{"id":98388,"date":"2019-05-30T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=98388"},"modified":"2019-05-30T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T12:31:07","slug":"steelbook-bluray-ultrahd-aladdin-dumbo-shazam-avengers-endgame-alita-battle-angel-shining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/steelbook-bluray-ultrahd-aladdin-dumbo-shazam-avengers-endgame-alita-battle-angel-shining\/","title":{"rendered":"SteelBook Alert: One Jump Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the delight of collectors (if not their wallets), Best Buy has kept busy cranking out SteelBooks for Disney remakes, superhero blockbusters, and even the occasional other type of movie that might still get made these days.
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Aladdin (2019)<\/h2>\n

Video Formats: Blu-ray\/Ultra HD
\nAvailable at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE<\/a>)
\nRelease date: TBD
\nPrice: $34.99<\/p>\n

Video Formats: Blu-ray\/3D
\nAvailable at: Zavvi (ORDER HERE<\/a>)
\nRelease date: TBD
\nPrice: $35.49<\/p>\n

Defying my immense skepticism borne from its really awful trailers, Disney’s Aladdin<\/em> remake looks like it’s going to be a pretty big hit. <\/p>\n

Assuming that this is the final art and not a temp design, the SteelBook is attractive, if not particularly adventurous. I’d certainly rather have this than a big headshot of Will Smith in blue facepaint.<\/p>\n

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

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

Dumbo (2019)<\/h2>\n

Video Formats: Blu-ray\/Ultra HD
\nAvailable at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE<\/a>)
\nRelease date: TBD
\nPrice: $34.99<\/p>\n

The House of Mouse didn’t have quite as much luck with Tim Burton’s reimagining of Dumbo<\/em>. Although not a flop, the film received tepid reviews and has underperformed at the box office.<\/p>\n

I’ll give the SteelBook credit for trying to be creative with the “billboard painted onto the side of a train car” design, but it looks a little cluttered to me with all those diagonal lines. <\/p>\n

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

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

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

Avengers: Endgame<\/h2>\n

Video Formats: Blu-ray\/Ultra HD
\nAvailable at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE<\/a>)
\nRelease date: TBD
\nPrice: $34.99<\/p>\n

It should come as no surprise that the biggest Marvel blockbuster yet would get a SteelBook just like every other film in the series. It should also come as no surprise that it would have boring artwork with a big “A” logo, which seems to be all that the SteelBook artists can think of when it comes to the Avengers<\/em> crossovers. <\/p>\n

Zavvi briefly offered a 3D edition<\/a>, but that one has already sold out.<\/p>\n

\"Avengers:<\/a><\/p>\n

Shazam!<\/h2>\n

Video Formats: Blu-ray\/Ultra HD
\nAvailable at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE<\/a>)
\nRelease date: July 16, 2019
\nPrice: $34.99<\/p>\n

With Shazam!<\/em>, DC made a conscious effort to break from the brooding and dour tone of its earlier superhero flicks in favor of something much lighter and goofier. The ploy worked. The movie got great reviews and did well at the box office.<\/p>\n

Using a close-up of the hero’s logo on the front cover has become something of a clich\u00e9 in SteelBook art, but this looks fine.<\/p>\n

\"Shazam!<\/a><\/p>\n

Alita: Battle Angel<\/h2>\n

Video Formats: Blu-ray\/3D\/Ultra HD
\nAvailable at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE<\/a>)
\nRelease date: July 23, 2019
\nPrice: $34.99<\/p>\n

The trailers for James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez’s anime adaptation were frighteningly bad. That the movie didn’t turn out to be the biggest box office bomb of all time is astounding to me. Against all odds, it will just barely break even at the end of the day. That’s quite an achievement.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what the point is of focusing on the character’s hand for the cover art, but better that than her creepy-as-hell eyes. <\/p>\n

\"Alita:<\/a><\/p>\n

The Shining<\/h2>\n

Video Formats: Blu-ray\/Ultra HD
\nAvailable at: Best Buy (ORDER HERE<\/a>)
\nRelease date: October 1, 2019
\nPrice: $29.99<\/p>\n

As Jason reported from Cannes<\/a>, Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic has gotten an impressive new 4k restoration. <\/p>\n

I get what the artist was going for with the maze design on the SteelBook, and the yellow is meant to homage the original Saul Bass poster<\/a>, but whoever did this is no Saul Bass and the combination doesn’t work very well at all, in my opinion. <\/p>\n

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