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On January 4th, New Line will release separate Rated and Unrated editions of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Both releases will feature a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. Extras will include two audio commentaries (teh first with director Danny Leiner and actors John Cho and Kal Penn, the second with writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg), deleted scenes, "Back Seat" Interviews, an "Art of the Fart" sound documentary, Cast & Crew: Drive-Thru Bites,..."A Trip to the Land of Burgers" featurette, a script to screen feature (with storyboards), a "Me and Weedy" photo activity, and the theatrical trailer. The unrated edition will also include a bonus “Extreme” commentary track (with Danny Bouchard), some 'extreme' outtakes and a music video.

DreamWorks will release the Tom Cruise / Jamie Foxx thriller Collateral on December 14th. This 2-disc set will be presented in a 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with English DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, & Dolby Digital 2.0 audio tracks. The “extras” information is a little sketchy at this time, but we do know that this disc will include at least three featurettes (“City Of Night: The Making of Collateral”, “Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx Rehearse” & “Visual FX: MTA Train”), as well as deleted scenes and t...ailers. We will post the remainder of the special features as they become available.

A new technology capable of storing the equivalent of 100 DVDs on a single DVD-size disc has been unveiled by researchers from London's Imperial College.

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Columbia-Tristar will release Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, the sequel to the atrocious J-Lo film Anaconda, on December 7th. This disc will be presented in an anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. Extras will include a “Creating Anacondas” featurette, as well as a collection of deleted scenes, and trailers.
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment will release the complete first season of the Tim Allen hit show Home Improvement on November 23rd. All 24 first season episodes will be spread over 3-discs, and will be presented in 1.33:1 fullscreen along with an English Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track. Extras will include audio commentaries from the show's creators on all the episodes, as well as a “Loose Screws“ featurette.

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...trailers.

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 ...ut” featurette.