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Corrected info on The Next Karate Kid

May 25, 2001 // 0 Comments

Yesterday’s announcement listed the street date for Columbia TriStar’s The Next Karate Kid as August 7th. The actual street date will not be until the 28th. The other films listed (“Three Ninjas: Kick Back” and “Three Ninjas: Knuckle Up”) will [...]

John Carpenter gets a salute from Columbia TriStar

May 25, 2001 // 0 Comments

John Carpenter and Columbia TriStar have shared a long history of films which have made their way to DVD. Now Columbia has decided to salute his work with a new three pack of some of his best work with the studio. The three films in the collection are the [...]

The popular Goosebumps series comes to DVD in an all-new movie

May 25, 2001 // 0 Comments

Twentieth Century Fox has decided to adapt the long-running children’s book series Goosebumps with production of the first “Goosebumps” direct-to-video movie based on the book When Good Ghouls Go Bad written by “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stein. [...]

Johnny Five is still alive in Short Circuit 2

May 24, 2001 // 0 Comments

Often overlooked as a throwaway eighties film, Columbia TriStar Home Video will present one of the few sequels to surpass the original when Short Circuit 2 makes its digital debut this summer. After learning all he can in the Oregon forests, Johnny Five [...]

Fly Away Home receives special edition treatment from TriStar

May 24, 2001 // 0 Comments

Originally released in 1997 as one of Columbia TriStar Home Video’s premiere titles, Fly Away Home was a rather dissapointing DVD, containing only a fullscreen transfer and no features whatsoever. Now, four years later, Columbia TriStar has decided to [...]

Columbia TriStar whips up three martial arts films

May 24, 2001 // 0 Comments

After the recent announcement of the second and third Karate Kid movies, Columbia TriStar Home Video will be adding the forth and final installment of the series, The Next Karate Kid to their DVD lineup along with two films from the more recent martial [...]

Kino Video brings the Bard to DVD

May 23, 2001 // 0 Comments

No author’s works have been so visited on the silver screen as Wiliam Shakespeare’s. And no author’s work has been so broadly interpereted. Now Kino Video brings two of the earliest and historically notable film versions of Shakespeare’s work to [...]

Verbatim prepares DVD-RW media for launch

May 23, 2001 // 0 Comments

Just when the exotic nature of DVD-R is beginning to cool, Verbatim is set to release DVD-RW media this fall. The new media, which is complaint with the current DVD specifications, will initially have a maximum capacity of 4.7GB (the equivalent of a [...]
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