Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on September 9th, 2004
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.
Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on September 9th, 2004
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.
Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on September 9th, 2004
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.
Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on September 6th, 2004
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.
Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on August 31st, 2004
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...taining an exclusive preview of Stone's Alexander, as well as an Alexander movie ticket.
Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on August 28th, 2004
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... Jones's Diary columns, reviews, a “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason” excerpt, and trailers.
Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on August 25th, 2004
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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Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on August 23rd, 2004
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 ...y the film.
The 2-disc set will be presented in a 2.40:1 Anamorphic Widescreen transfer, along with English & French Dolby Digital 5.1 audio tracks. Extras on disc one will include two audio commentaries (the first with the Director, Producer, Co-Producer and Tobey Maguire; the second with SFX Designer John Dykstra and the Effects Team), a Spidey Sense 2 pop-up Trivia Track, Four Web-i-sodes, a Music Video, a Blooper Reel, and Trailers. Extras found on disc two will include a 12-Part Production-to-Premiere Documentary entitled “Making the Amazing”, three featurettes (“Hero in Crisis: A Look into Peter Parker's Personal Battles,” “Eight Arms to Hold You: Doc Ock from Comics to the Big Screen,” & “The Women of Spider-Man”), a multi-angle “Enter the Web” feature, an Alex Ross Art Gallery, a “Behind the Scenes Look” at the Spider-Man 2 Game, and an Easter Egg.
Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on August 18th, 2004
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...eractive virtual guide to the film, trailers and more.
Posted in: News and Opinions by Archive Authors on August 14th, 2004
Warner will release the second volume of the Looney Tunes: Golden Collection on November 2nd. This four-disc set will include around sixty shorts presented in 1:33:1 full frame along with English Dolby Digital Mono audio tracks. Extras will include audio commentaries (on over thirty of the cartoons), nine Behind-the-Tunes featurettes, two documentaries, a 50th-Anniversary Bugs Bunny Tribute Show, the “Adventures of the Road Runner” 1962 TV Pilot, a “From The Vaults Bonus Cartoon Rareties” feature, a New 2004 Short (enti...led “Daffy Duck for President”), as well as Music-Only Tracks, Bridging Sequences and Audio Recording Sessions.