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HD-DVD lines are drawn

December 9, 2004 // 0 Comments

The Walt Disney Corporation has announced that all of the companies Home Video brands including Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Miramax, Hollywood and Touchstone will support the Blu-Ray disc format creating a fairly even split between studios for the [...]

Warner says Aloha to Scooby-Doo

December 9, 2004 // 0 Comments

Scooby-Doo has a new direct-to-video movie in the form of Aloha Scooby-Doo coming to DVD from Warner Home Entertainment. Aloha Scooby-Doo! finds our favorite Great Dane and his pals Shaggy, Daphne, Fred, and Velma heading to Hawaii for a big surfing [...]

Chariots of Fire gets fixed

December 7, 2004 // 0 Comments

Chariots of Fire was one of those films cursed by an early DVD release when no one knew DVDs. Now Warner Home Entertainment is releasing a new two-disc special edition of the film. Two British track athletes are competing for fame in the 1924 Paris [...]

Warner applies a little Heat

December 7, 2004 // 0 Comments

Craig Cackowski once said the scene between De Niro and Pacino is a scene everyone waited twenty years and two hours to see. Now ten years after its release Warner Home Entertainment is finally preparing a special edition of the Michael Mann drama Heat [...]

Katherine Hepburn in two AFI favorites

December 3, 2004 // 0 Comments

The AFI top 100 films gets closer to being complete on DVD with the release of Bringing up Baby from Warner Home Entertainment. Warner brings more Hepburn with a new 2-disc special edition of The Philadelphia Story. In Bringing up Baby, all the earnest [...]

Star Trek makes First Contact

December 3, 2004 // 0 Comments

The eighth film from the Final Frontier will come in March when Paramount Home Entertainment releases Star Trek First Contact as a two disc special edition. They call themselves the Borg – a half-organic, half-machine collective with a sole purpose: [...]

Yes Nurse! No Nurse! from Wolfe

December 2, 2004 // 0 Comments

Wolfe is presenting the Dutch musical from the 2003 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Yes Nurse! No Nurse! later this winter. With big production song and dance numbers and a hilarious cast, this film, based on the beloved hit [...]

Battlestar Galactica goes mini

December 1, 2004 // 0 Comments

The remake of Battlestar Galactica is now a weekly television series thanks to the success of the recent mini-series on the Sci-Fi Channel. Universal Home Video is putting the four hour special on DVD this month. Forty years after the Cylon Wars, [...]

30 Years of A Prairie Home Companion

December 1, 2004 // 0 Comments

River Road and Hi-Wire have collaborated on a new DVD of the 30th season of Prairie Home Companion. With a running time of 106 minutes, the DVD includes the 30th anniversary live broadcast with Keillor and cast performing their special blend of folk, [...]

HD DVD wars begin

November 30, 2004 // 0 Comments

After years of planning and format bickering, HD DVD is coming next year. HD DVD, developed by Toshiba Corp., NEC and Sanyo will be released by Universal Studios, New Line next holiday season while Paramount will begin releasing the discs on 2006. Warner [...]
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