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Elevated - 12:06am Another slate of music videos by top artists has just been announced, led by the first-ever U2 DVD. Due on 12/4 is U2: Elevation Tour 2001 - Live From Boston, which includes 19 tracks, multi-angles on select songs, "The Making Of The Filming Of" and "Road Movie" featurettes, three additional performances, and trailers for other U2 videos. This two disc set is presented in full frame and Dolby Digital 5.1, and retail is $29.95. More new arrivals from Warner Music on 12/4 include The Cure Greatest Hits, featuring 16 videos, 6 live acoustic performances, and two new tracks; Red Hot Chili Peppers: On The Map, a 2000 live performance featuring 18 songs plus 5 bonus tracks, backstage footage and band interviews; and on 11/20, Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits, featuring 20 Pumpkin's videos and live performances, behind-the-scenes footage and video commentary. Retail is $24.95 each, and all are presented in full frame. Street date alert - 12:06am Just a quickie... the Superbit release of The Patriot, originally due out on 12/4 along with Gattaca and Bram Stoker's Dracula, has been indefinitely postponed. Stay tuned for a new street date... Fox menu shots - 12:06am Fox just sent us a few tasty menu shots from three of their big upcoming DVDs, Moulin Rouge, MASH and the MASH TV episode collection. Click on either image to see the screens, and enjoy!
Happy 'Anniversary' - 12:26pm Hitting DVD on 1/15 from New Line is the indie hit The Anniversary Party, from co-writers and directors Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cummings. The disc sports a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, English 2.0 surround track, audio commentary with Leigh and Cummings, the Sundance Channel documentary "Anatomy Of A Scene," the film's theatrical trailer, and DVD-ROM extras including the original theatrical website and the complete screenplay. Retail is $24.95. New from HBO - 12:26pm Just announced from HBO are two acclaimed original movies, Dinner With Friends and the biopic James Dean, both hitting DVD on 1/22. Dinner With Friends is presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen with English, French and Spanish 2.0 surround tracks, and additional extras include an audio commentary with director Norman Jewison. James Dean is full frame with a 5.1 surround track, and trailers for the Dean classics Rebel Without A Cause and Giant. Retail is $19.95 each.
New Buena Vista titles - 12:04am Just in from Buena Vista are specs for a number of their early 2001 releases. First up is the ill-fated Atlantis: The Lost Empire, in not one but two versions, both due on 1/29. The standard edition lists for $29.95 features THX-certified 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and full frame versions, an English 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX track, audio commentary with directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, the deleted "Viking Prologue" scene, a "How to speak Atlantean" Disneypedia, virtual tours of two CG models, and the trailer. The $39.95 two-disc thingee includes all of the above features plus a DTS 5.1 track and the usual two-disc Disney super-duper extras including a "Visual Commentary," a "Whitmore Industries" industrial film, and five extensive sections of new making-of and behind the scenes footage including "History," "Story and editorial," "Art direction," and "Character designs," plus a publicity materials section including a still gallery, trailers and TV spots. Arriving on 1/22 from Buena Vista is a special edition of the classic Belle Ju Jour, in 1.66:1 widescreen and a French 2.0 track with optional English subtitles, an audio commentary with Bunuel scholar Julie Jones, and the film's original and 1995 reissue trailers. Next up is Dragstrip girl, in 4:3 full frame with a 2.0 surround track, and the trailer, and the 1953 version of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame starring Anthony Quinn, with a restored 2.35;1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, English 2.0 surround track, and the trailer. Retail is $29.95 each. Music makes the people come together - 12:02am Upcoming from Warner Music are three new music DVDs, all arriving on 11/20. Enya: The Videos, Linkin Park: Frat Party At The Pankake Festival, and Staind: MTV Unplugged. All are presented in full frame with 2.0 stereo tracks, while Stained also includes a 5.1 Dolby Digital mix and plenty of extras, including the original videos For "Mudshovel" and "Fade," a "making the video" featurette, band interviews, and the complete Staind discography. Retail is $24.95 each. Warner Music has also announced a 3/12 release date for Depeche Mode: Exciter Live, taken from the band's recent stop in Paris and Birmingham and directed by longtime collaborator Anton Corbijn. Retail is $24.95, though specs remain TBA...stay tuned. In other music DVD news, Image will bow The Bee Gees: Live By Request on 1/2. Taken from A&E's popular "Live By Request" music series, the brothers Gibb perform nearly twenty songs, including some of their biggest hits. The disc is presented in full frame with both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 mixes and 2.0 stereo track. Extras a slim, with only a discography included. Retail is $24.95. Last but not least, on 12/11 BMG will release David Gray: Live At The Point. The disc features 17 Gray performances presented in full frame and Dolby Digital 5.0 surround and 2.0 stereo tracks, the onus short film "Up To A Point," and an English lyric subtitle track. Retail is $24.95. Paradise found - 12:02am Just announced for a 1/22 release from Criterion is a new two-disc special edition of Marcel Carne's classic Children Of Paradise. Presented in 1.33:1 full frame with the original French mono track, extras include a video introduction by Terry Gilliam, audio commentary with Film Scholar Brian Stonehill on the first part of the film (disc one) and Charles Affron on disc two, the original film treatment by Jacques Prevert, a production still gallery including rare designs by Alexandre Trauner, filmographies, a 24-page collectible booklet, and the original U.S. theatrical trailer. Retail is $39.95. Uprising due December - 1:32pm Well, if you just watched the miniseries or missed it, now you can catch the DVD. Arriving on 12/18 is the already-acclaimed miniseries Uprising, which is getting the special edition treatment with plenty of extras. Presented in 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 5.1 surround, along with two audio commentaries, with director and executive producer Jon Avnet, and actors Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer and Jon Voight, and two new documentaries "Resistance" and "Breaking Down the Walls: The Road to Recreating the Warsaw Ghetto." Retail is $24.95.
The weight of time - 12:01am Just announced from Columbia are some new street dates and specs. Due on 1/29 is a new special edition reissue of the Bill Murray modern favorite Groundhog Day. This new edition includes both Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 tracks (yep, you heard that right), an audio commentary with director Harold Ramis, the new documentary "The Weight Of Time," production notes, filmographies, and trailers. Also announced are the specs for Mariah Carey's failed epic Glitter, which features anamorphic widescreen and full screen transfers, Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 surround tracks, an audio commentary with director, two Mariah music videos, filmographies and trailers. Retail is $27.95 each. A few new street dates include a rescheduled Luc Besson 6-pack, which now streets on 12/18, and When Strangers Appear, due on 1/29. Stay tuned for more details. Sssssssss! - 12:01am Just announced for a 1/15 release from Fox is what is sure to become a direct-to-video classic, the Treat Williams snake thriller Venomous. The disc is presented in full frame with an audio commentary with director, the "A Look At Rattlesnakes" featurette, a still gallery, filmographies and the trailer. Retail is $34.95.
Street date alert - 12:05am Just announced on the Disney website is a new street date for the long-awaited DVD debut of the 1996 animated version of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, along with its direct-to-video sequel The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 2. Both releases are now slated to arrive on 3/19, though full specs are not yet released. A 5/7 date has also been announced for The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Stay tuned for specs. In other street date news, the new special edition of Jerry Maguire originally due in early December from Columbia TriStar has now been postponed until 2002, with no new date yet announced. Stay tuned... Idol of the Odeon - 12:05am Just announced from Anchor Bay are more December titles, including a new box set celebrating that 50's "Idol of the Odeon" Dirk Bogarde. Arriving on 12/18 is The Dirk Bogarde Collection, featuring three of his most well-known works, The Accident, The Servant, and The Mind Benders. Each is presented in 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen with English mono tracks, trailers, and a Dirk Bogarde bio, and retail for $19.95 each or $39.95 for the three-pack. Also debuting on 12/18 is the Lucio Fulci shocker Four Of The Apocalypse, now fully uncut and restored. Presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with Italian and English mono tracks, the original theatrical trailer, a poster reproduction, and the all-new 17-minute featurette "Fulci Of The Apocalypse." Last but not least is the Damiano Damiani western A Bullet For The General, also presented in 2.35;1 anamorphic widescreen and mono with a collectible booklet and the trailer. Retail is $19.95 each. Three from BMG - 12:05am Fans of disposable pop music, does BMG have three new DVDs for you. Pet Shop Boys: Montage - The Nightlife Tour, Britney Spears: The Videos and O-Town: Live From New York (isn't that an oxymoron) all hit DVD on 11/20. Each features a full frame presentation and 2.0 stereo tracks, along with a discography. The Spears DVD also features two bonus videos, while the boys in O-Town treat you to additional backstage footage. (Oooh, can't wait.) Retail is $24.95 a pop. E.T. Redux - 5:31pm Yeah, some good news for once? According to a new story from USA Today, E.T. Producer Kathleen Kennedy is quoted as saying that the upcoming 20th Anniversary Edition of E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial due to hit stores later next year after the theatrical re-release in February will include both the original 1982 version and the new souped-up special edition cut. "Film historians had worried that updating the movie would make it impossible for future fans to experience the film as it first wowed audiences," the article said, and Kennedy's comments indicating the inclusion of the original cut appear in the Wednesday edition of the newspaper. Since I'm not a fan of CGI tinkering, this is music to my ears if true, so bring on the DVD, which is expected by end of summer 2002. In other Universal news, just announced is the full press release for The Fast & The Furious, scheduled to hit DVD on 1/8.
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