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Reversal - 10:41pm
Holy remake! The summer's biggest sleeper, Buena Vista Home Entertainment
will release the $100 million-plus grosser Freaky Friday
on December 16th. Starring Jamie Lee "I look like the Crypt
Keeper!" Curtis and Lindsey Lohan, the disc includes both
anamorphic widescreen and full screen versions, a Dolby Digital
5.1 track plus some extras: the "Backstage Pass" featurette,
a deleted scene, two alternate endings, "comical" bloopers
(what other kind are there?) 2 music videos and more. Retail is
$29.95.
Down on the Farm - 10:41pm
Just in from MGM Home Entertainment is the studio's January lineup
of new catalog and TV on DVD releases.
Yes, they are finally here...two of the silliest if most beloved
sitcoms of all time: Green Acres: The Complete First Season
and The Best of Mister Ed: Volume 1. MGM will
also release Stargate SG-1: Season 5 and, making
its DVD debut, Jeremiah: Season 1. Stay tuned
for specs...
From the studio's vast library comes a diverse selection of romance
and blaxploitation favorites: Just Between Friends, Love
at Large, Love is All There is, Sleep with Me, Stanley & Iris,
Blacula, Scream Blacula Scream, Hammer and The
Monkey Hustle. Sidney Poiter fans call also look for
a special three-peat of the actor's best, just in time for black
history month: For Love of Ivy, Pressure
Point and The Wilby Conspiracy. Retail
is $14.95 for each of the above, and watch this space for more.
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Gun, Will Travel - 10:41pm
Rounding out today's news are the full specs for Paramount Home
Entertainment's highly anticipated new special edition of the
Sergio Leone classic Once Upon a Time in the West,
due to hit stores on November 18th. Newly restored in 2.35:1 anamorphic
widescreen and Dolby Digital 5.1, there are extras galore: a new
audio commentary with directors John Carpenter, John Milius and
Alex Cox, film historians Sir Christopher Frayling and Dr. Sheldon
Hall, and additional cast & crew, "An Opera of Violence,"
"The Wages of Sin," "Something To Do With Death"
and "Railroad: Revolutionizing the West" featurettes,
location and production galleries and the theatrical trailer.
Retail is only $19.95.
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