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& Manners - 12:48pm
Kicking off today's news is the latest from MGM Home Entertainment.
Due for release on December 30th is the Brittany Murphy and Dakota
Fanning comedy Uptown Girls, which will get the
1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby Digital 5.1 treatment,
plus the "Lowdown on Uptown" and "Rockin' Style"
featurettes, deleted scenes, a video still gallery and trailers.
Retail is $26.95.
MGM has also announced their February lineup of catalog titles
- specs are not yet available, but will be announced in the coming
weeks. At last getting the special edition treatment is the 1988
Oscar winner for Best Picture, Rain Main, which
will retail for $19.95. MGM will also debut special editions of
five Ingmar Bergman classics: Hour of the Wolf,
The Passion of Anna, Persona,
The Serpent's Egg and Shame.
Retail will set your back $24.95 each. The studio's World Films
collection will also grow with five additional new titles:
La Chamade, the Gerard Depardieu interpretation
Cyrano de Bergerac, That Championship Season,
The Myster of Rampo and Together.
Considerably more low-brow is another great batch of B-movie action
favorites: Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold,
King Solomon's Mines, Death Wish 2, 3
and 4, Roadhouse 66,
X-15 and Paul Verhoeven's Flesh + Blood.
Retail is $14.95 a pop.
DVD & Me - 12:48pm
Destined to become a "family entertainment staple,"
on January 20 Universal Studios Home Video will release the first
two titles in the Mommy & Me series, Playgroup
Favorites and More Playgroup Favorites.
These wildly popular playgroups attract over four million parents
and their kids each week with their interactive, unique "together
time" concept and wide range of educational benefits. Each
Mommy & Me title features 11 of the best-known classic children's
songs and three new original songs, each introduced by charming
animated interstitials. Each DVD will be priced at $19.95.
X-VHS - 12:48pm
In their continuing efforts to push the fledging D-VHS format,
Fox Home Entertainment has just announced a quintet of new titles,
including two day & date with DVD and VHS blockbusters. On
November 25th comes X2: X-MEN United, plus the
Oscar-winning Moulin Rouge! Then on December
16th comes three action smashes: True Lies, Speed
and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Each
is presented in their original 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratios
and, for the first time on D-VHS, feature Dolby Digital and DTS
5.1 surround tracks, each encoded at their full bit rates. There
are no extras, and retail is $34.95.
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