Tweet With Christmas a matter of days away the Blu-ray Disc Reporter is closing up shop for the holiday. Please keep the Blu-ray Monday entries coming in as we’ll draw the next winner when we’re back on January 3rd. We wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our followers and visitors [...]
Archive for December, 2011
Friends With Benefits arrives on Blu-ray in February just in time for Valentine’s Day
Published December 22nd, 2011Tweet Tired of slow, predictable romantic comedies? Then why not make a date with the perfect non-couple when Friends With Benefits comes to Blu-ray Disc on February 6th 2012 – just in time for Valentine’s Day. Fed up with relationships that go nowhere, Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis), make a pact that suits [...]
The Phantom of the Opera at The Royal Albert Hall flies onto Blu-ray
Published December 21st, 2011Tweet Universal Studios Home Entertainment has brought one of the world’s most beloved stage musicals to Blu-ray Disc for its 25th anniversary, with a stunning performance of The Phantom of the Opera at The Royal Albert Hall. Once a promising musician, the Phantom, shamed by his disfigurement starts to terrorise the Paris Opera House. He [...]
Real Steel Blu-ray announced
Published December 20th, 2011Tweet On 20th February 2012, Disney and Dreamworks Home Entertainment will release Real Steel on Blu-ray Disc. Directed by Shawn Levy, the film follows Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman), a boxing promoter in a world where robots have replaced humans as fighters. Kenton attempts to train an old, discarded robot to victory whilst struggling to reconnect [...]
Best of Blu-ray Monday Giveaway: The Fighter, Bridesmaids and X-Men: First Class!
Published December 19th, 2011Tweet As promised, this week’s Blu-ray Monday takes on an extra-special festive twist as we are giving one lucky winner the chance to take home not one, not two, but three awesome Blu-rays – The Fighter, Bridesmaids and X-Men: First Class. Combining a mixture of special effects, laugh out loud comedy and Oscar winning [...]
Blu-rays for the Weekend: Ultimate Tom Cruise action fix
Published December 16th, 2011Tweet There are many amazing actors out there pushing their art to the limits day in day out, but few are willing to take life into their own hands for the sake of a good action sequence the way Tom Cruise does. After hearing him speak about an incredible stunt he performed for Mission: Impossible [...]
It’s not just us – Ridley Scott loves Blu-ray too!
Published December 15th, 2011Tweet This week Blu-ray received incredible support from the highest sphere of Hollywood royalty – Ridley Scott. In an op-ed for the Huffington Post, Scott argues that movies are still best watched in the place they were created for, the cinema, but believes that Blu-rays top the list of home entertainment formats. “The technically sophisticated [...]
Blu-ray Disc Sales up 35% in 2011
Published December 14th, 2011Tweet As Christmas approaches it seems that more and more of us will be tucking into a mince pie whilst watching our favourite movies on Blu-ray, according to recent figures published in Home Media Magazine. Sales of Blu-ray Disc movies in the last four months of the year have skyrocketed throughout Europe (particularly Germany) and [...]
Contagion gets a Blu-ray release date
Published December 13th, 2011Tweet Warner Home Entertainment will release its all-star, disaster thriller Contagion on Blu-ray on 5th March next year in the UK. Steven Soderbergh’s well-researched, convincing, courageously bleak drama about how a lethal virus could decimate the human race, boasts a Hollywood A-list ensemble including Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow. As the [...]









