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8/19/2008 12:27:10 PM, by Guido Henkel

Paramount Home Entertainment has just unveiled plans to release the latest Mike Meyers comedy The Love Guru on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc this fall.
Mike Myers plays the hilarious character The Guru Pitka! As The Guru Pitka vies for the title of the world's best self help guru, Pitka must help a star hockey player win his wife back from rival athlete Jacques "Le Coq" Grande (Justin Timberlake) and, along with it, the Stanley Cup. Will Pitka's comic karmic intervention be enough to turn this losing team into champions?
The DVD Version will come in two configurations, one with and one without a digital copy of the film. Both versions will include Deleted And Extended Scenes as well as Bloopers and three Featurettes on the making of the movie. The releases will be rounded out by Outtakes.
The Blu-Ray version will contain all the same extras but come with a 1080p high definition transfer, of course, and feature Dolby Digital TrueHD audio tracks in English, French and Spanish.
“The Love Guru” can work for you too, starting September 16 for $29.99 or $34.99 with the digital copy. The Blu-Ray version will carry a $39.99 sticker price.

8/19/2008 9:53:56 AM, by Bill Binder

The complete series of Firefly is making the transition to Blu-ray thanks to the folks at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
Set 500 years into the future, in the wake of a universal civil war, “Firefly” centers on the crew of Serenity, a small transport spaceship that does not have a planet to call home. Captain Malcom “Mal” Reynolds, a defeated soldier who opposed the unification of the planets by the totalitarian governed Alliance, will undertake any job – legal or not – to stay afloat and keep his crew fed.
The set will come on 3 BD-50s with 5.1 DTS HD MAster Lossless Audio and will contain audio commentaries, the featurette Here's How It Was: The Making of "Firefly", a Firefly Reunion, nd the additional featurettes Serenity: The 10th Character, Joss Sings the "Firefly" Theme, Joss Tours the Set, deleted scenes, a gag reel and Aland Tudyk's audition.
The set is due for release on November 11th with a suggested retail price of $89.98.

8/18/2008 9:45:12 AM, by Bill Binder

After an announcement some months back that The Criterion Collection was coming to Blu-ray in October, the company has been relatively mum, but now we are getting word that the titles have been pushed back slightly, but will come with some great extras.
The Third Man will come in Academy Ratio with uncompressed mono with a video introduction by Peter Bogdanovich, two aucio commentaries, the documentary Shadowing "The Third Man", an abridged recording of Graham Greene's treatment, a 2000 documentary Who Was The Third Man?, a radio episode of The Lives of Harry Lime, an illustrated history, the alternate voiceover opening, archival footage of postwar Vienna, a look at the untranslated foreign dialogue and a booklet.
The Man Who Fell to Earth will include an audio commentary with Nicolas Roeg, David Bowie and Buck Henry, video interviews, audio interviews, still galleries, trailers and a booklet.
The Last Emperor comes in DTS-HD and will feature an aucio commentary, the film The Italian Traveler, video images, the documentaries from the existing DVD release, interviews, a trailers and a booklet.
Chungking Express has a Dolby Digital 5.1 track with audio commentary a U.S. trailer, new subtitles and a booklet.
Bottle Rocket also carries a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack and will include commentary with Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, the documentary The Making of Bottle Rocket, the original 13 minute short version of Bottle Rocket, deleted sceens, screen tests, storyboards, location photos, behind the scenes photos, the 1978 short film Murita Cycles, The Shafrazi Lectures, no. 1: Bottle Rocket and a booklet.
The Third Man and The Man Who Fell to Earth both arrive on November 18th, the other titles will arrive one week later.

8/18/2008 9:44:45 AM, by Bill Binder

The second chapter in the Narnia epic is coming to DVD later this year when The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian comes home.
A single disc DVD and a two-disc DVD version will arrive as well as a two disc and three disc Blu-ray versions. The first disc of all sets will include the film with audio commentary by Andrew Adamson, the Blu-ray will also feature BD-Live features and a Circle-Vision interactive sequence.
The second disc contains Bloopers, Deleted Scenes and the featurettes Inside Narnia, Sets of Narnia, Big Movie Comes to a Small Town, Previsualizing Narnia, Talking Animals and Walking Trees: The Magical World of Narnia, Secrets of the Duel, Becoming Trumpkin and Warwick Davis: The Man Behind Nikabrik.
The Blu-Ray version will contin all of these extras as well as a digital copy of the film itself on a third disc.
All three version will arrive on December 2nd.

8/18/2008 9:44:04 AM, by Bill Binder

The Austin Powers trilogy is coming to Blu-ray as a box set, although individual releases haven't been announced as yet.
All three films will make the upgrade to 1080p with a batch of extras. International Man of Mystery will come with an audio commentary, both alternate endings, deleted scenes, a trailer and an animated sequence. The Spy Who Shagged Me will include a commentary, the Comedy Central mocumentary, a featurette, deleted scenes, trailers, and music videos. Goldmember will carry a commentary, a trivia track, featurettes, deleted scenes, an outtake montage and four more music videos.
Many might not remember, but Austin Powers was the first breakaway DVD top seller back in the early days of the format and was one of the first titles to help bring people to the new format (before The Matrix broke all the rules). The three pack will arrive on December 2nd.

8/18/2008 9:43:38 AM, by Bill Binder

Wall-E will be coming to DVD and Blu-ray on November 18th from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.
Extras haven't been announced yet aside from the fact that the Blu-ray will include a digital copy of the film awkwardly called "Disney File". The other exciting news is that Pixar has often discussed the possibility of another animated film arriving on Blu-ray at the same time. Hopefully that announcement will come soon as well.

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8/15/2008 11:15:25 AM, by Guido Henkel

They are the sexy embodiment of immortality. Their literal lust for life rivals the antics of today’s rockstars. The story of the vampire has ravished humanity for thousands of years and now Anchor Bay Entertainment will bring the original Starz documentary Bloodsucking Cinema to DVD this fall.
“Bloodsucking Cinema” dips into the bloody archives to examine the breadth of vampire cinema classics, from the early Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee classic portrayals to contemporary visions including “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” “Van Helsing,” “Underworld: Evolution,” “Interview with the Vampire,” “The Lost Boys,” “Queen of the Damned,” “BloodRayne” and “John Carpenter’s Vampires.”
Hosted by Richard Roeper the documentary features interviews with such vampire “experts” as directors John Carpenter (Vampires), Len Wiseman (Underworld), John Landis (Innocent Blood) and Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys), actors Kristanna Loken (BloodRayne) and Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned), writers Marv Wolfman and David Goyer (Blade), as well as one of the last interviews with Oscar-winning special effects wizard Stan Winston (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Interview With The Vampire).
Mark September 23 in your calendars because that’s the day this DVD will make its mark in stores for $29.97.

8/15/2008 9:28:17 AM, by Bill Binder

It's always a choice of whether any given movie is good enough on DVD or if a Blu-ray upgrade is in the budget. Paramount Home Entertainment is making that choice a little easier with a $10 mail-in rebate for DVD owners looking to upgrade some of their titles to Blu-ray. Among the titles include are Transformers, The Godfather Trilogy, Sweeney Todd, Old School, Stardust and Zodiac.
Thanks Paramount, I know I wouldn't mind $10 back on my Godfather purchase.