All posts tagged “Blu-ray

The Servant Collector’s Edition

The Servant Collector’s Edition for StudioCanal using Edward Kinsella’s image, creating a title treatment and applying the design across the slipcase and booklet.  Collector’s Edition includes UHD 4K Blu-ray, 2 Blu-rays, 3 disc Digipak, Slipcase, 64-page Booklet and 4 Artcards.

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The Thing Collector’s Edition

The Thing Collector’s Edition for Universal. The 4 Disc UHD and Blu-ray Collector’s Edition features poster artwork, art cards, a 48 page booklet and soundtrack. John Carpenter’s The Thing uses the fantastic artwork of Matt Ferguson across the front cover and takes elements across the slipcase, digital […]

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Odette Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Part of the Vintage Classics series for Studiocanal, Odette is Blu-ray and DVD inlay and O-ring sleeves. The brief was to portray Odette as a strong female lead character that previous sleeves had failed to represent. Making use of supplied poster artwork for the title […]

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The Prince Of Darkness Collector’s Edition

Prince Of Darkness Collector’s Edition for StudioCanal. The 4 Disc UHD and Blu-ray Collector’s Edition features poster artwork, art cards, a 48 page booklet and soundtrack. John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness uses the fantastic artwork of Matt Ferguson across the front cover and takes elements across the […]

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Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD packaging for the StudioCanal Vintage Classics 60th Anniversary release. The Vintage Classic releases for StudioCanal have a distinctive style (fro other examples see them here), using areas of flatter colour that resemble vintage posters. The packaging fro Ice Cold in […]

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Bunuel Boxset and Belle De Jour Packaging

Bunuel: The Essential Collection boxset and Belle De Jour Blu-ray and DVD packaging from StudioCanal. Belle De Jour is a World Cinema release and uses the international artwork on the Blu-ray and DVD packaging. Bunuel: The Essential Collection is part of The Auteur Collection from StudioCanal (along with […]

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Melody Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Packaging for the Vintage Classic Blu-ray and DVD StudioCanal release of Melody. Having worked on a previous release of Melody (see below for an early 2D packshot) that didn’t have too many assets available, I thought that the Remaster wasn’t going to be the easiest of […]

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The Goose Steps Out Blu-ray O-ring Packaging

The Goose Steps Out Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

The Goose Steps Out is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic and part of the Ealing Studios Digitally Restored collection. Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army […]

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Manchester By The Sea Blu-ray O-ring Packaging

Manchester By The Sea Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Monday sees the release of the Oscar®-winning (Bafta® and Golden Globe® as well) Manchester by the Sea. Casey Affleck* (Gone Baby Gone) stars as Lee, a man whose spare existence is suddenly ruptured when the death of his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler, Carol, The Wolf of Wall Street) […]

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Mandy Blu-Ray O-ring Packaging

Mandy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Mandy is a Digitally Restored Ealing Studios film, part of the StudioCanal Vintage Classic collection. Nominated for 6 BAFTAs in 1952, Ealing classic Mandy is the heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewis’s novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore!, The Man in the […]

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The Proud Valley Blu-ray Oring Packaging

The Proud Valley Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

The print files for The Proud Valley left Rogue Four Towers recently. A Studio Canal Vintage Classic title from 1940, it features the wonderful singing voice of Paul Robeson and tells the story of a small Welsh mining community dealing with the closure of the local pit, a story that […]

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The Man Between Blu-ray Packaging

The Man Between Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

A digitally restored Vintage Classic from Studio Canal, The Man Between is a later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and […]

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The Blue Lamp Blu-ray Packaging

The Blue Lamp Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

The Blue Lamp is an Ealing Studios Vintage Classic title from StudioCanal. An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio’s post-war identity. The film marked the first appearance of the […]

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The Sound Barrier Blu-ray packaging

The Sound Barrier Blu-ray and DVD packaging

The Sound Barrier is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic title. Directed by David Lean and written by Terence Rattigan. Starring Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliot, Ann Todd and Nigel Patrick, the film is about the men who challenged the speed of sound. I like the simplicity of the sleeve, but the […]

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Shocker Blu-ray Packaging

Shocker Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

His name was Horace Pinker, a psychotic TV repairman sentenced to death for a series of sick and twisted murders. But it’s after his execution by the electric chair that the real trouble starts. Having made a deal with the devil before his death, Horace Pinker has now transformed […]

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Red Sun Blu-ray Packaging

Red Sun Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Billed as the first East meets West Western, and directed by Terence Young, Red Sun is based on a true story from the American Wild West of 1870, when paths cross for an outlaw (Charles Bronson), a gunfighter (Alain Delon), a prostitute (Ursula Andress) and a […]

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Room Blu-ray O-ring Packaging

Room Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Room is based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue and featuring an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning performance from Brie Larson. One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 and Directed by Academy Award nominee Lenny Abrahamson, Room is an intensely powerful […]

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Pool Of London Blu-ray Packaging

Pool Of London Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

I enjoy working on the Vintage Classic titles, some can be a real challenge with limited assets, while others have some really lovely old archival posters that cry out to be used. With Pool Of London I loved the original title treatment, but I was little sceptical about […]

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Payroll Blu-ray Packaging

Payroll Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

A Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, Payroll is a 1961 British crime thriller starring Michael Craig and Billie Whitelaw. Payroll has got a couple of lovely, if poor quality, shots with beautiful ‘film noir’ lighting. This is a film that I had previously worked on, and the assets […]

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Mon Roi Blu-ray Packaging

Mon Roi Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Released on Bu-ray and DVD comes Mon Roi. Seemingly a straight-forward artworking of the theatrical poster, there was quite a bit of work on different concepts for the sleeves, but ultimately the director was set on keeping the original image. The grainy nature of the sleeve reflects the […]

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Lion In Winter Blu-ray Packaging

Lion In Winter Blu-ray and DVD packaging

Lion In Winter is a Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, featuring a very impressive cast of (the Oscar Winning) Katharine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Filmed in 1968 and directed by Anthony Harvey it’s the story of King Henry II’s obsession with finding […]

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Legend DVD O-ring Packaging

Legend Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland, LEGEND is the blistering crime thriller which tells the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy in a powerhouse double performance. It such a nice feeling receiving an […]

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Legend Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbook

Legend Limited Edition Steelbook

The artwork for the Legend Steelbook followed on from the Legend Blu-ray and DVD artwork, but uses the artwork from some early teaser posters. To set it apart from the other formats this artwork used a slightly different colour palette and graphic content. The Steelbook […]

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Leaving Las Vegas Blu-ray Packaging

Leaving Las Vegas Blu-ray and DVD Packaging

Working on the artwork for Leaving Las Vegas brought back some fond memories of watching this on it’s release. It features Nicolas Cage in an oscar winning performance and Elisabeth Shue as two disenfranchised souls. It’s an emotionally demanding and extraordinary film that was directed by Mike Figgis and received 4 Oscars and 4 […]

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