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Martha Stewart launches DVD Empire

April 26, 2005 // 0 Comments

Martha Stewart has joined forces with Warner Home Entertainment have agreed to a multi-year commitment to releasing the Martha Stewart Living Omnipedia, a series of how-to discs. The new line of home video products will be culled from MSLO’s vast [...]

Star Wars gets uber-boxed

April 25, 2005 // 0 Comments

George Lucas announced over the weekend that not surprisingly, a box set of all six Star Wars films will be coming out next year. Although the supplements are far from complete, the films will be the versions currently available on DVD, and supplemental [...]

Universal celebrates The Jerk

April 25, 2005 // 0 Comments

Currently available only as a fullscreen featureless release, The Jerk is finally getting respect with the upcoming The Jerk: 26th Anniversary Edition from Universal Home Entertainment. The DVD releases will present the film in anamorphic widescreen with [...]

Sony goes Stone Cold

April 22, 2005 // 0 Comments

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment brings more of its catalog to disc with the DVD release of Stone Cold this summer. Tom Selleck is Jess Stone, the terse and tenacious chief of police in the cold, gray seaside town of Paradise, Massachusetts. When a serial [...]

AMC explores DVD censorship

April 21, 2005 // 0 Comments

One of the many uncomfortable trends growing in DVD retail is post-theatrical release editing of DVDs to make them more family or politically palatable. AMC explores the trend in Bleep! Censoring Hollywood, a new documentary airing this month. [...]

Warner shows its Racing Stripes

April 21, 2005 // 0 Comments

Warner Home Entertainment has sounded the starting shot for a special edition DVD for the family friendly Racing Stripes coming later this year. A zebra raised on a farm in Kentucky dreams of becoming a racehorse in this heartwarming tale that combines [...]

Back for a bite, Universal revisits Jaws

April 20, 2005 // 0 Comments

A new Special Edition of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is on the way for release in June. Called the “30th Anniversay Edition” – can you believe it’s been that long already? – will contain a number of new bonus features that were not part of the [...]

The Boogeyman will scare up DVD in May

April 19, 2005 // 0 Comments

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has just announced a DVD version of the Sam Raimi-produced horror chiller Boogeyman that will hit retail stores in May. Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children’s nightmares. But for Tim, the [...]

It’s game time for Scooby-Doo

April 19, 2005 // 0 Comments

It’s game time for Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Daphne, Fred and Velma with the DVD release of What’s New Scooby-Doo? Vol. 5: Sports Spooktacular from Warner Home Video. The latest installment in the “What’s New Scooby-Doo?” series will be available this [...]
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