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Knight's Tale - 2:47pm
What if Adam Sandler starred in an animated film and nobody came?
Find out on November 4th when Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
releases Eight Crazy Nights, a box office disappointment
that failed to spread much holiday cheer when it was released
late last year. Despite its poor performance Columbia will stuff
this two-disc set with a wealth of extras: anamorphic widescreen
and full screen transfers, two cast and technical audio commentaries,
"A Day with the Meatball" and 4 additional featurettes,
deleted scenes with optional commentary, a multi-angle animation
progression, the HBO First Look special, a music video, trailers
and a TV spot. Retail is $27.95.
Also debuting on the 4th is the drama Pact of Silence,
starring Gerard Depardieu. Presented in anamorphic widescreen
and Dolby Digital 5.1, extras include trailers and filmographies.
Retail is $29.95.
From the Columbia vaults come a quintet of releases new-to-DVD:
Micki & Maude, Platinum Blonde
and the animated The Real Schemeil. Presented
in full screen (except Micki & Maude, which gets a new 2.40:1
anamorphic widescreen transfer), extras are minimal with only
bonus trailers included. Retail is $24.95 a pop, except The Real
Schemeil which will set you back $19.95.
 "Elementary,
My Dear Watson" - 2:47pm
Just in from Paramount Home Entertainment is their lineup of
December catalog releases.At last dusted off from the studio's
vast library are Young Sherlock Holmes, the 1974
update of The Great Gatsby, Paul Newman in Hud,
1992's Wuthering Heights, The Last of
the Red Hot Lovers, the 1970 comedy classic The
Out-of-Towners, Plaza Suite, Star-Spangled
Girl and This Property is Condemned.
All feature new anamorphic widescreen transfers and Dolby Digital
5.1 remixes (except Star-Spangled Girl, Plaza Suite and The Last
of the Red Hot Lovers) and no extras. Retail is $19.95.
TV fans can look forward to a wide assortment of best-ofs and
box sets this holiday season. From the minds at MTV come the compilations
The Real World: Hook-Ups and The Real
World You Never Saw: Paris. Each is presented in full
screen and retail for $14.95 a pop. Street date is November 11th,
while December 2nd will see the release of The Jamie Kennedy
eXperiment: The Complete First Season. This four-disc
set retails for $39.95 and watch this space for further details.
And making the jump from Warner Home Video to Paramount on December
16th is South Park: The Complete Third Season.
Retail is $49.95, and full specs will be announced soon...
Also just announced from Paramount are street dates for two of
their big summer sequels, Tomb Raider 2: The Cradle of
Life and Rugrats Go Wild. Neither was
the expected big hit at the box office but both will get the special
edition in separate anamorphic widescreen and full screen transfers,
with street dates of November 18th and December 16th, respectively.
Stay tuned for the full specs.
Finally, The Star Trek Motion Pictures Collection
is due on November 25th and features the two-disc Collector's
Edition of Trek I-V, plus the existing single-disc editions of
Trek VI through Nemesis. Oddly, the upcoming two-disc reissue
of VI: The Undiscovered Country will not be included in this box
set. Go figure. Retail is $179.95.
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