Los Angeles (CA) - Paramount Pictures has announced its first slate of new Blu-ray Disc (BD) titles to come out starting May 20. The studio originally supported both Blu-ray and HD DVD, and then pledged exclusivity to the latter.

Earlier this year, though, it swapped sides to go exclusively to BD despite a reported $50 million in incentives from the HD DVD group it received for supporting that format. HD DVD was essentially declared dead shortly thereafter.

Face Off and Next, which were released on HD DVD last year, will come out on Blu-ray on May 20. Alongside those, Bee Movie, from Paramount’s Dreamworks studios, will also hit store shelves.

Bee Movie’s fate was in question, as its HD DVD release had been scheduled just as Dreamworks announced it would be following its parent company’s high-def format switch.

The next slate of exclusive Blu-ray Discs will be on June 3, when Cloverfield and There Will Be Blood are released. One other milestone, its first new Blu-ray title to come out day-and-date with the DVD release, will be The Spiderwick Chronicles which is slated for June 24.