Hot Fuzz (Blu-ray SteelBook) (EverythingBlu Exclusive #002) [UK]

[paulboland]

Release date: September 28, 2018
Purchase link: Single Steelbook - Full Slip Hardbox - Lenticular Hardbox - Blu Box (Includes both Full and Lenti Hardbox editions) - (Pre-order July 13 at 8 PM UK time). Find your local timing HERE
Price: £16.99 (Single Steelbook) - £28.00 (Full Slip Hardbox) - £28.99 (Lenticular Hardbox) - £70.00 - (Blu Box)
Notes: Full Gloss. Metallic details to the guns & shotgun shells. Debossed title (Front). Debossed areas to the police badge (Back).

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Release Schedule (SUBJECT TO APPROVALS!) - We would like to let you know our direction over the next few releases and as stated above, these are subject to approvals. We are taking on board suggestions of movies without steelbook releases but we need some sort of foot in the market before doing so. However, some of those titles have already been brought up in a meeting today, so hopefully we can progress further with those soon.

This schedule is planned to have full Exclusive SteelBook designs (Not just flipped artwork exclusivity). All would feature the same setup as Shaun of the Dead; Full Slip, Lenticular & Blu Box.

Casino EE 002
Hot Fuzz EE 003
Oblivion EE 004
The Worlds End 005

Thank you to everyone supporting us, please let us know you thoughts on the titles above!!

Spoiler: Previous Artworks

 

[steelmybeatingheart]

So no Blu-Box to match SOTD???

my question also. i'm hoping this is revealed in the next 2 weeks, as the so far announced doesn't currently match the SOTD blubox at all.

 

[snooloui]

I'm sorry but all of the artwork for this release just looks like random images from the film pasted onto generic backgrounds. I thought the Steelbook design was poor but the slip is something else.

 

[Noodles]

Yeah, not a fan of that slip I'm afraid... the finish looks great, but the artwork (clouds specifically) looks really random IMO. Back looks fine though... maybe they should've just used the similar looking poster of Pegg for the front...

 

[Noodles]

By the way, that gun looks familiar...

 

[yeslek]

So no fullslip or lenti-slip?
Just a box&steel or the steel alone?

Am out if that's the case. I'd likely have bit if I could match a lenti with Shaun of the Dead but this just seems half-assed to do this rather than follow the same 2 version format with optional OC box like they did for the first Cornetto movie.
would be a highly mismatched set.

 

[Raggle Fraggle!]

So no fullslip or lenti-slip?
Just a box&steel or the steel alone?

Am out if that's the case. I'd likely have bit if I could match a lenti with Shaun of the Dead but this just seems half-assed to do this rather than follow the same 2 version format with optional OC box like they did for the first Cornetto movie.
would be a highly mismatched set.

Post on their Facebook says more editions to be announced soon.

 

[Deleted member 29108]

What's with the fluffy bunny clouds? After Scott Pilgrim this disappoints, the Hot Fuzz font looks a bit weird too (or is that just me?). I'm out.

 

[Punker76]

They’re really screwing the pooch with this release. Wasn’t tempted with SOTD, even less so with this one.

Damn shame cos I really want the U.K. to produce its own premium line of steels.

 

[St4rlord]

When I saw this on Facebook I immediately noticed the cloud background. That is what I was drawn to first... in a bad way. It doesn't make sense as to why that has been used. It feels as if they didn't know what to do so threw in some generic background to make the art stand out brighter.
Surely having the village of Sandford with clock tower etc in the background makes sense? Very bizarre choice.

 

[virkia]

At least the front of the fullslip is different to the usual HOT FUZZ images - in a good or bad way depending on you POV ... something that can't be said for the safe and unimaginative steelbook front cover with our two heroes in same or similar pose on countless home video releases and posters.

As for the cloudy slip: no denying the openness of the host location :-

As for the handgun on the front of the slipbox: seems to be an amalgam of guns seen in the film - including these two:-

 

[Jhadur]

As for the handgun on the front of the slipbox: seems to be an amalgam of guns seen in the film - including these two:-
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Personally I'd say the gun looks almost exactly like a colt 1911 rather than an amalgamation of weapons.

 

[virkia]

^ Looks like a very good match … but as there are no Colt handguns in HOT FUZZ (as far as I'm aware) I put it down to "artistic licence".

There is, however, a similar Colt - the Colt XSE / 1911A1 variant seen in one of Edgar Wright's more recent films BABY DRIVER:-

 

[BearsInTheWood]

At least the front of the fullslip is different to the usual HOT FUZZ images - in a good or bad way depending on you POV ... something that can't be said for the safe and unimaginative steelbook front cover with our two heroes in same or similar pose on countless home video releases and posters.


As for the cloudy slip: no denying the openness of the host location :-


As for the handgun on the front of the slipbox: seems to be an amalgam of guns seen in the film - including these two:-

I couldn't disagree more. The art on a steelbook should invoke the iconography of the film enclosed. This is why many of the pop art steelbooks sit in bargain bins; no one wants that trash.

Opting to change the film's title logo is a cretinous decision. Hot Fuzz's title image may not be as iconic as Back to the Future, Star Wars or Jurassic Park but that doesn't matter. The point is particularly pertinent when the replacement logo is embellished with flashing red and blue lights (because, you know, they're policemen!) which wreaks of an amateur trying to put their differentiate their work.

The tired gun cliche. It's so terribly lazy but I'm sure I don't need to point that out to anyone but the designer. You even prove the designer couldn't even be bothered to use an image for a gun which appears in the film... lol But, you know, they're policemen so GUUUUUUUNS

The clouds... You know what? Almost every film ever made features a blue cloudy sky at some point and yet the graphic designers somehow always manage to put together imagery more pertinent to the film. I guess the difference here is talent. You've posted a picture of the historic marketplace which is synonymous with Hot Fuzz, why not use something like that instead of generic blue sky number 2?

I wanted to like this release. The 2nd mock-up was great with iconography we recognise from the marketing material for Hot Fuzz then things rapidly went off the rails with subsequent revisions.

We know Universal insisted on the steelbook art work for Shaun and who can blame them when this is the outcome when Everything Blu are given more control. As I've said before and seen echoed elsewhere this release looks like something that was designed by bootleggers to sell to unsuspecting tourists...

Unless this all goes back to the drawing board I'm skipping this release and will sell Shaun of the Dead on eBay while I await a release from someone else.

This is all just my opinion, if you happen to like the design or don't really care then I'm happy for you

 

[virkia]

^ Glad that you're happy with something similar to mock-up No. 2 - a mock-up that seems to be the most popular - on here at least - of the three revealed a while back.
Wasn't looking for Pop Art myself as it wouldn't have gone at all well with their SHAUN OF THE DEAD steelbook but would've preferred the stacked artwork of mock-up No. 3 minus Messrs. Dalton and Nighy … but no matter.

Don't mind the look of this fullslip and the effects to the gun and title look extremely cool although maybe not as much so as their SotD slipbox ... hopefully, however, the lenticular slipbox will look considerably better than the one for SotD.

Got to say that I prefer the UK horizontals of both of EBlu's Edgar Wright steelbooks and when they eventually get down to it they're going to have to make a real effort to top the best of the bunch steelbook-wise for the third in the Cornetto Trilogy THE WORLD'S END from almost five years back … better still re-print that one and create a couple of nice boxes to go with.

 

[Jhadur]

^ Looks like a very good match … but as there are no Colt handguns in HOT FUZZ (as far as I'm aware) I put it down to "artistic licence".
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There is, however, a similar Colt - the Colt XSE / 1911A1 variant seen in one of Edgar Wright's more recent films BABY DRIVER:-
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The IMFDB comes in handy doesn't it.

 

[virkia]

The IMFDB comes in handy doesn't it.

That's what it's there for, isn't it?
My practical knowledge of guns is more of the pellet and cartridge (shell) variety than bullet. Practical knowledge of bullet guns limited to .22 and .303 rifles (school CCF, Bisley etc.).

 

[Raggle Fraggle!]

Yeah, not a fan of that slip I'm afraid... the finish looks great, but the artwork (clouds specifically) looks really random IMO. Back looks fine though... maybe they should've just used the similar looking poster of Pegg for the front...

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100% agree. Pegg front and Frost back wouldve been a perfect fullslip.

 

[St4rlord]

As for the cloudy slip: no denying the openness of the host location :-
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You are massively clutching at straws with this to find some reasoning as to why it has been used lol. It is simply just a sky/clouds image, turned bright blue, that has no meaning to the film whatsoever. I think my opinion of them picking some random generic image to make the slip stand out holds more weight than this to be honest.

 

[virkia]

You are massively clutching at straws with this to find some reasoning as to why it has been used lol. It is simply just a sky/clouds image, turned bright blue, that has no meaning to the film whatsoever. I think my opinion of them picking some random generic image to make the slip stand out holds more weight than this to be honest.

Yes, I wasn't being completely serious … not altogether familiar with emojis and maybe should've put "lol" or some such above "Sandford".
That being said, the idea of all that sky on the slip may be not a silly as it first seems and could be a subliminal message that this film is set in the countryside where you obviously see more sky than you do in a city … not forgetting "Sandford" is standing in for Wells - Mr. Wright's hometown - and that he made certain efforts to reinforce his vision that "Sandford" be technically a proper English village or town … instead of what it was in real life - a city with a famous 500 year old cathedral - even going so far as to digitally erase the famous cathedral (no village or town has a cathedral, only a city).
BS emoji (lol)

Apart from the theory above TBH I've no idea why the background of the slip is sky blue with clouds and why it's not a cloud-free darker blue which would've made for a better contrast w/ the shiny gun and title … we'll have to ask the designer at some point or an EBlu representative if he/she is fool enough to return to this forum.

 

[JackieBoy]

Lenticular Hard Box