Just in from Fox Home Entertainment are a spate of new announcements and street date changes. At last making its debut on March 16th is a special edition reissue of the Alan Parker cult classic The Commitments. This two-disc set boasts a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, plus an audio commentary by Parker, the full-length "The Commitments: Looking Back" and "The Making of The Commitments" documentaries, an additional "Dublin Soul: The Working Class & Changing Face of Dublin" featurette, a "Treat Her Right" music video plus "Before the Next Tear Drop Falls" and "Taking on the World" original songs, a still gallery, and promotional materials including the theatrical trailer, six TV spots and four radio spots. Retail will be $26.95. 

Fox will also unleash the direct-to-video chiller Hangman's Curse on March 30th. This double-sided special edition includes 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen and 1.44:1(?) full screen versions, plus the "Frank Peretti: From Page to Screen" and "The Spider Wrangler: The Spiders of Hangman's Curse" featurettes and trailers. Retail is $29.95.

Rounding out Fox's latest announcements is a March 9th debut for The Raquel Welch Collection, a box set of her most beloved (and campy) classics: Bandolero!, Mother Jugs & Speed, One Million Years B.C., and what is widely considered to be one of the worst movies of all time, the infamous Myra Breckinridge. Each is newly remastered in anamorphic widescreen and stereo, and all include the "Raquel Welch Theatre" trailer assortment, and Myra Breckinridge also includes two audio commentaries with director Michael Sarne and the other with Welch, the AMC Backstory featurette and additional teaser trailers and TV spots. Retail is $14.95 a pop for each of the individual titles, and $49.95 for the box set, which will also include the Welch spy thriller Fathom, which is already available.

And if all of this camp isn't already enough for you, on April 20th Fox will also release the "incendiary" and "controversial" laugh riot Reefer Madness. Long in the public domain, this remastered reissue boasts both the original black and white and newly colorized versions, both in 1.33:1 full screen, plus restored Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 tracks (really, no joke!), plus audio commentaries by Mike Nelson of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" and the Legend Films Color design team (on the colorized version only), and the rare short film "Grandpra's Marijuana Handbook." Retail will be a mere $14.95 for this epic release.

Last but not least, Fox has also announced two street date changes: In Living Color: Season One has been bumped to April 6th, while the hit Paris Hilton reality series The Simple Life gets moved up one week to January 20th to meet all the demand. (I weep for the future.) Specs and prices remain the same.

Inside the Labyrinth - 5:57pm

On March 30th, New Line Home Entertainment will release Ripley's Game, which marks the return of one of the most prolific serial killers of the 20th century. (No, not Leatherface.) This little-seen sequel to the 1999 hit The Talented Mr. Ripley sees John Malkovich taking over for Matt Damon as an older but no less deadly Tom Ripley, and will make its debut here in North America as a direct-to-video release. The DVD will be a bare bones affair, with only a 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track and trailers. Retail is $27.95. You can check out the box art below, as well as a look at the special two-disc Platinum Series edition of the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, also due on March 30th. Mmmmm...fresh meat!

Angels in America - 5:57pm

Rounding out today's news is Buena Vista Home Entertainment's April 6th lineup of new catalog releases, a diverse slate of hits and misses, family fare and adult dramas. The nine titles in the wave are all featureless aside from trailers and the obligatory Buena Vista sneak peeks, and will retail at two price points. Listing for $14.95: Blaze, Feast of July and the Goldie Hawn thriller Deceived; and listing for $19.95: Angels in the Endzone and Angels in the Infield, Before and After, Jefferson in Paris, A Pyromaniac's Love Story and the 1963 sequel Son of Flubber. Aspect ratio information is not yet available, but stay tuned.