American consumers spent more than ever on home video in 2000, with rentals and sales of VHS and DVD hitting the $20 billion mark for the first time in home video’s 20+ year history. On the rental side of the video business, the total combined revenues [...]
Jack is a young chimpanzee who serves as an object of study. He has been taught sign-language and is capable many things that would typically considered human. When his mentor dies, Jack is sold to a laboratory where he would be used as a lab rat and [...]
For Pete’s Sake, starring Barbra Streisand and directed by Academy Award-Nominee Peter Yates, is scheduled for release by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment on April 3. “For Pete’s Sake” is the comedic story of a young woman (Barbra Streisand)who [...]
Buena Vista Home Entertainment unleashes a large number of pets on April 3. 102 Dalmatians will be making its DVD debut on that day in a DVD release that comes with some exciting bonus features. Walt Disney Pictures once again “spot-lights” comedy, [...]
After having been announced for release late last year, the Oscar-buzz surrounding the Curtis Hanson’s film Wonder Boys let to delays of the DVD. Now that the film has been nominated for four Golden Globes and won one for Golden Globe for Best Original [...]
C-Cube Microsystems (Nasdaq: CUBE) today announced that consumer electronics giant, Samsung Electronics, has chosen its ZiVA-5 architecture for Samsung’s first Internet DVD player, the next generation of advanced Internet appliances. Samsung’s [...]
Yesterday goes down in history as “Black Tuesday” at New Line Home Video. The company was handing out pink slips for most of the day, letting go 100 of its 600 staffers. All division of the company were affected and it was not a move to rid the studio [...]
We have just received information that Columbia TriStar Home Video will be releasing Academy-Award winning director Barry Levinson’s The Natural on April 3. Featuring an Academy-Award winning cast that includes Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Robert [...]
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has once again hidden some interesting additional material on their release of the Jim Carrey schizo-comedy “Me, Myself & Irene.” From the disc’s main menu, go to the “Bonus Features” and from there, go [...]
When thinking of John Woo, most people immediately have a predetermined image in their minds, of dazzling action movies with blazing guns and explosions, choreographed and staged to create an almost lyrical tragedy in the midst of all the mayhem. What [...]
