{"id":18242,"date":"2012-01-24T10:49:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=18242"},"modified":"2018-11-20T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T03:53:45","slug":"hammer-studios-announces-catalog-restoration-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/24\/hammer-studios-announces-catalog-restoration-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammer Studios Announces Catalog Restoration Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DraculaPrinceOfDarkness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18267\" title=\"DraculaPrinceOfDarkness\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DraculaPrinceOfDarkness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DraculaPrinceOfDarkness.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DraculaPrinceOfDarkness-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Hammer Studios, best known for the gothic horror films it produced in the 1960s and 70s, has announced a global restoration project for a number of titles in its catalog. The studio will be teaming with Studiocanal, Pinewood and others to clean up and transfer more than 30 films to HD for blu-ray release and streaming platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the first title to be released from this initiative is <strong>Dracula, Prince Of Darkness<\/strong>, starring Christopher Lee, hitting store shelves in March. <strong>The Reptile<\/strong> and <strong>The Plague Of The Zombies<\/strong> will follow later on in the spring and <strong>The Devil Rides Out<\/strong>, <strong>Rasputin The Mad Monk<\/strong> and <strong>The Mummy\u2019s Shroud<\/strong> all becoming available throughout the rest of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the HD conversions of the films, Hammer is looking to round out the blu-ray packages with an number of extras of interest to Hammer fans including newly filmed interviews with cast members. Additional, title-specific extras from Hammer&#8217;s vaults will also be added including cut scenes and on-set footage from <strong>Dracula, Prince Of Darkness<\/strong>, <strong>The Curse of Frankenstein<\/strong>, <strong>The Mummy<\/strong> and others.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the bad news is that those store shelves the discs will be appearing on are all in the UK and that there are no US release dates accompanying Hammer&#8217;s announcement. States-side fans will either have to hope and wait for a US release announcement or else look into investing in an all-Region blu-ray player.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2012\/01\/hammer-teams-with-studiocanal-others-for-major-restoration-of-film-library\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The legendary studio is giving some of their crown jewels a new polish for blu-ray release.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/24\/hammer-studios-announces-catalog-restoration-project\/\" title=\"Hammer Studios Announces Catalog Restoration Project\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[4704,4620],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dracula-prince-of-darkness","9":"tag-hammer-studios"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18242"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=18242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}