Articles by Guido Henkel

Here are the details on The Patriot Special Edition DVD

August 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

Last week we announced the October 24th release of Mel Gibson’s The Patriot. Well, as we promised, here are the full details about this highly anticipated DVD from Columbia/Tristar, as well as some new cover art! For anyone who missed it, ‘The [...]

Erin Brockovich first DVD with female star to ship one million

August 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

Universal Studios Home Video announced today that the Erin Brockovich DVD has reached the coveted mark of one million units shipped, representing a new breakthrough in the DVD market and drama genre. ‘This is a major milestone in the industry on several [...]

CyberLink announces first pure software DVD player for Linux

August 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

CyberLink, a leading software developer of video and audio software applications, showed its support for the Linux community by announcing it is releasing the world’s first pure software DVD player, for Linux-based information appliances (IAs). [...]

Arsenic And Old Lace

August 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

Frank Capra has brought us many memorable comedies that age astonishingly well. Although they all have a whimsical nostalgic charm today, the characters of old, are just as real as the ones today and with the romanticized portrayal of the 40s and 50s, [...]

Runaway

August 22, 2000 // 0 Comments

There was a time once, when our perspective of the future included robots. Real robots, with a lot of mechanics, hydraulics and small electronic brains. Judging from Michael Crichton’s "Runaway," this time hasn’t been too long ago. Today no [...]

Toshiba releases first portable DVD player with progressive scan

August 21, 2000 // 0 Comments

Toshiba, a leading developer of innovative DVD technologies, is advancing its ‘entertainment everywhere’ strategy with its new ultra-portable SDP1000 DVD-Video player. The industry’s first portable DVD-Video player to incorporate Toshiba’s [...]

Tucker: The Man and His Dream cruises to DVD

August 21, 2000 // 0 Comments

Paramount Home Video is bringing Francis Ford Coppola’s underappreciated Tucker: The Man and His Dream to DVD. This is a smart, sassy and stylish film about Preston Tucker, who tried to build ‘the car of the future’ in the 1940s, only to be crushed [...]

David Cronenberg’s Rabid coming to DVD in October

August 21, 2000 // 0 Comments

Fans of David Cronenberg’s unique and often-disturbing films have one more to look forward to in October. New Horizons is releasing Rabid, the director’s chilling story of a young woman, who develops an insatiable hankering for human blood, after [...]

Columbia’s already been working on the ‘Railroad’

August 21, 2000 // 0 Comments

For our younger friends, and our friends with younger friends, Columbia/TriStar will release the DVD of Thomas And The Magic Railroad, the feature film version of the popular children’s television series. For as long as anyone can remember, the island [...]
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