I guess there are plenty of adults now too young to remember when Christopher Reeve made his debut as The Man of Steel. It was a massive hit across the full spectrum of moviegoers. Warners is taking good care of everyone’s favorite undocumented visitor from Planet Krypton, and has assembled two separate cuts of his big-screen premiere.
Superman: The Movie
Blu-ray
2-Film Collection
Warner Bros.
1978 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 188 min. Extended Cut + 151 min. Special Edition orig. 143 min. / Street Date October 10, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Trevor Howard, Margot Kidder, Jack O’Halloran, Valerie Perrine, Maria Schell, Terence Stamp, Phyllis Thaxter, Susannah York, Jeff East, Marc McClure, Sarah Douglas, Harry Andrews, Diane Sherry, Randy Jurgensen, Larry Hagman, John Ratzenberger, Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill.
Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth
Film Editors: Stuart Baird, Michael Ellis
Production Design: John Barry
Assistant Director: Vincent Winter...
Superman: The Movie
Blu-ray
2-Film Collection
Warner Bros.
1978 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 188 min. Extended Cut + 151 min. Special Edition orig. 143 min. / Street Date October 10, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Glenn Ford, Trevor Howard, Margot Kidder, Jack O’Halloran, Valerie Perrine, Maria Schell, Terence Stamp, Phyllis Thaxter, Susannah York, Jeff East, Marc McClure, Sarah Douglas, Harry Andrews, Diane Sherry, Randy Jurgensen, Larry Hagman, John Ratzenberger, Kirk Alyn, Noel Neill.
Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth
Film Editors: Stuart Baird, Michael Ellis
Production Design: John Barry
Assistant Director: Vincent Winter...
- 10/10/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Mike Cecchini Sep 20, 2017
A legendary extended version of Superman: The Movie will finally get an official release.
I seriously never thought I would live to see this day. Long before home video was a collector's format, when a blockbuster hit the small screen, it was a big deal. And when ABC in the Us aired Superman: The Movie, it was a big enough deal that they split it across two nights.
Yes, you read that right. Superman: The Movie's unwieldy 143 minute runtime wouldn't fit neatly in a normal time slot, so the network's solution was to extend the film itself to 188 minutes and add enough commercials to pad out two different two hour timeslots. That TV cut has been legendarily bootlegged far and wide for as long as I've been on the internet. The best ones would take the available widescreen footage, which would then jarringly cut to an...
A legendary extended version of Superman: The Movie will finally get an official release.
I seriously never thought I would live to see this day. Long before home video was a collector's format, when a blockbuster hit the small screen, it was a big deal. And when ABC in the Us aired Superman: The Movie, it was a big enough deal that they split it across two nights.
Yes, you read that right. Superman: The Movie's unwieldy 143 minute runtime wouldn't fit neatly in a normal time slot, so the network's solution was to extend the film itself to 188 minutes and add enough commercials to pad out two different two hour timeslots. That TV cut has been legendarily bootlegged far and wide for as long as I've been on the internet. The best ones would take the available widescreen footage, which would then jarringly cut to an...
- 9/20/2017
- Den of Geek
Good news for all you Superman fans. The Warner Archive will soon release the extended cut of Superman: The Movie in high definition on Blu-Ray. The three-hour version of the blockbuster that aired on ABC in 1982.
The Blu-ray for the Extended Cut will be packaged along with Superman: The Movie's Special Edition.
But we don't have an official release date and no retail price is listed for the package. But you can see a list of features below, along with the official description for the package:
Superman: The Movie - Extended Cut & Special Edition 2-film Collection (1978,2000)
Run Time 188 Minutes-extended Cut (New 2017 1080p HD Master)
151 Minutes-special Edition
Subtitles Spanish, French, English Sdh
DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English (Extended Cut)
DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 - English, Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 - French, Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 - Spanish
Original Aspect Ratio - 2.40:1, 16 X 9 Letterbox
Color
2-bd 50
Special Features (on Superman The Special Edition Disc...
The Blu-ray for the Extended Cut will be packaged along with Superman: The Movie's Special Edition.
But we don't have an official release date and no retail price is listed for the package. But you can see a list of features below, along with the official description for the package:
Superman: The Movie - Extended Cut & Special Edition 2-film Collection (1978,2000)
Run Time 188 Minutes-extended Cut (New 2017 1080p HD Master)
151 Minutes-special Edition
Subtitles Spanish, French, English Sdh
DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English (Extended Cut)
DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 - English, Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 - French, Dolby Digital Surround 5.1 - Spanish
Original Aspect Ratio - 2.40:1, 16 X 9 Letterbox
Color
2-bd 50
Special Features (on Superman The Special Edition Disc...
- 9/19/2017
- by Kristian Odland
- GeekTyrant
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