 Muppet
mayhem -12:04am
Full specs have come in for the first-ever direct-to-video Muppet
movie, Kermit's Swamp Years. Featuring 1.78:1 anamorphic
widescreen and full screen transfers and English 5.0 and 2.0 Dolby
surround tracks, extras are plentiful, and include audio commentary
with Kermit the Frog and Horace D'Fly, "On The Set with Kermit"
and behind-the-scenes featurettes hosted by Joe the Armadillo,
outtakes, and trailers. Street date is 9/3 and retail $24.95.
Due 9/17 is another Ray Harryhausen gem, Earth vs. the Flying
Saucers. Presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and mono,
extras include "The Ray Harryhausen Chronicles" documentary,
"this is Dynamation" and "The Making of Earth Vs.
the Flying Saucers" featurettes, a still gallery and trailers.
Retail is $24.95.
In other Columbia street date news, watch for Spiritual Kung
Fu and Shaolin Wooden Men on 9/17, and Nine Queens
on 10/3. Columbia has also updated the specs for the 9/17 release
of Little Nikita, which will now include both anamorphic
widescreen and full frame transfers. There are no new extras aside
from trailers and retail remains $24.95. Last but not least, Columbia
will also release a new 2-disc special edition of the videogame
horror flick Resident Evil, a single-disc version of which
streets on 7/30. Specs and exact street date are not yet available,
but stay tuned...
Purple haze - 12:04am
Poor Smooche...what's a big fuscia rhino to do when the whole
world hates him? I'm sure Death to Smoochy sounded like
a good idea on paper, but audiences and critics thought otherwise
and stayed away in droves. But you wouldn't know it from Warner's
new 9/17 DVD release, which is loaded with tons of features befitting
a huge hit. Available in separate pan & scan and anamorphic
widescreen editions, extras include an audio commentary by director
Danny DeVito, a making-of featurette, 11 deleted scenes, an "Interactive
Ice Show," outtakes, storyboards, a still gallery with production
stills and real and fake ad materials, and the trailer. Retail
is $26.95 for either version.
You should be dancin' -12:04am
Can't get enough of Gene Kelly? Well Warner has the box set for
you, The Gene Kelly Collection. Arriving on 9/24, this
one includes the new 50th Anniversary Edition of Singin' in
the Rain, plus On the Town, An American in Paris
and a new documentary, Gene Kelly: Anatomy Of A Dancer.
Retail is $59.95 for the set, and the 87-minute Anatomy of a Dancer
will also be available separately for $24.95.
Street date change -12:04am
Just in from fox in a street date change for the upcoming two-disc
mega-set of the box office smash Ice Age, which will now
street on 11/26. Specs and price remain the same. Fox has also
postponed until further notice Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus
Bookie. Stay tuned...
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