UK blu-ray release for 'Next' & 'Underworld: Evolution'?

[MCMLXXXVIII]

Does anyone know the UK release dates for the blu-ray versions of these two?

I rent from LoveFilm but they list both as TBC, and Amazon state that they have been released but will take 8 to 11 days to order and have no product image.

Yet Play.com have them both in their top 10 blu-ray sales chart.

I know that Paramount were the US theatrical distributors for 'Next' but it was released in the UK by Entertainment. Would the recent Paramount decision still affect this title?

U:E however is a Sony film, but also distributed by Entertainment.

[dts197]

Should have clicked on the titles on Play. They are both in stock now ready for dispatch. Both released on Monday just gone.

[Noggin1980]

For Next imdb lists

Initial Entertainment Group (IEG) (2007) (non-USA) (all media) (sales)

For underworld evolution

Entertainment in Video (2006) (UK) (DVD)

So they should both be availible on blu-ray

Edit - hehe ok my post is a bit useless after dts.1978's post

[Andori]

AFAIK Underworld: Evolution doesn't have a PCM track on the UK release, yet the US version does (and the US version is multiregion )

[MCMLXXXVIII]

I've had a look through the local game and music shops this afternoon and none had them in stock.

Has anyone actually rented or bought these titles yet?

P.S. - Thanks for the tip andori, it seems hard to find audio specs for UK blu-ray releases online.

[Game Lover]

Originally Posted by Andori

AFAIK Underworld: Evolution doesn't have a PCM track on the UK release, yet the US version does (and the US version is multiregion )

Both Next and Underworld in the Uk have DTS HD audio.

[Vern]

Blockbuster in West Swindon had Next BD (two copies - now one!) this afternoon, £19.99. They also had a copy of Underworld BD for £18.99.

[HugoFJH]

I bought Next on BR last weekend - darling Jessica

[DisguisedCoot]

Originally Posted by Vern

Blockbuster in West Swindon had Next BD (two copies - now one!) this afternoon, £19.99. They also had a copy of Underworld BD for £18.99.

damn, i was over that way never thought of looking in there

[reckless]

Hang on - I thought NEXT was a Paramount disc and had been cancelled on BR and only available on HD DVD? It was cancelled late in the day so are there any available that somehow made it to stores?

[Noggin1980]

Originally Posted by reckless

Hang on - I thought NEXT was a Paramount disc and had been cancelled on BR and only available on HD DVD? It was cancelled late in the day so are there any available that somehow made it to stores?

It's paramount movie and so exclusive to HD DVD in America.

However many studios have a different company distribute the movie for them outside of the US. Because of this some films that should be HD DVD or Blu-ray only are availible on the other format. This is the case here with Next.

It's also the case with Fantastic Four and Fantastic 4 rise of the Silver surfer that is a Fox disc and thus Blu-ray exclusive but you can buy a HD DVD version because of the company Fox uses to distribute in Germany isn't Blu-ray exclusive.

There are many examples of this for both formats, HD DVD has the advantage though of no region encoding which opens up more of these titles to people.

[reckless]

Ah, didn't realise that it was one of those that fell into the distributor issue - thanks for the info. Don't suppose you know if it's region protected or not? (some paramount discs were and some aren't). I have a US ps3 so don't want to get it unless I know it's going to work.