R5 Movie DVD Release Dates For 2011 - January, February, March & More

Here we go – our first R5 DVD release dates update for the year 2011. As most of you would already know, knowing the DVD release date of a movie in advance is useful if you are planning to actually buy the DVD off the shelves. But it comes in handy even if you are a pirate too. Although movies don’t have an official ‘leak online date’ set by publishers, you can pretty much guess when some movies will appear on file sharing networks if you know their DVD Region 5 (R5) release date. The R5 format was first introduced to minimize DVD movie piracy in areas such as Russia, Indian subcontinent and Africa. These DVDs are usually released ahead of other regions and are cheaper than their R1/R2 counterparts (in an attempt to convert would-be pirates). However, scene/P2P groups too use this to their advantage by making releases combining video ripped from R5 DVDs (which have near DVDRip quality) and English audio from CAM/TS sources. A R5 is the next best thing for BitTorrent downloaders unless a DVDRip, BRRip or a true HD copy of the movie is already available.

Listed below are R5 release dates for January – December 2011. Please keep in mind that these dates are subject to frequent change. Additionally, note that some of the movies mentioned below have R1 DVD and Blu Ray versions already released or leaked online.

January 2011

• The Virginity Hit - 13th January 2011
• Devil - 18th January 2011
• Submarino - 19th January 2011
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - 20th January 2011
• My Name Is Khan - 20th January 2011
• Open Season 3 - 20th January 2011
• My Soul To Take - 27th January 2011
• Red - 27th January 2011
• Get It At Goode’s - January 2011

February 2011

• Womb - 2nd February 2011
• Sniper: Reloaded - 3rd February 2011
• The Social Network - 3rd February 2011 (Second Date)
• Gulliver’s Travels - 10th February 2011
• The Tourist - 10th February 2011
• The Erotic Man - February 16th 2011
• I Spit on Your Grave - 16th February 2011
• Ticking Clock - 17th February 2011
• Life as We Know It - 17th February 2011
• Burlesque - 24th February 2011
• Love and Other Drugs - 24th February 2011
• Sanctum - 24th February 2011
• The Virginity Hit - 24th February 2011
• Trust - February 2011
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 - February 2011

March 2011

• The Green Hornet - 3rd March 2011
• A Little Bit of Heaven - 3rd March 2011
• Hit List - 3rd March 2011
• Due Date - 3rd March 2011
• How Do You Know? - 10th March 2011
• Coriolanus - 17th March 2011
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - 17th March 2011
• Burlesque - 24th March 2011
• Ben Hur - 31th March 2011
• Love, Wedding, Marriage - March 2011
• Confucius - March 2011
• Largo Winch (Tome 2) - March 2011
• Tangled - March 2011
• Secretariat - March 2011
• Tron: Legacy - March 2011

April 2011

• Battle: Los Angeles - 7th April 2011
• Vanishing on 7th Street - 7th April 2011
• Just Go With It - 14th April 2011
• The Debt - 19th April 2011
• Faster - 21th April 2011
• Butter - 21st April 2011
• Yogi Bear - 28th April 2011
• The Roommate - 28th April 2011
• The Irishman - April 2011
• An Invisible Sign - April 2011
• Mona Lisa - April 2011
• The Job - April 2011
  

May 2011

• Insidious - 5th May
• Hit List - 12th May
• Provinces of Night - 12th May
• Bad Teacher - 19th May
• Country Strong - 26th May
• Hereafter - 26th May

June 2011

• Unknown - June 2
• Hall Pass - June 9
• The Fields – June
• Orlando - June

July 2011

• Sucker Punch - July 28

August 2011

• Red Riding Hood - August 11
• Drive Angry 3D - August 25

October 2011

• Hangover Part II, The - October 6
• Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - October 6
• Arthur - October 13
• Green Lantern - October 20

November 2011

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 - November 17

December 2011

• Horrible Bosses - December 1
• A Very Harold

Above information was compiled using two main sources:

1. Sam’s Blog which is one of the most frequently updated release dates resources online
2. Thread posted by PooPy on SCC forums

Once again, please note that DVD releases are subject to frequent change and the list above may not be 100% accurate. As usual, updated articles will be posted when less abstract, precise release dates become available in the coming days.

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PeerAccess Returns With A New Look And More R5, R2, R1 DVD & Blu Ray Release Dates

A while ago we posted an article about PeerAccess (PA), a file sharing related forum home to P2P release group T0XiC. Despite being the official home of an exclusive movie enocder team, PA was best known amongst the file sharing community for a totally different reason; R5 movie release dates - the site had probably the best maintained R5, R1, R2 DVD and Blu Ray movie release dates on the web. These lists were being updated on a regular basis, with incorrect dates being removed and new entries added. Just when things were going very smoothly, PA ran into some trouble last month and it appears that they had to rebuild the site from scratch. Good news is that PA is now back online, fully functional, with a new look and with all of its favorite features intact.

The most popular feature on PeerAccess is without a doubt their DVD release dates section. PA has a separate forum section which indexes release dates for DVDs and Blu-Ray disks in region 1, 2, and 5 (R1, R2, R5). So how does knowing a release date help the average pirate? Well, you can pretty much guess *when* a particular movie will leak online, if you know its public DVD release date. These schedules are subject to frequent change due to last minute decisions by publishers. This is one reason why most R5/R1/R2 predictions on the web soon become out of date. However, PA is one of the rare forums I have seen which regularly update its threads to reflect new schedules. This is one reason why we quote from their lists in out monthly R5 update articles such as this one.

In addition to the popular Release Dates section, PeerAccess also contains a BitTorrent tracker invite section, tracker reviews, seedbox reviews, open signup news, torrent reviews, screens and samples from latest movie releases as well as links to new movie trailers. Additionally, PA is the official home of P2P movie release group T0XiC. New site does not contain any exclusive T0XiC encodes just yet but according to a message posted on site, TOXiC RG plans to restart their operations soon.

Recent downtime seems to have reset PA’s user database and the new site is pretty much re built from scratch. Within a couple of days into the (re)launch, there are 200+ threads and 100+ active members registered. Of course, not all of these threads have high activity just yet as the forum is still at the starting stage, but over time and with more members, it could really kick off. For those interested in joining, registrations are currently open.

Site Name: PeerAccess (http://peeraccess.info)

Signup URL: http://peeraccess.info/register.php

Special thanks to Quizz for the heads up.

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R5 DVD Release Dates For September, October & November 2010 (Updated)

Lots of people seem to be interested in getting to know movie DVD release dates in advance. Usually, this information is easily obtainable from stores that sell DVDs, both online and offline. But how about guessing when a movie will leak online? Although movies don’t have an official ‘leak-to-P2P date’ scheduled by publishers, you can pretty much guess when some movies will appear on file sharing networks if you know their DVD Region 5 (R5) release date. The R5 format was first introduced to reduced DVD movie piracy in areas such as Russia, Indian subcontinent and Africa. These DVDs are usually released ahead of other regions and movie pirates use them as early video sources for their uploads. Anyways here’s yet another updated, revised version of R5 DVD release dates – please note that the schedules are subject to frequent change and may not be 100% accurate.

September

• Grown Ups - September 2
• Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back - September 16
  (expect some of these dates for the 23rd to change in the next week or so, most likely only about half of these will drop)
• Please Give - September 23
• Machete - September 23
• Piranha 3D - September 23
• Letters to Juliet - September 23
• Knight and Day - September 23
• Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming - September 23
• Unrequited - September 30
• Predators- September 30
• An Invisible Sign of My Own – September

October

• Iron Man 2 – October 5
• Rust - October 7
• Resident Evil: Afterlife - October 7
• Jonah Hex – October 12
• 30 Days of Night: Dark Days - October 14
• Toy Story 3 – October 19
• Takers - October 21
• Lost Boys: The Thirst - October 21
• Nightmare on Elm Street – October 26
• The Other Guys - October 28
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - October 28
• Get Him to the Greek – October

November

• Eat Pray Love - November 4
• You Again - November 9
• Expendables, The - November 11
• Open Season 3 - November 18
• StarStruck - November 23
• Sorcerer's Apprentice, The - November 23
• Charlie St. Cloud - November
• Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - November
• Get Him to the Greek - November
• Last Airbender, The - November
• Cane Toads: The Conquest - November
• Shrek Forever After - November

December

• Unstoppable - December 9
• Next Three Days, The - December
• Despicable Me - December
• Debt, The - December
• Easy A - December
• Inception - December
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - December
• Social Network, The - December
• Beastly - December
• Dinner for Schmucks – December

Above information was quoted from R5 release date threads on PeerAccess forum. PeerAccess is a DDL forum and a detailed review of the site along with screenshots can be found here (they seem to have recovered from an extended downtime so some site features may not yet be available).

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Updated R5, R1 Release Dates For August, September & October 2010

Here’s the latest entry in our series of posts relating to latest R5 (DVD for region 5) and R1 (DVD for region 1) movie releases. Knowing the R5/R1 release date of a movie in advance can be pretty useful if you download movies online - it gives a hint as to when a leaked copy of the said movie will hit file sharing networks worldwide. We have listed tentative R1/R5 release dates for more than 50 movies below – list of R5 entries is filtered and does not include movies that are already leaked online (in DVDSCR, DVDRIP or BRRip quality). List of R1 however does include some movies that are already available on BitTorrent sites, DDL forums and FTP sites. Note that release dates change often – they get postponed and pushed around for reasons best known by movie publishers (hence the need for regular updates such as this).

R5 Release Dates (July – October 2010)

July

• Knight And Day - July 29
• Icarus – July
• Exit Through the Gift Shop - July

August

• Furry Vengeance August 12
• Predators - August 19
• Salt - August 26
• Centurion - August 26

September

• Grown Ups - September 2
• The Expendables - September 9
• Robin Hood - September 14
• The Karate Kid - September 16
• Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming - September 16
• Please Give - September 23
• Machete - September 23
• Cemetery Junction - September 30
• Four Lions - September 30
• Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
• Prince Of Persia – September
• An Invisible Sign of My Own – September

October

• Rust - October 7
• Resident Evil: Afterlife - October 7
• The killer inside me - October 7
• 30 Days of Night: Dark Days - October 14
• Takers - October 22
• The Other Guys - October 28
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - October 28
• Jonah Hex – October
• Nightmare on Elm Street – October
• Get Him to the Greek – October
• Toy Story 3 – October
• You Again – October
• Iron Man 2 – October

R1 Release Dates (August – October 2010)

August

• After Life - August 3
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid - August 3
• Kick Ass - August 3
• To Save A Life - August 3
• Open House - August 3
• The Ghost Writer - August 3
• Date Night - August 10
• Death At A Funeral - August 10
• Letters to God - August 10
• Multiple Sarcasms - August 10
• Triage - August 10
• The Good Heart - August 10
• My Name is Khan - August 10
• The Joneses - August 10
• Furry Vengence - August 17
• The Last Song - August 17
• Cash - August 17
• Burning Bright - August 17
• Cemetery Junction - August 17
• Skellig: The Owl Man - August 17
• Survival of the Dead - August 24
• Group Sex - August 24
• The Back-Up Plan - August 24
• Abandoned - August 24
• 2:22 - August 24
• The Square - August 24
• Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? - August 31
• Harry Brown - August 31
• Babies - August 31

September

• MacGruber - September 7
• Holy Rollers - September 7
• Solitary Man - September 7
• Prince Of Persia - September 14
• Letters To Juliet - September 14
• Ondine - September 14
• Just Wright - September 14
• Paper Man - September 14
• Boogie Woogie - September 14
• Robin Hood - September 21
• Sex In The City 2 - September 21
• Stomp The Yard 2: Homecoming - September 21
• Iron Man 2 - September 28
• Frozen - September 28
• The Killer Inside Me - September 28
• Superman/Batman: Apocalypse - September 28

October

• Get Him To The Greek - October 5
• The Karate Kid - October 5
• Secret Of Kells - October 5
• 30 Days of Night: Dark Days - October 5
• How To Train Your Dragon - October 12
• Oceans - October 19
• Mirrors 2 - October 19
• You Don't Know Jack - October 26

If you are wondering where we get R5/R1 release date details from, no we don’t gather this information ourselves. Instead, we use several well known online sources that have proved to be reliable in the past to get the updated info. For example, the source for this article was the release date threads on PeerAccess (which seemed to be the most up to date at time of this post). PeerAccess is a DDL forum and you can see a detailed review of the site along with screenshots here.

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Which Private Tracker Has The Most Number Of BRRip & BDRip Torrents?

What’s the best private tracker to download BRRips? This is a question we see all too often in our E-mail inbox. BRRip and BDRip are two relatively new video release types that saw the light after the launch of Blu Ray disk format. These are usually XViD or x264 encoded rips made using a Blu Ray video source. Although not considered as true HD encodes, BRRips usually have a higher video resolution and image quality compared to regular DVDRip releases. In fact, a good BRRip usually has better image quality than even a DVD5/DVD9 DVDR release. Additionally, these often have lesser file size than regular 720p and 1080p Blu Ray encodes (usually 2-3GB as opposed to 4-13GB) and are becoming increasingly popular amongst BitTorrent users with relatively low bandwidth internet connections. While almost every tracker on the planet tracks XViD encoded DVDRip releases, only a select few index Blu Ray Rips. Coming back to the original question, which private tracker has the largest collection of BRRip/BDRip torrents?

If you are looking to download BRRips/BDRips, first tip would be to stop looking in scene only trackers. These are not popular release formats amongst scene release groups and even the best scene trackers such as SCC have only a handful of such releases (SCC only has around 90 torrents). P2P oriented groups on the other hand have had much more success with these formats.

Tracker	No. Of Blu Ray Rips	Notes
IPTorrents	~4000	The actual number of movies may even be higher as the torrent count includes ~100 movie packs.
Demonoid	2240+	Yeah, Demonoid. Never ceases to amaze :p
RevolutionTT	1700	This includes XvidHD releases by NPW.
TorrentLeech	1550	Finding BRRips on TL is easy. Just browse the NonScene/BRRip-x264 and NonScene/BRRip-XviD categories.
BiTTURK	1450	Home to group D-ZON3 which releases a lot of BRRips
ExtremeShare	960	Signups currently open.
LeechTurk	950
CN	880
LastTorrents	730	Signups open.
TorrentDay	580	Tracks NPW XvidHD releases. Signups open.
PTN	360	Again, the actual number of BRRip movies tracked is a lot higher than 360 as some of these are movie packs.

As you can see from the table above, IPTorrents leads the pack with nearly 4000 BRRip/BDRip torrents. IPT indexes a huge number of releases from SANTi, D-ZON3, JEZZA, Rx, FLAWL3SS (who release non HD rips internally on IPT) and a number of other P2P groups who frequently release Blu Ray rips. Some of you might be surprised not to see specialized movie trackers up in the list – well this is once instance where having access to a huge general tracker pays off (and remember, we’re talking about 2-3GB Blu Ray rips here – thousands of full HD 720p/1080p releases indexed on HDBits, etc were not counted). Speaking of movie trackers, a good niche site to download x264 BRRip releases from is x264.me. This tracker has it’s own internal encoders and has releases not found anywhere else.

If you are looking to download BRRips you now know where to go. Those who still haven’t given this format a try, don’t forget to check it out. While not true HD releases, BRRips have greater video quality and lesser file size. These should be ideal for folks on systems with SD video and/or if you are worried about internet bandwidth. If you know any other torrent sites that track a lot of BRRip releases, feel free to share them here – surely we must have missed some of them :)

R5 Movie DVD & Blu Ray Release Dates For June, July & August 2010 - Updated

We’ve been posting regular updates about R5 movie DVD release dates in the past couple of months. However, it’s not very easy to predict the exact launch date of a movie as these releases often get pushed around, postponed, etc due to last minute decisions by publishers. Here’s an updated, more accurate list of R5 release dates for the months of June, July and August 2010 – this list includes more movies & corrected dates compared to our last update located here. In addition to R5, release dates for several Blu Ray movies are also listed. Some of you might ask why knowing when the R5 would be out is important. Over the past couple of years R5 has become one of the ‘early video sources’ for scene and P2P groups who leak movies online  – the release of an R5 DVD means that a watchable pirated copy of the same movie is just around the corner.

R5 Release Dates

June 2010

• Preacher’s Kid – 1^st June 2010
• Everybody’s Fine – 1^st June 2010 (Second Date)
• Alice in Wonderland – 1^st June 2010
• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 3^rd June 2010
• Love at First Hiccup – 9^th June 2010
• My Name Is Khan – 10^th June 2010
• Date Night – 10^th June 2010 (Second Date)
• When in Rome – 15^th June 2010
• Valentines Day – 15^th June 2010 (Second Date)
• Flicka 2 – June 17^th 2010
• The Wolfman – 22^nd June 2010
• The Book of Eli – 24^th June 2010
• Cop Out – June 2010
• The Lovely Bones – June 2010
• Invictus – June 2010

July 2010

• Marmaduke – 1^st July 2010
• The A-Team – 8^th July 2010
• Love and Other Impossible Pursuits – July 29^th 2010
• Please Give – July 29^th 2010
• Clash of the Titans – July 2010
• Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – July 2010
• Green Zone – July 2010
• She’s Out of My League – July 2010
• An Invisible Sign of My Own – July 2010
• All’s Faire in Love – July 2010

August 2010

• Knight and Day – 5^th August 2010
• Predators – 12^th August 2010
• Unthinkable – 19^th August 2010
• A Nightmare on Elm Street – August 2010
• Clash of the Titans – August 2010
• Animals United – August 2010
• She’s Out of My League – August 2010
• Cop Out – August 2010
• Love and Other Impossible Pursuits – August 2010 (Second Date)

Blu-Ray Release Dates

June 2010

• My Name Is Khan – 17^th June 2010
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – 17^th June 2010
• The Lovely Bones – June 2010
• The Wolfman – June 2010

July 2010

• Clash of the Titans – July 2010
• Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – July 2010
• Green Zone – July 2010
• Get Him to the Greek – July 2010

August 2010

• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 26^th August 2010
• A Nightmare on Elm Street – August 2010

Note : Information above was quoted from Sam’s Blog, which is an excellent resource that often features regularly updated lists of movie release dates.

Again, please note that dates mentioned here are subject to change. Movie studios change release schedules for various reasons and sometimes releases get pushed back by several months. Also, some of the R5’s scheduled to be released in June 2010 have already been leaked in various other forms such as DVDSCR, BRRip, R1 DVDRip etc).

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Self Helpless – Indie Movie Released Exclusively On BitTorrent

You hear about movies being leaked via BitTorrent all the time – scene and P2P groups make sure that these are all shared online, whether movies makers and distributors like it or not. Of course, right now there aren’t many publishers who embrace BitTorrent as a distribution medium. However, there are folks who willingly share their work via BitTorrent at no cost at all. Makers of Indie movie Self Helpless belong to that rare segment of movie producers – they have released their independent movie via BitTorrent and encourage torrenters to share it  with as many people as they like. For those who are not into BitTorrent, an online streaming version is available for free through NinjaVideo.

Here’s how Adam Jaroszewski, a co-director and co-writer of Self Helpless, explained their decision to release the movie on BitTorrent:

Instead of fighting downloaders we're embracing them. Basically we want our movie to spread far and wide because we know that the community supports art and content it truly enjoys. We're confident there's a large audience for Self Helpless, and we want to give people the chance to check it out.

By our estimation, the Self Helpless torrents and streamed video on ninjavideo have been viewed about 5000+ times in its first 5 days. And the community is starting to show some support. Being avid downloaders, it seems pretty damn clear to my team and me that bittorrent is here to stay and will be playing a major role in the future of content distribution. This is true irrespective of what the current powers-that-be want. We're sort of confused as to why more content creators don't get this and adapt, but I'm betting they eventually will.

Given below are download links and other resources related to Self Helpless. By all means, download it, watch it and share it with your friends :)

Torrent Download: http://www.mininova.org/tor/3191913
Streaming Link: http://www.ninjavideo.net/video/64177
Official Web Page: http://www.selfhelplessmovie.com/
HD Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHoKDXA9UU

Special thanks to Adam Jaroszewski for letting us know.

Updated R5 Movie Release Dates For May, June, July & August 2010

Back in December 2009, we posted a list of R5 movie DVD releases scheduled to be out in the year 2010. Since DVD release dates tend to get changed ever so often, only some of the movies in that list were released as planned. For those interested, here’s an updated and revised list of R5 DVD release dates for the months of May, June, July and August 2010 (note that these release dates too are subject to change). Some of the movies in the list have already leaked online with their sources being DVD Screeners, DVD for Region 1 (R1), DVD for Region 6 (R6) etc. This list was originally posted in SCC forums by user PooPy. We are merely quoting his work here so full credit goes to him.

May

• Extraordinary Measures - May 13
• Greenberg - May 13
• Kick Ass - May 13
• It's Complicated - May 18
• Alice In Wonderland - May 25
• The Back-up Plan - May 27

June

• Everybody's Fine - June 1
• Preacher's Kid - June 1
• Date Night - June 10
• When In Rome - June 15
• Valentine's Day - June 15
• Wolfman, The - June 22
• Lovely Bones, The - June 29

July

• Marmaduke - July 1
• The A-Team - July 8
• Green Zone – July
• She's Out of My League – July
• Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – July
• Invictus - July

August

• Knight Of The Day - August 5
• Predators - August 12
• Unthinkable - August 19
• Cop Out – August
• Clash of the Titans (2010) - August

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BTArena’s Leaked Oscar Movies Project Is Back For 2010

If you’ve been following release blogs on the internet you probably already know about BTArena.org. It’s a popular site which provides information about latest scene and p2p releases along with a host of accompanying resources such as torrent/one click hosting links, trailers, NFO, video clips etc . Unlike most other release blogs which simply link to external sites, BTARENA hosts links, .torrent files, video etc on their own servers (links.btarena.org, tracker.btarena.org (their own BT tracker), video.btarena.org). Some of you might remember the ‘Oscars 2009 Project’ by the release blog which drew a lot of attention back then. The project in which they collect links to all Oscar nominated movies that have leaked online, is back for another round in year 2010.

The project is simply a separate page on BTArena site in which  current Oscar awards and their nominations are listed. Next to each nomination is a link through which you can download a copy of the related movie via BitTorrent/one click hosting sites. The link is color coded with green designating  a DVDRip and blue for DVDSCR and other copies with lesser video quality. Releases by movie groups from the scene as well as peer-to-peer oriented sources are indexed. Of course, not all Oscar nominated movies have leaked online (not yet anyways) – movie names in Red have no downloadable release available and users are welcome to share a copy if they have access to one.

[Click Here] to visit the Oscars 2010 page on BTArena.org

Special thanks to Alex for the heads up.

R5 Movie Release Dates For Year 2010

The R5 (DVD for Region 5 ) format was first introduced to reduced DVD movie piracy in areas such as Russia, Indian subcontinent and Africa. These DVDs were cheaper but had identical image and audio quality to R1/R2 DVD releases. However, some lacked DVD special features present in other regions [Read more about R5 from here]. We don’t know if the R5 format really reduced piracy as intended but it sure as hell became popular among pirates one way or the other. R5 DVDs are usually released before other regions and this has made them a popular source for online movie leaks. For those who are interested, here’s a list of R5 movie DVD release dates for the year 2010.

December 2009

• The Soloist (2009) - December 15
• Planet 51 - December 17
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - December 17
• Solitary Man - December 17
• The Stepfather (2009) - December 17

January 2010

• Avatar - January 14
• Bandslam - January 21
• Smokin 'Aces 2: Assassins' Ball - January 26
• Final Destination, The (2009) - January 26
• City Island - January 26
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel - January 28
• This Is It – January

February 2010

• Informant!, The - February 2
• (500) Days of Summer (2009) - February 4
• Whiteout - February 9
• Couples Retreat - February 9
• Time Traveler's Wife, The - February 9
• Halo Legends - February 9
• Invention of Lying, The - February 16
• Amelia - February 18
• Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - February 23
• Blind Side, The - February 23
• Tooth Fairy - February 25

March 2010

• Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove - March 2
• Marine 2, The - March 4
• Ninja Assassin - March 9
• Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - March 11
• Where the Wild Things Are - March 23
• Surviving Evil - March 25
• The Cabin in the Woods - March 25
• Sherlock Holmes - March 30
• Disney's A Christmas Carol – March

April 2010

• Paranormal Activity - April 6
• Fantastic Mr. Fox Fox - April 15
• It's Complicated - April 20

May 2010

• Preacher's Kid - May 4
• Date Night - May 6
• Valentine's Day - May 18
• Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps - May 20

June 2010

• Lovely Bones, The – June
• Up in the Air – June
• Invictus – June
• Wolfman, The – June

July 2010

• Clash of the Titans (2009) – July
• Green Zone – July
• She's Out of My League – July

August 2010

• How to Train Your Dragon – August

September 2010

• Despicable Me – September
• Get Me to the Gig – September
• Iron Man 2 – September
• Robin Hood – September
• Sex and the City 2 – September
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World the World – September

October 2010

• Jonah Hex – October
• Repo Men – October

November 2010

• Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore – November
• Shrek Forever After – November

December 2010

• Inception – December

Sources: MovieFreak, SCC Forums, T-I Forums, IRC

Note that above dates may not always be accurate. DVD release dates constantly change and the above is merely an early draft of what’s to come. On a side note, some really good movies are scheduled for release in 2010.

R5 DVDs usually have a non English audio stream local to the country which is release is being made (i.e. Russian). Needless to say it wouldn’t be too popular among pirates in English speaking countries if the movie is leaked in this form. So what really happens is, a group (such as ELEKTRIKA) releases the original untouched DVD and later some other group replaces it’s foreign audio stream with English audio, rips it, and re-releases it to scene/p2p sources later. In other words, if you know the R5 release date of a movie, you can pretty much guess when it’ll be leaked online.

Sublight Subtitle Downloader Software – An Alternative to SubDownloader

When it comes to automatic subtitle downloaders, SubDownloader is probably the most widely used. However the Windows version of SubDownloader now comes only as a 30 day shareware which is a big turn off. You could of course crack it but why bother when there are other free alternatives around? Sublight is one such software that is also capable of automatically downloading subtitles for movies and TV shows you watch. The app uses several popular subtitle sites to search and retrieve content. You can either integrate Sublight with a media player of your choice or you can use it as a standalone subtitle downloader utility.

Sublight’s behavior is very similar to that of Subdownloader – select the video file you want subtitles downloaded for and the app will automatically search the databases for it and offer download links to a list of matching subs. It also allows you to manually search the DBs using your own search criteria. Speaking of databases, Sublight supports following subtitle repositories:

• divx-titlovi
• divxfinland
• subdivx
• podnapsi
• allsubs

There are some other fancy features such as ‘play video with subtitle’, view latest uploaded subtitles, subtitle publishing, IMDB links, NOF file links, etc. More info may be found in their Wiki located here. Note that you can set the subtitle language during setup.

Download

[Click Here] to download latest version of Sublight from official download page (Direct Download – link auto updated with latest build)

Compare video quality of movie torrents with ‘Screenshot Comparison’

It’s a well known fact that movies leak on BitTorrent all the time. There are hundreds of movie release groups both scene and non scene that specializes in such releases. Sometimes, the same movie may be leaked by various groups with differences in video quality. When this happens it can be quite confusing to find which release has the best video quality – even pirates would like to get their hands on the best that’s available. This is where Screenshot Comparison comes in. It’s an online service that allows users to compare screenshots of different movie releases.

The idea behind ScreenshotComparision is pretty simple. Two screenshots (depicting the same scene) taken from two different movie releases are placed on top of each other, on a canvas. When the user hovers mouse cursor over the canvas, screenshot from the first release is shown. On mouse out, screen cap from second image replaces the first [See sample here]. In fact, even the slightest differences in image quality can easily be identified through this method.

Like all services, Screenshot Comparison is not perfect. For example there is no guarantee that you’ll be able to compare between every movie release out there. SC does not automatically pull it’s data as scene and p2p releases are pre’d – the service is entirely user driven. All screen captures and comparisons are submitted by users so what you can compare is limited by this factor. Also, I noticed some caparisons where images did not load or kept displaying the ‘loading’ message forever.

Either way it’s a pretty interesting service. Note that the service’s homepage takes you to the ‘submit’ page where you can submit your own screens and new comparisons. To find what users have already submitted, use the ‘Search’ feature or ‘See all’ from the top toolbar.

[Click Here] to visit Screenshot Comparison homepage

R5 movie release dates for August/September 2009

Earlier we used to post about popular movie leaks as separate posts on this blog. However with so many release blogs around (which are often faster than us), we figured this had little use to our readers. So now we only update via Twitter when hit movies are leaked on BitTorrent. Anyway here is a little heads up on several Hollywood blockbusters that would most probably hit torrent sites (DVD quality copies that is, not CAM or TS) in the months of August/September 2009. This speculation is based on the fact that DVD for region 5 (R5) release dates for these titles are scheduled for the next two months.

August 2009

• I Love You, Man (2009) - August 11
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) - August 13
• Killer Bean Forever (2009) - August 13
• Terminator Salvation (2009) - August 20
• Funny People (2009) - August 25
• The Boat That Rocked (2009) - August 25

September 2009

• All About Steve (2009) - September 3
• Fighting (2009) - September 8
• Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past (2009) - September 8
• The Invention of Lying (2009) - September 8
• This Side of the Truth (2009) - September 8
• District 9 (2009) - September 10
• Inglourious Basterds (2009) - September 15
• State Of Play (2009) - September 22
• Aliens in the Attic (2009) - September 24
• They Came from Upstairs (2009) - September 24
• Monsters VS. Aliens (2009) - September 25
• Observe And Report (2009) - September 29
• Young Americans (2009) - September 29

Source – MovieFreak, IRC, Various

Note that the above mentioned dates might not always be 100% accurate. Sometimes the release date is postponed and sometimes leaked copies make it into BitTorrent even before an official release is made ( as you can see from Ice Age 3).

If you don’t know what an R5 is, it’s a DVD release for region 5 (most of Africa, Former Soviet Union, the Indian subcontinent, Mongolia and North Korea). R5 DVDs usually do not have English audio but groups who release pirated versions make it a point to embed an English audio stream from a previously released TS or CAM. This means an R5 has almost the same video quality as a DVDRip but lower sound quality [Read more about R5 on Wikipedia]. 

And it was heartbreaking to see that I have to wait till November for Transformers 2 R5 to be released.

Where to download new and old aXXo torrents - Real, non fake movies

When it comes to P2P movie releasers, aXXo is without a doubt the most popular. aXXo has been releasing 700MB XViD movies since 2005 and by 2009 he has released over 1000 movie titles primarily on BitTorrent networks. Although there is constant debate on aXXo movies being re-encodes of scene releases, there is no denying the fact that aXXo is a celebrity among p2p fans. This popularity has its downsides – by now, aXXo is a prime target for anti p2p and anti piracy organizations across the world.

You can read about how anti piracy organizations use fake aXXo torrents to spread their crap around in this TorrentFreak article. Anyways you don’t have to worry about downloading fakes if you know the right places to get them torrents. Did you know that aXXo has accounts on most major public BitTorrent trackers? aXXo movies are first uploaded from these accounts and such torrents are as real as it gets. This article explains a few public BitTorrent sites and links to official aXXo accounts through which you can obtain real, non fake, aXXo movie torrents for free.

Darkside_RG
 
Site Name: DarkSide_RG (http://www.darksiderg.com/)
Description: Although not many are aware of this, Darkside_RG (short for DarkSide Release Group) is the original home of aXXo. There is a thread on DarkSide which indexes all of aXXo movie torrents as well as aXXo movie collections (packs). You need to register and log into the site to view this thread. Registrations are currently open.
Registration URL: http://94.75.224.58/forums/index.php?act=Reg&CODE=00
aXXo movies thread: http://94.75.224.58/forums/index.php?showforum=70
Note: DarkSide_RG is much more than just a site for aXXo torrents. For full site review refer to this article.

Mininova
 
Site Name: Mininova (http://www.mininova.org)
Description: It’s the huge BitTorrent index which is known by pretty much everyone. An official aXXo account can be found on mininova under which hundreds of aXXo movie torrents can be found.
aXXo account link: http://www.mininova.org/user/aXXo

TorrentPortal
 
Site Name: TorrentPortal (http://torrentportal.com)
Description: TorrentPortal is another large public BitTorrent index which has official aXXo uploads.
aXXo account link: http://torrentportal.com/account-details.php?id=175429c (new torrents are added at the end – only the last 1000 movies are shown)

SuperFundo
 
Site Name: SuperFundo
Description: SuperFundo is a public index where verified torrents from p2p releases including aXXo are indexed. Note that aXXo does not release officially on SuperFundo. For more information about this site, read our review located here. Note that some of the ads on this site are of adult nature.
aXXo movies page: http://axxo.superfundo.org/

Easy aXXo
 
Site Name: http://www.easyaxxo.com/
Description: A new release blog covering aXXo movie torrent releases only. Includes movie description, trailer and torrent links.

The Pirate Bay
 
Site Name: The Pirate Bay (http://thepiratebay.org)
Description: TPB is the largest public BitTorrent tracker. aXXo no longer officially releases his movies on TPB. However there are other uploaders who obtain the releases elsewhere and upload them to TPB tracker. TPB torrents with a green (VIP) of purple (trusted uploader) skull next to uploader name should be safe.

Demonoid
 
Site Name: Demonoid (http://www.demonoid.com)
Description: How could have we forgotten to include Demonoid in this list? Anyways thanks to our readers for pointing that out. It’s a hugely popular semi private tracker and is anothere place aXXo officially releases his stuff.
aXXo account link: http://www.demonoid.com/users/axxo

BTARENA’s Oscar 2009 Project – Leaked Oscar Nominated Movies All In One Place

Despite various attempts by movie studios, it’s a well known fact that almost all popular movies leak on BitTorrent. The frequency of leaks is further increased in the Oscar awards season when lots of screener, review and preview copies of Oscar nominated movies become publicly available on FTP sites, BitTorrent trackers, one click hosting sites (RapidShare, etc) and so on. This post speaks of the Oscar 2009 project by BTARENA which brings together all Oscar nominated movies of 2009 which have so far leaked on the internet.

You probably already know about BTArena.org, a popular release blog which provides information about latest scene and p2p releases along with torrent/one click hosting links, trailers, NFO, etc . Unlike most other release Blogs, BTARENA hosts links, .torrent files, video etc on their own servers (links.btarena.org, tracker.btarena.org, video.btarena.org).

Coming back to the Oscar 2009 Project, it’s basically a sorted index of all 2009 Oscar nominated movies that have so far leaked on the internet. Associated with each movie is a torrent link, one lick hosting links, video sample and movie trailer. Download and torrent links point to recent DVD Screener (DVDSCR), DVDRip and R5 releases by scene/p2p groups such as ARROW, DoNE, DiAMOND, NEPTUNE, etc. Torrents are tracked by public trackers such as The Pirate Bay – no registration is required to download.

BTARENA have already managed to add all Oscar nominated movies to their project by now. There are however some missing releases under ‘Best Documentary Feature’, ‘Best Documentary Short Subject’,'Best Foreign Language Film of the Year’ and ‘Best Animated Short Film’ categories. If you somehow happen to have access to these releases, you can let them know.

[Click Here] to visit BTARENA Oscar 2009 Page

DVDRip of ‘Body of Lies’ leaked on BitTorrent

A DVDRip of Body of Lies, a 2008 action movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe has leaked on BitTorrent networks across the world. Source of the leak was DiAMOND, a respected group in the movie scene. The release is a standard 700MB (1CD) XViD encoded rip of a R1 DVD (possibly). Official DVD release date for Body of Lies is also set for today (31st of January). A screener of this movie was leaked by group PUKKA back in December, 2008.

DiAMOND’s rip has already leaked from scene topsites to private BitTorrent trackers:

[ Body.of.Lies.DVDRip.XviD-DiAMOND ] [ Uploaded first @ ScT 2m 37s after pre, followed by [SCC, HT, GFT, TL, CT, PTM] ]

Source: Torrent-Racers - irc://irc.p2p-net.eu/tracers

Given the popularity of the movie (has a decent 7.4 rating on IMDB) and the star studded cast, expect this movie to be pirated a lot.

Links

[Click Here] to view release information (.NFO)

[Click Here] to view screen captures on VCDQuality

[Click Here] to view movie details on IMDB

[Click Here] to search for Body of Lies DVD Covers on CDCovers.CC

[Click Here] to search for Body of Lies subtitles on Opensubtitles.org. You can also use Subdownloader.

[Click Here] to search for movie trailers on IMDB and other sites.

Note: Do not post torrent or any other download links to this movie here.

DVDRip of Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa leaked on BitTorrent

A DVDRip of the highly anticipated  movie ‘Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa’ was leaked on scene topsites by group Larceny moments ago. From what it looks like the release is an XViD encoded standard 1CD (700MB) rip created using original NTSC DVD9 for Region 1 (R1). Larceny’s release has already spread to several private torrent trackers and will soon spread to public trackers, one click hosting sites and so on – as usual.

[ Madagascar.Escape.2.Africa.DVDRip.XviD-Larceny] [ Uploaded first @ GFT 1m 8s after pre, followed by [ SCC, TL, SCL, RBy, SiT, THB, AL, CT, ScT, TiT]

Source: Torrent-Racers - irc://irc.p2p-net.eu/tracers

Update: This release has been nuked due to audio being out of sync. However Madagascar.Escape.2.Africa.DVDRip.XviD.SYNCFIX-Decency (1.1MB) has been released which may be used to alleviate the problem.
UNNUKED: get.Decency.syncfix_get.Lazyness.subfix

Speaking of the movie, Escape to Africa is the sequel to 2005’s Madagascar which was a huge success. Madagascar 2 also has a decent IMDB rating of 7.1 and looks like a great movie to see.

 

Synopsis

In the highly-anticipated sequel to 'Madagascar,' Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins and the chimps find themselves marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar. In the face of this obstacle, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old crashed plane--sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just long enough to make it to the wildest place of all--the vast plains of Africa, where the members of our zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind for the very first time. Africa seems like a great place...but is it better than their Central Park home?

Links

[Click Here] to view release information (.NFO)

[Click Here] to view screen captures on VCDQuality

[Click Here] to view movie details on IMDB

[Click Here] to search for Madagascar 2 : Escape to Africa DVD Covers on CDCovers.CC

[Click Here] to search for Madagascar 2 subtitles on Opensubtitles.org. You can also use Subdownloader.

[Click Here] to search for movie trailers on IMDB and other sites.

Note: Do not post torrent or any other download links to this movie here.

RocknRolla DVDRip Leaked on BitTorrent

A DVDRip of the latest’ Guy Ritchie movie RocknRolla has leaked on BitTorrent. Veteran scene group DiAMOND is behind this release. DiAMOND is one of the most respected groups in the movie scene and true to their name, this release looks flawless – video and audio quality seem to be excellent. It’s a standard 1CD (700MB) XViD encoded rip.

I was very much looking forward till this movies was released. If you’ve watched other Guy Ritchie movies like Lock Stock and Two Smokin Barrels and Snatch, chances are high that you’ll like this one too. It has a good IMDB rating of 7.7 and the user comments are very much positive. Note that the kids in mind review for the movie says it has over 80 F-words :)

Description

RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, and starring Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton, and Tom Wilkinson. It was filmed in London and released on 5 September 2008 in the United Kingdom, hitting #1 in the UK box office in its first week of release. Plot - When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London's criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice.

Links

[Click Here] to view release information (.NFO)

[Click Here] to view screen captures on VCDQuality

[Click Here] to view movie details on IMDB

[Click Here] to search for RocknRolla DVD Coverson CDCovers.CC

[Click Here] to search for RocknRolla subtitles on Opensubtitles.org. You can also use Subdownloader.

[Click Here] to search for movie trailers on IMDB and other sites.

DVD Screener of Bolt leaked on BitTorrent

Lots of DVD Screeners have been leaking on the internet during the recent times and another title to this list was added by veteran scene group mVs (maVensupplieR) today. Like most mVs releases, this DVD Screener seems to have great video and audio quality and does not seem to have any watermarks on screen at all.

The release (Bolt.DVDSCR.XViD-mVs) comes as a standard 1CD (700MB) XViD encoded rip. Speaking of the movie, it’s an animation movie produced by Disney studios and has a high IMDB rating of 7.7. Most of the user comments on IMDB are very much positive and it definitely looks like a title worth checking out.

Description (Wikipedia)

Bolt is a 2008 computer-animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and is the 48th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animation Studios canon.

The film stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Malcolm McDowell, Claire Holt, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Greg Germann, Susie Essman and Mark Walton. The film's plot centers around a small white dog named Bolt who, having spent his entire life on the set of a television series, thinks that he has super powers. When he believes that his human, Penny, has been kidnapped, he sets out on a cross-country journey to "rescue" her. The film is directed by Chris Williams, who previously worked on Mulan and The Emperor's New Groove.

Links

[Click Here] to view release information (.NFO)

[Click Here] to view screen captures on VCDQuality (not available as of now)

[Click Here] to view movie details on IMDB

[Click Here] to search for DVD Covers for this movie on CDCovers.CC

[Click Here] to search for subtitles on Opensubtitles.org. You can also use Subdownloader.

[Click Here] to search for movie trailers on IMDB and other sites.

Btw did you notice the the opening line on mVs NFOs? It’s priceless: “FUCK YOU TOO PRESENTS:”. Lol

DVDRip of ‘Igor’ Leaked

A DVDRip of the 2008 animation movie ‘Igor’ has leaked on BitTorrent. A DVD Screener of this movie was leaked earlier today by scene group OPTiC (who’ve been releasing a lot of DVDSCR lately). The DVD rip (which comes form group Larceny) seems to be of excellent quality. It’s a standard 1CD (700MB) rip with 128 kBit/s MP3 audio.

Even though this was not a hugely popular movie, most of the user comments on IMDB are very much positive. It also has a decent IMDB rank of 6.1. Looks like it’s well worth watching.

Links

Note: You won’t find any download links here.

[Click Here] to view release information (.NFO) on VCDQuality

[Click Here] to view screen captures on VCDQuality

[Click Here] to view movie details on IMDB

[Click Here] to search for DVD Covers for this movie on CDCovers.CC

[Click Here] to search for subtitles on Opensubtitles.org. You can also use Subdownloader.

[Click Here] to search for movie trailers on IMDB and other sites.