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Blog Posts, Release Announcements, Release News by Rod on November 7th, 2007
Direct to DVD comes #1 of 4 direct-to-DVD Futurama feature length movies - “Bender’s Big Score.” Of note: lots of PR flackery over the fact that this production is “carbon neutral” with Fox apparently ponying up for offset credits against CO2 releases from energy and materials used in production. The extras (after the jump) also include a “Terrifying Message from Al Gore” - Huzzah!
Uncancel your plans for the future — Futurama is back! In this all-new, feature-length epic, evil nudist aliens send Bender on a rampage through time, forcing him — slightly against his will — to steal all of Earth’s priceless historic treasures. Will the heroic Planet Express crew save the planet? Will Leela find true love? Will the ancient and terrible secret of Fry’s buttocks be exposed? All will be revealed in Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, the greatest adventure of our time, and also the greatest adventure of several other times! In the words of a certain beer-fueled robot . . . “We’re back, baby!”
Pricing: $29.98 U.S. / $37.98 Canada
Special Features follow after the jump…
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Blog Posts, Release Announcements, Release News by Rod on November 5th, 2007
January 15th is the just announced release date for the Family Guy “Blue Farce” - apparently an extended version of the season six premier that is a protracted sendup of Star Wars.
I’d link to a trailer or some clips, but hey! Fox has taken everything related to this down off of YouTube. And of course, the Fox media site is lagging their press releases with no coverart, trailers, stills, or anything related to this release available. So enjoy some mildly descriptive text instead!
Featuring hysterical cameos from Rush Limbaugh, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo and Helen Reddy, Family Guy Presents: “Blue Harvest” is “a dead-on homage that hilariously picks apart Star Wars, along with much of real life” (Associated Press). The DVD features more than four minutes of never-before-seen material; an uncensored track; animatics; commentaries; interviews with Seth MacFarlane and George Lucas…
Man, these guys are bundling hard on the SE release. T-shirts, 3-D glasses, trading cards (meh), and, of course 3D footage to go with the glasses…
See the full specs after the jump…
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Release News by Rod on September 25th, 2007
The Simpsons announcement has dropped: December 18th is the day! Coming out on Blu-ray and DVD, both single disc releases:
- DVD: $29.98 U.S. / $43.48 Canada
- Blu-ray: $39.98 U.S. / $49.98 Canada
The DVD Release
“The Simpsons Movie DVD is presented in North America in widescreen format, featuring English Dolby Surround 5.1 sound, Spanish and French Dolby Surround and English and Spanish subtitles.”
Extras Galore:
- Commentary by, James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, David Silverman, Dan Castellaneta, and joined by Yeardley Smith
- Directors Commentary by David Silverman, Mike B. Anderson, Steven Dean Moore and Rich Moore
- Deleted scenes: Russ Cargill - “Levels,” Springfield News, DMV, Sausage Truck, Emperor Moe, Alternate Ending
- Special Stuff: Homer’s Monologue On The Tonight Show, The Simpsons Judge American Idol, Homer Introduces American Idol, Let’s All Go To The Lobby, Alternate Character Designs by the Directors and Matt Groening
The Blu-ray Release
“The Simpsons Movie BD release will be authored in BD-Java with AVC (MPEG 4 compression) on a dual-layer 50 GB disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio plus English, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The disc will feature all of the above special features in high-def.”
I’m not seeing any cover art on the press site yet, but stay tuned. In the meantime, looks like a strong (though expensive!) release.
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Release News by Rod on September 21st, 2007
An interesting bit of news I stumbled across: a new Braveheart release on DVD. Uninspiring audio, but a new features list - I don’t think, from a cursory scan of Amazon, that all of these have been seen previously…
- Audio: 2.0 Surround, 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital
- Commentary: Commentary by Director Mel Gibson TBD
- Other: Tales of William Wallace
- Other: A Writer’s Journey
- Other: Archival Interviews with the Cast of Braveheart
- Photo Gallery: Photo Montage
- Other: History Channel Pieces TBD
- Trailers: 2 Original Theatrical Trailers
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Release News by Rod on September 15th, 2007
Urggh. 42 disc (dvd) set, includes all 20 original films, plus Casino Royale. In their own words:
“Presented on two-disc special edition DVDs spanning 42 discs, each mission grants all-access to the chronicles of the agent’s storied career from the Bond archives, including deleted scenes, rare interviews, documentaries, featurettes, interactive film guides, music videos, audio commentaries and more.”
Each film has been…
“…recently restored and re-mastered for optimal sound and picture quality.”
The complete set retails for $270 CDN, pre-orderable October 10.
Or, you could get the Ultimate Edition box set for $180 at Amazon now, and grab a previously viewed copy of Casino Royale (2006) from BlockBuster for $8. Your call.
Disclaimer: I have no idea if these discs are any different from the UE’s - though both this new release and the UE’s are 2-disc sets - and I find it hard to imagine that MGM’s dredged up another set of extras for each film; I’ve emailed MGM and will post a response.
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News and Opinions, Release News by Rod on September 15th, 2007
(click the cover to expand, btw) I know nothing about this movie other than that the concept sounds intriguing, and that it hits DVD October 23rd. Directed/produced/co-written by Arquette, Fox describes the film as an homage to slasher flicks by Wes Craven & Tobe Hooper. The plot is right from the slasher playbook: group of teens stalked and killed. But the “Arquette Homage” element is intriguing. Calling David Annandale: do you anything about this?
Screencaps follow after the jump!
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