Peanuts '60s Collection on DVD, Plus Knowing, Push & The Undead on DVD/Blu-ray
PEANUTS 1960S COLLECTION hits DVD July 7 along with DVD/Blu-ray releases of thrillers KNOWING, PUSH and THE UNDEAD, plus MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Volume XV on DVD.
KNOWING on DVD and Blu-ray
A college professor (Nicolas Cage) opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son s elementary school. In it are some chilling accurate predictions of disasters... when, where, and how many will die. Most of these events must uncover the details of the next disasters in hopes of preventing them. If he fails, who knows how many will die? KNOWING is now on DVD and Blu-ray from Summit Ent.
KNOWING, Alex Proyas' latest film, has some 400 visual effects shots recreate various disasters with an unprecedented level of detail. The catastrophes range from local tragedies -- plane crash, subway collision -- to global phenomenon.
In order to create those large-scale disasters -- and many other vfx, Proyas turned to Sydney-based Animal Logic and Overall Visual Effects Supervisor Andrew Jackson. The initial vfx shot count was around 200, with seven months of postproduction. Jackson and VFX Producers Michael Twigg and Luke Hetherington assembled a team that included 3D Supervisors Alfie Olivier, Andreas Wanda and Will Reichelt, and Compositing Supervisors Charlie Armstrong and Dave Dally.
Although the script called for some very spectacular imagery, Proyas wanted the entire movie to have a strong realistic feel. "It should all feel like someone with a camera had been there, on location, when the events took place," Jackson observes.
"It meant that we couldn't do anything that a real person manning a real camera couldn't have done in each particular location. Alex didn't want any fancy 3D camera move. The shots were all hand-held, and had to feel like the cameraman was trying to follow the action the best he could, just like in news footage. Even for the space shots, Alex requested that it all looked like the footage had been captured by a human cameraman."
DVD Special Features Include:
-- Featurette: 'Knowing' All: The Making of a Futuristic Thriller
-- Featurette: Visions of the Apocalypse
-- Director's Commentary by Alex Proyas
Blu-ray Special Features Also Include:
-- BD-Live
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Volume XV on DVD
In space, no one can hear you laugh. Unless, of course, you are aboard with the hilarious and beloved space travelers on The Satellite of Love from MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 to skewer B-movies. To further celebrate Mystery Science Theater 3000's cinematic chuckle fest, Shout! Factory, in association with Best Brains, Inc. proudly presents MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Volume XV 4-DVD box set on July 7, 2009.
The side-splitting 15th collection of the famed MST3K features the show's never-before-released film episodes THE ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY, THE GIRL IN LOVERS LANE, ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE and RACKET GIRLS, four limited-edition mini-posters, along with a wealth of new bonus content, including new interviews with the stars from ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE Frank Dietz and Jon Mikl Thor in ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE = MST3K Dream featurette, GLIMPSES Of KTMA: MST3K Scrapbook Scraps I (original wrap-around segments from the KTMA season), Behind The Scenes: MST3K Scrapbook Scraps II, Kevin Murphy And Trace Beaulieu In A Sneak Peak From The Upcoming Hamlet A.D.D., and Promos.
Join Joel, Mike, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot as they supply their own playful brand of commentaries on some of cinema's most misunderstood "masterpieces" in Shout! Factory's MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Volume XV. This collectible 4-DVD box set is priced to own at $59.99.
MST3K: THE ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY
The battle between machine and the undead comes to a chilling conclusion when an insane scientist invents a robot for the sole purpose of stealing an ancient artifact guarded for eternity by an Aztec mummy!
Only the second show produced after MST3K's original year on KTMA, this remarkable episode features J. Elvis Weinstein as a virtually unrecognizable Tom Servo, plus the first part of the classic short COMMANDO CODY & THE RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON.
MST3K: THE GIRL IN LOVERS LANE
KNOWING on DVD and Blu-ray
A college professor (Nicolas Cage) opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son s elementary school. In it are some chilling accurate predictions of disasters... when, where, and how many will die. Most of these events must uncover the details of the next disasters in hopes of preventing them. If he fails, who knows how many will die? KNOWING is now on DVD and Blu-ray from Summit Ent.
KNOWING, Alex Proyas' latest film, has some 400 visual effects shots recreate various disasters with an unprecedented level of detail. The catastrophes range from local tragedies -- plane crash, subway collision -- to global phenomenon.
In order to create those large-scale disasters -- and many other vfx, Proyas turned to Sydney-based Animal Logic and Overall Visual Effects Supervisor Andrew Jackson. The initial vfx shot count was around 200, with seven months of postproduction. Jackson and VFX Producers Michael Twigg and Luke Hetherington assembled a team that included 3D Supervisors Alfie Olivier, Andreas Wanda and Will Reichelt, and Compositing Supervisors Charlie Armstrong and Dave Dally.
Although the script called for some very spectacular imagery, Proyas wanted the entire movie to have a strong realistic feel. "It should all feel like someone with a camera had been there, on location, when the events took place," Jackson observes.
"It meant that we couldn't do anything that a real person manning a real camera couldn't have done in each particular location. Alex didn't want any fancy 3D camera move. The shots were all hand-held, and had to feel like the cameraman was trying to follow the action the best he could, just like in news footage. Even for the space shots, Alex requested that it all looked like the footage had been captured by a human cameraman."
DVD Special Features Include:
-- Featurette: 'Knowing' All: The Making of a Futuristic Thriller
-- Featurette: Visions of the Apocalypse
-- Director's Commentary by Alex Proyas
Blu-ray Special Features Also Include:
-- BD-Live
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Volume XV on DVD
In space, no one can hear you laugh. Unless, of course, you are aboard with the hilarious and beloved space travelers on The Satellite of Love from MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 to skewer B-movies. To further celebrate Mystery Science Theater 3000's cinematic chuckle fest, Shout! Factory, in association with Best Brains, Inc. proudly presents MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Volume XV 4-DVD box set on July 7, 2009.
The side-splitting 15th collection of the famed MST3K features the show's never-before-released film episodes THE ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY, THE GIRL IN LOVERS LANE, ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE and RACKET GIRLS, four limited-edition mini-posters, along with a wealth of new bonus content, including new interviews with the stars from ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE Frank Dietz and Jon Mikl Thor in ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE = MST3K Dream featurette, GLIMPSES Of KTMA: MST3K Scrapbook Scraps I (original wrap-around segments from the KTMA season), Behind The Scenes: MST3K Scrapbook Scraps II, Kevin Murphy And Trace Beaulieu In A Sneak Peak From The Upcoming Hamlet A.D.D., and Promos.
Join Joel, Mike, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot as they supply their own playful brand of commentaries on some of cinema's most misunderstood "masterpieces" in Shout! Factory's MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: Volume XV. This collectible 4-DVD box set is priced to own at $59.99.
MST3K: THE ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY
The battle between machine and the undead comes to a chilling conclusion when an insane scientist invents a robot for the sole purpose of stealing an ancient artifact guarded for eternity by an Aztec mummy!
Only the second show produced after MST3K's original year on KTMA, this remarkable episode features J. Elvis Weinstein as a virtually unrecognizable Tom Servo, plus the first part of the classic short COMMANDO CODY & THE RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON.
MST3K: THE GIRL IN LOVERS LANE
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