{"id":76922,"date":"2016-04-05T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=76922"},"modified":"2016-04-04T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T04:51:46","slug":"bluray-steelbook-cloverfield-lane-independence-day-amelie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/bluray-steelbook-cloverfield-lane-independence-day-amelie\/","title":{"rendered":"SteelBook Alert: Welcome to Earth!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Among the movie titles recently announced for preorder with Blu-ray SteelBook editions are a new sequel that’s not really a sequel, a cheeseball sci-fi film that’s about to get a sequel, and a quirky French romance that requires no sequel.
\n<\/p>\n

’10 Cloverfield Lane’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Best Buy<\/a>
\nRelease date: TBD
\nPrice: $26.99
\nRegion Coding: Paramount Blu-rays are almost always region-free<\/p>\n

This is a strange choice of SteelBook case art for the ‘Cloverfield’ follow-up that doesn’t actually have much to do with ‘Cloverfield’. I haven’t seen the movie (which is set almost entirely inside an underground bunker), but it’s my understanding that it has something of a Hitchcockian thriller vibe. Perhaps that’s why the artwork seems to channel old Saul Bass posters. It’s interesting, but I’m not sure whether I like it for this particular movie or not.<\/p>\n

\"10<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Independence Day’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Zavvi<\/a>
\nRelease date: May 30th, 2016
\nPrice: \u00a315.99
\nRegion Coding: Unconfirmed, possibly locked to Region B<\/p>\n

As a tie-in with this summer’s belated sequel, Fox will reissue Roland Emmerich’s 1996 alien invasion explosion-palooza with a brand new 4k remaster. Over in the UK, Zavvi will put the disc in a SteelBook. I’ve never been much of a fan of the film, but I have to admit that this is one damn fine-looking package. <\/p>\n

It is not presently known whether the UK Blu-ray will be region-locked or not. (The Zavvi listing says “Region 2,” which isn’t even a Blu-ray specification.) Fox is erratic about region coding, so there’s a chance this may wind up locked to Region B.<\/p>\n

\"Independence<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Independence<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Independence<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Am\u00e9lie’<\/h2>\n

Available at: Zavvi<\/a>
\nRelease date: May 9th, 2016
\nPrice: \u00a314.99
\nRegion Coding: Locked to Region B<\/p>\n

As much as I love Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s marvelous surreal love story \u2013 and as much as an argument can be made that this cartoonish case art is appropriate for the whimsical tone of the movie \u2013 this SteelBook doesn’t work for me. It crosses the line into being just a bit too goofy-looking. Frankly, that drawing of the title character on the back is downright creepy. <\/p>\n

I would have much preferred that the images currently stuck in the interior of the case were used on the exterior front and back instead.<\/p>\n

\"Amelie<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Amelie<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Amelie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the movie titles recently announced for preorder with Blu-ray SteelBook editions are a new sequel that’s not really a sequel, a cheeseball sci-fi film that’s about to get a sequel, and a quirky French romance that requires no sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[3318,1172,67,3776,3267,1428,6536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76922"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76936,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76922\/revisions\/76936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}