Articles by Guido Henkel

John Landis: It’s a Mad, Mad World

August 25, 2000 // 0 Comments

With movies like “Kentucky Fried Movie, ” or “Animal House, ” director John Landis has made a name from himself as an almost anarchic filmmaker who manages to make fun of literally anything. With films such as “The Blues Brothers” he showed [...]

Production bottlenecks force Terminator 2 on 2 discs

August 25, 2000 // 0 Comments

The demand for Artisan Home Entertainment’s Ultimate Edition of Terminator 2: Judgement Day has caused quite some ripples in the industry. Not only did the extremely high demand for this title cause some clogging in the duplication industry as [...]

ADV Films acquire Farscape

August 25, 2000 // 0 Comments

Independent DVD publisher ADV Films has just recently acquired the home video rights to Farscape, the SciFi Channel’s best rated show, from the Jim Henson Company. The time is the 20th century, but the setting is far from Earth, about 1,000 galaxies [...]

Blockbuster faces lawsuit over unfair late fees

August 25, 2000 // 0 Comments

Industry paper The Hollywood Reporter reports today that Blockbuster is facing a class action lawsuit for unfairly charging late fees.. A law firm known for winning high-profile entertainment industry cases has filed a class-action lawsuit against [...]

The Tigger Movie

August 25, 2000 // 0 Comments

Buena Vista Home Entertainment has hidden an interesting hidden featurette on their release of “TheTigger Movie.” From the disc’s main menu, go to the “Bonus Features” where you will find a menu entry for the interactive trivia game. If you [...]

Cruise and Woo make the Impossible possible in November

August 24, 2000 // 0 Comments

Paramount Pictures is getting set to release its most ambitious DVD to date with Mission: Impossible 2 in November. The DVD boasts the most special features ever for a Paramount title. The studio has been among the slowest to fully embrace the DVD [...]

Columbia brings classic Hayworth to DVD in November

August 23, 2000 // 0 Comments

The folks at Columbia/Tristar are sure to please many fans of classic film by bringing the Rita Hayworth classic Gilda to DVD this November. Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is saved from a gunman by [...]

DDD reaches sky high for giant screen 3D

August 23, 2000 // 0 Comments

Dynamic Digital Depth Inc. (CDNX: DDE) and Sky High Entertainment have joined forces to distribute giant screen 3D movies to Windows and Macintosh PC users via the Internet, CD and DVD-ROM. The trailer for Sky High’s latest giant screen 3D production, [...]

Leitch sponsors award for SMPTE

August 23, 2000 // 0 Comments

Leitch Technology Corporation – a provider of high-quality digital video and audio solutions to the broadcasting, telecommunications, cable and Internet industries – announced that the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) [...]
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