Articles by Guido Henkel

Feel the sting of the Scorpion King in October

June 21, 2002 // 0 Comments

Universal Studios Home Video has just announced plans to release the “Mummy”-spin off The Scorpion King on DVD this fall. Set 5000 years ago in the infamous city of Gomorrah, The Scorpion King( The Rock) is a head-on confrontation between good and [...]

New upgrades from Columbia TriStar

June 20, 2002 // 0 Comments

Now that the Superbit titles have begun to take off, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has announced two new titles to join the line; Anaconda and A Knight’s Tale will join the party in Man’s greatest fear lurks in the depths of the jungle in the [...]

New downgrades from Columbia TriStar

June 20, 2002 // 0 Comments

Sadly, it looks like Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, is following in the footsteps of some of its compatriots by replacing some of their excellent two-disc special editions with single disc bare-bones editions. In this case, the re-issues are of [...]

40 Days and 40 Nights from Buena Vista

June 20, 2002 // 0 Comments

In just over 40 days and another 40 nights, Buena Vista Home Entertainment will release the odd Lent-based comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights to DVD. After a bitter break-up, Matt Sullivan decides to test himself by swearing to remain celibate, including [...]

Collateral Damage

June 20, 2002 // 0 Comments

After the incident on September 11, many studios reconsidered how to deal with certain films they had in their pipelines at the time, cautiously shuffling their release schedules in order to accommodate the healing process that was to follow the horrible [...]

Updated specs on Pulp Fiction

June 19, 2002 // 0 Comments

The announcement of a special edition of Pulp Fiction was a welcome one for fans of the series who were tired of their lackluster non-anamorphic U.S. DVDs, or their slightly better Canadian Alliance releases. Now, more definitive specs on the release, [...]

Miramax works A Hard Day’s Night

June 19, 2002 // 0 Comments

Everyone was quick to release the films of The Beatles on DVD when the format was launched, but this haste led to uniformly poor quality. Over the years, some of the Fab Four’s work has been revisited with higher commitment to quality and Miramax Home [...]

Neon Genesis Evangelion comes to a close

June 19, 2002 // 0 Comments

Anime fans should be pleased to hear that the popular animated series Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death And Rebirth will be almost completely on DVD this summer when Warner Music releases the second to last installment of the series in July. At the dawn of [...]

Brotherhood of the Wolf comes from Universal

June 18, 2002 // 0 Comments

The International success Le Pacte des loups, better known in the States as Brotherhood of the Wolf will be getting a Region 1 release this October from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The legend of the Beast of the Gevaudan that terrorized France [...]

The Patriot: Superbit

June 18, 2002 // 0 Comments

Continuing their series of ’Superbit’ releases, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has recently unveiled a 2-disc Superbit version of the Mel Gibson vehicle ’The Patriot.’ Although previously the ’Superbit’ series of releases was merely [...]
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