Get Smart on DVD/Blu-ray, Jim Henson Muppets Specials On DVD
GET SMART debuts on DVD and Blu-ray, plus the DVD release of several Jim Henson Company specials, including the complete series of FRAGGLE ROCK, THE CHRISTMAS TOY and EMMET OTTER'S JUG-BAND CHRISTMAS and more, all on DVD and Blu-ray today.
GET SMART On DVD And Blu-ray
In the world of covert intelligence, only one man is Smart. Steve Carell is in CONTROL as Maxwell Smart, the novice agent often out of his depths but never out of options in this action comedy pitting him against the nuclear scheme of the evil spy group KAOS. Anne Hathaway partners with Max as ever-capable Agent 99. And director Peter Segal (THE LONGEST YARD) guides his stars (including Dwayne Johnson and Alan Arkin) through the dangerous realm of molar radios, multifunction pocketknives, exploding dental floss and more in GET SMART, now on DVD and Blu-ray from Warner Home Video, vfx by Rising Sun Pictures, Digital Dimension, EdenFX, Zoic Studios , LOOK Effects, among others.
While the low brow gadgets of the '60s had a lot of charm, i.e., shoe phones and plastic Cones of Silence, today savvy, modern audiences expect a lot more bang for their bucks so it fell to GET SMART Visual Effects Supervisor Joe Bauer to upgrade Max's onscreen spy world.
"I received a call from Chris deFaria at the studio [Warner Bros.] and he said there was a movie he wanted me to do," Bauer says about how he was approached to work on the film. "I did Jon Favreau's second and third films, ELF and ZATHURA, and maybe based on that they brought me in. I met [Producer] Michael Ewing with Pete [Segal] and we just talked. There was a very limited budget but they wanted it to feel like a big JAMES BOND film. Fortunately, I came into visual effects with one leg in practical and one leg in the digital so we talked in rough terms about how to use both to best effect for the movie. We were all on the same page so they brought me on."
With a production budget of approximately $80 million, Bauer says from the beginning they had to prepare for a very lean post budget. "The original marching orders were to do everything as inexpensively as possible," he explains. "There was a pot of money and they had a cast they wanted to get. It's a pretty A-list cast so by the time you spend the money above the line there isn't much below. And when we first broke the script down it looked like there would be 300-340 shots. By the time we were finished we did over 810 for almost the same money."
DVD Special Features Include:
--Play Movie Normally or with Smart Takes Alternate Scenes: Selectable Feature Allowing You to Spy on the Movie with Alternate/Outtake Scenes in Context (In High Definition)
--The Old "I Hid It in the Movie" Trick: Find Where Director Peter Segal Concealed References to the Classic TV Series
--The Right Agent for the Right Job: Behind-the-Scenes Training
--Max in Moscow!: On Location or on a Soundstage? Watch and Decide
--Language Lessons: Spotlight on Linguistics Master Steve Carell
--The Vomit Reel: More On-Screen Ways to Depict It Than You'd Ever Think
--Spy Confidential: Gag Reel
--Spying on Get Smarts Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control
Blu-ray Special Features Include
--All of the above special features
--Blu-ray exclusive bonus disc of GET SMART: KAOS CONTROL COME game
WATERWORLD Extended Edition On DVD
In a flooded future Earth, people cling to man-made floating islands for survival. When a tyrannical madman (Dennis Hopper) driving a supertanker over the world in search of "dry land" invades one of these islands a mysterious wanderer named the Mariner (Kevin Costner) rescues a woman (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and her adopted daughter (Tina Majorino) from the slaughter and they embark on a quest that could save mankind.
This 2-disc extended edition from Universal Studios Home Ent. (vfx from Digital Domain, Cinesite, Rhythm & Hues, Boss Film Studios, among others) features the 1997 network television edition, that stretched the theatrical cut of 136 minutes to 177 minutes. Universal presents this network cut of the film, as well as the original version shown in theaters.
Special Features Include:
--Theatrical trailer
GET SMART On DVD And Blu-ray
In the world of covert intelligence, only one man is Smart. Steve Carell is in CONTROL as Maxwell Smart, the novice agent often out of his depths but never out of options in this action comedy pitting him against the nuclear scheme of the evil spy group KAOS. Anne Hathaway partners with Max as ever-capable Agent 99. And director Peter Segal (THE LONGEST YARD) guides his stars (including Dwayne Johnson and Alan Arkin) through the dangerous realm of molar radios, multifunction pocketknives, exploding dental floss and more in GET SMART, now on DVD and Blu-ray from Warner Home Video, vfx by Rising Sun Pictures, Digital Dimension, EdenFX, Zoic Studios , LOOK Effects, among others.
While the low brow gadgets of the '60s had a lot of charm, i.e., shoe phones and plastic Cones of Silence, today savvy, modern audiences expect a lot more bang for their bucks so it fell to GET SMART Visual Effects Supervisor Joe Bauer to upgrade Max's onscreen spy world.
"I received a call from Chris deFaria at the studio [Warner Bros.] and he said there was a movie he wanted me to do," Bauer says about how he was approached to work on the film. "I did Jon Favreau's second and third films, ELF and ZATHURA, and maybe based on that they brought me in. I met [Producer] Michael Ewing with Pete [Segal] and we just talked. There was a very limited budget but they wanted it to feel like a big JAMES BOND film. Fortunately, I came into visual effects with one leg in practical and one leg in the digital so we talked in rough terms about how to use both to best effect for the movie. We were all on the same page so they brought me on."
With a production budget of approximately $80 million, Bauer says from the beginning they had to prepare for a very lean post budget. "The original marching orders were to do everything as inexpensively as possible," he explains. "There was a pot of money and they had a cast they wanted to get. It's a pretty A-list cast so by the time you spend the money above the line there isn't much below. And when we first broke the script down it looked like there would be 300-340 shots. By the time we were finished we did over 810 for almost the same money."
DVD Special Features Include:
--Play Movie Normally or with Smart Takes Alternate Scenes: Selectable Feature Allowing You to Spy on the Movie with Alternate/Outtake Scenes in Context (In High Definition)
--The Old "I Hid It in the Movie" Trick: Find Where Director Peter Segal Concealed References to the Classic TV Series
--The Right Agent for the Right Job: Behind-the-Scenes Training
--Max in Moscow!: On Location or on a Soundstage? Watch and Decide
--Language Lessons: Spotlight on Linguistics Master Steve Carell
--The Vomit Reel: More On-Screen Ways to Depict It Than You'd Ever Think
--Spy Confidential: Gag Reel
--Spying on Get Smarts Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control
Blu-ray Special Features Include
--All of the above special features
--Blu-ray exclusive bonus disc of GET SMART: KAOS CONTROL COME game
WATERWORLD Extended Edition On DVD
In a flooded future Earth, people cling to man-made floating islands for survival. When a tyrannical madman (Dennis Hopper) driving a supertanker over the world in search of "dry land" invades one of these islands a mysterious wanderer named the Mariner (Kevin Costner) rescues a woman (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and her adopted daughter (Tina Majorino) from the slaughter and they embark on a quest that could save mankind.
This 2-disc extended edition from Universal Studios Home Ent. (vfx from Digital Domain, Cinesite, Rhythm & Hues, Boss Film Studios, among others) features the 1997 network television edition, that stretched the theatrical cut of 136 minutes to 177 minutes. Universal presents this network cut of the film, as well as the original version shown in theaters.
Special Features Include:
--Theatrical trailer
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