Articles by Guido Henkel

The Bride With White Hair

July 11, 1998 // 0 Comments

After only four titles, Tai Seng’s domestic releases have established themselves as outstanding films that are released as excellent DVD discs. It makes Tai Seng the most important publisher of Hong Kong movies in the US, and, indeed, worldwide, as [...]

New Image titles announced

July 7, 1998 // 0 Comments

Image Entertainment have just unveiled their September line-up of DVD releases, including many, many anime films, such as Babel 2, Crimson Wolf, Lupin III and Project A-Ko. Their impressive lineup also contains classic movies, such as Criterion releases [...]

Buena Vista move into Europe… with Disney classics

July 6, 1998 // 0 Comments

Buena Vista have today announced their DVD distribution plans in Europe, covering 30 regional territories, including the Middle East, Africa and the former Soviet Union. Teaming up with Warner Home Video, Buena Vista intend to release 100 titles from Walt [...]

New Disney releases are on the way

July 2, 1998 // 0 Comments

Buena Vista have just announced their DVD releases for October. Slated to hit the shelves on October 13, here are the four titles you will see – The Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, The Santa Clause, Kundun and Deep Rising. All titles [...]

Tai Seng sign up with Macrovision

July 2, 1998 // 0 Comments

Hong Kong movie specialist Tai Seng Marketing have signed a two year agreement with Macrovision. Tai Seng will employ Macrovision’s copy protection for their upcoming domestic DVD releases to avoid unauthorized copying of the discs to VCR. The copy [...]

Hewlett Packard offers free movie rentals

July 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

Hewlett Packard Company announced a promotion whereby buyers of HP Pavilion PCs with DVD-ROM drives can rent three movies of their choice for free. In teaming up with Netflix for this promotion, HP customers can rent the movies from the Netflix.com [...]

Red Corner

July 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

Richard Gere has been an long-time activist and outspoken opponent of the Red Chinese intrusion and oppression of foreign territories, especially in Tibet. Being a celebrity has helped him direct more public attention to the problems and the schemes of [...]

Flubber

July 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

Family movies are still quite rare on DVD at the time of this writing, although the potential catalog consists of a wide variety of titles. Disney, the premier authority when it comes to family movies, is naturally on the forefront to supply family [...]

Blues Brothers 2000

July 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

I have heard many people speak disparagingly about "Blues Brothers 2000", claiming that it’s impossible to re-create a cult, impossible to replace an outstanding comedian like John Belushi. I heard many disappointed comments regarding this [...]

Enter The Dragon

July 1, 1998 // 0 Comments

It is hard to believe, but it has been 25 years since martial arts superstar Bruce Lee died an untimely death. Warner Home Video have now released a 25th Anniversary Special Edition DVD of his most popular and spectacular film "Enter The [...]
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