Want fries with that? - 12:00am
Kicking off today's news (oh, the excitement!) are some announcements
from Paramount Home Entertainment. First up are two kiddie classics,
Good Burger and Harriet the Spy, Each features an
anamorphic widescreen transfer, English 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby surround
tracks and trailers. Street date is May 27th and retail $19.95
a pop, French fries not included.
ON May 27th Paramount will also release Jimmy Neutron: Confusion
Fusion . This collection of nine episodes from the Nickelodeon
TV series is presented in 4:3 full screen and 2.0 Dolby surround,
with some extra goodies: A featurette, 3 behind the scenes spots
from Nick TV, and the "Jimmy Neutron" pilot episode.
Retail is $19.95.
Other new Paramount day & date titles include the box office
bomb Extreme Ops on May 6th, and the thriller Hell Swarm
on June 27th. Both are movie-only editions with anamorphic
widescreen transfers (Extreme Ops also includes a full frame version
on the same disc), English 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby surround tracks,
and trailers. Retail is $29.95 each.
Next up is those idiots from The Real World, who are back in
The Real World Las Vegas: The Complete Season, due on May
20th. This four-disc set features all 28 episodes presented in
4:3 full screen and 2.0 Dolby surround, with extras including
bonus footage, a "House Tour," video profiles of each
cast member, and episode summaries. Retail is $39.95.
Buffy lives - 12:00am
She's back once to save Sunnyvale from the creatures of the night...it's
the return of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in The Complete
Fourth Season. Fox Home Entertainment will unleash this six-disc
set on June 10th in another feature-laded box set extravaganza.
Each episode is presented in 4:3 full screen and Dolby 2.0 surround,
with plenty of extras: Audio commentaries on the episodes"The
Initiative," "Wild at Heart," "Hush,"
"This Year's Girl," "Superstar," "primeval,"
and "Restless," complete scripts for "Fear Itself,"
"Hush" and "Who Are You?", the featurettes
"Spike," "Oz Revelations: A Full Moon," "Inside
the Sets of Sunnydale" and "Season 4 Overview,"
and two still galleries. Retail is $59.95.
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am Cartman - 12:00am
Guess it must be TV on DVD day again...Warner Home Video has
just announced the return of those bratty kids from South Park
in The Complete Second Season on June 3rd. Featuring
all 18 season two episodes, each is presented in 4:3 full screen
and 2.0 surround, plus some extras: A making-of documentary, music
video, and TV spots for each episode. (No, there aren't any audio
commentaries.) Retail is $49.95.
Into the Stargate - 12:00am
Noooooo! Make it stop!!!! Yep, we got more TV on DVD announcements.
Coming to a store near you on June 17th from MGM Home Entertainment
is Stargate SG-1: Season 3. This six-disc set features
spiffy 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfers and 5.1 Dolby surround
tracks for each episode. Extras include three "Secret File
of the SGC" featurettes. Retail is $69.95.
The Fab Four - 12:00am
Rounding out today's news (yes, it never ends) is our last TV
on DVD announcement, the full press release for the long-awaited
The Beatles Anthology, coming March 31st from Capitol.
This one includes some pretty cool never-before-seen material,
so check out the release
(http://www.dvdfile.com/news/web_wire/press_release/titles/beatlesanthology.html)
for the full details. Whew!
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