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Warner teams up with The Harlem Globetrotters

September 5, 2005 // 0 Comments

Warner Home Entertainment has announced a partnership with The Harlem Globetrotters to distribute video content of the team. The first title arriving is the documentary The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team that Changed The World Narrated by Chuck D. of the [...]

HD-DVD launch cancelled for Christmas

September 1, 2005 // 0 Comments

An announcement just came in that couldn’t make me happier. Toshiba has just announced that they will not able to launch their HD-DVD format this year. In emails to its studio partners the hardware maker said that it would re-time the launch of the [...]

The Man With The Golden Arm sees a Special Edition

September 1, 2005 // 0 Comments

Hart Sharp Video is preparing a 50th Anniversary Special Edition for the classic The Man With The Golden Arm for release in October. Starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak and Eleanor Parker, this film tells the story of a heroin addict, played by Sinatra in [...]

George A. Romero’s Dawn Of The Dead sees yet another DVD release

September 1, 2005 // 0 Comments

By now I have honestly lost count how many times Dawn Of The Dead has been released but we just got word from Anchor Bay Entertainment that the studio will release the European Cut of the movie in October. “Zombi: Dawn Of The Dead” has been originally [...]

Toy Story 2 gets new and shiny

August 31, 2005 // 0 Comments

With the release of the new 2-disc special edition of Toy Story on DVD, word comes from Buena Vista Home Entertainment that a special edition of Toy Story 2 will be coming out later in the year. The new DVD will have the same high bit-rate transfer as the [...]

The Cream Farewell Concert makes it to DVD in October

August 31, 2005 // 0 Comments

Image Entertainment has just announced a DVD version of the 1969 rock film Cream Farewell Concert for release in October. Between its formation in 1966 and breakup a mere two years later, the power trio of virtuosic British musicians – drummer [...]

Kermit turns 50, Muppets go wide

August 30, 2005 // 0 Comments

The Muppet theatrical outings have been somewhat lost in the DVD shuffle over the years. With the upcoming 50th anniversary of Kermit the Frog (yes, really), Buena Vista Home Entertainment will be releasing special edition films of The Muppet Movie, The [...]

Kurosawa’s Ran finally gets the Criterion treatment

August 30, 2005 // 0 Comments

This morning we just got information that Criterion Collection will add Akira Kurosawa’s Ran to their line-up this fall. With “Ran, ” legendary director Akira Kurosawa re-imagines Shakespeare’s tragic King Lear as a singular historical epic set in [...]

Scary Movie 3.5 is in the works

August 29, 2005 // 0 Comments

Dimension Home Video is revisiting the third film in the horror spoof series with the new special edition Scary Movie 3.5. The unrated version contains new previously unseen footage that – with the rest of the film – takes shots at a crop of [...]
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