HD-DVD and Blu-ray launch title list.

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Sony in Bluray:

Hitch
The Fifth Element
Legends of the Fall
House of Flying Daggers
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Desperado
For a Few Dollars More
The Guns of Navarone
A Knight's Tale
Kung Fu Hustle
The Last Waltz
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Robocop
Sense and Sensibility
Stealth
Species
SWAT
XXX

Fox's bluray :

Fantastic Four
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Behind Enemy Lines
Kiss of the Dragon
Ice Age

Lionsgate's bluray:

Lord of War
The Punisher
The Devil's Rejects
Saw
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Reservoir Dogs
Total Recall
Dune
Rambo: First Blood"


Paramount (not sure if these are all dual as it looks like they support both formats):

Four Brothers
Sahara
Aeon Flux
Sky Captain
World of Tomorrow."

Paramount Pictures under the banner Paramount High Definition and will include, in 2006
Mission: Impossible 3
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible 2

Paramount's other Blu-ray/HD-DVD titles at launch:

The Italian Job
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
U2: Rattle and Hum

Sleepy Hollow
We Were Soldiers
The Manchurian Candidate

Here's the complete initial HD-DVD release slate from Warner, along with their announced street dates: (some of these you will find annouced soon for blu-ray)

3/28 - Batman Begins, Constantine, Million Dollar Baby, Phantom of the Opera, Twister

4/11 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Last Samurai, Lethal Weapon, Training Day, Unforgiven

4/25 - Goodfellas, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Matrix, Swordfish, Syriana (day and date with regular DVD)

5/9 - Blazing Saddles, Dukes of Hazzard, Full Metal Jacket, Rumor Has It (day and date), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

5/16 - Charlie & Chocolate Factory, The Green Mile: Special Edition, Ocean's Twelve, Troy

Warner has also announced that additional titles they expect to release in 2006 will include Superman Returns and Poseidon (both day and date with standard DVD), as well as TV titles, additional catalog films and more new releases throughout the year.

As part of this announcement, HBO confirmed that The Sopranos and Deadwood are among the TV offerings they expect to debut on HD-DVD later in 2006.

Also, Universal has announced that their initial March '06 slate will include 10 HD-DVD titles, among them The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Jarhead, Doom, Cinderella Man, Apollo 13, Serenity, The Chronicles of Riddick, U-571, Van Helsing and The Bourne Supremacy. The exact street dates are still TBA.

We expect that New Line will make an HD-DVD release announcement in the next few days as well. If they do, we'll post all the details as soon as we get back.