Scanners Trilogy & The Brood Coming To Blu-ray in the UK

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Not a lot in the way of details yet, but Second Sight just announced this on their facebook page:

"Latest 'in the works' news!! We'll be bringing SCANNERS - THE TRILOGY to UK Blu-ray late 2012 / early 2013 together with Cronenberg's THE BROOD. More details as they happen..."

Between this and the Basket Case set that they're working on, they've got some great stuff lined up.

[george n Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close george n]

Plus they are working on blu rays of

southern comfort
bride of reanimator
from beyond
society

amongst others

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Steelbook packaging artwork for the Scanners release due March 2013.

[Randy G Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy G]

THE BROOD is still my favourite Cronenberg.

[Jimmy Simard Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jimmy Simard]

For me it's Rabid, I like the historical reference to the political reaction during the October Crisis who is one of the most awfull thing the ROC had done to us.

[Jack J Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jack J]

Hopefully, THE BROOD is gonna be the uncut version. The R rated has been released enough.

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

I'd love a Cronenberg commentary for both of them.

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

from Second Sight's facebook page

SCANNERS REGION CODE UPDATE. We regret to announce that the release of the three Scanners films will now be Region B and not Region Free. We sincerely apologise for this but unfortunately a contractual issue has arisen at the 11th hour which means we are no longer in a position to proceed with a Region Free release as originally intended. We are very sorry indeed for the inconvenience as we know people will have ordered already on this basis and may now need to cancel but unfortunately the coding is something we must now adhere to with this release, as on the majority of releases. Once again apologies, we're extremely disappointed to have to write this post.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

Dammit. :-(

[Jimmy Simard Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jimmy Simard]

Mark, Criterion will do better with the first one and I'm sure Shout! will do too for the last two ones.

FWIW I've give the contact for some of the actors of part three yesterday to Cliff. So maybe if their extras producer do a small travel to Montreal the're a chance to see Valerie Valois and Daniel Pilon in the extras... if extras were planned for them of course.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

Thanks, Jimmy.

[Ryan Clark Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ryan Clark]

I will be waiting to see if Criterion are definitely releasing Scanners before I buy this. I've heard speculation but nothing official.

I am super excited for The Brood, even more so than Scanners. I am slightly hesitant to buy it, though, just in case a U.S. company releases it on Blu-ray and does a better job. It seems that's been happening a lot lately; so many titles being released simultaneously in both countries and it's like a war between U.S. and U.K. companies to see who puts out the better edition. So I always end up waiting for reviews to see what's the best one to buy. I think they're doing lots of great extras for The Brood so it seems this will be the one to get. I'll most likely buy it immediately.

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

Confirmation that Janus Films/Criterion has THE BROOD

She just finished watching a recent Janus acquisition, David Cronenberg's early horror masterpiece The Brood — she had to angle her laptop on a recent flight so it wouldn't disturb the attendants — and helped arrange the uploading of Janus' 800-film collection to Hulu Plus.

[Mark Tolch Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Mark Tolch]

Good article. i'd forgotten all about MORVERN CALLAR as well. I should revisit that one.

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

I should've said that confirmation of THE BROOD, means there is no doubt that Janus/Criterion have SCANNERS