Sony to 'RoboCop': You're Terminated
Posted Sun Aug 13, 2006 at 09:22 PM PDT by
Only days before its scheduled Blu-ray debut on August 15, '
RoboCop'
has been unceremoniously yanked from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment upcoming
release slate, the studio has announced.
After MGM surprised the industry earlier this year by shifting the
distribution of all its home video titles from Sony to Fox Home Entertainment,
Sony announced it would still release all MGM titles that the studio had originally
scheduled for Blu-ray, including '
The
Terminator,' '
The
Last Waltz' and '
Species,'
which hit stores last month, as well as 'RoboCop.'
However, Sony released this short statement earlier today announcing that 'RoboCop'
would not make it to stores after all.
"Due to the recent changes within MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures
Home Entertainment will no longer be distributing 'RoboCop' on Blu-ray disc.
Therefore, at this time it will not be made available to consumers."
However, while this news may appear grim for 'RoboCop' fans as Fox Home Entertainment
has yet to schedule their first titles on Blu-ray, there may be a silver lining
to Sony's announcement after all. As we voiced in our
recent
review of 'RoboCop', we found the title to be by the far the
worst-looking title yet released on Blu-ray. So here's to hoping that when
Fox does finally get around to releasing 'RoboCop' on the next-gen format, they
will also remaster the title in the fashion it deserves.
We've updated our complete
Blu-ray
Release Schedule with the cancellation; our
'RoboCop'
review has also been permanently archived for reference purposes only.