Bedtime Stories, Despereaux & Day the Earth Stood Still on DVD/Blu-ray
BEDTIME STORIES makes its DVD debut two days after its Blu-ray bow, along with DVD/Blu-ray releases of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX, plus volume three of BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE on DVD, Disney Animation Collection, volumes 1-3 on DVD, MAX FLEISCHER'S SUPERMAN on DVD and more.
BEDTIME STORIES on DVD and Blu-ray
It will be raining gumballs for lucky Blu-ray player owners when they become the first to own the heartwarming fractured fairy tale BEDTIME STORIES in a Limited Time 3-Disc Combo Pack on Sunday, April 5, 2009 from Walt Disney Studios Home Ent. -- two days before its DVD debut.
The 3-Disc Combo Pack includes a Blu-ray Disc, a bonus standard definition disc, plus a special DisneyFile Digital Copy that enables viewers to enjoy the film on an array of mobile devices in their choice of iTunes or Windows Media formats. Also available exclusively on the 3-Disc Combo Pack: BD-Live including Movie Chat, Movie Mail, Movie Challenge and Movie Rewards (U.S. only). The 3-Disc Deluxe Edition is available for a limited time only. The single-disc DVD and 2-Disc Deluxe Edition DVD of BEDTIME STORIES will be available starting Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
As a handyman at the hotel his father used to own, Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) spends his days changing light bulbs and competing with the hotel's smarmy manager (Guy Pearce) for the attention of the new owner's beautiful, hard-partying daughter, Violet (Theresa Palmer). When his sister Wendy (Courteney Cox) asks Skeeter to babysit her kids for a week while she's out of town, Skeeter entertains his niece and nephew with elaborate, original bedtime stories that transport them to exotic locales, including ancient Greece, the Wild West and outer space. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down. Full of imaginative special effects and good-natured hilarity, BEDTIME STORIES is a winning combination of comedy and adventure.
BEDTIME STORIES features vfx from Hydraulx, Cinesite Europe, Fuel VFX, Tippett Studio, Lola VFX with work from Whiskytree, Rotofactory and Look Effects.
Keeping it all believable and of a single piece was the task handed to Visual Effects Supervisor John Andrew Berton Jr., who was intrigued by the challenge of creating effects that contributed to the storytelling in a realistic way while fitting into the style of comedy moviegoers expect from Sandler.
"That to me was a really interesting mix to try to find, to get the effects into the story so that it didn't look like sort of cheesy comedy effects, but was really high quality visual effects work in service of a really family oriented story," he says.
Berton oversaw eight visual effects facilities working on around 500 shots for the film. And the sequences were as different and challenging as the stories within the movie, which ranged from a BEN-HUR-style chariot race to a medieval knights in shining armor scenario to a zero gravity showdown in outer space.
Each section needed to have its own kind of spectacle to it, Berton says, while still looking photorealistic instead of too fantastic.
"We wanted it to look like a real place, a real story with real people in it, but yet still have this feeling of these sort of grand landscapes and grand storyscapes, if you will," Berton adds. "So each one of those had to be handled a little bit differently, but still had to have a tonality that went across the whole movie in terms of the way the visual effects work with the story."
Special Features for Blu-Ray and 2-Disc Deluxe Edition DVD:
-- Until Gravity Do Us Part - A behind-the-scenes look at the film's mindboggling special effects
-- It's Bugsy - A close up look at the breakout star of Bedtimes Stories, Bugsy the big-eyed
guinea pig
-- To All The Little People
-- Bloopers and Deleted Scenes
The 2-Disc Deluxe Edition DVD set also comes with the featurette "Dylan & Cole Sprouse: Blu-ray is Suite."
BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE Volume 3 on DVD
Cartoon Network and Warner Home Video are releasing Volume 3 of BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE to DVD on April 7.
BEDTIME STORIES on DVD and Blu-ray
It will be raining gumballs for lucky Blu-ray player owners when they become the first to own the heartwarming fractured fairy tale BEDTIME STORIES in a Limited Time 3-Disc Combo Pack on Sunday, April 5, 2009 from Walt Disney Studios Home Ent. -- two days before its DVD debut.
The 3-Disc Combo Pack includes a Blu-ray Disc, a bonus standard definition disc, plus a special DisneyFile Digital Copy that enables viewers to enjoy the film on an array of mobile devices in their choice of iTunes or Windows Media formats. Also available exclusively on the 3-Disc Combo Pack: BD-Live including Movie Chat, Movie Mail, Movie Challenge and Movie Rewards (U.S. only). The 3-Disc Deluxe Edition is available for a limited time only. The single-disc DVD and 2-Disc Deluxe Edition DVD of BEDTIME STORIES will be available starting Tuesday, April 7, 2009.
As a handyman at the hotel his father used to own, Skeeter Bronson (Adam Sandler) spends his days changing light bulbs and competing with the hotel's smarmy manager (Guy Pearce) for the attention of the new owner's beautiful, hard-partying daughter, Violet (Theresa Palmer). When his sister Wendy (Courteney Cox) asks Skeeter to babysit her kids for a week while she's out of town, Skeeter entertains his niece and nephew with elaborate, original bedtime stories that transport them to exotic locales, including ancient Greece, the Wild West and outer space. When he tries to help his family by telling one outlandish tale after another, it's the kids' unexpected contributions that turn all of their lives upside down. Full of imaginative special effects and good-natured hilarity, BEDTIME STORIES is a winning combination of comedy and adventure.
BEDTIME STORIES features vfx from Hydraulx, Cinesite Europe, Fuel VFX, Tippett Studio, Lola VFX with work from Whiskytree, Rotofactory and Look Effects.
Keeping it all believable and of a single piece was the task handed to Visual Effects Supervisor John Andrew Berton Jr., who was intrigued by the challenge of creating effects that contributed to the storytelling in a realistic way while fitting into the style of comedy moviegoers expect from Sandler.
"That to me was a really interesting mix to try to find, to get the effects into the story so that it didn't look like sort of cheesy comedy effects, but was really high quality visual effects work in service of a really family oriented story," he says.
Berton oversaw eight visual effects facilities working on around 500 shots for the film. And the sequences were as different and challenging as the stories within the movie, which ranged from a BEN-HUR-style chariot race to a medieval knights in shining armor scenario to a zero gravity showdown in outer space.
Each section needed to have its own kind of spectacle to it, Berton says, while still looking photorealistic instead of too fantastic.
"We wanted it to look like a real place, a real story with real people in it, but yet still have this feeling of these sort of grand landscapes and grand storyscapes, if you will," Berton adds. "So each one of those had to be handled a little bit differently, but still had to have a tonality that went across the whole movie in terms of the way the visual effects work with the story."
Special Features for Blu-Ray and 2-Disc Deluxe Edition DVD:
-- Until Gravity Do Us Part - A behind-the-scenes look at the film's mindboggling special effects
-- It's Bugsy - A close up look at the breakout star of Bedtimes Stories, Bugsy the big-eyed
guinea pig
-- To All The Little People
-- Bloopers and Deleted Scenes
The 2-Disc Deluxe Edition DVD set also comes with the featurette "Dylan & Cole Sprouse: Blu-ray is Suite."
BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE Volume 3 on DVD
Cartoon Network and Warner Home Video are releasing Volume 3 of BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE to DVD on April 7.
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