to now and what’s coming in the future.
So I decided to make a page where I will try to reference every single Blu-ray SteelBook there exists (or doesn’t, for that matter) in order to have some sort of reference.

I’ve completed the North American part of the page, with pictures for each release.

Clicky.

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars SteelBook (The Netherlands)

Posted by admin in SteelBooks on March 7th, 2009

Ahh how this is surreal. Get this, a little over a month ago I told myself I wouldn’t buy this movie because I had no interest in seeing it.
Now, I found a website that sold the last 100 copies available for a mere 45€. You’d tell me that’s a steep price for a SteelBook when you usually don’t pay more than 30€ for them. Well when you know this SteelBook has only been released to about 1000 copies in The Netherlands and that since it’s been out-of-print it’s been sought after like goldmines in the 18-hundreds and sold for up to 220€ on eBay (!!!), well let me tell you that 45€ is quite a decent price. Did I also mention that it was sent in a casual bubblewrap envelope but yet came unscattered? When you see what happened to jojo’s So here it is, the Star Wars: The Clone Wars Dutch SteelBook:

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Righteous Kill SteelBook (Sweden)

Posted by admin in SteelBooks on March 6th, 2009

Got this from Megastore.se this morning, they packaged quite poorly considering the 9€ shipping fee, even I ask for less when sending people stuff across the oceans inside some nice bubble wrap.

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Babylon A.D. SteelBook – FNAC Exclusive

Posted by admin in SteelBooks on March 4th, 2009

Just went to FNAC to get some copies of this movie in order to use some for the group buy I’ve organised over at Blu-ray.com. Here’s the group shot:

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TF1 Vidéo SteelBooks March 19th release list

Posted by admin in SteelBooks on March 3rd, 2009

Okay so I’ve tried to gather up a list of all the TF1 Vidéo Blu-rays coming out on March 19th which will most probably be SteelBooks, but need yet to be confirmed.

Bangkok Dangerous

1408
Chambre 1408

Cleaner
Cleaner

Les Evadés

The Fountain

Cleaner
L’Honneur Du Dragon

Crank
Hyper Tension

Immortel (ad vitam)

Piège De Feu

Pulp Fiction

And the one with no cover:

Carnets De Voyage

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Babylon A.D. SteelBook coming out tomorrow

Posted by admin in SteelBooks on March 2nd, 2009

In a recent browse of FNAC’s website, I came across the page for its new SteelBook Exclusive: Babylon A.D. which will be released tomorrow (March 3rd 2009) for the price of 29,99€.
It’ll have an extra goodie (compared to the normal SteelBook release) which consists of a poster of the movie (size 60×40 centimeters).

Here’s a cover for it: