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SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND-"The Women" and "The Gladiators" DVD/Blu-ray featurettes

Published on: 9th September, 2010

Haven’t had a chance to check out my favorite show and one of cable’s hottest new shows yet? Here’s a chance to get to know the men and women of ” SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND ” before the first season comes out on Blu-ray and DVD!  The monumental Starz Original series comes home when Anchor Bay Entertainment releases Season 1 of the critical and audience smash as an heroic four-disc DVD and Blu-ray™ on September 21st!

SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND – Season 1 DVD/Blu-ray TV spots

Published on: 31st August, 2010

The monumental Starz Original series comes home when Anchor Bay Entertainment releases the critical and audience smash as an heroic four-disc DVD and Blu-ray™ on September 21st! Executive produced by Rob Tapert , Sam Raimi , Joshua Donen and Steven S. DeKnight , ” SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND – The Complete First Season” on DVD and Blu-ray™ promises to take fans even deeper into the deadly brutality of gladiator games and the decadent machinations of Roman society with hours of bonus features delving behind the scenes into the making of a modern epic, including interviews and commentaries from the actors and filmmakers, augmented with rare production footage exploring the series’ ground-breaking visual effects, production and costume design. DVD and Blu-ray™ bonus features: • Featurettes: Gladiator Camp, History Rewritten, Make-up Effects, The Hole, And more! • Audio Commentaries • Episodes with Enhanced Digital Effects /> • Behind-The-Scenes Footage • Bloopers • Trailers Exclusive Blu-ray™ bonus feature: • Four “Directors’ Cut Extended Episodes” personally selected by Executive Producer Rob Tapert

Dario Argento Demons Comic and DVD Info

Published on: 25th August, 2010

First Motel Hell and now Dario Argento’s Demons is getting its own comic book! Stefan Hutchinson is writing Demons 3 , to tie in with new DVD releases of Demons and Demons 2 from Arrow Video in the UK. Hutchinson told FEARnet about the comics, “It’s a comic book sequel to the classic 80s ‘Demons’ films, and will be released in two parts with the forthcoming Special Edition releases from Arrow Video. Book One will come with Demons and Book Two will come with Demons 2.” You can also see a four page preview of the comic

NY Times: D.I.Y. Music Labels Embrace D.I.Y. Film

Published on: 25th August, 2010

On a midsummer night a few dozen people, many in glasses and with messenger bags, gathered at Zebulon, a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to watch a new low-budget movie called “The Builder.” The story of a contemplative Irish immigrant, it moved slowly, driven by atmosphere rather than dialogue, but the audience watched patiently at small candle-lit tables, beers in hand. It was the antithesis of a typical summer-movie outing, but that was sort of the point. “It’s just great to see people with drinks and candles,” said R. Alverson, the film’s director. “It’s so much more personal than seeing it in a theater.” Everything about “The Builder” seems personal. Mr. Alverson, a musician-turned-filmmaker, made it with friends and untrained actors for $5,000, including the cost of camera gear. To release it, he turned to Jagjaguwar, an indie rock label in Bloomington, Ind., whose roster of musicians includes Bon Iver, Okkervil River and Mr. Alverson’s former band. Jagjaguwar put “The Builder” out on DVD, organized a few screenings and hoped for the best. “As a film distributor, we have no experience,” said Chris Swanson, who helps run the label. “We’re approaching it the same way we did music, like, find a nice room and put the work on display in a dignified manner.” The audience was small, but Jagjaguwar had already agreed to finance Mr. Alverson’s next feature. It views him as an artistic investment: helping him develop his oeuvre is akin to supporting a band from the release of its first seven-inch. “I realized his artistic voice is far more conducive to film, and if he had a continuum of work, it would have real meaning,” Mr. Swanson said. “And our audience knows how to take it in.” Jagjaguwar is one of a number of indie music labels and hybrid companies that have turned to film distribution, some following the model laid out by seminal punk labels like Dischord and Touch and Go: stay small and informal, know your audience, and put out stuff you like. In the last few years, both the independent film world and the independent music world have stratified, shrunk by digital sales, a crowded entertainment market and the collapse of major specialty divisions. Money is harder to come by now. But experimentation can rule, and a few players have found that there’s a niche, and a clear overlap, in putting out D.I.Y. music and D.I.Y. film. “The mediums aren’t exactly the same, but the ways of doing things, getting the word out, I think there’s a lot of similarities,” said David Fenkel of Oscilloscope Pictures , which he founded with Adam Yauch, who is much better known as MCA of the Beastie Boys . “A theatrical campaign is not that much different than going on tour with a musician, and creating an event,” Mr. Fenkel said, calling the evolution from music to film “natural” and “awesome.” In its two-year existence , Oscilloscope has released a slate of attention-getting features and documentaries and even won Oscar nominations for “The Messenger” and “Burma VJ.” This summer, Drag City , a Chicago label, distributed “Trash Humpers,” the fifth feature by Harmony Korine (the screenwriter of Larry Clark ’s “Kids” ). “We were very glad to take it on,” said Rian Murphy, Drag City’s sales director, “because it is something new and different, and we like that kind of thing, and because it doesn’t have to do with the record business right now, which is kind of in a bummer.” Drag City, which represents musicians like Joanna Newsom and Silver Jews, bought prints of the film and “made sure they were in constant motion” around the country. “Trash Humpers” was “not held to the traditional channels for distributing a movie,” Mr. Murphy said, “because we don’t know what those are.” He added: “If someone e-mails us, and they’re not a complete lunatic, or if they are a complete lunatic, and they have money and a screen….” As a result, the film has played at a beer bar in Chattanooga, Tenn., a bookstore in Houston and the George Eastman House in Rochester, extending its life beyond the art house. (How many screens? Mr. Murphy didn’t know; the company barely even signs contracts with its artists. “It changes the atmosphere,” he said.) The “Trash Humpers” DVD is due in September. Working on the film, Mr. Murphy said, helped Drag City answer a question it had lately been pondering: “If you have an apparatus which is designed to meet a demand, does it matter what kind of demand you’re meeting?” In this case the answer was no: cult content is cult content. But that calculation must be tweaked when there is relatively little demand. Last year Matt Grady started Factory 25 , a distribution company that releases vinyl records with its movies. With DVD sales jeopardized by digital downloads, Mr. Grady knew he would need another angle to appeal to consumers, but he didn’t want to sacrifice the physical object. So he packaged DVDs with limited edition LPs. “I wanted to make it cool, like a fetish item that people would want,” he said. In most cases the album is the film’s soundtrack, but for “Make-Out With Violence,” a teen zombie movie that is opening on Friday at the ReRun Gastropub Theater in Brooklyn, Factory 25 is featuring the music of a band, the Non-Commissioned Officers, formed by the lead actors. The band got together during the shoot and has since toured and played Bonnaroo , the music festival in rural Tennessee. Continue reading the full New York Times article here .

Out this week on Blu-Ray and DVD 8.24.10

Published on: 24th August, 2010

Hey peoples! Ok so this week is exciting for releases! Finally for all of you Lost fans you can get the final season! The full collection includes 36 discs, a Senet game, more than 30 hours of bonus material from all seasons, weird stuff like a black light and an ankh and as much joy as you can stuff into a collectible box. The Season 6 set has the extras you’ll find on the Complete Collection DVD, including the 12-minute epilogue. I found a picture of all the stuff that comes in the box set so I figured I would post it so you can all see! Lost: Season 6 The final season of this Emmy-winning drama brings the series to a smashing climax that reveals the fate of the survivors of Oceanic’s flight 815, including Jack ( Matthew Fox ) and the others who escaped the island once, only to return. But as Kate ( Evangeline Lilly ), Sawyer ( Josh Holloway ), Locke ( Terry O’Quinn ), Ben ( Michael Emerson ) and the rest play out their destinies, the island may yet refuse to yield all of its secrets. Cast: Matthew Fox, Josh Holloway Director: Jack Bender So excited! Survival of the Dead Rebel military man Crocket ( Alan Van Sprang ) and his band of rogue soldiers seek refuge from the living dead, only to land squarely in a family feud between the undead-hating O’Flynns and the Muldoons, a cure-seeking clan determined to help their zombie kinfolk. Cult horror master George A. Romero rises again to deliver another delicious zombie fest where the festering question is: Can a caring family coexist with their flesh-eating loved ones? Cast: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh Director: George A. Romero LOVE IT! The Back-Up Plan When Zoe ( Jennifer Lopez ) tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she’s artificially inseminated, she meets Stan ( Alex O’Loughlin ), who seems to be just who’s she’s been searching for all her life. Now, Zoe has to figure out how to make her two life’s dreams fit with each other. Alan Poul directs this hilarious, heartfelt tale of confusion, confession and romantic slapstick. C ast: Jennifer Lopez, Alex O’Loughlin Director: Alan Poul I love J-Lo and I own several of her movies….don’t tell anyone..I liked this one too! City Island When he recognizes his son, Tony ( Steven Strait ), whom he hasn’t seen in more than 20 years, among a crop of new inmates in the jail where he works, Vince Rizzo ( Andy Garcia ) decides to bring the troubled young man home with him, much to the surprise of his wife and kids. Writer-director Raymond De Felitta helms by this offbeat comedy that also stars Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, Dominik Garcia-Lorido and Alan Arkin . Cast: Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies Director: Raymond De Felitta Abandoned In this taut indie thriller, bank executive Mary Walsh ( Brittany Murphy ) finds her sanity in question when her boyfriend, Kevin Peterson ( Dean Cain ), mysteriously vanishes from a hospital where he was taken for outpatient surgery. Deemed unstable by a staff shrink after an administrator ( Mimi Rogers ) finds no record of Kevin, Mary must not only prove her sanity but locate him before his captor — who’s demanding a $10 million ransom — kills him. Cast: Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain Director: Michael Feifer The Bad Mother’s Handbook Moonstruck sixth-form misfit Daniel Gale ( Robert Pattinson ) woos mouthy schoolmate Charlotte Cooper ( Holly Grainger ) but finds himself swapping bouquets for baby advice when she shares the secret that she might be pregnant in this charming slice-of-teen-life comedy-drama. Daniel’s fancy proves more than fair weather as Charlotte heads gamely toward a future her own single mum, Karen ( Catherine Tate ), is determined won’t turn out as hers did. Cast: Robert Pattinson, Catherine Tate Director: Robin Sheppard There’s a ton more releasing today! Here’s a complete list. – $5 a Day – A Step into the Darkness – Ajami – An American Journey: In Robert Frank’s Footsteps – Ben 10 Alien Force: Volume 8 – Beverly Hills 90210: The Second Season – Dark Arc (Comedy, Drama) Buy Now! – Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Collection – Four Stories of St. Julian – Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Part Two – Ghost Hunters International: Season 1, Part 2 – Gossip Girl: The Complete Third Season – The Great Rift: Africa’s Greatest Story – The Least Among You – Machine Gun McCain – NCIS: The Seventh Season – The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season – The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season (Embossed Box) – The Square – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Forever – Three Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg (Criterion Collection) – Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes Here’s the Blu-Ray releasing this week. – $5 a Day – Ajami – Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – Part Two – The Great Rift: Africa’s Greatest Story – The Long Good Friday – Machine Gun McCain – Mona Lisa – The Simpsons: The Complete Thirteenth Season – The Square – Time Bandits (Hooray!) – Withnail and I Thanks for reading! Have a great week!

The Human Centipede DVD Info

Published on: 23rd August, 2010

IFC Midnight and MPI Media Group has announced DVD and Blu-ray releases of The Human Centipede ( read review ) for October 5th. Written and directed by Tom Six, the film is a truly one-of-a kind horror film about a mad scientist who achieves his sick lifetime fantasy of creating a human centipede. Entertainment Weekly wondered if this may be “the most disgusting horror movie of all time?” Extra material will include an audio commentary with director Tom Six, a deleted scene, a making of featurette, alternate posters, and the trailer.

On 8/23 First Look Studios hosts the first social media press day with Werner Herzog, director of MY SON,MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE. And Y’all can be a…

Published on: 21st August, 2010

First Look Studios is hosting the first press day exclusively conducted within social media platforms with the acclaimed director, Werner Herzog, on behalf of his September 14, 2010 DVD release of MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE? Herzog will respond in real-time to questions tweeted to the First Look Studios’ twitter account, 1stlookstudios, with his responses posted on the First Look Studios’ Youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/FirstLookStudios With this social media press day, First Look Studios is transforming the traditional press junket into an event where key press, bloggers and FANS can participate directly with talent in a this interactive medium. TheTwitter press day will take place on MONDAY, AUGUST 23rd from 8-10:30 AM PST. Werner will be answering PRESS tweets from 8-9:45 AM PST. The video answers will then be uploaded to First Look Studios YouTube page. All of you guys can send tweet questions to Werner on Monday, 8/23 from 8-10:30 AM PT. Twitter: http://twitter.com/1stlookstudios From the Press Release: First Look Studios hosts the first social media press day with Werner Herzog (Los Angeles, CA) –On Monday, August 23, 2010 First Look Studios is hosting the first press day exclusively conducted within social media platforms with the acclaimed director, Werner Herzog, on behalf of his September 14, 2010 DVD release of MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE? Herzog will respond in real-time to questions tweeted to the First Look Studios’ twitter account, 1stlookstudios, with his responses posted on the First Look Studios’ Youtube channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/FirstLookStudios . Though Herzog himself is not a member of Twitter, his persona is quite popular on the social network as seen through the popular trending topic #WernerHerzogvsChuckNorris, where users weigh in on who is tougher, Werner Herzog or action star Chuck Norris. With this social media press day, First Look Studios is transforming the traditional press junket into an event where key press, bloggers and fans can participate directly with talent in a this interactive medium. MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE? is the first collaboration between legendary filmmakers David Lynch, who produced the film, and director Werner Herzog. This psychological thriller stars Academy Award® nominees Michael Shannon, Chloë Sevigny, and Willem Dafoe, and is loosely based on the mysterious true crime story of a young stage actor who, obsessed with a Greek tragedy he’s rehearsing, slays his own mother with a sword. ABOUT FIRST LOOK STUDIOS www.firstlookstudios.com First Look Studios, a leading independent supplier in the entertainment marketplace, acquires, markets and distributes feature films, television series and specialty programming. First Look owns a vast home entertainment library consisting of over 1000 titles, including War, Inc., Transsiberian, Priceless, The Proposition and King of California . First Look also distributes a growing number of product lines to major retailers including Scripps (Food Network), Carsey-Werner (“The Cosby Show”) and VideoAsia ( Battle Warrior starring Tony Jaa). Recent theatrical releases from First Look Studios include Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Twitter: http://twitter.com/1stlookstudios Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FirstLookStudios Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/firstlookstudios?ref=ts Blog: http://blog.firstlookstudios.com/ 

Period between DVD, VOD releases shrinks

Published on: 19th August, 2010

The window between the average movie’s DVD and VOD releases has shrunk to just five days, down sharply from the 30 to 45 days that were common a few years ago, according to BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield, who on Thursday chastised studios for mismanaging release windows.

Two new Blu-ray commentary clips from THE EVIL DEAD, available on August 31st

Published on: 19th August, 2010

Can’t get enough of THE EVIL DEAD ? The wait is almost over when Anchor Bay Entertainment releases THE EVIL DEAD on Blu-ray on August 31st! To tide you over until then here are two new HD commentary clips (one red band and one green band): Easily one of the most requested titles for Blu-ray™ from Anchor Bay Entertainment’s unparalleled library of horror films, Sam Raimi ’s 1981 cult classic The Evil Dead will officially make its high definition debut on August 31st with The Evil Dead Blu-ray™. For the release, two all-new 1080p anamorphic transfers in 1.85 and the original director-composed 1.33 aspect ratio, have been prepared and personally supervised by director/writer Raimi, presented in high-resolution Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio, as well as a brand new commentary track with Raimi, producer Robert Tapert and star Bruce “Ash” Campbell ! In addition, many of the bonus features, released on previous DVD editions, will once again be available on a special, limited edition DVD included with the Blu-ray™.  The Evil Dead Blu-ray™ (Disc 1) contains an all-NEW audio commentary with Writer/Director Sam Raimi, Producer Robert Tapert and Star Bruce Campbell. A standard DVD (Disc 2) contains the following bonus features, many returning for the first time in years, and available only for a limited time: • One By One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead • The Evil Dead: Treasures from the Cutting Room Floor • The Ladies Of The Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell • Book of The Dead: The Other Pages • Discovering The Evil Dead /> • Unconventional • At The Drive-In

Out this week on Blu-Ray and DVD 8.17.10

Published on: 17th August, 2010

Happy Tuesday! I hope you all are excited for this weeks releases because it has one of my fave shows in it! Dexter: Season 4 Miami forensics specialist Dexter Morgan (Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall ) has been so successful at keeping his secret life as a serial killer under wraps that no one — not even his newly minted wife, Rita ( Julie Benz ) — knows about his extracurricular activities. Dexter continues to count on the fact that nobody suspects him of murder. And then he commits it with reckless abandon. John Lithgow joins the fourth season in a Golden Globe-winning role. Cast: Michael C. Hall , Jennifer Carpenter Love this show! Don’t want it to be over after next season. Michael C. Hall is a amazing actor. This show is original, smart, well written and well acted. If you have not gotten a chance to watch it you should. Here’s some other things releasing: The Last Song Miley Cyrus has top billing as 17-year-old Ronnie Miller, a rebellious former piano prodigy who doesn’t hide her hostility after being sent off to spend the summer in Georgia with her estranged father ( Greg Kinnear ). Rebuffing her dad’s attempts to reconnect, the aloof Ronnie begins to thaw when she meets beach volleyballer Will Blakelee ( Liam Hemsworth ). Kelly Preston also stars in this contemporary tearjerker based on the Nicholas Sparks novel. Cast: Miley Cyrus, Greg Kinnear Director: Julie Anne Robinson Normally I cry my eyes out with Nicholas Sparks movies but for some reason this movie really had no emotional effect on me. Not sure if that says something about me or the movie. Furry Vengeance When real estate developer Dan Sanders ( Brendan Fraser ) finalizes plans to level a swath of pristine Oregon forest to make way for a soulless housing subdivision, a band of woodland creatures rises up to throw a monkey wrench into the greedy scheme. Just how much mischief from the furry critters can the businessman take before he calls it quits? Roger Kumble directs this family-friendly, madcap comedy. Cast: Brendan Fraser, Ricky Garcia Director: Roger Kumble Me and Orson Welles After convincing Orson Welles ( Christian McKay ) to give him a key role in the first Shakespearian play to run on Broadway, 17-year-old Richard ( Zac Efron ) finds himself on shaky ground when he clashes with the manipulative director over pretty assistant Sonja ( Claire Danes ). Sonja’s ambition, Richard’s desires and Welles’s controlling nature all add up to more drama off stage than on for the Mercury Theater’s production of “Julius Caesar.” Cast: Zac Efron, Christian McKay Director: Richard Linklater I liked this movie a lot and I love Claire Danes in this. I even liked Zac Efron. Here’s the rest of what comes out this week on DVD and on Blu-Ray for ya. – A History of Scotland – The Assassin Next Door – Batman: The Brave and the Bold – Season One, Part One – Black Orpheus (Criterion Collection) (Blu-Ray and DVD) – Burning Bright – Casshern Sins: Part One (Blu-ray and DVD) – Casshern Sins: Part Two (Blu-ray and DVD) – Cemetery Junction (Blu-ray and DVD) – Cougar Town: The Complete First Season – Dark and Stormy Night – Dead Man Running (Blu-ray and DVD) – Friday Night Lights: The Fourth Season – Hamlet (Blu-Ray) – Keeping Up with the Kardashians: The Complete Third Season – L’enfance nue (Criterion Collection) – The Lost Skeleton Returns Again – Nanny McPhee (Blu-Ray) – One Tree Hill: The Complete Seventh Season – Orlando (Special Edition) – Simon Schama: A History of Britain – Special Edition – Skellig: The Owl Man – Temple Grandin – Ugly Betty: The Complete Fourth and Final Season – Wolverine and the X-Men: Final Crisis Trilogy Thanks for taking the time to read this! My game article will be out tomorrow afternoon! Sorry for any inconvenience.

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