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More Space: 1999 Arriving on 7/31 are two more sets in the Space: 1999 collection from A&E, finishing off the complete first season. (And only season?) Each set retails for $39.95, includes two discs and are presented in full frame and English 1.0 mono. Volume 5 and Volume 6 include episodes 13 through 18: "Collision Course," "Death's Other Dominion," "The Full Circle," "End of Eternity," "War Games," and "The Last Enemy." Extras include episode notes and a still gallery. Volume 7 and Volume 8 include episodes 19 through 24: "The Troubled Spirit," "Space Brain," "The Infernal Machine," "Mission of the Darians," "Dragon's Domain" and "Testament of Arkadi." Extras include the "Space: 1999 Season One" documentary, the original broadcast trailers for all 24 Season One episodes, and a still gallery.
After quite a long wait, The Simpsons finally hits DVD on 9/25,
according to a report today at Yahoo! News. Though Fox has been hinting
for a while now that The Simpsons would come to DVD in Region 1 (some
details were already announced for an overseas release), this is the first
substantial report of features and street date. According to quotes by
Fox VP of marketing Peter Staddon, the three-disc set will encompass the
first, somewhat shortened season of the show, along with a "lost
episode," plenty of extras and even some of the Simpsons shorts that
first appeared on The Tracey Ullman show. Retail price is expected to
be $39.95 for the first season, and if the release pattern for Fox's The
X-Files is any indication, the wait won't be long for future seasons of
the Simpsons. Check out the Yahoo!
story for for the full scoop. Just push play First a "techno" pioneer, now a DVD pioneer, Moby has just announced a very elaborate new DVD release, Mobyplay. This is quite an impressive release, with ten Videos from the album "Play", and the ability to remix two Moby songs if you are DVD-ROM enabled-user Also included on the set is the 90-minute "Megamix " which features the best remixes from "Play" with all-new visuals, the 20-minute "Give An Idiot A Camcorder" road film directed by Moby, and a 20-minute selection o songs performed live on the Jools Holland Show. The disc is presented in full frame with full 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound. Retail is only $24.95 and street date 7/10. More on Godfather Alright, hopefully this will be the last post on The Godfather for a while! Some have asked about the info we posted earlier this week on a "Sopranos" feature appearing on the Godfather set. Well, it was supposed to be a surprise easter egg and we weren't aware we had ruined it. (Oops.) Sincerely, sorry to be spoilers, and, um, feel free to send us hate mail. As you probably know already, The Godfather Collection hits DVD on 10/9 as an elaborate five-disc set. Check out the press release for the full skinny.
More Paramount August titles Paramount has just announced five new August titles. Streeting on 8/21 is the thriller Daybreak, featuring a full screen transfer, English 5.1 and 2.0 surround tracks, an audio commentary with director Jean Pellerin and actor Ursula Brooks, cast and crew biographies and the trailer. Then arriving a week later on 8/28 are two titles with the word "Man" in the title. Marathon Man includes a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, English 5.1 and English and French mono tracks, The original Marathon Man making-of featurette, new cast and crew interviews, rare rehearsal footage and the trailer. Company Man features a 1.85;1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, English 2.0 surround track and the trailer. Retail is $29.95 each. Also on 8/28 comes two more volumes of Star Trek The Original Series, Volume 31 (featuring episodes #1 "Spock's Brain" and #62 "Is There In Truth No Beauty?") and Volume 32 (episodes #63 "The Empath and #64 "The Tholian Web"). All episodes are presented in full frame and 5.1 surround, with the original broadcast preview trailers. Retail is $19.95 each. The phantom phonebooth Attention all fans of British sci-fi and long scarves - Warner has answered your prayers with the 9/11 arrival of the first three volumes of Doctor Who to hit DVD here in Region 1. each disc is presented in full screen and 2.0 stereo and includes some pretty nifty features. Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space includes audio commentary by UNIT regulars Nicholas Courtney and Caroline John, a "Pop-Up Production Notes" and a UNIT Recruitment Film. Doctor Who: The Robots Of Death features audio commentary with producer Philip Hinchcliffe and writer Chris Boucher, model test footage and top-secret "Studio Plans" documents. Finally, Doctor Who: The Five Doctors includes audio commentary with actor Peter Davison and writer Terrance Dicks and 33 minutes of isolated score. Each disc also includes a still gallery, "Who's Who?" trivia and promo spots, with a price tag of $24.95 each. Columbia price drops Columbia TriStar has just announced price drops on twenty of their catalog titles, now reduced to $14.95. The titles include Against All Odds, Awakenings, The Bear, China Syndrome, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fisher King, Five Easy Pieces, Grey Owl, Idle hands, Last Action Hero, MacKenna's Gold, Mary Reilly, Multiplicity, Simon Sez, Sex Lies & Videotape, Soldier's Story, Someone To Watch Over Me, Stir Crazy, Odessa File and The Quick And the Dead. These price reductions kick in on 8/28.
Attention all Cleopatra purchasers, Fox has announced that they will be offering replacement copies of the second disc in the set, due to the omission of closing music cues. Though they are not recalling the disc, you can call the Fox Consumer Hotline at 1-888-223-2369, and Fox will ship a replacement free of charge. Good to see a studio offering a no-fuss, quick solution to a problem many other studios might just try and sweep under the rug... Price change alert Round and round it goes, where it stops, nobody knows? The Warner retail site has just issued yet another price change for the upcoming Goonies special edition DVD due on 8/21. Originally priced at $24.95, then dropped to $19.95, the price has now been set back to $24.95. Let's see how long this one lasts. Also, check out the rather psychedelic cover art for the new 30th Anniversary edition of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory...way trippy! Street date is 8/28 and retail $24.95. Get your adverbs here Though no exact street date or specs have been released, if you recently picked up Fox's Cast Away or Disney's The Emperor's New Groove releases, pay close attention to the included promo booklets. Fox has included an advert for a Five-Star Collection release of The French Connection (a two-disc set, no less) as well as a French Connection / French Connection 2 set, while Disney's touts an August release for the classic children's series Schoolhouse Rock. Again, no firm specs on these yet, but stay tuned for further details.
Coming a little late in the comedy of vulgarity sweepstakes, David Spade's The Adventures Of Joe Dirt failed to dig up much box office. Columbia will be releasing a feature-loaded DVD of the comedy on 8/28, including anamorphic widescreen and full screen versions, English 5.1 and English and French 2.0 surround and subtitle tracks, an audio commentary with director Denne Gordon and a second audio commentary with David Spade, deleted and alternate scenes with optional commentary, an outtake and blooper reel, trailers and talent files. Retail is $24.95. Funny monsters Universal has just announced a 8/28 release date for another Abbott & Costello comedy favorite, Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy. The disc features a 1.37:1 transfer and mono track, along with a Woody Woodpecker cartoon short and the trailer. Retail is $24.95, and the already-released Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein is also being lowered to $24.95 as well. Godfather press release Paramount has finally delivered the full press release for The Godfather Collection, and definitely check out the release for even more detail on this set which certainly looks terrific. Also, scroll down to yesterday's post for more on the set, including a look at the packaging. Also, for those upset about The Godfather II being on two discs, the film is indeed spread across two platters to maintain the quality for a film with a three hour-plus runtime. (And, remember that The Godfather II did have an intermission when it was shown theatrically.) Also, the reedited Godfather Saga is not a part of this set, i.e., these are the theatrical cuts with the deleted scenes on the supplemental disc. As for the price, well, see Cliff's column today for more on that. (By the way, we also visited American Zoetrope's DVD facility earlier this year while they were working on The Godfather as well as other projects, so we're not particularly concerned that this won't live up to expectations! Watch for a feature on Zoetrope in the future... )
Fox has just sent along some pics from their upcoming special edition of Batman, the 1966 version starring Adam West and Burt Ward. This looks like a really fun release, which carries over to the menus. Click on the box art to your right for a look at the menus, and check out the full specs for the disc here. Retail is only $22.95, and Batman will hit stores on 8/21. Talkin' bout a revolution Oh, that kooky old bald peace keeper is finally making his first DVD appearance, with the 8/28 bow of Gandhi. This disc looks quite feature loaded, with tons of featurettes and more, so check out the press release for the full specs. This Universal Halloween Chillers Universal has just issued the press release for their upcoming 9/18 wave of Halloween chillers, led by a new special edition of An American Werewolf In London (which, according to the release, will be getting a theatrical re-release!) along with Play Misty For Me, Cape Fear, Blood Simple and the "brand-new to DVD" (not!) Halloween II. Note that no specs are listed for Halloween II nor Blood Simple, and we're waiting to hear from Universal on just what will be included on those discs, and there is no commentary with Griffin Dunne and David Naughton on American Werewolf. Instead, DVD-ROM users can hook up to an exclusive MSN live chat with the pair when the disc is launched this fall. (I'd rather have had an actual commentary, but whatever.) Check out the release for the details.
As you know, today is the big day for fans of The Godfather. In a few hours, Paramount and American Zoetrope will be kicking off a big press conference in the streets of new York City to honor the release of one pretty big DVD set. The specs have now been announced, and this looks to be one pretty terrific set. Streeting on 10/9, The Godfather DVD Collection features no less than five discs, with The Godfather and The Godfather Part III on one disc apiece, while The Godfather II is spread over two, and there is a fifth disc with supplemental material only available in the collection. All three films are presented in anamorphic widescreen and English 5.1 Dolby Digital surround and French 2.0 mono. Extras include audio commentary with director Francis Ford Coppola on all three films and tons of great goodies: a 73-minute "The Godfather Family" documentary with rare footage including casting screen tests and rehearsal footage, behind the scenes material and interviews, "Filming Locations," "The Cinematography of The Godfather" and two "The Music of The Godfather" featurettes, the "Francis Ford Coppola's Notebook" including "The Transformation from Book to Movie," "The Corleone Family Tree," "Godfather Timeline" with deleted scenes and "Comparison of the Book to the Movie," extensive still galleries with stills from the Premiere, the Oscar ceremonies and traditional still and animatic storyboardsand more, full-color, large size slipcovers for each disc, theatrical trailers and even "A Homage to The Godfather: The Sopranos." Retail is $99.95 (with an MAP of $74.95) for the set, and the films will not be released separately. Click on the image for a blowup of the packaging, and click here for the press release. Street Date Alert Columbia has just set street dates for three new upcoming special editions. The Academy Award-winning epic Gandhi streets on 8/21, the sleeper hit Memento arrives on 9/4, and John Boorman's thriller The Tailor Of Panama hits 9/11. All three will include extensive extras, and watch for the full specs soon...
Well, we heard back from Anchor Bay on just what is up with the new Halloween: Extended Version DVDs arriving on 8/4. Anchor Bay originally released the extended cut of Halloween - featuring 12 minutes of footage shot by Director John carpenter for the NBC television airing of the film in 1981 - as part of a two-disc Limited Collector's Edition back in 1998. Now, Anchor Bay will release the Extended Version on its own in not one but two separate releases. Both feature the same disc and features, while the Extended Version with Film Clips also includes collectible 35mm film frames, and is limited to a 10,000 copy run. Retail price is the same for both, $24.95 each. Trimark titles Trimark has must announced a wave of new fall releases, starting with Dwight Yoakam's South Of Heaven West Of Hell arriving on 8/21, presented in 1.85:1 widescreen and English 6.1 Dolby surround, and featuring an audio commentary with Yoakam plus an additional commentary with the actors, an isolated music track, deleted scenes an the trailer. Next up is the horror thriller Faust on 8/28, in full frame and English 2.0 Dolby surround, along with an audio commentary with director Brian Yuzna, deleted footage, interviews, a still gallery with original artwork and the theatrical trailer. Retail is $24.95 each. Also coming on 8/28 is another Yuzna horror masterpiece, Return Of the Living Dead Part 3. The disc is in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and 2.0 surround, with a commentary by Yuzna as well as an additional commentary with the effects team, behind-the-scenes footage, a storyboard gallery, additional interviews and the trailer. Retail is $19.95. For more family-oriented fare, Trimark has three Christy adventures on tap for 8/28. Christy: Return To Gutter Gap, Christy: A New Beginning and Christy: A Change Of Season all are presented in full frame and 2.0 surround, and retail for $19.95. (Unfortunately, Christy & Tommy Lee: Hot And Uncensored remains unreleased...) |
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