Well, in a typical case of "Do as I say, don't do as I do" I pre-ordered the French Paprika super edition, the one with the 760-page book (or should I say: tome?).
I don't know conclusively whether or not this thing will have English subs, but as it was supposed to be released today I was hoping to give you all the news on that.
Update:
It's now half a day later and a lot more is known.
Good news first:
-The regular edition is out and has English subs confirmed!!
-Blu-ray is out, seeing as how the regular has confirmed English subs I'd be very surprised if this hasn't.
-A double-bill version packaged with "Tokyo Godfathers" has also been released for 5 Euro more.
The bad news:
-Even though Amazon.fr lists the super-edition as coming in 10-13 days, you can see its page has lost all details including the title extension (it's just called "Paprika", no mention of a limited edition, boxset, any difference with the regular version). Sony and several other sites claim more time is needed for the extras and this version has been moved to the 17th of October. Bummer!
So this replaces the news I posted earlier:
Today I got a message from my supplier saying that Sony has moved the release date to two weeks into the future.
Not a long wait exactly and surely not that unusual, but it gets me wondering: would Paprika's impressive US-box-office have something to do with it?
In the US, Paprika had its VERY limited release several weeks ago, but every subsequent week Sony Pictures has been adding venues, and the weekly box-office still goes up instead of down. We're not talking "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" but still the performance may have been a lot more decent than expected, causing Sony to delay all western DVD-releases for Paprika.
Anyway, the new release schedule says the first week of July and I'll keep you updated!
Ok, so that has now all been debunked. But at least we know that the French Paprika versions have English subs, and a super edition is upcoming.
And now I'll shut up about it until I hold the thing in my hands...
Earlier coverage on this DVD:
Second article.
You can still pre-order several editions at Amazon France:
Normal
Super-box
Blu-ray
I went to a "Manor" shop yesterday, and there were like five DVD of Paprika for sale (at 29,90.- Swiss francs, that's about 23 $ or 18 Euros). It was the "simple" edition, not the limited one.
I've checked on my regular local shop at the back of the DVD and YES there is an English subtitle track.
Enjoy!
At the DVDrama forum, in a message dated June 15, a reader posts an e-mail he received from GCTHV after writing them concerning conflicting release date information, which reads (in part), "In order to create new collector "objects" with the help of Satoshi Kon himself, the release of the super edition has been put off until Oct. 17." No word as yet (from readers who've actually played the discs) about subtitling or region-encoding at the site. Couldn't find any info at DVDclassik, either. I'll keep checking. Hope this helps.
i need absolute confirmation on regions and subs on DVD and BR - otherwise it's not worth getting excited... i suspect, seeing as there's a german or dutch edition late august with is uber-subbed, that you might have an oddity or the beginnings of a new practice with regards regions and english subs :
http://www.dvd-palace.de/dvd-datenbank/37615.html
Wow you're right Log, the German one is Uber-subbed and Uber-dubbed:
Tonformate (soundtracks):
Deutsch: Dolby Digital 5.1
Englisch: Dolby Digital 5.1
Französisch: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanisch: Dolby Digital 5.1
Polnisch: Dolby Digital 5.1
Tschechisch: Dolby Digital 5.1
Italienisch: Dolby Digital 5.1
Japanisch: Dolby Digital 5.1
Japanisch: PCM 5.1 (what the hell is that?)
Untertitel (subs):
Deutsche Untertitel
Englische Untertitel
Türkische Untertitel
Dänische Untertitel
Schwedische Untertitel
Norwegische Untertitel
Holländische Untertitel
Italienische Untertitel
Französische Untertitel
Spanische Untertitel
Portugiesische Untertitel
Polnische Untertitel
Griechische Untertitel
Tschechische Untertitel
Ungarische Untertitel
Kroatische Untertitel
Isländische Untertitel
Slowenische Untertitel
Bulgarische Untertitel
Hebräische Untertitel
Arabische Untertitel
Hindische Untertitel
The shape of things to come? This would make it pretty much worldwide! Well, except for the region 2 mentioned...
Huh, Icelandic subtitles. How about that. That probably means that we will be getting it soon as well.
The Paprika dvd is out now in Holland aswell, it even has an audio commentary and english subs..It came out on the 19th
Hi, I live in Switzerland and I picked up the Regular 2-disk DVD of PAPRIKA. They also had the Blu-Ray DVD as well.
I checked both disks and I will confirm:
FILM: French or Japananese DD 5.1, Japanese DTS; anamorphic video;
English, French, Arab subtitles.
NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES on the audio commentary (only french subtitles)
EXTRAS: Every single extra has English subtitles, and also plentiful other subtitles in other languages. (It's wierd that there are only three language subtitles on the movie, but there are about 10 different language subtitles for the extras).