Dredd (2012)

[Goaty]

http://mondotees.com/blogs/news/19173911-mondo-x-steelbook-005-dredd

[Dandontdare]

Now who do we know in Canada...... 

[radiator]

To be clear, you literally cannot place an order unless you have a Canada shipping address.

Quite the feat of trolling there, Best Buy. Thanks!

[JOE SOAP]

...but only if you live in Canada.

Which is why ebay exists:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DREDD-Mondo-Steelbook-Best-Bay-Canada-Blu-Ray-3D-DVD-not-print-vinyl-Drive-/191558740574?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item2c99ca6a5e

[radiator]

Zavvi is listing their long-rumoured Dredd steelbook for August 10th, though it's unclear whether it's already sold out or just not live yet (I've pre-ordered a few discs from them in the past and it can be unclear). However, with a limited run of just 2000 copies for a film with such a big cult following I expect it'll sell out before most of us get a look in anyway.

I doubt it's the same version as that beautiful Canadian Mondo edition (and doubt it will have the Jock Mondo artwork) and is listed as a single-disc version.

http://www.zavvi.com/blu-ray/dredd-3d-includes-2d-version-zavvi-exclusive-limited-edition-steelbook-blu-ray/11090757.html

For John Wagner-related steelbook completists, they are also listing a A History of Violence steelbook for release on the same day:

http://www.zavvi.com/blu-ray/a-history-of-violence-zavvi-exclusive-limited-edition-steelbook/11090759.html?affil=awin&awc=2549_1429066513_0ccb802de71e31b5433de12e42b1f342&utm_source=AWin-187797&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=AffiliateWin

[Keef Monkey]

Does anyone know if the Mondo steelbook region free? My brother stays in Canada so I'm considering getting him to grab me a copy and bring it over when he visits!

[Steve Green]

I wouldn't have thought so.

[Hawkmumbler]

Not a chance. Lionsgate region lock all their titles.

[radiator]

Yeah, I would expect that it's region locked.

[Keef Monkey]

Ah well. Couldn't find anything on their site about it so thought it was worth hoping for the best. Shame, looks lovely, and just the fact it has some decent sounding featurettes and the 2D/3D is on separate discs makes it really desirable. Bah.

[radiator]

Presumably the 2D and 3D versions are on the same disc as is the case with the UK Blu Ray, and the second disc is a DVD.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Mine's on it's way and I'll get Jock to sign it at Lawgiver II.

[JOE SOAP]

It was always the elephant in the room.




[Three years later, Garland has an idea why that film – which he had planned as the first part of a trilogy – flopped.

"When we tried to pull that movie together, I remember one of the studio bosses said to us, 'I'm going to pass on this movie and the reason I'm going to pass is you will never get over the stink of the (1995 Sylvester Stallone version)'... I think that was probably the biggest problem we had... There might have been a clever marketing way to get around that; maybe a way of saying, 'Forget that other movie'... But that's not the way it was sold. It was sold as a generic action movie and it bombed."]



http://www.torontosun.com/2015/04/24/ex-machinas-alex-garland-talks-ai-and-reveals-why-dredd-might-have-flopped

[Steve Green]

I don't know what could have been done really.

It's such a lean movie that showing the first 10 minutes as a preview online is a hefty chunk of the film, and doesn't show the relationship between Dredd and Anderson, and just shows the budget being stretched on the exteriors.

No-one else seems to do much of that kind of previewing any more, same with webisodes between TV series to keep interest ticking over.

It does make me wonder if you're rebooting an IP like Dredd, or something from scratch, that laying some groundwork other than trailers might be an idea - something not too effects heavy if you have the sets and costumes around.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Ah, we learn a little more why Dredd sadly didn't fulfill it's promise despite [mostly] positive reviews. The shadow of Stallone's Judge Dredd cursed it from the start. Damn shame but that's history. I suspect Dredd was never familiar enough a character to American audiences anyway.

I'm still hoping for TV show ala Gotham but if not we've still got the comic and that's where Dredd is still  best.
Maybe the genre that defined Judge Dredd, the comic strip is the only medium that can fully convey the bonkers reality that is Mega City 1.