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Paramount promises Trading Places

July 16, 2002 // 0 Comments

While it may never be recognized by the American Film Institute as great cinema, Trading Places holds a warm place in many of our hearts as one of those films we can sit back and enjoy on a weekend afternoon. Paramount Home Entertainment is readying a new [...]

Spider-Man comes home

July 15, 2002 // 0 Comments

Official word has come in from Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment on the highly anticipated Spider-Man which is still turning a respectable profit at the theaters. The web slinger will come to DVD at the beginning of November with three separate [...]

Ernest goes to DVD

July 15, 2002 // 0 Comments

Although he might not have as big a following as Spider-Man, Ernest P. Warrell somehow managed to get a string of films released in the late eighties and early nineties following his earlier acting work pitching electronics and dairy products with his [...]

Warner concocts a Strange Brew

July 15, 2002 // 0 Comments

Warner Brothers Home Entertainment is pulling the McKenzie brothers back into the light with a new DVD release of the cult classic Strange Brew. Based ever so loosely on Shakespearean characters, Bob and Doug McKenzie must continue the family business [...]

Toshiba launches PhotoCD support

July 11, 2002 // 0 Comments

Toshiba Corp. has announced a partnership with Planetweb Inc. to develop DVD players with the ability to not only read DVDs, CDs, and CD-Rs, but PhotoCDs as well. The upcoming Toshiba SD-3800 and SD-4800 model players will include software created by [...]

Columbia TriStar sheds light on Kermit’s Swamp Years

July 11, 2002 // 0 Comments

Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment has just announced plans to release first-ever live-action Muppets direct-to-video feature Kermit’s Swamp Years in September. With a banjo and a song in his heart, Kermit left for Hollywood to pursue his dream of [...]

Sony saves the day with Underdog

July 10, 2002 // 0 Comments

Sony Music Video is ready to release the greatest superhero known to man on DVD; Underdog is coming. There’s no need to fear–Underdog is here! The cartoon superhero comes to DVD in a special collector’s edition. Contains the original series [...]

DVD Disc creation facility launches full-service operation

July 10, 2002 // 0 Comments

Today Ambient Digital Media announced the launch of its new authoring and compression facility, located in Santa Monica, California. ADM is positioned to provide full service DVD disc creation to a variety of content developers, resulting in completely [...]

A great director is lost

July 9, 2002 // 0 Comments

The film community has lost a pioneer over the weekend when legendary Hollywood director John Frankenheimer passed away on Saturday of a stroke. The 72 year old director has filmed over forty films and several television series since his introduction to [...]

Panic Room corrections

July 9, 2002 // 0 Comments

It appears that the previous post here was inaccurate concerning the upcoming DVD of Panic Room. The title will only be receiving a SuperBit release with anamorphic widescreen video and audio in Dolby Surround 2.0 in English and French. and DTS 5.1. A [...]
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