New U.S. home entertainment re
By dkilmer
Created 07/23/1999 - 00:00
This list of upcoming home entertainment releases includes some new titles,
but most of them are new only to DVD. Disney has just re-released ROBIN
HOOD and ALICE IN WONDERLAND; their live-action RETURN TO OZ, which
includes some stop-motion by Will Vinton Studios, will be released on DVD
and VHS on August 10. Touchstone's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? will be
released on DVD on September 28. Warner Bros. has just released 1999's
animated THE KING AND I on both VHS and DVD; WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE
COMPLETE COLLECTION (which includes A GRAND DAY OUT, THE WRONG TROUSERS,
and A CLOSE SHAVE), Rankin/Bass' stop-motion holiday special RUDOLPH THE
RED-NOSED REINDEER, and the Eric Fogel-created stop-motion CELEBRITY
DEATHMATCH: GREATEST HITS, which includes Noel Gallagher vs. Liam
Gallagher, Spike Lee vs. Quentin Tarantino, Cindy Crawford vs. Janeane
Garofalo, Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Vince McMahon, Adam Sandler vs. Chris
Rock, Celine Dion vs. Keith Flint, Nick Diamond vs. Alien, will all be
released on DVD on September 7. Bandai Entertainment will release two
episodes of the popular anime TV series COWBOY BEBOP, about outer space
bounty hunters, on VHS on September 14; and Hanna-Barbera's next
feature-length Scooby-Doo adventure, SCOOBY-DOO AND THE WITCH'S GHOST, will
be released direct-to-video on October 5, just in time for Halloween.