NIGHT WATCH and DAY WATCH hit Blu-ray for the first time, plus the release of THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM on DVD/Blu-ray, more CHIPMUNKS with some SYLVESTER AND TWEETY MYSTERIES, all on home video today.

THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM On DVD And Blu-ray

Individually, they've starred in the most adrenaline-pumping martial-arts adventures ever. Together for the first time from Lionsgate, Jet Li and Jackie Chan join forces to create the greates epic of them all -- THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM. As ancient Chinese warriors, they must train and mentor a 21st century kung-fu fanatic who's been summoned to fight a centuries-old battle and free the imprisoned Monkey King. If you're a fighting fan, the wait is over. The team is ready. The Kingdom has arrived.

But bringing to life THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM required a lot of work in a very short timetable, especially when it came to using visual effects to mix the film's Hong Kong-style martial arts action with the storybook fantasy of the original myth.

Director Rob Minkoff says he wanted the visual effects to evoke the feel of classic Hong Kong films. It also needed to balance the story's sense of storybook fantasy and realism. "The audience is a little more sophisticated, so some of the fog-machine effects with the dry ice obviously weren't going to cut it with us," he adds. "We obviously wanted something that was slightly more contemporary."

Minkoff says the effects work ended up staying largely in Asia, thanks to Exec Producer Rafaella DeLaurentiis, who was impressed by the high quality and low cost of some work done by a Korean house. "She thought that would be an interesting option for us," continues Minkoff. "It's a Chinese story, Asian-themed, and would require a sensitivity that might be a natural fit with Korea."

Work ended up being spread around a number of vfx studios, with a trio of South Korean houses leading the charge: Macrograph, DTI and Footage.

2-Disc Special Edition DVD Special Features Include:

--The Kung Fu Dream Team
--Dangerous Beauty
--Discovering China
--Filming in Chinawood
--Monkey King and the Eight Immortals
--Blooper Reel
--Deleted scenes with commentary by Rob Minkoff and John Fusco
--Feature commentary with Rob Minkoff and John Fusco
--Previsualization featurette with commentary by Rob Minkoff

Single-Disc DVD Special Features Include:

--Trailers

Blu-ray Special Features Include:

--Bonus View Picture-in-Picture Feature: Exploration into the film's casting, locations and other filmmaking secrets with interviews by director Rob Minkoff, writer John Fusco, producer Casey Silver and actors Jackie Chan and Jet Li
--The Kung Fu Dream Team
--Dangerous Beauty
--Discovering China
--Filming in Chinawood
--Monkey King and the Eight Immortals
--Blooper Reel
--Deleted scenes with commentary by Rob Minkoff and John Fusco
--Feature commentary with Rob Minkoff and John Fusco
--Previsualization featurette with commentary by Rob Minkoff
--MoLog: Blu-ray Live application that allows users to insert and animate shapes, text, audio and other graphics into the film to create "blogs" to share with other MoLog users

NIGHT WATCH On Blu-ray

From director Timur Bekmambetov (WANTED) and 20th Century Fox, comes NIGHT WATCH to Blu-ray, the most successful film in Russian history when it was released in 2004.

Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the forces of light govern the day while the night belongs to their dark opponents. In modern day, the dark Others actually roam the night as vampires while a "Night Watch" of light forces, among them Anton, try to control them and limit their outrage.