{"id":29167,"date":"2012-02-01T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=29167"},"modified":"2018-02-20T12:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:39:25","slug":"steelbook-king-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/steelbook-king-of-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Metal Jackets: Eh, Fugetaboutit&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK distributor Arrow Video has announced its first Blu-ray SteelBook release: director Abel Ferrara&#8217;s cult crime drama &#8216;King of New York&#8217;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 1990 film stars Christopher Walken as drug lord Frank White, who emerges from prison as a modern day Robin Hood with plans to violently eliminate his competition and distribute the proceeds of his organization to the poor.<\/p>\n<p>The release will be available on June 4th in limited edition SteelBook packaging (as seen below).  It looks pretty slick with a montage of images from the movie, including a badass Walken holding a smoking gun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kingofny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kingofny.jpg\" title=\"King of New York Steelbook\" width=\"350\" height=\"491\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kingofny.jpg 646w, https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kingofny-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Blu-ray will feature a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack. Supplements will include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collector\u2019s booklet featuring writings on the film by Brad Stevens, author of &#8216;Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Audio commentary with director Abel Ferrara<\/li>\n<li> Audio commentary with composer Joe Delia, producer Mary Kane, casting director Randy Sabusawa and editor Anthony Redman<\/li>\n<li>Interview with producer Augusto Caminito<\/li>\n<li>Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty \u2013 Documentary on Abel Ferrara from the French TV show &#8216;Cin\u00e9astes de Notre Temps&#8217;, and more! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vLvi01UW3vk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still no word on the disc&#8217;s region coding. However Arrow does have many region-free Blu-ray releases. The SteelBook for &#8216;King of New York&#8217;  can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arrowfilms.co.uk\/index.php?tle_id=607&amp;a=a&amp;format=3\">pre-ordered directly from Arrow Video<\/a> for \u00a329.99 (approximately $47 USD).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK distributor Arrow Video has announced its first Blu-ray SteelBook release: director Abel Ferrara&#8217;s cult crime drama &#8216;King of New York&#8217;.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":29164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[67,3458,4552,4553,4551,749,1428],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29167"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29394,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29167\/revisions\/29394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}