Video releases for June 30 include STARGATE: ATLANTIS Season 5 on DVD and STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI on DVD and Blu-ray.
STARGATE: ATLANTIS Season 5 on DVD
Travel through the Stargate as the ultimate and final season of the adrenaline-driven, intriguing space drama, STARGATE: ATLANTIS Season 5 arrives as a five-disc DVD collection June 30 from MGM Home Entertainment. From award-winning Executive Producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, the fifth and final season continues to deliver out-of-this world excitement and amazing adventures with exceptional visuals chronicling the voyage of the Atlantis team in the Pegasus galaxy. Members of the Atlantis expedition encounter new challenges, as Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) becomes the leader, replacing Samantha Carter's (Amanda Tapping); season four role. Additionally, the fifth season's crew includes fan favorites Joe Flanigan, Jason Momoa, Rachel Luttrell, Jewel Staite and David Hewlett as Dr. McKay. The final season also reunites past cast members Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Paul McGillion.
The STARGATE: ATLANTIS Season 5 five-disc set includes all 20 thrilling episodes, DVD-exclusive extended episodes "Vegas" and "Enemy at the Gate," plus behind-the-scenes cast and crew interviews and audio commentaries and will be available for the suggested retail price of $49.98 U.S./$69.98 Canada. Catch up on all the intergalactic adventures with the previous four seasons, available on DVD now.
Episodes and Special Features Include:
Disc 1
"Search and Rescue"
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Martin Gero and Director/Producer Andy Mikita
"The Seed"
-- Commentary by Director William Waring
"Broken Ties"
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Joseph Mallozzi and Actor Jason Momoa
"The Daedalus Variations"
-- Commentary by Supervising Producer Alan McCullough and Director/Producer Andy Mikita
Featurettes
-- Mission Directive: Search and Rescue with Andy Mikita and Martin Gero
-- Showdown! Ronan v. Tyre
-- Bringing the Seed to Life
Photo Galleries
-- Photo Gallery
-- Production Design Gallery
Disc 2
"Ghost In the Machine"
"The Shrine"
"Whispers"
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Joseph Mallozzi and Director William Waring
"The Queen"
-- Commentary by Supervising Producer Alan McCullough and Director Brenton Spencer
Featurettes
-- Mission Directive: Whispers with William Waring and Joseph Mallozzi
-- Tricks of the Trade: Submerging the Stargate
-- Joe Flanigan: A Conversation with the Colonel
Photo Galleries
-- Photo Gallery
-- Production Design Gallery
Disc 3
"Tracker"
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Carl Binder and Director William Waring
"First Contact"
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Martin Gero and Director/Producer Andy Mikita
"The Lost Tribe"
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Martin Gero and Director/Producer Andy Mikita
"Outsiders"
-- Commentary by Supervising Producer Alan McCullough and Director William Waring
Featurettes
-- Mission Directive: Tracker with William Waring and Carl Binder
-- Dr. Jackson Goes to Atlantis
-- Building a Humanoid with James Robbins and Martin Gero
Photo Galleries
-- Photo Gallery
-- Production Design Gallery
Disc 4
"Inquisition"
-- Commentary by Director Brenton Spencer and Actor Tobias Slezak
"The Prodigal"
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Carl Binder and Director/Producer Andy Mikita
"Remnants"
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Joseph Mallozzi and Director William Waring
"Brain Storm"
-- Commentary by Executive Producer/Director Martin Gero
Featurettes
-- Mission Directive: Brain Storm with Martin Gero
-- The Life and Death of Michael Kenmore
-- Deleted Scenes (Part One)
Photo Galleries
-- Photo Gallery
-- Production Design Gallery
Disc 5
"Infection"
"Identity"
"Vegas" (Extended Episode)
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Robert C. Cooper, Producer John G. Lenic and Editor Mike Banas
"Enemy at the Gate" (Extended Episode)
-- Commentary by Executive Producer Paul Mullie and VFX Supervisor Mark Savela
Featurettes
-- STARGATE ATLANTIS Goes To Vegas
-- Inside the STARGATE Costume Department
-- Deleted Scenes (Part Two)
Photo Galleries
-- Photo Gallery
-- Production Design Gallery
STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI on DVD and Blu-ray
Based on one of the most successful and popular video game franchises of all time,
STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI takes its acclaimed heroine on an action-packed quest for justice when it debuts on three-disc Blu-ray and two-disc DVD June 30 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Ent. Featuring for a limited time the full-length animated comic movie, STREET FIGHTER ROUND ONE: FIGHT!, the film delves deeper into the origins of the STREET FIGHTER universe.
Starring Kristen Kreuk in the iconic title role, STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI is a pulse-pounding, non-stop thrill ride. In this classic story of good vs. evil, Chun-Li (Kreuk) must stand strong against the Shadaloo syndicate who is determined to take over Bangkok slums already teeming with a dangerous criminal element. Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, who also directed the hit video game feature DOOM, STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI also features high-impact performances from stars including Neil McDonough, Chris Klein, Michael Clarke Duncan, Moon Bloodgood and Taboo. Featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the #1 all-time coin operated video game, and a brand new STREET FIGHTER next-gen counsel video game released in February 2009, the STREET FIGHTER name has stood the test of time with its lasting appeal. The STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI Unleashed & Unrated Blu-ray Disc with Digital Copy and two-disc DVD editions include a bonus disc with the full-length animated comic movie, STREET FIGHTER ROUND ONE: FIGHT!, commentary by producers Patrick Aiello and Ashok Amritraj and cast members Neal McDonough and Chris Klein, behind-the scenes featurettes, deleted scenes, and more, and will be available for $39.99 U.S. / $49.99 Canada (BD w/ DC) and $29.98 U.S. / $43.48 Canada (DVD).
Previously adapted into a big-budget blockbuster in 1994, STREET FIGHTER, alongside many other videogame cinematic adaptations, has proved that moving pixels around can be a tricky process and one that tends to require an appropriate measure of vfx work. It's the job of Visual Effects Supervisor Marc Kolbe to blend the bigger-than-life action and fantasy of the videogame with the film's verisimilitude, a task that has to be necessarily balanced against the film's modest budget.
Kolbe has maintained an ever-growing list of credits in the vfx field since his earliest interest in the digital world in 1989, though it wasn't until INDEPENDENCE DAY in 1996 that he scored his first major credit doing previs compositing. Since then, Kolbe has served as supervisor on roughly two dozen projects, supervising teams of artists as small as ten and as big as 300, usually incorporating the work of at least four different facilities into the final product, bridging the gap between the film's director and the digital world.
For STREET FIGHTER, Kolbe's involvement wound up taking him as far as Southeast Asia for the film's principal photography. "[I joined] last minute," says Kolbe of his experience. "I was referred to the producers. They needed a supervisor and the film was starting to shoot in two weeks... Next thing I knew, I was on a plane to Thailand."
VFX work ran the international gamut, with work done by EFX, Sony Pictures Imageworks in India and Avatar VFX in Los Angeles.
Blu-ray Special Features Include:
Disc One
-- Theatrical and Unrated feature
-- Audio Commentary by Patrick Aiello, Ashok Amritraj, Neal McDonough and Chris Klein
-- STREET FIGHTER: In Movie Enlightenment
-- 14 Deleted Scenes
-- Marvel vs. Capcom 2: Sneak Peek
-- Becoming a STREET FIGHTER
-- Chun Li: Bringing the Legend to Life
-- Fox Movie Channel Presents Making A Scene
-- Recreating the Game: Arcade to Film Comparisons
-- The Fight in Black and White: Storyboard Gallery
-- Behind the Fight: Production Gallery
Disc Two
-- Unrated Digital Copy
Disc Three
-- STREET FIGHTER ROUND ONE: FIGHT! Animated comic movie
DVD Special Features Include:
Disc One
-- Theatrical and Unrated feature
-- Audio Commentary by Patrick Aiello, Ashok Amritraj, Neal McDonough and Chris Klein
-- 14 Deleted Scenes
-- Marvel vs. Capcom 2: Sneak Peek
-- Becoming a STREET FIGHTER
-- Chun Li: Bringing the Legend to Life
-- Fox Movie Channel Presents Making A Scene
-- Recreating the Game: Arcade to Film Comparisons
-- The Fight in Black and White: Storyboard Gallery
-- Behind the Fight: Production Gallery
Disc Two
-- STREET FIGHTER ROUND ONE: FIGHT! Animated comic movie
