Fast & Furious Times Four on DVD/Blu-ray, Plus Battlestar Galactica
In an exclusive chat with VFXWORLD, series re-inventor and exec producer Ronald D. Moore says of Visual Effects Supervisor Gary Hutzel's team, "Their contribution has been enormous. They provided a reality to the world that allowed the audience to suspend their disbelief and accept the dramatic story taking place with our characters. The vfx team convinced the audience that all of these things were really happening, that these Vipers really did fly around and someone had to go shoot them with real cameras. I feel like this was the first time that what happened outside a spaceship was as real as what was happening inside."
Read more at VFXWorld.com.
Special Features Include:
-- Deleted Scenes
-- Episode Commentary with cast and Executive Producer and Director Ronald D. Moore
-- Ronald D. Moore's Podcast Commentaries
-- Featurettes
Blu-ray Special Features Include:
-- U Control on selected episodes
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: The Complete Series on DVD and Blu-ray
Now you can relive every action-packed moment of the epic story that ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY proclaims "Riveting"! Rejoin the fight to save the human race as a small but determined fleet quests for the fabled planet Earth while being hunted by their nemesis, the robot cylons. Presented uninterrupted and in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, experience the phenomenon from beginning to end, now on DVD and Blu-ray from Universal Studios Home Ent.
Read VFXWORLD's stories on various seasons here, here, here and here.
Special Features Include:
-- Deleted Scenes
-- Episode Commentary with cast and Executive Producer and Director Ronald D. Moore
-- Ronald D. Moore's Podcast Commentaries
-- Featurettes
Blu-ray Special Features Include:
-- U Control on selected episodes
DOLLHOUSE Season One on DVD and Blu-ray
From Joss Whedon, the creative mastermind behind BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL, comes the provocative DOLLHOUSE, a sexy, suspenseful thriller starring the stunningly talented Eliza Dushku from Twentieth Century Fox Home Ent. As an "Active," the mysterious Echo (Dushku) serves as an unwitting agent of Dollhouse, an illegal underground organization that provides its elite clientele with programmable human beings. Actives receive personality imprints, allowing them to temporarily become anyone or anything -- the perfect burglar, lover, spy, or assassin. Now, with the FBI and her own shadowy past closing in, Echo must face a rogue Active who will stop at nothing to bring Dollhouse down -- forever.
In order to create the many lives of Echo and others, Whedon turned to frequent visual effects collaborator Zoic Studios to undertake that aspect of the production. Rocco Passionino, DOLLHOUSE's visual effects supervisor at Zoic, won an Emmy working with Whedon on FIREFLY and he says their long, successful relationship brought them together again.
Yet unlike Whedon's other, more sci-fi series, DOLLHOUSE has a much more naturalistic tone that belies a more subtle approach with the visual effects. "They wanted to keep it very grounded," Passionino explains. "They wanted to keep most of the effects that we were doing fairly invisible. They didn't want it to be in-your-face effects outside of the mind wipe. Most of our work is used to augment the show and make it look fairly seamless.
Read more at VFXWorld.com.
Special Features Include:
-- Episode commentary by Joss Whedon, Eliza Dushku and writers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen
-- Never-before-seen episode "Epitaph One" and original unaired pilot "Echo"
-- Deleted Scenes
-- Making-of Featurettes
DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION on DVD and Blu-ray























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