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High School Confidential - 1:58pm
Don't piss them off! The breakout hit of the year, the Mean
Girls are going to hit DVD on September 21st, so hide
your burn books. Paramount Home Entertainment will give this $85
million hit the special edition treatment, complete with anamorphic
widescreen transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track, audio commentary
with director Mark Waters and writer Tina Fey, featurettes, deleted
scenes and the theatrical trailer. Retail will cost you $29.95.
Also just announced from Paramount is the debut of the cleanest
TV family this side of the Waltons, the god-fearing Camden clan
of 7th Heaven: The Complete First Season. This
squeaky-clean box set will feature 4:3 full screen transfers,
Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo tracks and no announced extras. Retail
will cost you a heavenly $89.95 (does God get a cut?).
Dog
House - 1:58pm
How big is really big? Found out on August 24th when Warner Home
Video releases Clifford's Really Big Movie, starring
America's favorite big red dog. Featuring both anamorphic widescreen
and full screen versions plus a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track,
extras include the documentary "Inside the Dog House,"
plus the "Cleo's Crafts" featurette, a "Big Time"
music video and sing-along, the " Star of the Show"
and "Amazing Animals" read-alongs, and the theatrical
trailer. Retail will list for $26.95.
Battle of the Asps - 1:58pm
Call it the curse of Freddy Vs. Jason and a $85 million box office
gross. Now we get to suffer the onslaught of "Vs." movies,
from the fairly intriguing (Alien Vs. Predator) to the completely
inane, starting with the latest direct-to-video epic from Columbia
TriStar Home Entertainment, Boa Vs. Python. That's
right, two C-movie "franchises" are now going head-to-head
in the CGI battle of the century! Debuting on August 24th, the
disc will include an anamorphic widescreen transfer, Dolby Digital
5.1 surround track and bonus trailers. List price will go for
$24.95.
Also due on August 24th are two first-time-on-DVD releases from
the Columbia catalog: the Warren Beatty drama Lilith,
and Richard Brooks' Lord Jim. Both are remastered
in anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 2.0 stereo, and contain no
extras aside from bonus trailers. Retail will cost you $24.95
apiece.
Rounding out Columbia's August 24th lineup is a new special edition
reissue of the indie drama Raising Victor Vargas.
Again presented in anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 2.0 surround,
extras include a new cast and crew commentary, the short film
"Five Feet High and Rising" upon which the film was
based plus a featurette on the short's journey to the big screen,
a still gallery and theatrical trailers. List price will go for
$24.95.
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