Sony officially confirm Casino Royale Blu-Ray DVD release

09-Jan-2007 • Collecting

MI6 reported last week on the plans for the Casino Royale DVD in the UK and USA, and today Sony officially confirmed the details.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment President David Bishop today announced, as part of the company's first quarter Blu-ray line-up, that Bond will be making his way to Blu-ray with the much anticipated release of Casino Royale on March 13. Casino Royale, starring Bond newcomer Daniel Craig, grossed more than $400 million at the box office worldwide and will debut on a 50GB dual-layer disc encoded in MPEG-4 AVC. Consumers can see even more of Craig who also stars in Layer Cake, a riveting thriller set in the U.K. underworld, when it hits Blu-ray (50GB) that same day.

With software sales up 700 percent since the mid-November launch of Playstation 3 and other Blu-ray hardware from manufacturers, the market is poised for maximum impact blockbusters like Casino Royale," said David Bishop, President, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. "We're proud to be the first to deliver Bond on Blu-ray with the best picture and sound quality available today. This is just the tip of the iceberg for Blu-ray in 2007."

CASINO ROYALE - March 13
Casino Royale introduces James Bond to the world as he is earning his "00" status and is sent on a dangerous mission to trump a high stakes poker game that could take down one of the world's largest terrorists
organizations. Added-value features in high-definition on the Casino
Royale 50GB MPEG-4 AVC encoded Blu-ray Disc include:

* Becoming Bond -- An intimate look at how Daniel Craig stepped into
the role of the 6th James Bond
* Bond Girls Are Forever -- A closer look at Bond's Leading Ladies
(standard-def)
* Chris Cornell Music Video, "You Know My Name"
* Uncompressed Audio

Thanks to `moore` for the alert.