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Criterion releases Straw Dogs

December 25, 2002 // 0 Comments

Before Quentin Tarantino and John Woo, Sam Peckinpah filled the screen with a violence previously unknown in cinema. One of his more shocking dramas is coming to DVD as part of the Criterion Collection; the Dustin Hoffman film Straw Dogs. When David hires [...]

Warner fires Warren Lieberfarb

December 24, 2002 // 0 Comments

Warren Lieberfarb, perhaps the most influential person in the creation and launch of the DVD format has been released from his contract with Warner Brothers this last weekend. Lieberfarb, who has been working for Warner since 1975 is credited with having [...]

More Rules of Attraction

December 23, 2002 // 0 Comments

Lion’s Gate Home Entertainment has issued new information on the upcoming release of the recent hit The Rules of Attraction. The disc is still on schedule with a few tweaks in the announced features. The disc will feature a “Revolving Door” audio [...]

Corrections on Strawberry Shortcake

December 23, 2002 // 0 Comments

Strawberry Shortcake will be making her debut on DVD this spring, but not as previously reported. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will be updating the popular icon of the 1980s with a 21st Century makeover. Following in the footsteps of her [...]

Warner sees The Color Purple

December 23, 2002 // 0 Comments

Before the Spielberg imposed blockage of the director’s films on DVD a few of his films made it to DVD including The Color Purple as one of the first batch of DVDs to hit the market in 1997. Now Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is ready to revisit the [...]

Warner gets work Driving Miss Daisy

December 20, 2002 // 0 Comments

Perhaps one of the most disappointing DVD releases since the format’s inception has been the pan and scan only featureless release of the 1989 Oscar Winner for Best Picture Driving Miss Daisy. Now five years later, Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is [...]

Friends signs on for Season 3 on DVD

December 19, 2002 // 0 Comments

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is getting ready for the third season of NBC’s long running success Friends on DVD this Spring. Running from 1996-1997 the third season coincided with the rising of Friends to it highest popularity. Starting with every [...]

The Fast Runner will arrive from Columbia TriStar

December 18, 2002 // 0 Comments

Inuit filmmaking is not something you see everyday. But the remarkable film from Zacharias Kunuk swept the film festival circuit and is now coming to DVD thanks to Columbia TriStar home Entertainment When an unknown shaman curses a small nomadic [...]

Fox joins the cartoon fray

December 17, 2002 // 0 Comments

While Warner prepares a big batch of cartoon notalgia for the guys, Twentieth Century Fox is preparing a new DVD that should take any girl of the eighties back. Meet Strawberry Shortcake and Spring for Strawberry Shortcake will mark the first appearance [...]

Warner Brothers sets the Superheroes loose in April

December 17, 2002 // 0 Comments

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is gearing up for the second wave of animated superhero DVDs. n addition to the previously announced Superfriends: Challenge of the Superfriends, Warner will also release a second installment of their other superhero [...]
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