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Yup, the A-Team is being made into a movie, and thus will eventually be a DVD. In the meantime, I’m sure you can expect all sorts of SE/CE/??? DVD releases of the original series, and plenty of hype. Looks like for the movie the surviving original cast (Mr. T, etc. – Hanninbal died a few years back) will be resticted to cameos. The setting will be modern day with the A-Team perhaps hailing from the Persian Gulf instead of Vietnam.

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MGM Home Entertainment will release the special edition of David Lynch’s Wild At Heart on December 7th. This disc will be presented in a new digitally remastered anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with a Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. Extras will include a new thirty-minute making of documentary, an original promo featurette, interviews with the cast and the crew, sixty-five animated behind-the-scenes photos (set to music), a “Specific Spontaneity: Focus on David Lynch”, a David Lynch “On the DVD” feature, as well as…
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Miramax Home Entertainment will release the Jet Li film Hero on November 30th. This disc will be presented in a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 6.1 audio tracks (in both Chinese (with English subtitles) and dubbed English versions) Extras will include of a ‘Hero Defined’ making-of featurette, four storyboard sequences, and an interview with Quentin Tarantino.

New Line will finally release the much anticipated Extended Edition of the final chapter of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on December 14th. This 4-disc set will include approx. fifty-minutes of additional footage, along with cast and crew audio commentaries and multiple behind the scenes documentaries and featurettes. A collector’s giftset will also be made available on the 14th that will include a Sideshow/Weta statue of Minas Tirith and a Howard Shore Creating the Lord of the Rings Symphony DVD.

Fox Home Entertainment will release the director’s cut of Daredevil (starring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner and Colin Farrell) on November 30th. This 124-minute version (22 minutes longer then the theatrical cut) will be presented in a 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with English DTS 5.1 & Dolby Digital 5.1 as well as Spanish & French Dolby Digital 2.0 audio tracks. The only extras that will be included are a new audio commentary (by director Mark Steven Johnson and Avi Arad) and a “Making of the Director’s …
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Warner Home Video will release the Ultimate Oliver Stone Collection on October 19th. This 14-disc set will include the films in the original set (Wall Street, Talk Radio, Natural Born Killers, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, JFK: Director’s Cut, Heaven and Earth, Nixon, U-Turn, Any Given Sunday: Director’s Cut and a documentary entitled Oliver Stone’s America), the DVD debuts of Looking for Fidel and Persona Non Grata, as well as the MGM special editions of Platoon and Salvador. There will also be a bonus disc co…
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Miramax Home Entertainment will release the Collector’s Edition of the highly popular comedy Bridget Jones’s Diary (starring Renée Zellweger & Hugh Grant) on December 9th. This disc will be presented in a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with and English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. Extras will the original audio commentary (with Director Sharon Maguire), deleted scenes, four featurettes (“The Bridget Jones Phenomenon”, “Today’s Single Woman”, “Portrait of the Makeup Artist” & “Making of”), complete Bridge…
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Warner Home Video will release the Wolfgang Petersen’s blockbuster Troy (starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom) in separate 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen and 1.33:1 fullscreen versions on January 4th. This 2-disc set will feature both English and French Dolby Digital 5.1 audio tracks, along with three featurettes (“In the Thick of the Battle”, “From Ruins to Reality” & “Troy: An Effects Odyssey”), a photo gallery, the theatrical trailer & Easter eggs.
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Columbia Tristar will release Spider-Man 2 in FIVE separate versions on November 30th. You will be able to choose from a standard two-disc set (in widescreen and full screen editions), a Superbit edition (no extras, but with a DTS track), a double-pack containing the first and second films, and a limited edition giftset. The giftset will include the two-disc edition along with a new miniature reproduction of The Amazing Spider-Man #50 comic book, five postcards, & a twenty-five page artists’ works portfolio inspired …
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Universal Home Video will release The Chronicles of Riddick (starring Vin Diesel) in separate Rated and Unrated Director’s Cut (10 minutes longer) versions on November 16th. Each disc will be presented in 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen transfers along with English, French, & Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 audio tracks. Extras will include “Riddick Insider Facts on Demand” during the film, a 360 degree location feature entitled “Riddick’s Worlds”, a complete level from the new “Riddick Escape from Butcher Bay” X-Box game, an in…
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