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Film Arena - Steelbook Retailer Thread
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Feel free to discuss any experiences or policies about this retailer here.
http://www.filmarena.cz/
I don't work for them, but I know they are on vacation for the next couple of weeks. Jan, an employee of Filmarena said this on Facebook, so it will be a while before you receive your order. This is a quote:
"Dear collectors and fans,
we have the beginning of summer holidays and our entire team takes a regular holiday of the first two July weeks (from July 2nd to July 13th, 2018, the shop will be closed, orders will not be dispatched or not possible to be picked up personally)."
Is there any kind of chart/list of 'to be released' FAC titles?
There's some titles I've been waiting for years to get, even though other premium retailers have released them, because I was certain there would be a FAC edition of such titles at some point.
There's some titles I've been waiting for years to get, even though other premium retailers have released them, because I was certain there would be a FAC edition of such titles at some point.
These are from a list of all upcoming FAC releases I've compiled (information is mostly from HDN release threads or other posts at HDN). Black Barons releases are not included.
- Prometheus 3D E1, E2, E3, E4 MB, E5A 3D+4K UHD, E5B
- A Quiet Place
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Deadpool 2 E1, E2, E3 4K UHD, E4 MB, E5A 4K UHD, E5B
- Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom E1 4K UHD, E2 3D
- The Darkest Minds
- The Equalizer 2
- Ready Player One 3D
- Ghost in the Shell (2017) 3D+4K UHD
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge 3D
- Kong: Skull Island 3D
- The LEGO Batman Movie 3D
- Allied E1, E2, E3 HB
- Deepwater Horizon E1, E2, E3 HB
- The Accountant E1, E2, E3 HB
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 3D E1, E2, E3 HB
- Forrest Gump E1, E2, E3 HB
- Suicide Squad 3D E1, E2, E3 HB
- Hacksaw Ridge E1, E2, E3 HB
- Thor: Ragnarok E1, E2, E3 HB
- Alien: Resurrection
- Alien 3
- Aliens
- Alien
- The Predator
- Predator
- Predator 2
- Predators
- John Wick 2
- The Expendables 3
- Avengers: Infinity War 3D
- Captain America: Civil War 3D
- Doctor Strange 3D
- Donnie Brasco
- The Green Hornet
- Jason Bourne
- The Shawshank Redemption
- King Kong
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Dirty Dancing
- Backdraft
- The Thing
- The Nice Guys
- Papillon
- Bridge of Spies
I am carefully avoiding making guesses about when (or if) all of these products are going to be released
Some of the releases were announced a long time ago, but I'm not aware of official cancellations for any of them.
So what's the status on some of these announced but unreleased titles?
I've ordered Ghost in the Shell and Forrest Gump, but they've been pending for AGES now LOL
I've ordered Ghost in the Shell and Forrest Gump, but they've been pending for AGES now LOL
Someone over at FB asked about Batman V Superman, Suicide Squad and King Kong and their response was that they cant promise, but they would be happy if they can release at least one of these titles this year. At least we have other retailers with these titles, because the wait for FAC is taking forever.
There was no update on Forrest Gump either and the last info they provided for GITS was that if everything will go as they planned they wanted to release it at the same time as A Quiet Place, which is now so I guess it didnt go according to their plans.
@Actarus as i think you're FAC ambassador 
i've got a question here:
- now i'm confused, i look closely on FAC threads and all of them (or mostly) called Filmarena Collection, for example for Venom while steelbook is WEA they called Filmarena Collection and First Man while the steelbook is WWA they also called it Filmarena Collection
- but i think in the past (or was i dreaming lol?) for WEA they called it Filmarena Exclusive and WWA they called it Filmarea Collection, as now i can't tell the different while i read the thread names, which ones are for WEA and which ones are for WWA (and there're so many) and i believe the other retailers still call WEA/WWA diffrently.. so can you shed me some lights? thank you as always @Actarus
i've got a question here:- now i'm confused, i look closely on FAC threads and all of them (or mostly) called Filmarena Collection, for example for Venom while steelbook is WEA they called Filmarena Collection and First Man while the steelbook is WWA they also called it Filmarena Collection
- but i think in the past (or was i dreaming lol?) for WEA they called it Filmarena Exclusive and WWA they called it Filmarea Collection, as now i can't tell the different while i read the thread names, which ones are for WEA and which ones are for WWA (and there're so many) and i believe the other retailers still call WEA/WWA diffrently.. so can you shed me some lights? thank you as always @Actarus
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All FAC releases is called FilmArena Collection that is what FAC means@Actarus as i think you're FAC ambassador
- now i'm confused, i look closely on FAC threads and all of them (or mostly) called Filmarena Collection, for example for Venom while steelbook is WEA they called Filmarena Collection and First Man while the steelbook is WWA they also called it Filmarena Collection
- but i think in the past (or was i dreaming lol?) for WEA they called it Filmarena Exclusive and WWA they called it Filmarea Collection, as now i can't tell the different while i read the thread names, which ones are for WEA and which ones are for WWA (and there're so many) and i believe the other retailers still call WEA/WWA diffrently.. so can you shed me some lights? thank you as always @Actarus
FAC releases will have WWA or WEA steelbooks depends on the release which will have WWA or WEA
@goufcustom I looked at the early ''Fullslip Beautyshots'' and other Random ones between WEA FAC and WWA FAC
and on the ''Fullslips Beautyshot''(top left of every Fullsip Editions), they are ALL called'' film arena Collection 2015...2016....2017... etc''
On some WEA Steelbook Presentation(before they present the Fullslip Beautyshots), also ''film arena Collection'' on Top Left, but bellow some they add Exclusive(but this look Random)
On the ''Steelbook WEA presentation'' of Spider-Man Homecoming and PROMETHEUS as an example, they only call them ''Blu-ray Steelbook'' even though WEA
On Venom they call it ''blu-ray Steelbook Exclusive''... all are WEA FAC so it appears to be just random.
Blu-Ray SteelBook;
Blu-Ray Steelbook Exclusive
this doesn't seem much help but in essence they are all called FAC
and on the ''Fullslips Beautyshot''(top left of every Fullsip Editions), they are ALL called'' film arena Collection 2015...2016....2017... etc''
On some WEA Steelbook Presentation(before they present the Fullslip Beautyshots), also ''film arena Collection'' on Top Left, but bellow some they add Exclusive(but this look Random)
On the ''Steelbook WEA presentation'' of Spider-Man Homecoming and PROMETHEUS as an example, they only call them ''Blu-ray Steelbook'' even though WEA
On Venom they call it ''blu-ray Steelbook Exclusive''... all are WEA FAC so it appears to be just random.
Blu-Ray SteelBook;
Blu-Ray Steelbook Exclusive
this doesn't seem much help but in essence they are all called FAC
@Actarus and @paulboland thank you for clarification, per furthermore investigation (lol) I think I knew where did I get the “Filmarena Exclusive” from:
I clicked on Filmarena GB and some titles are really stated as Filmarena Exclusive (The Predator, Venom, T2) but some just Filmarena Collection (even they’re WEA) so I guess they’re all over the place lol... well...i wish they called it what they should be so at least we know what kind of steelbooks we're going to get...
I clicked on Filmarena GB and some titles are really stated as Filmarena Exclusive (The Predator, Venom, T2) but some just Filmarena Collection (even they’re WEA) so I guess they’re all over the place lol... well...i wish they called it what they should be so at least we know what kind of steelbooks we're going to get...
question about film arena steelbooks.
I've heard that if you sell on ebay then you wont be able to join GB's in the future. is that correct?
I've got half a dozen or so old film arena steels that I've had on my sales thread for a while but not sold and now really need to try and sell as have to repair the car, so might have to ebay them
dont want to risk not being able to order into future though.
I've heard that if you sell on ebay then you wont be able to join GB's in the future. is that correct?
I've got half a dozen or so old film arena steels that I've had on my sales thread for a while but not sold and now really need to try and sell as have to repair the car, so might have to ebay them
dont want to risk not being able to order into future though.
Sadly we get all caught out like that. I'm having to do something similar in July/August to get funds but I'm going to be selling a lot of my normal blu-rays. My film arena ones are off limits. I made that decision when I purchased them. They way I look at it I can buy them again at a later stage (the normals blu-rays that is ) when I have funds.
FilmArena Facebook
Dear Collectors,
let us kindly provide you with up-to-date information on the editions being completed and upcoming.
After a longer period of time when we were finishing work and delayed projects for you and also preparing news not only for the second half of this year, we are bringing another backstage preview.
More than half a year has passed since TERMINATOR 2 work was launched, but only at the end of May, we managed to complete the expedition of MANIACS boxes, which are a sweet ending point for the preparation of these beautiful editions. It was an extremely challenging and unique project that took us a piece of us but returns it to us in the form of the joy you have from the editions. We know that we have put everything that was in us into the T2 editions, all the experiences that we have collected over the years and we certainly wanted to come up with something new. We are happy about your reactions, which then recognize these phenomena.
Now let's go to individual studios and specific titles:
1. Tonight we will run pre-orders for permanent collector's numbers on premiums FAC #114 A STAR IS BORN and FAC #115 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY. In the next weeks, they will go live FAC #116 SPIDER-MAN INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE and FAC #117 ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL. Two FAC #118 CREED II premium editions will follow. There is no further ranking at this time.
2. News for Universal Studios. At the beginning of June, we received information from our distribution partner that the studio agrees to continue working with the set model taken from the previous distributor. It took a long time, but we see this as the first step that should be followed by the next steps when we will gradually introduce individually finished editions and include them in pre-orders. These are SCHINDLER'S LIST, FIRST MAN, HALLOWEEN, KING KONG, PITCH BLACK, THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D + 2D, CASINO and more ...
3. DISNEY / MARVEL. With the Disney studio, we are finishing two BLACK PANTHER editions, which should be accompanied by a HARDBOX gift for those who buy both. Next should follow AVENGERS INFINITY WAR, CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR, DOCTOR STRANGE, interleaved with RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET, followed by EDIC AVENGERS ENDGAME, DUMBO, ALADDIN, LION KING (2019), TOY STORY 4, MALEFICENT MISTRESS OF EVIL and others. ..
4. WARNER BROS. Thanks to the gradually developing cooperation with this studio, we will soon introduce two premium CREED II editions, which will be supplemented by a HARDBOX gift for owners of both editions. We will join the first part of CREED, where the edition concept was similar. Another project after Creed II is Aquaman, which is currently in approval along with THE MULE of Clint Eastwood, followed by another DC Universe title, SHAZAM!. For the first time ever, Aquaman and Shazam will offer you 3 editions featuring 3 different generic SteelBooks in premium editions. We will offer them a new enlarged HARDBOX design, which we have innovated for you in the meantime together with a new version of PET protectors, which some of you will welcome. After these beautiful and strong titles, we will offer you the first part of GODZILLA (2014), which will prepare a shelf position for the continuation of GODZILLA KING OF MONSTERS, to which we will provide 2 generic SteelBooks in two FAC editions with HARDBOX gift. Godzilla will be waiting for the oldest siblings KONG SKULL ISLAND and KING KONG, but you will also see them in FAC series is soon. The BLACK BARONS team will also offer you something interesting, because it is going to be working on the complete IT series of Stephen King, ie. the first 1990 adaptation with Tim Curry, followed by the new adaptation from 2017, and this series will culminate in the title of IT CHAPTER TWO, which is currently being released into cinemas. So you will get the whole series complete by our Slovak colleagues. Warner Bros Studio also offered us PIKACHU SteelBook, which we ordered, but we are still waiting for delivery confirmation, then THE EXORCIST (1979), which has recently announced a small delivery delay. We have also ordered SteelBooks THE SHINING by Stanley Kubrick, GREMLINS and INCEPTION. For these SteelBooks we are waiting for the delivery confirmation. We do not forget about the older projects, which we will try to fit in between.
5. PARAMOUNT is one of the smallest studios on the current scene, but we are trying to support all of his released titles and we fight together with the distribution, with the maximum effort. The proof of this is the title of PET SEMATARY (2019), when thanks to the increased allocation for the FAC edition, we were able to get full Czech support on both Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray. Another in the order we wanted to support is ROCKETMAN, where the studio originally approached distributors with two visuals for two SteelBooks, eventually, only one SteelBook went on for us, but it also makes us happy and in the FAC collection we prepare its place. In the approval, we also turned a few wheels on older titles, and soon GHOST IN THE SHELL should be approved and followed by two ALLIED editions and MI6: FALLOUT double edition.
6. FOX As you know, has been gradually moved under DISNEY, but we are trying our best to keep the cooperation at the current level. With ALITA we will offer a very attractive FAC edition, which will hopefully welcome other siblings in the future. After Alita we move to Marvel's X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX and then we'll wait to see what other attractive titles Fox will offer to our collectors. Currently, we have a newly approved ALIEN exclusive SteelBook and we are waiting for approval of individual editions in order to perform their performance. Another exclusive collaboration with the FOX studio should be the title PREDATOR, where SteelBook has already been approved, but the editions are individual editions. ALIEN is really something to look forward to. The same valid for PREDATOR.
7. SONY. Last week we informed you about the upcoming exclusive project SPIDER-MEN FAR FROM HOME, which was partly shot in the Czech Republic and the studio promotes the marketing of individual cities. We will see how this vision is reflected in the editions, so far we cannot disclose more. This project should go to the end of this year or at the turn of the year.
I left the conclusion to our colleagues from the BLACK BARONS team, who have gone through a difficult period in their last few months that interfered with their personal lives. We try to keep ourselves together in these moments because certain things that none of us want, unfortunately, happen and they are tests of our resilience. I do not want to go into the details with respect for privacy, but I really wanted this paragraph to express full support and solidarity that each of us needs in difficult moments. Thanks to this strength, we can continue the cooperation after a pause and prepare our collectors for further joy in the form of beautiful editions.
If you have questions about other titles that I have not mentioned, I will try to respond within the earliest opportunity or as soon as I get the necessary information from my colleagues.
Thank you very much for your support, which we greatly appreciate and that helps us a lot.
Best regards,
JC for team FA and BB
Dear Collectors,
let us kindly provide you with up-to-date information on the editions being completed and upcoming.
After a longer period of time when we were finishing work and delayed projects for you and also preparing news not only for the second half of this year, we are bringing another backstage preview.
More than half a year has passed since TERMINATOR 2 work was launched, but only at the end of May, we managed to complete the expedition of MANIACS boxes, which are a sweet ending point for the preparation of these beautiful editions. It was an extremely challenging and unique project that took us a piece of us but returns it to us in the form of the joy you have from the editions. We know that we have put everything that was in us into the T2 editions, all the experiences that we have collected over the years and we certainly wanted to come up with something new. We are happy about your reactions, which then recognize these phenomena.
Now let's go to individual studios and specific titles:
1. Tonight we will run pre-orders for permanent collector's numbers on premiums FAC #114 A STAR IS BORN and FAC #115 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY. In the next weeks, they will go live FAC #116 SPIDER-MAN INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE and FAC #117 ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL. Two FAC #118 CREED II premium editions will follow. There is no further ranking at this time.
2. News for Universal Studios. At the beginning of June, we received information from our distribution partner that the studio agrees to continue working with the set model taken from the previous distributor. It took a long time, but we see this as the first step that should be followed by the next steps when we will gradually introduce individually finished editions and include them in pre-orders. These are SCHINDLER'S LIST, FIRST MAN, HALLOWEEN, KING KONG, PITCH BLACK, THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS 3D + 2D, CASINO and more ...
3. DISNEY / MARVEL. With the Disney studio, we are finishing two BLACK PANTHER editions, which should be accompanied by a HARDBOX gift for those who buy both. Next should follow AVENGERS INFINITY WAR, CAPTAIN AMERICA CIVIL WAR, DOCTOR STRANGE, interleaved with RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET, followed by EDIC AVENGERS ENDGAME, DUMBO, ALADDIN, LION KING (2019), TOY STORY 4, MALEFICENT MISTRESS OF EVIL and others. ..
4. WARNER BROS. Thanks to the gradually developing cooperation with this studio, we will soon introduce two premium CREED II editions, which will be supplemented by a HARDBOX gift for owners of both editions. We will join the first part of CREED, where the edition concept was similar. Another project after Creed II is Aquaman, which is currently in approval along with THE MULE of Clint Eastwood, followed by another DC Universe title, SHAZAM!. For the first time ever, Aquaman and Shazam will offer you 3 editions featuring 3 different generic SteelBooks in premium editions. We will offer them a new enlarged HARDBOX design, which we have innovated for you in the meantime together with a new version of PET protectors, which some of you will welcome. After these beautiful and strong titles, we will offer you the first part of GODZILLA (2014), which will prepare a shelf position for the continuation of GODZILLA KING OF MONSTERS, to which we will provide 2 generic SteelBooks in two FAC editions with HARDBOX gift. Godzilla will be waiting for the oldest siblings KONG SKULL ISLAND and KING KONG, but you will also see them in FAC series is soon. The BLACK BARONS team will also offer you something interesting, because it is going to be working on the complete IT series of Stephen King, ie. the first 1990 adaptation with Tim Curry, followed by the new adaptation from 2017, and this series will culminate in the title of IT CHAPTER TWO, which is currently being released into cinemas. So you will get the whole series complete by our Slovak colleagues. Warner Bros Studio also offered us PIKACHU SteelBook, which we ordered, but we are still waiting for delivery confirmation, then THE EXORCIST (1979), which has recently announced a small delivery delay. We have also ordered SteelBooks THE SHINING by Stanley Kubrick, GREMLINS and INCEPTION. For these SteelBooks we are waiting for the delivery confirmation. We do not forget about the older projects, which we will try to fit in between.
5. PARAMOUNT is one of the smallest studios on the current scene, but we are trying to support all of his released titles and we fight together with the distribution, with the maximum effort. The proof of this is the title of PET SEMATARY (2019), when thanks to the increased allocation for the FAC edition, we were able to get full Czech support on both Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray. Another in the order we wanted to support is ROCKETMAN, where the studio originally approached distributors with two visuals for two SteelBooks, eventually, only one SteelBook went on for us, but it also makes us happy and in the FAC collection we prepare its place. In the approval, we also turned a few wheels on older titles, and soon GHOST IN THE SHELL should be approved and followed by two ALLIED editions and MI6: FALLOUT double edition.
6. FOX As you know, has been gradually moved under DISNEY, but we are trying our best to keep the cooperation at the current level. With ALITA we will offer a very attractive FAC edition, which will hopefully welcome other siblings in the future. After Alita we move to Marvel's X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX and then we'll wait to see what other attractive titles Fox will offer to our collectors. Currently, we have a newly approved ALIEN exclusive SteelBook and we are waiting for approval of individual editions in order to perform their performance. Another exclusive collaboration with the FOX studio should be the title PREDATOR, where SteelBook has already been approved, but the editions are individual editions. ALIEN is really something to look forward to. The same valid for PREDATOR.
7. SONY. Last week we informed you about the upcoming exclusive project SPIDER-MEN FAR FROM HOME, which was partly shot in the Czech Republic and the studio promotes the marketing of individual cities. We will see how this vision is reflected in the editions, so far we cannot disclose more. This project should go to the end of this year or at the turn of the year.
I left the conclusion to our colleagues from the BLACK BARONS team, who have gone through a difficult period in their last few months that interfered with their personal lives. We try to keep ourselves together in these moments because certain things that none of us want, unfortunately, happen and they are tests of our resilience. I do not want to go into the details with respect for privacy, but I really wanted this paragraph to express full support and solidarity that each of us needs in difficult moments. Thanks to this strength, we can continue the cooperation after a pause and prepare our collectors for further joy in the form of beautiful editions.
If you have questions about other titles that I have not mentioned, I will try to respond within the earliest opportunity or as soon as I get the necessary information from my colleagues.
Thank you very much for your support, which we greatly appreciate and that helps us a lot.
Best regards,
JC for team FA and BB
FilmArena are doing WEA steelbooks for Predator (1987) , Predator 2 (1990) , Predators (2010) , The Predator (2018)
Order of release
SteelBooks will be set this way 4 - 1 - 2 - 3 (THE PREDATOR - PREDATOR - PREDATOR 2 - PREDATORS)
As in steelbook release of The Predator (2018) followed by Predator (1987) etc
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