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Michael Jackson’s This Is It, Up and Avatar top Sky Movies’ HD premieres in December. James Cameron’s ET phenomenon will first screen on December 19, This Is It on Christmas Eve and the Oscar-winning Pixar ‘toon on Christmas night. The pick of December’s comedies isn’t complicated – it’s It’s Complicated, on December 5 – while the [...]

Panasonic NZ has confirmed buyers of its 3D TVs will qualify for a free copy of Avatar in 3D on Blu-ray. The disc will be used as an incentive for buying a 3D Panasonic plasma TV from December to February 2012. It will be an exclusive 15-month window, with the movie unavailable in 3D from [...]

The Alien Anthology Blu-ray will go on sale here on November 10 as part of a global release of the extraordinary extra-terrestrial collection. It coincides with the director of Aliens, James Cameron, signalling he plans to make the two Avatar sequels here, which probably will follow production of the two Hobbit movies. While the rest [...]

Roadshow Entertainment has just officially confirmed the Extended Collector’s Edition of Avatar that will be released here on Blu-ray on November 24 will include three versions of James Cameron’s 3D phenomenon. Pricing has still to be confirmed but the specs have been revealed in a press release that reads as follows: Auckland, New Zealand. (6 [...]

The 2009 relaunch of Star Trek has gone where none in the sci-fi franchise has gone before on Blu-ray: to win three major prizes in Home Media Magazine’s Third Annual High-Def Awards. It won Best Theatrical Blu-ray, Best Single Extra for its “Starfleet Vessel Simulator,” and the Consumers’ Choice Award for best overall Blu-ray Disc [...]

One of the best DVD transfers of late is The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But given this exceptional Swedish thriller, the first in the Millennium trilogy, is out on Blu-ray in the UK, and due for an HD release in Australia, why have Kiwis wound up with only the DVD? The answer lies in [...]

Avatar has become New Zealand’s biggest-selling Blu-ray and DVD in less than a week. According to Roadshow Entertainment, it sold 35,499 DVDs in its first four days – which was 4,742 more units than Twilight sold over the same period. (It also was the most popular video rental for the week ending May 2.) Blu-ray [...]

Holy Hollywood Hype! Claims that Avatar notched up record-breaking Blu-ray sales in its first four days of release in North America have been KAPOWED! by a rival studio. Warner Bros has disputed 20th Century Fox’s assertion that its Batman hit, The Dark Knight, sold only 2.5 million copies on Blu-ray, compared to Avatar’s 2.7 million. [...]

Avatar is about to do for Blu-ray what it did for 3D while the plummeting prices of Blu-ray players is poised to make the HD format as affordable as DVD. The biggest-grossing movie in history bows here on Blu-ray Wednesday amid reports it has become the fastest-selling Blu-ray disc ever and the top-selling Blu-ray of [...]

The movie-only Blu-ray of Avatar goes on sale Wednesday, with the promise of a special edition with “immersive bonus materials” in November and a 3D version early next year. Its release last week in the US broke Blu-ray records by selling 1.5 million copies on its first day, and in its first four days fans [...]