'Sweet Home' Witherspoon - 12:00am

It may still be packing 'em in at theaters across the country, but Buena Vista Home Entertainment has just announced a February 4th street date for the Reese Witherspoon smash Sweet Home Alabama. Other new street dates just in include the recent limited release hit Time Out on January 14th, the direct-to-video sequel Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World on February 25th, and the box office bomb Pokemon 4Ever on March 18th. No details are yet available, but stay tuned!

D-VHS goes day & date - 12:00am

Probably the only major studio actively pushing the new D-Theater high-definition D-VHS platform, Fox Home Entertainment has just announced three new D-Theater titles due this Christmas. Making history as the first day & date with VHS and DVD D-Theater release is the animated blockbuster Ice Age, which hits shelves on November 26th. Also debuting on November 26th is the Tom Hanks smash Cast Away, and on December 3rd, the Johnny Depp thriller From Hell. All are presented in their original theatrical aspect ratios with Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 surround tracks, and no extras. Retail is $34.95 each.

'Fear and Loathing' on DVD - 12:00am

It may have made little impression at the box office, but that hasn't stopped Criterion from giving Terry Gilliam's surreal adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas the 2-disc deluxe DVD treatment. Already available as a single-disc, movie-only edition from Universal (which will remain on the market), this deluxe edition streets on January 28th and features a new anamorphic widescreen transfer and DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround tracks, plus tons of extras. Goodies include an audio commentary by director Terry Gilliam plus a second track by producer Laila Nabulsi and actors Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, an audio interview with Hunter S. Thompson, the BBC documentary "Fear And Loathing On The Road To Hollywood," deleted scenes with commentary, multiple still galleries with storyboards, production designs and original artwork by famed illustrator Ralph Steadman, a selection of Thompson's correspondence as read by Johnny Depp; rare material on Oscar Zeta Acosta, and trailers.