Get Play'd - 3:31pm

A surprise sleeper earlier this winter, the rap-dance You Got Served will hit DVD on May 18th from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. This special edition will include an anamorphic widescreen transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track, plus an audio commentary with director Christopher B. Stokes and the cast, an additional "Filmed Dance" commentary, the "Serve It Up: The Making of You Got Served" and "Battle of the Beat" featurettes, a "Dance Breakdown" multi-angle study, and theatrical trailers. Retail will be $28.95.

Columbia TriStar has also announced a May 18th release for the Sal Mineo catalog fave The Gene Krupa Story, which will be remastered in its original 1.85:1 theatrical aspect ratio and be anamorphically encoded, and also includes a Dolby mono soundtrack and bonus trailers. List price will be $24.95.

Back to School - 3:31pm

On June 1st, New Line Home Entertainment will spotlight a quartet of big comedy faves available for the first time on DVD. All newly remastered in anamorphic widescreen and Dolby Digital 5.1 are such "gems" as the doomed Cher vehicle Faithful and the early Denzel Washington farce Heart Condition, plus Head Above Water and National Lampoon's Class Reunion (which also gets a DTS track). Extras are slim - theatrical trailers only - and retail will cost you $19.95 a pop.

Also just in from New Line are the full and final specs for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which will hit DVD on May 25th (as if you didn't know). Check out the updated press release for the full "Fact Sheet" with all the details.

Vice Versa - 3:31pm

Just dying for some more Buena Vista catalog classics to complete your collection? Then the house of mouse has something for you over the next few months, as the studio will release 50-plus favorites, many for the first time on DVD. Among the lineup are many reissues of titles that were previously released by Anchor Bay Entertainment, as well as some special editions and budget-priced movie-only cheapies. Full specs for the titles have not yet been released, but all will be presented in their original aspect ratios and remastered in anamorphic widescreen when appropriate.

Due on June 1st are: A Far Off Place, Ernest Goes to School, A Saintly Switch, Candleshoe, Flight of the Navigator, The Happiest Millionaire (Roadshow Edition) and a new special edition of the original 1976 Freaky Friday.

Up next on August 3rd: The Black Hole, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Oliver Twist, Unidentified Flying Oddball, The Watcher in the Woods, The Shaggy DA, Paradise, Darby O'Gill And The Little People and Map of the Human Heart.

Finally, September 7th will see the release of: Hans Brinker of the Silver Skates, One Little Indian, The Christmas Star, Squanto: A Warrior's Tale, Never Cry Wolf, Last Flight of Noah's Ark, Tex, Tiger Town and a 30th Anniversary Edition of The Island at the Top of the World and a 50th Anniversary Edition of the live-action Davy Crockett. Stay tuned for full specs and pricing soon.