More MGM February fun - 12:00am

MGM Home Entertainment has announced even more catalog comedy hits just in time for Valentine's Day, all streeting on February 14th: a special edition of the Mel Brooks comedy Life Stinks, featuring an audio commentary with Brooks, Rudy de Luca and Steve Haberman and a making-of featurette, the superhero spoof Meteor Man, Glenn Close in Maxie, Waiting for the Light, and Mr. North. All are presented in anamorphic widescreen and full screen transfers plus trailers. Retail is $14.95 each. MGM will also release the cable fave How to Beat the High Cost of Living, Basic Training and Bank Shot, although all unfortunately are presented in full frame only plus trailers. Retail is also $14.95 each.

Just in time for the New Year, Fox Home Entertainment has announced two new waves of catalog reissues and DVD debuts. To celebrate Black History Month, Fox will repromote seven library faves (no new features or specs), all priced at $19.95: Light It Up, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Carmen Jones, Men of Honor, Waiting to Exhale, Soul Food: Special Edition, and The Five Heartbeats. Fox will also issue first-ever DVD releases of the drama Sugar Hill and the classic Claudine. Each features an anamorphic widescreen transfer and trailers, plus additional extras: a making-of featurette on Sugar Hill, and an audio commentary by James Earl Jones, Diahann Carroll, Spike Lee, George Tillman Jr., and Dan Pine on Claudine. Retail is also $19.95 each.

Then on February 4th, Fox will reprice a number of their biggest action and comedy hits to $14.95: Chain Reaction, Unlawful Entry, Big, My Cousin Vinny, Point Break, The Edge, Anna and the King, Wall Street, The Rats, The Deep End, Donnie Darko, Ablaze, Romancing the Stone, Lake Placid, The Jewel of the Nile, Q&A, and the DTS remastered edition of Predator. And making its long-awaited DVD debut on February 4th is Predator 2. Presented in anamorphic widescreen and English Dolby 5.1 surround, extras include the "Predator 2: Creating the Ultimate Hunter" featurette and the trailer. Retail is also $14.95. Unfortunately, the two-disc Predator special edition currently available overseas has not yet been given a domestic Region 1 release. Stay tuned...

Finally, Fox has also announced the final specs for the new X-Men 2-disc collector's edition arriving on February 11th. Presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 tracks, disc one features an audio commentary with director Bryan Singer and an "Enhanced Viewing Mode" with 23 segments: 6 deleted scenes and 17 behind-the scenes vignettes. Disc two features a new intro from Singer, four featurettes ("The Uncanny Suspects," "X-Factor: The Look of the X-Men Costume," "Special Effects of the X-Men" and "Reflection of the X-Men"), Storyboard-to-animatic-to-film comparison, exclusive premiere footage from Ellis Island and around the world, multi-angle scene studies, still gallery, 3 theatrical trailers, 14 TV spots, 12 web interstitials, and an X-Men 2 sneak preview with exclusive set footage and the teaser. Retail is $26.95.

Street date alert - 12:00am

After months of delays, the official DavidLynch.com webstore has announced that the highly-anticipated Eraserhead DVD is now expected to ship in December. This special edition is only available via the website, so resistance is futile...