The Birds (Blu-ray SteelBook) (Zavvi Exclusive) [UK]

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Release date: October 17, 2016
Purchase links: Zavvi.com - (Pre-order on Saturday 17th of September at 6PM BST)
Price: £15.99 / €19.35
Notes: Limited to 2000 copies

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This is awesome!

Just last night I was in the mood for hitchcock and watched some of my dvd's 'hitchcock presents' series:)

Shame you can't see the steelbook properly in the pic but I'll definitely be buying this, and I like the slip:) hopefully more steels to come as I've only got all his films on dvd a part from the phycho uk steelbook:):):)
 
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Excellent news this one - a late period Hitchcock classic to join the very few others of his films in steelbook packaging here in the U.K. - LIFEBOAT, NORTH BY NORTHWEST and PSYCHO - and without double checking I think that's it . . .
Artwork taken from previous images used on home video or from original poster artwork.

FRONT of steel - hopefully the image or at least a very similar image to that on the front of the 50th Anniversary limited edition slipcover Amaray which is really cool in the flesh:-
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BACK OF STEELBOOK - from one of the original film posters ....................................... BACK OF SLIPCASE - previously used as the front cover for the Volume One Hichcock boxset but artwork slightly changed here for this release by the removal of part of Hitch's shadow - or the "Psycho" part - and the addition of shadows of birds in its place ("The Birds" BTW is in the Volume Two boxset):-
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FRONT OF SLIPCASE:- Image used previously on the cover of the Amaray release from a year ago:-
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For a more modern poster artwork take for this film here are a few examples:-
http://www.fromupnorth.com/alternative-the-birds-posters-1076/

Anyway, classic film - classic artwork - day one for me.

N.B. If you must watch BIRDEMIC with this back-to-back then please watch THE BIRDS first - if you do it the other way around your mood may hinder your enjoyment of this the original Angry Birds film.
 
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Or maybe it is because it is down to it being a different distributer?

Correct. The steels with slipcovers released by Universal (Quadrophenia, Snow White and the Huntsman) all have artwork that differs on the slipcover and the steelbook. The steels with slipcovers released by Paramount (No Country For Old Men, Top Gun, Ferris Bueller's Day Off) all have the same artwork on the slipcover and the steelbook.