Sean Connery is often cited as the best actor to ever step into the shoes of James Bond. However, his films have never been released on 4K Blu-ray--only Daniel Craig's turn as Bond has received the 4K treatment. That's about to change, as the 007: James Bond Sean Connery 6-Film Collection (4K Blu-ray) is officially up for preorder ahead of its June 3 release date. If you're looking for a premium way to store and display the collection, a Limited Edition Steelbook Box Set is also launching the same day.

Amazon hasn't added images of the box sets to its store pages yet, but we will update this article as soon as promotional images and more details are available.

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The steelbook collection includes six steelbooks--one for each film--plus a massive "steelbook library case" to keep them organized on your shelf. Details are scarce, but we do know you'll get 4K and digital versions of all six films. Expect to learn more about bonus features soon. Since this is the first time the films are making the jump to 4K, we expect there to be high demand for the product. Be sure to preorder if you want to be among the first to have it in their home.

Here's a look at the six films included in the collection:

• Dr. No
• From Russia With Love
• Goldfinger
• Thunderball
• You Only Live Twice
• Diamonds are Forever

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Gladiator II
2. Wicked
3. Red One
4. Kraven the Hunter
5. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
6. Nosferatu
7. Venom: The Last Dance
8. The Substance
9. Twisters
10. Thief
11. The Wild Robot
12. Godzilla Minus One
13. Trick or Treat (tie)
14. Daylight (tie)
15. Civil War
16. Deadpool & Wolverine
17. Transformers One
18. Alien: Romulus
19. All Creatures Great and Small: Season 5
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Gladiator II
2. Wicked
3. Nosferatu
4. Thief
5. Daylight
6. Transformers One
7. Trick or Treat
8. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
9. Akira
10. The Substance
11. Venom: The Last Dance
12. Red One
13. Civil War
14. Galaxy Quest
15. Constantine
16. Smile 2
17. No Country for Old Men
18. Titanic
19. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
20. Farewell My Concubine

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Gladiator II (38%)
2. Wicked (50%)
3. Red One (37%)
4. Kraven the Hunter (44%)
5. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (49%)
6. Nosferatu (61%)
7. All Creatures Great and Small: Season 5 (19%)
8. Venom: The Last Dance (48%)
9. The Wild Robot (38%)
10. Twisters (43%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-03-15
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-03-15
• Blu-ray Sales: March 9-15: Gladiator II Still Number I in Week II

Every town has a story — Tombstone has a legend. Experience the explosive, action-packed battle on 4K Ultra HD. U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), his brothers (Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton) and the outrageous Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) band together to bring law to the lawless in a notorious showdown at the O.K. Corral. The star-studded cast also includes Dana Delany, Jason Priestley and Michael Biehn in an epic story of Wild West justice.

Originally released in 1993, this is the first 4K rodeo for Tombstone, triggering viewers to witness all the dustups and defilement of the Wild West in crisp visual detail unlike ever before. Without having to skin a smoke wagon, Tombstone's audience will get a peek behind the saloon doors to see how Director George P. Cosmatos and his gang of filmmakers brought the historic O.K. Corral into theatrical reality, including the storyboard process and realistic Old West gunslinging.

The upcoming 4K release of Tombstone is the high-res huckleberry fans have awaited for decades...you're a daisy if you don't add it to your personal cinema archives. Along with previously released bonus extras, the 4K disc will draw an eye-popping collectible limited edition SteelBook with custom artwork and packaging.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM
• The Making of Tombstone
  • An Ensemble Cast
  • Making an Authentic Western
  • The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
• Director's Original Storyboards: O.K. Corral Sequence
• Trailers and TV Spots
• Optional English SDH, Spanish and French Subtitles
• Audio: English 5.1 DTS-HDMA and 2.0 Dolby Digital Descriptive Audio, Spanish and French 5.1 Dolby Digital Language Tracks

Pre-orders are not live yet.

I find this really interesting. Especially the views from several people who in hindsight are completly wrong. 😁

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Gladiator II
2. Wicked
3. Red One
4. Kraven the Hunter
5. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
6. Nosferatu
7. Akira
8. The Substance
9. Venom: The Last Dance
10. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
11. The Wild Robot
12. Twisters
13. No Country for Old Men
14. Godzilla Minus One
15. Alien: Romulus
16. The Order (2024)
17. Deadpool & Wolverine
18. Transformers One
19. Constantine
20. Bound

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Gladiator II
2. Nosferatu
3. Akira
4. Wicked
5. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera
6. Red One
7. The Substance
8. No Country for Old Men
9. Transformers One
10. Venom: The Last Dance
11. Constantine
12. Bound
13. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
14. Smile 2
15. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
16. We Were Soldiers
17. Chinatown
18. Amadeus
19. Rio Bravo
20. Alien: Romulus

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Gladiator II (52%)
2. Red One (42%)
3. Kraven the Hunter (47%)
4. Wicked (50%)
5. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (54%)
6. Nosferatu (66%)
7. Venom: The Last Dance (50%)
8. The Substance (62%)
9. The Wild Robot (39%)
10. Akira (100%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-03-08
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-03-08
• Blu-ray Sales: March 2-8: Gladiator II is Number I in Debut

In recent weeks, we here at JoBlo have written some wild stories about how physical media has sometimes fallen flat with consumers. The idea with physical media was always that, in an era where many people own things digitally (which they don’t really own at all), having a film on Blu-ray meant that it would always be yours. However, collectors have been somewhat shaken up lately by the spectre of laser rot, where, after a certain time, discs simply go bad, regardless of whether you play them or not. As I previously revealed, pretty much every DVD (and HD-DVD) Warner Bros manufactured between 2006-8 fell prey to this, and our own Tyler Nichols followed-up with his own piece, listing hundreds of Blu-ray’s which have always gone bad – for whatever reason.

However, as Tyler notes, in many cases, especially when a disc comes from a specialty label, they’ll do everything they can to replace a defective disc. In fact, even WB has gone on record saying they would replace discs, no matter how old they are (although several readers have reached out to me saying that WB is taking a lot of time to get back to them). Criterion has been especially good at replacing discs that no longer work, and I imagine the same would go for any 4K specialty label, although so far, their discs all seem to work just fine.

With that in mind, we want to celebrate some of our favourite specialty labels. Mine is probably Arrow Video, which is like the Criterion Collection of genre films, but there are plenty of great ones to choose from. Take our poll below and let us know!

That page is such a mess, I can't even see the poll, so throw in your suggestions in the comments below.

I have a couple of Eureka! releases - “Region B” - that I’d like to watch. My (US) PS4 won’t play them, and apparently there’s a limited number of times you can change the region on it.

I see that Blu Ray drive peripherals exist for computers, but my TV is my computer monitor and a separate player seems like a smarter option.

I don’t tend to buy things new, and get most of my tech from thrifting. Are there any particular brands of Blu Ray players that are more likely to be region free? Is there a quick way of looking at a Blu Ray player and determining what region it can play?

Word is that not only is Apple not interested in giving their films a physical release, but they are also refusing requests to do so via third parties.

As it stands, Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” is not available for physical purchase in the U.S. Last year, Apple had indefinitely postponed —very likely canceled — the physical media release of the film. Patron holds were being canceled, temp MARC listings were pulled from library catalogs.

Criterion reached out to Apple, multiple times, to take over and release ‘Killers,’ but the streamer is flat out refusing to work with them.

Apple doesn’t release its original films on physical media. In fact, the streamer still hasn’t released their Oscar gloried “CODA” — it remains the only Best Picture winner to have never been available on physical media. Other noteworthy Apple films with the same fate include Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon,” and Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”

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Hell, even Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” a Netflix original, was released on Criterion. The same goes for Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” Jane Campion’s “Power of the Dog,” Bong Joon ho’s “Okja,” and Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story.” It’s surprising to see Apple being even more protective of their content than Netflix.

For the time being, if you want to get your hands on “Killers of the Flower Moon,” you’ll have to buy the Region 2 copy, which is only available in Europe, or online stores. There really is no other option.

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Wicked
2. Nosferatu
3. Amadeus
4. Venom: The Last Dance
5. The Substance
6. No Country for Old Men
7. The Order (2024)
8. Constantine
9. Doctor Who: Sylvester McCoy - Complete Season Two
10. Twisters
11. The Forbidden Kingdom
12. Civil War
13. Godzilla Minus One
14. The Wild Robot
15. Deadpool & Wolverine
16. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
17. Alien: Romulus
18. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
19. Transformers One
20. Cruising

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Nosferatu
2. Amadeus
3. Wicked
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Constantine
6. The Forbidden Kingdom
7. The Substance
8. Venom: The Last Dance
9. Civil War
10. Transformers One
11. Cruising
12. Smile 2
13. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
14. The Super Mario Bros. Movie
15. Highlander
16. Kill Bill Vol. 1
17. Jackie Brown
18. Face/Off
19. Graveyard Shift
20. They Live

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Wicked (49%)
2. Nosferatu (63%)
3. Venom: The Last Dance (51%)
4. Amadeus (99%)
5. The Order (41%)
6. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (27%)
7. The Substance (62%)
8. The Wild Robot (43%)
9. Twisters (50%)
10. America Is Sinking (N/A)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-03-01
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-03-01
• Blu-ray Sales: February 23-March 1: Wicked Composes Itself to Retake the Top Spot

Showing my age here, I thought they were talking about the Sam Raimin original from 2002!!

The headline refers to Spider-Man: No Way Home. 😆

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/25182874

Outside of rare retrospective screenings, for decades now King Lear has largely been seen, if at all, via low-quality bootlegs. Criterion’s transfer, sourced from a 2K restoration, is a revelation. The painterly beauty of Sophie Maintigneux’s cinematography and its heavy emphasis on naturalistic tones of blues and greens can finally be appreciated, and scenes in dim interiors sport deep black levels with no visible crushing or halo artifacts. Detail is fine enough to make out the faint signs of photo reproduction on the film stills and painting scans woven into the montage. Equally impressive is the soundtrack, which flawlessly renders the stereo track of overlapping dialogue, needle drops and ambient sound. The soundtrack is as blatantly artificial as it is immersively impressionistic, and it’s overwhelming to hear it in its full clarity.

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Extras

New Yorker critic Richard Brody, likely the film’s biggest champion in the English-speaking world, contributes both an interview and the booklet essay for Criterion’s release. In both, he makes the case for the film as a Gesamtkunstwerk of Godard’s career while also offering ample insight into the project’s convoluted and enervating production. Brody even obliquely features in the interview with Molly Ringwald, who reminisces about how baffled she was on the set of King Lear and how she came to appreciate the film years later when reading Brody’s Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard. Also interviewed is Peter Sellars, who recalls in depth the strangeness of the production but clearly prides having participated in the project. The disc also comes with audio of a press conference with Godard at its Cannes premiere, in which he’s his usual evasive, irascible, yet always entertaining self.

Overall

Jean-Luc Godard’s long-neglected masterpiece at last receives a proper video release in a stunning A/V transfer that primes the film for overdue rediscovery.

The 14th century takes a rocking new twist in A Knight's Tale, a stylish, music driven, action packed adventure starring Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight, The Patriot), with heroic performances from Mark Addy (The Full Monty, Down to Earth) and Rufus Sewell (Dangerous Beauty, Dark City). Ledger plays William Thatcher, a peasant squire who breaks all the rules when he passes himself off as a nobleman and takes the jousting world by storm. The only thing that stands between William and his dream of becoming the World Champion of the most extreme of sports is the bad boy of the sport Count Adhemar. And when the two rivals go lance to lance at the world finals, you'd better arm yourself and hang on tight for the ride of your life!

Disc One (4K Ultra HD):

• NEW 4K RESTORATIONS of the Theatrical & Extended versions of the film presented
• DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATIONS OF BOTH VERSIONS
• NEW DOLBY ATMOS (for both versions) + English 5.1 (for both versions)
• 4K HDR picture and Dolby Atmos audio approved by director Brian Helgeland

Disc Two (Blu-ray):

• NEW 5 Deleted & Extended Scenes
• NEW Gag Reel
• NEW Quill and Quarterhorse: 2nd Unit Photography
• Commentary with Director Brian Helgeland and Actor Paul Bettany
• 11 Behind-The-Scenes Featurettes
• 6 Original Deleted Scenes with Filmmaker's Intros
• HBO Making-Of Special
• Music Video
• Domestic and International Trailers & TV Spot

Pre-orders are not live yet, but seeing as this is feddit.uk and you guys are trying to buy European, go look for it at your local stores.

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) arrives in America to rebuild his life, his work, and his marriage to his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) after being forced apart during wartime by shifting borders and regimes. On his own in a strange new country, László settles in Pennsylvania, where the wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce) recognizes his talent for building. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost...

Bonus Features:

• Filmmaker Commentary with Director of Photography Lol Crawley
• "The Architects of The Brutalist" Featurette (25 minutes)
• Six Collectible Postcards with architectural renderings by Ákos Sógor

Transfer derived from the original 35mm negatives with VistaVision footage scanned at 6K.

Pre-order: Amazon · A24 Shop

Top 20 Selling Blu-ray Discs

1. Nosferatu
2. Wicked
3. Constantine
4. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
5. Panic Room
6. Venom: The Last Dance
7. The Order (2024)
8. The Social Network
9. The Substance
10. Uncle Buck
11. Deadpool & Wolverine
12. Alien: Romulus
13. The Wild Robot
14. Twisters
15. Smile 2
16. Summer Rental
17. Transformers One
18. Venom 3-Movie Collection
19. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy
20. Godzilla Minus One

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 20 Selling 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs

1. Nosferatu
2. Constantine
3. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
4. Wicked
5. Panic Room
6. The Social Network
7. Uncle Buck
8. Venom: The Last Dance
9. Smile 2
10. The Substance
11. Transformers One
12. Kill Bill Vol. 1
13. Deadpool & Wolverine
14. Alien: Romulus
15. Evil Dead Rise
16. Kill Bill Vol. 2
17. Humanoids From the Deep
18. They Live
19. Drugstore Cowboy
20. No Country for Old Men

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Top 10 Home Media Sellers (% of Blu-ray's Market Share Noted)

1. Nosferatu (2024) (72%)
2. Wicked (53%)
3. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (58%)
4. Venom: The Last Dance (52%)
5. Constantine (100%)
6. The Order (2024) (48%)
7. Panic Room (100%)
8. The Substance (56%)
9. America Is Sinking (N/A)
10. The Social Network (99%)

Source: Circana VideoScan (based on unit sales from reporting retailers)

Further Reading:

• Top Selling Blu-ray and 4K Discs for Week Ended 2025-02-22
• Top Disc Sellers for Week Ended 2025-02-22
• Blu-ray Sales: February 16-22: Nosferatu Takes a Bite Out of Wicked

I'm a huge fan of old movies. Now, when I say old I don't mean movies from ten, twenty, or even thirty or forty years ago. I love movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood, specifically the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s. I've always loved this period, and given how hard it is to find many of these movies on streaming, I've made an effort to buy as many of these movies on physical media as possible. As such, I have thousands of old movies on DVD, and among my most treasured titles are a few dozen DVD box sets Warner Bros put out in the mid-2000s, as they control the best library of classic film.

A few months ago, I dug into an old Humphrey Bogart box set to watch a favorite of mine, Passage to Marseille. After about an hour, the disc simply stopped working. The same thing happened with another movie from the set, Across the Pacific. I actually thought my old Blu-ray player was to blame, and given that I was in need of an upgrade anyway, I bought a new UHD player and just forgot about it.

Flash forward to about a week ago, when I decided to throw on an old Errol Flynn movie called Desperate Journey. The same thing happened. This was more concerning to me, as, unlike the other movies I mentioned, this has never gotten an HD release and was unavailable digitally. I did a little research online, and to my horror, I landed on several home theater forum threads (and a couple of good videos) confirming this was no fluke.

It turns out that virtually every Warner Bros DVD disc manufactured between 2006 and 2008 has succumbed to the dreaded laser rot, where discs simply stop working due to a rotting of the layers. Once it happens, it can't be undone. This was a frequent problem with laserdiscs back in the 80s and 90s, but it wasn't a huge problem with DVDs. The issue comes down to the way the discs were authored. Many of the titles affected, which range from classics like The Wild Bunch and The Shawshank Redemption to TV collections like The Dukes of Hazzard, have been reissued on Blu-ray or digital HD. Some of the titles, such as many of the titles in the Looney Tunes Collections and many of the Golden Age of Hollywood movies, have not, making them, in a lot of cases, lost media.

So, what can be done about this? Nothing. As stated in this RetroBlasting video, we had ticking time bombs on our hands, and the only way around the problem was to rip our faves to something like PLEX, but it's too late for the majority of discs. Warner Bros, of course, has yet to comment on this, so people like me have thousands of worthless discs cluttering our shelves. Here's the most comprehensive list of titles available.

So far, Blu-ray Discs aren't affected, although all HD-DVD discs put out by WB in this period are basically expensive coasters.

While it would be great of WB was to try to make good to consumers by at least offering us replacement MOD discs from the Warner Archive, I'm not holding my breath. Given that the discs only went bad after fifteen years or so, I'm sure they feel like we got our money's worth -- which we certainly didn't in my opinion. Special shout out to Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader, a superb Home Theater YouTube Channel that was way ahead of this story.

UPDATE: According to one of our readers, FilmFan-89, WB will replace some discs if you contact them directly, with a catch. They will only replace discs that are currently in print, and sadly, many of the defective titles are not. Reach out to them through the WB Store and keep us posted in the comment thread if they come through with replacements.

Picked up the new 4K Third Man from Lionsgate, a bit bummed to find the 4K disc doesn't seem to work?

I get the gorgeous menu screen, and the animation works, but no menu option. Opening "Top Menu" re-loads the screen. "Pop Up Menu" doesn't respond. No other controls do anything.

Blu Ray disc works fine, so I got that going for me.

This is on an Xbox One X, I have 2 other players I have't tried it on yet.