A few days ago, Paramount announced a new DVD special edition of John Hughes' Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with no matching Blu-ray. This disappointed me greatly, as Paramount's recent Blu-ray port of Ferris Bueller's Day Off is fantastic. Whether Hughes had died yesterday or not, I should certainly hope that Paramount quickly announces plans for the same edition to be released on Blu-ray. If they don't, they're making a huge mistake going into a very important holiday season for the format.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a "buy, don't rent" title for a large number of people that will be picking up players in that same quarter of the year, and it would be the no-brainer among first additions to a Blu library.

For that matter, I found the only major Hughes movie currently on Blu-ray aside from Bueller is Home Alone. No Weird Science, Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, or Pretty in Pink are to be found. Not to be unsentimental, but Universal and Paramount could sell new Blu-ray users copies of all these movies in a couple months' time without breaking a sweat.

Some thoughts on the Bueller Blu, as I noted a couple months ago:

"Similar to the other two catalog releases from Paramount last week, Ferris Bueller's Day Off has jumped to Blu-ray, carrying over the supplements of the Bueller...Bueller Edition that hit DVD in 2006. The movie itself looks and sounds better than it ever has, which should be the bare minimum expected at this point. What has impressed me most with the catalog titles is that they haven't overdone the DNR or edge enhancement as far as I can tell. There's an appropriate amount of grain in the picture such that it isn't too clean and plastic-looking."