Blu-ray movie releases for the week of July 16

by Colin Torretta { Jul 17th 2007 at 1:00AM }

This summer has been a little dry on the Blu-ray release front, but we get a pretty decent batch this week. The most interesting movie is probably the remastered Fifth Element release; a move by Sony to help appease critics who dinged the initial release for poor visual quality and compression artifacts. In a rare move, they're also allowing the people who originally purchased the movie to send it in and get the new updated version for free.

The Fifth Element (Remastered)
Premonition
Wild Things: Unrated Edition
Waiting... Unrated and Raw

Other releases include an unrated version of the sex and drama packed cult classic Wild Things, the Ryan Reynolds comedy Waiting (another unrated treatment), and the Sandra Bullock mystery Premonition. Not exactly a bunch of the most high-brow movies ever, but good fun all in all. What are you going to check out this week?

Tags: fifth element, FifthElement, promonition, waiting, wild things, WildThings

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Justin @ Jul 17th 2007 1:09AM

nothin for me this week. just waitin for 300 on the 31st!!!!

Stef Geiger @ Jul 17th 2007 1:48AM

Amen, Justin, Amen.

Steve @ Jul 17th 2007 2:27AM

Wow, you guys are nuts. I'm so getting The Fifth Element!

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Dustin @ Jul 17th 2007 3:14AM

I'm getting the Fifth Element remastered for free! Sent in my old Fifth Element Blu-ray and I am getting the new one sent to me soon! Thanks for telling us PS3fanboy!

Kxpuc @ Jul 17th 2007 3:36AM

getting The Fifth Element and renting Wild Things via Netflix

Popfrogs @ Jul 17th 2007 11:30AM

I hated the Fifth Element for the extreme cheese factor (ba...da..boom!) but the remastered version is really supposed to showcase HD content. The first release was a stink bomb of epic proportions, I'm glad the studio is offering a free swap for whoever bought it.

Still waiting on more classics like Good, Bad, and the Ugly and other old films.

pete @ Jul 17th 2007 3:25PM

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Andrew @ Jul 17th 2007 4:48PM

I hope that other studios do the same thing as Sony did with offering a free remastered version of Blu-ray movies. I don't really enjoy watching a movie in DVD and have it look better than Blu-ray, *cough* Italian Job *cough*.

never$$hort @ Jul 17th 2007 6:51PM

My remastered version should have been shipped out today, yeah!! It was really a good customer service move on Sony's part by offering the exchange program for the previous copy owners like myself. I just hope they offer more exchanges in the future (House of Flying Daggers would be nice).

Vassille @ Jul 19th 2007 5:41PM

I just called Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Customer Support and they told me to send in the original "Fifth Element" Blu ray movie disc so I can exchange it for new one for Free! But did anyone receive it already. If so, how long did it take?