Another year at Rydell High - 12:02pm
Attention camp fans, has Paramount got the summer lineup for
you! On June 10th comes four long-awaited catalog faves: Grease
2, The Brady Bunch Movie, A Very Brady Sequel and
Is Paris Burning? Each is features a new anamorphic widescreen
transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track. Paramount will
also release the Humphrey Bogart classic Desperate Hours
and the WWII drama Murphy's War on the 10th, each in anamorphic
widescreen and mono. Although there aren't supplements on any
of the above, retail is $19.95 a pop.
Frontier therapist- 12:02pm
Oh, c'mon now, you knew it was coming. Until we get Touched by
an Angel: The Complete First Season, we'll just have to make due
with Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. A&E will release this
five-disc set on May 27th, which features all 17 first season
episodes in their original 4:3 full screen aspect ratios and Dolby
2.0 stereo tracks. Extras include the "Jane Seymour: Hollywood's
English Rose" episode of A&E's award-winning series "Biography,"
an interactive tour of 19th century Colorado Springs, an awards
and honors list, a still gallery, and biographies for Jane Seymour
and Joe Lando. Retail is $79.95.
To
the moon - 12:02pm
Warner Home Video has just announced another round of terrific
2-disc special editions on June 10th, which continues to mark
them as one of the best studios around when it comes to spiffing
up modern favorites. All of the following feature new anamorphic
widescreen transfers and 5.1 Dolby Digital surround tracks, and
retail for $26.95...
The Right Stuff includes an introduction by author Thomas
Wolfe scene-specific audio commentaries with director Philip Kaufman,
producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff and director of photography
Caleb Deschanel, and the second with cast members Jeff Goldblum,
Veronica Cartwright, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid and
Barbara Hershey, 15 deleted scenes, a 50-minute behind-the-scenes
documentary with all-new interviews with cast and crew, additional
interviews with three of the Mercury Seven astronauts commander
Scott Carpenter, colonel Gordon Cooper, and captain Walter Schirra,
an interview with Chuck Yeager, and trailers.
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves includes the extended cut
of the film plus 2 audio commentaries by Kevin Costner, Morgan
Freeman, and Christian Slater, writer Pen Densham and John Watson,
and composer Michael Kamen, the featurette "Robin Hood: The
Man, The Myth, The Legend," additional interviews with the
cast, an isolated score in full 5.1 Dolby surround, the Bryan
Adams music video, the "Weapons of the Time" 3D Interactive
Loop, and a still gallery.
Finally, we have Sergio Leone's epic Once Upon a Time in America,
presented in its 229-minute version. Features include a new audio
commentary with film historian Richard Schickel, the original
documentary "Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone," a still
gallery, filmographies, and a theatrical trailer.
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