Until recently, French authorities have tolerated the sale of Region-1 DVDs when they were in English only, on the assumption that few French people would bother to buy them. But a new controversy is raging in France over a government crackdown on the [...]
There are not too many movies from the silent era of filmmaking that have built a reputation for themselves that lasts until this very day. Only few film have left such an indelible impression on multiple generations that everyone is intimately familiar [...]
New Line Cinema is getting ready to unleash Lost Souls (2000) on DVD this February. From Janusz Kaminski, Academy Award-winning cinematographer of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘Schindler’s List’, ‘Lost Souls’ is a supernatural thriller about [...]
Fresh off a very disappointing turn at the theatrical box office, Warner Home Video is hoping the find a second life and audience for the Sylvester Stallone remake of Get Carter, coming to DVD this February. In this remake of the 1971 film starring [...]
It seems that Spike Lee is becoming well represented on DVD lately, with many of his films seeing new release, re-issue, and special editions. Now Universal Home Video is putting together a nice package of three of the director’s films, and to sweeten [...]
On Vanguard’s release of the original 1974 version of the movie “Gone In 60 Seconds” there is an interesting feature hidden in the menus. From the disc’s main menu go to the “Credits.” There, highlight the menu entry for the “Main Menu” [...]
Warner Home Video has announced the release of the DVD of Elvis: That’s the Way It Is–Special Edition, featuring newly remastered and remixed picture and sound. The film documents Presley at his peak during the celebrity-attended August 1970 Las Vegas [...]
At a recent press conference, Pioneer Electronics announced its forecast for worldwide DVD sales in 2000 had risen to 17 million from its original 11 million forecast and said it expects a quick drop in DVD-RW hardware prices to less than $1,000 in early [...]
Buena Vista Home Video has announced a street date change for their upcoming DVD of the Bruce Willis vehicle, ‘The Kid.’ The previously announced date was January 16; the new release date will be January 23. The film is about a man (Bruce Willis) who [...]
The Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA) has announced the release of a new CD compatibility specification called MultiPlay for the computer and consumer industries. Owners of CD-R and CD-RW drives are used to sometimes not being able to play [...]
