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Improved Stanley Kubrick releases are on their way

February 14, 2001 // 0 Comments

According to an article in the trade magazine Variety this morning, Warner Home Video is currently working on a re-release of their Stanley Kubrick Collection. The initial release of the Collection in the summer of 1999 was almost uniformly dissed for its [...]

Traffic to hit DVD in June from USA Home Entertainment

February 13, 2001 // 0 Comments

With Oscar-buzz for the film running gaga, USA Home Entertainment has just scheduled Steven Soderbergh’s latest action thriller Traffic for release on June 19. A high-ranking judge with a vendetta against drugs learns his own daughter is a cocaine [...]

Rowan Atkinson comes to DVD as Blackadder

February 13, 2001 // 0 Comments

Warner Home Video has just unveiled details about a release of the British comedy series Blackadder starring the inimitable Rowan Atkinson. On five separate DVDs, or as a complete Collector’s Set, “Blackadder” will split your sides on May 15. Many [...]

Sonic DVDit! wins Best Product of the Year Award

February 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

Sonic Solutions announced today that its Sonic DVDit! DVD publishing application has received Videomaker Magazine’s 2000 Product of the Year Award in the Best CD/DVD Authoring Software category. The product is featured in the special awards section of [...]

Criterion Collection announces a Special Edition of Spartacus

February 12, 2001 // 0 Comments

This morning, the full details about a Special Edition of Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 monumental epic Spartacus have been announced. Coming through Criterion Collection, a new 2-disc set is now scheduled for release on April 24. In “Spartacus,” Stanley [...]

Universal Home Video takes Billy Elliot to the streets in April

February 9, 2001 // 0 Comments

We have just received details about Universal Home Video’s plans to release the critically acclaimed Billy Elliot on DVD. The humorous and inspirational film that recently received two Golden Globe nominations debuts on DVD on April 17, 2001. The life [...]

Celebrating Marilyn on DVD with Some Like It Hot

February 9, 2001 // 0 Comments

To celebrate Marilyn Monroe’s 75th birthday, in May, MGM Home Entertainment will finally release what is widely considered the best comedy of all times on DVD. The Marilyn Monroe classic Some Like It Hot will come to DVD in two different versions, as a [...]

Drinking Games comes with one of the most dubious supplements ever

February 8, 2001 // 0 Comments

Does it get any more dubious? Obviously to gather more publicity momentum, the DVD release of the independent film Drinking Games contains a special feature that is an actual drinking game. “Through DVD technology we’ve added Drink-O-Vision, something [...]

New Line brings Little Nicky and Bamboozled to DVD in April

February 7, 2001 // 0 Comments

New Line Home Entertainment will release Spike Lee’s Bamboozled and Adam Sandler’s Little Nicky in April. “Bamboozled, ” Spike Lee’s dark satire of the television industry, will arrive on April 17 and will be presented in anamorphic widescreen [...]
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