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Warner Brothers puts The Looney Tunes Back in Action

January 7, 2004 // 0 Comments

The attempt to update the Looney Tunes met mixed reactions last year, but the DVD will be filled with surprises. Looney Tunes: Back in Action comes to disc from Warner Brothers Home Video Yikes! The fate of the human race is in the hands of Bugs Bunny and [...]

Police Academy gets spruced up for anniversary

January 7, 2004 // 0 Comments

All seven Police Academy movies are getting touched up in time for the 20th anniversary of the original film. Warner Brothers Home Video is responsible. The first film has been restored and is available with an audio commentary by Steve Guttenberg, [...]

The Pink Panther is coming back

January 6, 2004 // 0 Comments

Before he was animated and sold insulation, The Pink Panther came to life on screen with the help of Peter Sellers. A five disc set of the films will be arriving soon from MGM Home Entertainment. The Pink Panther, A Shot in the Dark, The Pink Panther [...]

Anita Mui passes away at the age of 40

January 2, 2004 // 0 Comments

It is truly a sad way to begin the new year, and I am truly at a loss for words. Hong Kong superstar Anita Mui died of cancer earlier this week at the age of 40 in her homeland Hong Kong. Long-time friend Jackie Chan was at her side when the star passed [...]

Happiness is a Black Gunn

January 2, 2004 // 0 Comments

Blaxploitation has never been so vibrant as in the 1972 film Black Gunn. The action will hit DVD this month thanks so Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. When a group of revolutionaries rob a Mafia-run gambling operation, nightclub owner Gunn, who [...]

Paramount enrolls in the School of Rock

December 30, 2003 // 0 Comments

Paramount Home Entertainment is set to release the Richard Linklater comedy The School of Rock to DVD this winter. Down and out rock star Dewey Finn gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade [...]

The Ghost of Oscar Past comes from Columbia TriStar

December 29, 2003 // 0 Comments

Two great films from the 1960s are coming to DVD in February from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, the Academy Award winner for Best Picture A Man for All Seasons and the nominee for Best Picture The Guns of Navarone. The adaptation of Robert Bolt’s [...]

Dirty Pretty Things are coming

December 26, 2003 // 0 Comments

Hot on the heels of the hugely popular Amélie, Audrey Tautou went in the shockingly different direction in the thriller Dirty Pretty Things, which is on its way to DVD. Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the [...]

Seinfeld faces problems

December 24, 2003 // 0 Comments

Audio commentaries from Seinfeld actors may be held up, or not produced at all. Actors Michael Richards, Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are dissatisfied with the economic situation. Irregardless of the right or wrong of the situation, the news is [...]

Starsky & Hutch return to the screen

December 23, 2003 // 0 Comments

They’re two tough cops, but with an undercover car like that, how could they not be? Starsky & Hutch are coming to DVD this spring from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. Fueled by full-throttle car chases, off-beat humor, hip 70s fashions, [...]
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