For you fans of all things Kevin Smith and his production company, View Askew Productions , we’ve just received word that IndieDVD Inc. , a Portland, Oregon company committed to presenting independent and underground cinema in DVD format, today [...]
Columbia TriStar Home Video has just alerted us that they plan to release the Al Pacino vehicle And Justice For All to DVD in January. Al Pacino portrays a hot-shot lawyer looking for justice in a legal system run amok. He uncovers some unsavory evidence [...]
Ring Lardner Jr., the last surviving member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of screenwriters who were jailed and blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the 1950s, has died at 85. Lardner, whose father was a humorist and baseball writer, died of cancer [...]
Parents frustrated with foul and abusive language on television programs and in movies intended for families have cause to celebrate as TVGuardian, The Foul Language Filter from Principle Solutions, Inc. , will now be available nationally through Wal-Mart [...]
Legendary comedian, composer, author, actor and television pioneer Steve Allen, who started TV talking as the first host of NBC’s Tonight Show, died in his sleep at age 78. Spokesman Kevin Sasaki said Allen died of an apparent heart attack while napping [...]
DTS® (Digital Theater Systems), one of the leaders in digital audio for cinema, pro audio, consumer products and broadcasting, unveiled the new DTS-CSS Cinema Subtitling System, a global subtitling and captioning system for the motion picture industry. [...]
In a decision giving copyright holders greater control over the way people use books, movies and music that are distributed in digital form, the United States Copyright Office on Friday endorsed a new federal law making it illegal to break the [...]
Buena Vista Home Video is set to unleash the powers of revenge on the world once again with the release of the The Crow: Salvation to DVD this January. Alex Corvis (Eric Mabius) is wrongly convicted and executed for the brutal murder of his girlfriend. He [...]
Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company (PCEC) announced two new Triple Play™ TV/DVD-Video/VCR combos: the PV-DF2700 and PV-DF2000. Each feature the company’s Tau PureFlat™ television, a high-quality DVD-Video player/CD player, and a 4-head, hi-fi [...]
A new online ‘rentailer’ launching this week hopes to compete head-to-head with dominant player NetFlix.com in the growing DVD rental market. RentMyDVD.com will officially open for business with per-unit rental pricing of $3.50 for new releases and [...]
