Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (with MGM Home Entertainment) announced 20 initial titles, including The Fifth Element, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Desperado, House of Flying Daggers, A Knight's Tale, Kung Fu Hustle, Resident Evil Apocalypse, RoboCop, Stealth and Species. Starting this summer, Sony will begin adding bonus BD Java games and other features to new film releases, including Underworld: Evolution, which will be released the same time as the DVD. Also being readied for summer release is the complete television series of SCI FI Channel's original series Stargate Atlantis in high definition.

Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment will release Aeon Flux, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Tomb Raider, Sleepy Hollow and The Manchurian Candidate. Paramount will continue its rollout of Blu-ray titles throughout 2006 and beyond, including Mission: Impossible: III alongside the first two installments in the spy movie franchise. These titles will also be available for HD DVD, the format competing with Blu-ray, which the studio supports as well.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment's initial titles include Fantastic Four, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Kiss of the Dragon and Ice Age, along with others that will bring Fox's total number of first-wave releases to 20 titles.

Lionsgate will add to the mix 10 titles, including The Punisher, T2: Judgment Day, Total Recall and Dune.