Batman Begins

[azul017]

Finally, the news we've been all waiting for! Here is the official announcement for the R1 release of Batman Begins, from DVDAnswers.com:

Warner has officially announce two editions of Batman Begins which stars Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman and Liam Neeson. Both the single-disc, and double-disc deluxe DVD's will be available to own from the 18th October this year. The single-disc should retail at around $28.98, whereas the two-disc edition should set you back around $30.97. Both discs will carry a 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation, along with English and French Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks. The only extras on the single-disc will be a Batman Begins Mobile Game Demo and some Weblinks. The two-disc deluxe edition will carry that, along with a Genesis of the Bat: Batman Incarnations from the Mid-1980s to the Present doc, a Journey Begins: Creative Concepts, Story Development and Casting featurette, a Shaping Mind and Body: Fighting Style featurette, a Gotham City Rises: Production Design featurette, a Cape and Cowl: The New Batsuit featurette, and another featurette on the new Batmobile. Completing the package will be a Path to Discovery: Filming in Iceland featurette, aanother featurette on the Monorail Chase Sequence, a Confidential Files Character/Weapons Gallery, an exclusive 72-page comic book containing the very first Batman story, a Batman: The Man Who Falls feature on the classic story that inspired the film, and a chilling excerpt entitled Batman: The Long Halloween that also inspired the film. We're also expecting an audio commentary to be included too, although that wasn't confirmed within the initial press release.

The dual covers for the single-disc and deluxe 2-disc editions can be viewed here.

[Hogi Bear]

Here's a link to another page with basically the same information, but formatted better (text):

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=58192

[MickeyMousePal]

Both art cover suck but that's just my opinion.

[Disney-Fan]

I don't like the cover arts. They don't really show the dark feeling of Begins. Lucky for me though, I buy R2 items! Features sound promising. I just hope we get confirmation of an audio commentary.

[Timon/Pumbaa fan]

The first cover stinks. It just looks really lame seeing him getting prepared to land on the ground.

The second cover looks pretty good actually. I guess it's natural to give the better DVD a better cover.

[azul017]

I'm surprised that neither of you like the cover arts for the DVD. The single-disc edition looks better (it was the cover used for the CD sountrack too), but the deluxe edition looks dull. I'll opt for the single-disc release.

And I think the same covers will be placed on the other region releases. But sometimes the UK makes fantastic covers, so I wouldn't put past them to make a terrific one for BB...