300 to Hit DVD This Summer
Warner Home Video has announced that director Zack Snyder's enormously successful 300 will hit DVD (single disc and widescreen two-disc Special Edition), Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD on July 31.
Warner Home Video has announced that director Zack Snyder's enormously successful 300 will hit DVD (single disc and widescreen two-disc Special Edition), Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD on July 31.
At long last, TEX AVERY'S DROOPY THE COMPLETE THEATRICAL COLLECTION (Warner Home Video, $26.99) arrives on DVD May 15, 2007. The two-disc set features 24 re-mastered and unedited animated shorts highlighted by the Academy Award nominated animated short ONE DROOPY KNIGHT.
Darren Aronofsky's THE FOUNTAIN, his thought provoking movie that was six years in the making, arrives May 15, 2007, on DVD, HD DVD Combo and Blu-ray Disc (Warner Home Video, $27.95, $39.99 and $34.99).
HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER, with its fractured fairy tale antics, comes to DVD and Blu-ray Disc (Lionsgate Home Ent., $28.98, $39.99) this month. HAPPILY N'EVER AFTER is directed by Paul J. Bolger and written by Robert Moreland. The film was produced by John H. Williams (SHREK) of Vanguard Films, BAF Berlin Animation Film and BFC Berliner Film Companie, co-exec produced by Ralph Kamp and Louise Goodsill of Odyssey Ent., and exec produced by Rainer Soehnlein, ceo of BFC Berliner Film Companie.
TitleMatch Ent, Group, a subsidiary of Protocall Technologies Inc. and developer of the world's first CSS-enabled DVD On-Demand system for retailers and etailers, announced completion of a distribution agreement for animation content from Tokyo-based TMS Ent. Ltd., a subsidiary of SEGA SAMMY Holdings Inc.
The most popular sailor in animation history is certainly "strong to the finish." Nearly 75 years after his silver screen debut, he'll bring to DVD for the first time the cartoons that first made him famous when Warner Home Video (WHV), Hearst Ent. and King Features Syndicate release POPEYE THE SAILOR 1933-1938 VOLUME 1 on July 31, 2007, for $64.92.
Adult Swim and Warner Home Video present THE VENTURE BROS.: SEASON TWO on DVD. THE VENTURE BROS. SECOND SEASON debuted on Adult Swim in June 2006, and nearly seven million people 18-34 tuned in to watch the show over the summer. Now all 13 episodes are available for the first time on a two-disc collector's box set priced at $29.98. Special features include episode commentaries and a tour of the show's production studios Astro-base Go!
Warner Home Video (WHV) has released SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU! THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON. The two-disc DVD set is priced at $34.98.
SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU! THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON features the last 16 episodes, which originally aired as part of the SCOOBY'S ALL STARS series. Within these 16 capers, Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Daphne, Fred and Velma tackle The Tar Monster, face down Iron Face and trek the globe for ghosts galore from A Menace in Venice to The Warlock of Wimbledon.
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, the box office smash comedy with vfx from Rhythm & Hues, Rainmaker Animation & Visual Effects, The Orphanage and Lola Visual Effects, comes to DVD on April 24, 2007, in a two-disc Special Edition (Fox Home Ent., $34.98).
BCI Eclipse, a Navarre Corp. company, and leading U.K. media company and underlying rights owner, Entertainment Rights Plc., have introduced the next installment of SHE-RA: PRINCESS OF POWER SEASON ONE, VOLUME TWO for $49.98. The six DVD pack will be released under BCI's Ink & Paint brand and will include 33 digitally remastered episodes from the first season of the '80s animated series.
SHE-RA: PRINCESS OF POWER SEASON ONE, VOLUME TWO, is the second release in a three-volume set that will include all 93 original episodes of the popular animated saga.
Coming to DVD uncut and digitally remastered is a Walter Lantz treasure trove: THE WOODY WOODPECKER AND FRIENDS CLASSIC CARTOON COLLECTION lands on store shelves July 24, 2007, from Universal Studios Home Ent. The three-disc collection priced at $39.98 features 75 zany adventures, including eight Academy Award-nominated shorts, and offers more than an one hour of vintage bonus materials, such as the doc "Walter, Woody and the World of Animation," behind-the-scenes footage and a full episode of THE WOODY WOODPECKER SHOW.
The 3D-animated EVERYONES HERO, the pet project of the late Christopher Reeve, is now available on DVD (Twentieth Century Fox Home Ent., $29.99). The first animated feature from Starz Animation (formerly IDT Ent.), EVERYONES HERO is a heartwarming story of a young boy's thousand-mile journey to help Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees win the 1932 World Series. Reeve was the exec producer and originating director. Dan St. Pierre and Colin Brady are co-directors. Ron Tippe and Igor Khait are producers.
Buena Vista Worldwide Home Ent. is offering a new wrinkle to its popular Disney Movie Rewards program: the first-ever theatrical tie-in with MEET THE ROBINSONS.
Beginning with MEET THE ROBINSONS, members who purchase tickets to see select Disney movies in theaters may mail in their ticket stubs to earn additional Disney Movie Rewards points; members collect points and redeem them for merchandise and digital rewards.
Academy Award nominee CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER recently arrived on DVD (Sony Pictures Home Ent., $28.95). Directed by acclaimed Zhang Yimou (HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS), CURSE stars Chow Yun Fat and Gong Li.
Based on the popular series THE GRIM ADVENTURES OF BILLY AND MANDY, the 80-minute movie, BILLY AND MANDY'S BIG BOOGEY-- ADVENTURE, debuts on DVD from Warner Home Video and Cartoon Network on April 3, 2007, just four days after its world premiere on Cartoon Network.
After years of legal wrangling, the irreverent British animated series THE MR. HELL SHOW has arrived on DVD in the U.K. MVM is releasing the multi-award winning animated comedy sketch show for adults as a double disc set featuring all 13 episodes of the show. The set sells for £24.99.
Walt Disney Home Ent. continues the popular WALT DISNEY TREASURES series with three new two-disc DVD sets, available Dec. 11. Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, who predates Mickey Mouse, is one of the highlights, having recently returned to the Disney fold.
Oswald comes out of the vault for the first time ever on DVD. The silent shorts made from 1926 to 1927, with Walt's personal touch, are revitalized with a brand-new score specifically made for WALT DISNEY TREASURES WAVE VII.
Universal Pictures Int'l Ent. has just bought the international DVD rights to the first 52-episode season of BERNARD. This deal for producer BRB Internacional represents the first time that the Spanish company has entered into such a wide-ranging alliance covering so many countries. Universal has also acquired mobile rights to BERNARD in the U.K.
One of last year's gems, CHILDREN OF MEN, the riveting futuristic thriller from director Alfonso Cuarón, comes to DVD and HD-DVD on March 27, 2007 (Universal Studios Home Ent., $29.98). No stranger to vfx after HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN, Cuarón elicits superb seamless work from London's Double Negative and Framestore CFC in crafting a bleak, naturalistic vision of London in 2027.
George Miller's toe tapping, exuberant and heart-felt HAPPY FEET, the first animated feature for him and Animal Logic, which won the Oscar, bows on DVD March 27, 2007 (Warner Home Video, $28.98).
Misfit Emperor Penguin Mumble (Elijah Wood) can't sing but he sure can dance, and endures a difficult redemptive journey to save his brethren in Antarctica. Also includes voice work by Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman as his musical parents, Memphis and Norma Jean. Robin Williams voices two Rockhopper penguins: the wise old Lovelace and the wisecracking Ramon.
Sony Pictures Home Ent's blockbuster James Bond title, CASINO ROYALE (with acclaimed seamless vfx from Peerless Camera), released March 13, 2007, on Blu-ray Disc, has hit the 100,000 units shipped mark and is setting records at retail for greatest number of high-definition copies sold in one day. The title debuted in the top 10 on Amazon's DVD top-sellers list -- a first for any film in high-definition. The film's director, Martin Campbell, extolled the disc quality and commented, "It's just unbelievable. Clearly, it's fantastic.
THE MATRIX, THE MATRIX RELOADED and THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS, the groundbreaking sci-fi films from The Wachowski brothers, are coming to HD DVD on May 22 (Warner Home Video) in THE ULTIMATE MATRIX COLLECTION and THE COMPLETE MATRIX TRILOGY (Warner Home Video, $119.99, $99.99). Blu-ray Disc versions will be released later in the year.
With SOUTH PARK: THE COMPLETE NINTH SEASON, released March 6, 2007 (Paramount Home Ent., $49.98), you get all 14 animated episodes from 2005 in a three-disc DVD set, featuring mini-commentaries on each show by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
BCI Eclipse, a Navarre Corp. company, and Hearst Ent. have released of the King Features animated series COOL MCCOOL from BATMAN creator Bob Kane on DVD. Under its Ink & Paint brand, BCI released the 20 episode, three-DVD set for $19.98. The set will include interviews, commentaries and episode introductions with legendary voice artist Chuck McCann.
Daniel Craig exceeded all expectations last year as the sixth and grittiest 007 in CASINO ROYALE, rebooting the franchise with an all-time best worldwide box office gross of nearly $600 million. Now Ian Fleming's first James Bond adventure comes to the home theater March 13, 2007, from Sony Pictures Home Ent. in a variety of formats: two-disc DVD ($28.96), Blu-ray Disc ($38.96) and PSP ($28.95).