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Samsung ot use C-Cube technology for DVD player

January 25, 2001 // 0 Comments

C-Cube Microsystems (Nasdaq: CUBE) today announced that consumer electronics giant, Samsung Electronics, has chosen its ZiVA-5 architecture for Samsung’s first Internet DVD player, the next generation of advanced Internet appliances. Samsung’s [...]

Paramount puts Wonderboys back on the schedules

January 25, 2001 // 0 Comments

After having been announced for release late last year, the Oscar-buzz surrounding the Curtis Hanson’s film Wonder Boys let to delays of the DVD. Now that the film has been nominated for four Golden Globes and won one for Golden Globe for Best Original [...]

New Line Home Video is handing out pink slips

January 24, 2001 // 0 Comments

Yesterday goes down in history as “Black Tuesday” at New Line Home Video. The company was handing out pink slips for most of the day, letting go 100 of its 600 staffers. All division of the company were affected and it was not a move to rid the studio [...]

Columbia TriStar Home Video brings you The Natural

January 24, 2001 // 0 Comments

We have just received information that Columbia TriStar Home Video will be releasing Academy-Award winning director Barry Levinson’s The Natural on April 3. Featuring an Academy-Award winning cast that includes Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Robert [...]

Columbia TriStar brings Krull to DVD

January 23, 2001 // 0 Comments

Columbia TriStar Home Video bows Peter Yates’ atmospheric fantasy film Krull in April. Scheduled for release on April 3, “Krull” will come as a Special Edition with a few exciting bonus features. Journey into a mystical time and place that [...]

More details on Cleopatra are here

January 23, 2001 // 0 Comments

Last week we have announced that 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has plans to release a spectacular Special Edition of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1963 monumental epic Cleopatra on DVD. On April 3 we will be able to behold this epic film in all its glory [...]

Strike looms over Hollywood, foreshadowing this summer’s films

January 22, 2001 // 0 Comments

Talks this week between screenwriters and producers could signal whether Hollywood faces a full-blown strike this summer. Two weeks of negotiations were scheduled to begin Monday between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture [...]

John Lennon goes to war in April in How I Won The War

January 22, 2001 // 0 Comments

Fans of the late, great John Lennon will be pleased to hear that MGM Home Entertainment has scheduled How I Won The War for release on April 10. In this little-seen comedy that was directed by Richard Lester, the man behind the Beatles movies, John Lennon [...]
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