Foreign Steelbooks with English-only text

[thomastan]

All Applicable Countries ("International" releases):
- 2012 (Destruction Image) - Japan, China, Thailand, Czech, France (same as AU)
- 2012 (Plain Black Cover) - Germany (same as CA/UK)
- The Adventures of Tin Tin: Secret of the Unicorn - Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France
- Apocalypse Now - Spain, Italy, Netherlands (ES has "Presenta" above title)
- Avatar - Thailand, Denmark, Finland, Sweden (same as UK, except TH which is clean of rating logos)
- Avatar (Extended Edition) - Thailand, HK, Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan (different to UK)
- Batman Begins (White) - Japan, Korea (different from non-white CA)
- Captain America - France 3D, Germany 3D, Netherlands 3D, Czech 3D, Japan 3D, Italy (same as UK 2D)
- Cowboys and Aliens - Czech, Netherlands, Korea (same as UK, different from US/CA)
- The Dark Knight (White) - Japan, Korea (different from non-white DE, DE 2nd, FR, NL, NL stickerbook, CA, CA 2nd)
- Fast & Furious 5 (cast cover) - Netherlands, Hong Kong, Thailand (different from DE car cover with European spine).
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children - China, Thailand, Korea
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Finland, Czech, Portugal (same as UK, unconfirmed difference with DE, FR)
- Gladiator - Poland, Thailand, Taiwan (different to UK)
- Hurt Locker - Korea (different from UK, different from IT, different from US/MX G1)
- Inception (building top cover) - China, Japan, Thailand (same as US/CA, different to DE-exclusive cast artwork)
- Inception (Japanese re-release) - Japan, Korea
- Immortals 3D - Netherlands (different from UK 2D, different from FR)
- Iron Man 2 - Korea, HK, Thailand
- Karate Kid - Germany, Thailand
- The Lion King - Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand
- Machete - Germany, Finland (UK)
- Michael Jackson's This Is It - Korea, Germany, Netherlands (same as AU/CA)
- Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - Portugal, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Kazakhstan (same as UK/AU)
- Paul - France, Germany, Japan
- Predators - Sweden, Denmark, Thailand (same as UK, except TH which is clean of rating logos)
- Priest - Germany, France, Hong Kong, Thailand, Finland, Denmark, Sweden (same as UK)
- Resident Evil 4/Afterlife - Italy, China, Japan (different from FR and DE 3D release, same as AU/US/CA)
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Finland (same as UK, different from FR)
- Salt - Japan, Thailand, Czech, Denmark, Finland (same as CA)
- Scarface - France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, Finland, Mexico, Korea (same as UK, different to US/CA Limited Edition)
- The Smurfs - Germany (same as CA)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Netherlands, Germany
- Super 8 - Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Korea (same as UK)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Germany, Japan, Mexico (same as UK)
- Terminator 4/Salvation - Greece, Poland, Singapore, Thailand, China, Taiwan (localized title in FR/DE releases)
- Total Recall - France, Netherlands, Spain (not sure about Germany)
- Thor - Japan, Korea, HK, Thailand, France 3D, Netherlands 3D (same as UK 2D)
- True Grit - Netherlands (same as CA)
- Transformers 3/Dark of the Moon - Germany 2D 3D, Netherlands 3D, Spain, HK 3D, Taiwan, Korea 3D
- Unstoppable - Thailand, Japan
- World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles - Germany, Finland, Sweden, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand (no "World Invasion" on UK, US, CA releases)

most of these "international" releases are also region-free, so once you open them (if you do) it will feel like a local steelbook release and you won't be able to tell the country of origin. The exceptions are Apocalypse Now (AB), Terminator 2 (UK, DE: B), Avatar extended on 3 disc's (KR/TW: AB/free/free, JP: A). Printed backs and rating logos on Avatar, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (UK, FI), Predators (all but TH).



Steelbooks exclusive to a non-English country, but exclusively in English...

Japan:
- A-Team
- Knight & Day
6 of 9 of the March 10 Warner Bros. releases:
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Blade Runner
- Gran Torino
- The Matrix
- Seven
- Shawshank Redemption

France:
- Shutter Island - spine follows European standard.
- The Thing - (different from DE).

Germany:
- Complete Matrix Trilogy
- Faster
- Grindhouse
- Hellraiser I-III - small "Parsentiert" on cover above Trilogy Title, the printed back is all in English.
- RockNRolla
- Zombieland
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Warner Bros. "First releases" in Germany are clean:
- Gran Torino - printed FSK logo
- Hangover 2 - "Ein Todo Philips film" in small print on cover above title.
- Inception - "Ein Film von" (A film from Christopher Nolan) on the front above the title
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sucker Punch
The re-releases of these steelbooks have printed FSK logos and printed German back covers.

Bilingual Canada:
Warner Bros. releases are in exclusively in English, but Alliance steelbooks have bilingual spines with titles in opposite directions.
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Warner releases have English credit text on the back, a link to warnerbros.com and a Canadian rating logo (en Anglais seulement). The Japanese Shawshank Redemption on the otherhand is clean of this logo, but for the OCD fans, the printed URL is to warnerbros.jp compared to warnerbros.com on the Canadian one.

China:
- Let the Bullets Fly - title in original language.
- Rio

Korea:
- War of the Arrows - title in original language.

India:
- Dhobi Ghat/Mumbai Stories - proper nouns in original language.


Steelbooks from the USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand obviously need not be listed in this "clean" foreign steelbook listing. This listing applies to the actual steelbooks only, it does not apply to the packaging and many listed do indeed come with foreign/bilingual cardboard slips, covers and/or rating stickers.

"3D" alone signifies there was only a single 2D+3D version of the steelbook, while "2D 3D" signifies a separate 2D release came out (usually earlier) in addition to the 2D+3D version of the steelbook.

Unreleased and unconfirmed:
- Alien Anthology - CZ, PL
- Apollo 13, Casino - NL, CZ
- Back to the Future - B&W JP, colour CZ (horizontal UK)
- Hugo - Hungary, Greece, Thailand
- Jurassic Park - CZ, PL
- Jaws - SV, CZ (UK, FR, DE)
- Men in Black 3 - CZ
- Terminator - blue bannered CZ (clean UK)
- Tron/Tron Legacy - SV
- Underworld Awakening - CA, IT, PL, JP, CZ (CA, FR G1)

 

[surfury]

Thor (NL) is the same as others, just has Dutch on card but also has 3D disc
Paul (DE, FR) same Steel under the card although the "cuts" might be different.

Nice list thanks

 

[thomastan]

Thor (NL) is the same as others, just has Dutch on card but also has 3D disc
Paul (DE, FR) same Steel under the card although the "cuts" might be different.

Nice list thanks

Thanks. I aware about a Dutch release of Thor but for some reason missed putting it in here. As for Paul I have totally no idea how it slipped under my radar.

I've updated the OP thanks to your help, and used it as an opportunity to tag the 3D releases.

Updates
3d tagging in: Thor, Captain America, Immortals, Resident Evil 4, Transformers 3.
Added: Paul.

 

[thomastan]

Not sure how I just skimmed through the OP and realized there were about 30 missing.

Updates are below (with to-be-released/confirmed steelbooks), so people don't have to go through the entire list again since it's getting quite long:
- Avatar - FI
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children - CN, TH, KR
- Apollo 13, Casino - CZ, NL
- Back to the Future - B&W JP, colour CZ (horizontal UK)
- Paul - JP
- Chronicle, Scarface - FI (UK)
- Jaws - SV, CZ (UK, FR, DE)
- Machete - DE, FI (UK)
- Predators - TH, SW, FI (UK)
- Priest - DE, FR, HK, TH, FI, DE, SW (UK)
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes - FI (UK, FR)
- Salt - FI, CZ (CA)
- Total Recall - ES
- Underworld Awakening - CA, IT, PL, FRG1, JP, CZ
- World Invasion Battle Los Angeles - DE, FI, TH, SW, JP, HK, (UK, US, CA)

This also serves as a bump, since it's quite a substantial update.

 

[Pieter V]

All Dutch titles. Nuff said.

 

[thomastan]

All Dutch titles. Nuff said.

I wouldn't say "All", or use "All" as a rule with a few exceptions as there's these:
- Real Steel
- Gladiator
- Robin Hood
- Limitless
- Kidnapping of Heineken
- Sint
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
- Season of the Witch
- Prince of Persia
- Fighter
- Skyline

I'm not sure about Harry Potter: &THBP (5) and seems to be no tendencies. In that list there's Disney, Touchstone and Universal steelbooks.

Anyway I'm using this opportunity to bump this thread. Here's the steelbooks I missed (I always think there's none left):
Fast & Furious 5, Fight Club, Tron/Tron Legacy, some This Is It releases.

 

[thomastan]

Added the following 13 updates:
Complete Matrix Trilogy (DE) now confirmed; Hugo (TH, HU, GR); TinTin (SV); Ghost Protocol (PT, ES, KZ); Alien Anthology, Jurassic Park (CZ, PL), MIB 3 (CZ).

Not sure if people noticed, but this is also a listing of all the clean UK steelbooks. UK steelbooks with printed backs (e.g. In Time) are not listed (Avatar is an exception).

 

[surfury]

True Grit (NL) is same as UK version, not CA version. CA version is same general design but is G1 and not embossed.

Sherlock Holmes (FR) is also all English albeit G1 again, "Copie Digitale" is only give-away that not English copy. Back is in French mind.

 

[SPORTSM4N]

Awesome list, just what I've been looking for! Thanks.

 

[ChrisIW]

Great list idea, I'll be studying this closely