DVD Releases for April 22, 2008
VFX and special feature-packed CLOVERFIELD, Aaron Sorkin drama CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR and a very special episode of THE WONDER PETS! arrive on DVD today.
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
Academy Award winners Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR on DVD and HD DVD from Universal Home Ent. It tells the true story of how a playboy congressman (Hanks), a renegade CIA agent (Hoffman), and a beautiful Houston socialite (Roberts) joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Together, the three of them would travel the world to form unlikely alliances among the Pakistanis, Israelis, Egyptians, arms dealers, lawmakers, and a belly dancer, and their efforts would contribute to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
VFX supervisor was Richard Edlund and vfx was done by Whodoo EFX and 4Ward Prods.
The DVD release of CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR includes two featurettes: "The Making of CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR" and a profile of the real man behind the movie, "Who Is Charlie Wilson?"
THE WONDER PETS!: SAVE THE BEETLES!
On Tuesday, April 22, Nick Jr. will release a new DVD titled THE WONDER PETS!: SAVE THE BEETLES!, created by Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment. The DVD will feature the title special episode, in addition to three other THE WONDER PETS! Adventures: "Save the Chameleon/Save the Platypus," "Save the Duckling/Save the Kitten" and "Save the Sheep/Save the Hermit Crab." Bonus features on THE WONDER PETS!: SAVE THE BEETLES! include the music video "Kelp!" from the "Save the Beetles!" episode.
CLOVERFIELD
Discover more clues and unravel the mystery of producer J.J. Abrams' and director Matt Reeves' monster hit when CLOVERFIELD smashes its way onto DVD and Blu-ray April 22, 2008 from Paramount Home Entertainment with vfx by Tippett Studio and Double Negative. Earning over $80 million at the domestic box office, CLOVERFIELD thrilled critics and audiences alike with its shocking, first-person video account of a horrifying attack on Manhattan by an unknown -- and seemingly unstoppable -- force.
While the gimmick of a first person POV witnessing a monster attack is compelling, CLOVERFIELD's success lies in the execution and visuals of the monster. Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Blank says they were gratefully given enough money to get the right vendors to do the job. "Even though the movie was low budget, the visual effects budget we had was a good size. We were dealing with big movie vendors and we hired Double Negative in London [under the supervision of Mike Ellis] and Tippett Studio [under the supervision of Eric Leven]. Tippett has a terrific reputation as a creature house and they made the monster. They brought it to life. But the thing I was trying to do, though, is that I've always had a philosophy of matching the talent with the task. Tippett is a full-service visual effects company capable of doing lots of things and, obviously, we went to them for their creature work but they ended up doing a lot more. With Double Negative, I was really impressed with their work on BATMAN BEGINS and CHILDREN OF MEN."
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR
Academy Award winners Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR on DVD and HD DVD from Universal Home Ent. It tells the true story of how a playboy congressman (Hanks), a renegade CIA agent (Hoffman), and a beautiful Houston socialite (Roberts) joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Together, the three of them would travel the world to form unlikely alliances among the Pakistanis, Israelis, Egyptians, arms dealers, lawmakers, and a belly dancer, and their efforts would contribute to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
VFX supervisor was Richard Edlund and vfx was done by Whodoo EFX and 4Ward Prods.
The DVD release of CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR includes two featurettes: "The Making of CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR" and a profile of the real man behind the movie, "Who Is Charlie Wilson?"
THE WONDER PETS!: SAVE THE BEETLES!
On Tuesday, April 22, Nick Jr. will release a new DVD titled THE WONDER PETS!: SAVE THE BEETLES!, created by Nickelodeon Home Entertainment and distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment. The DVD will feature the title special episode, in addition to three other THE WONDER PETS! Adventures: "Save the Chameleon/Save the Platypus," "Save the Duckling/Save the Kitten" and "Save the Sheep/Save the Hermit Crab." Bonus features on THE WONDER PETS!: SAVE THE BEETLES! include the music video "Kelp!" from the "Save the Beetles!" episode.
CLOVERFIELD
Discover more clues and unravel the mystery of producer J.J. Abrams' and director Matt Reeves' monster hit when CLOVERFIELD smashes its way onto DVD and Blu-ray April 22, 2008 from Paramount Home Entertainment with vfx by Tippett Studio and Double Negative. Earning over $80 million at the domestic box office, CLOVERFIELD thrilled critics and audiences alike with its shocking, first-person video account of a horrifying attack on Manhattan by an unknown -- and seemingly unstoppable -- force.
While the gimmick of a first person POV witnessing a monster attack is compelling, CLOVERFIELD's success lies in the execution and visuals of the monster. Visual Effects Supervisor Kevin Blank says they were gratefully given enough money to get the right vendors to do the job. "Even though the movie was low budget, the visual effects budget we had was a good size. We were dealing with big movie vendors and we hired Double Negative in London [under the supervision of Mike Ellis] and Tippett Studio [under the supervision of Eric Leven]. Tippett has a terrific reputation as a creature house and they made the monster. They brought it to life. But the thing I was trying to do, though, is that I've always had a philosophy of matching the talent with the task. Tippett is a full-service visual effects company capable of doing lots of things and, obviously, we went to them for their creature work but they ended up doing a lot more. With Double Negative, I was really impressed with their work on BATMAN BEGINS and CHILDREN OF MEN."
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