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The original Nutty Professor comes to DVD in October

August 3, 2000 // 0 Comments

Paramount Home Video is releasing the original Nutty Professor (1963) on DVD this October. Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote, and stars in this wild comedy about a nerdy, college professor who does a Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation into the swaggering singer, [...]

Gettysburg is finally making its DVD debut later this year!

August 2, 2000 // 0 Comments

DVD fans have been waiting for the release of Gettysburg since the first day if the medium’s introduction. Given the movie’s length of 254 minutes, DVD seemed the perfect format to release this epic film about the Civil War, but it never appeared on [...]

The Matrix DVD First Ever To Sell Three Million

August 2, 2000 // 0 Comments

Warner Home Video announced today that their DVD version of the Oscar®-winning smash-hit movie, The Matrix has exceeded the three million mark in units sold in the U.S., solidifying its position as the #1 best-selling DVD of all time. At the first annual [...]

Some Classics from the East set for release in October

August 2, 2000 // 0 Comments

First up is a genuine classic from one of the greatest masters of cinema, Akira Kurosawa. Image Entertainment brings us Dersu Uzala (1974). Set against a backdrop of the treacherous mountains, rivers and icy plains of the Siberian wilderness, Kurosawa [...]

The Prisoner is finally coming to DVD

August 2, 2000 // 0 Comments

Fans of great television will be very happy come Halloween. A&E Home Video is releasing the first 3 episodes of the well-ahead-of-its-time British TV show, The Prisoner to DVD in October. An innovative show starring Patrick McGoohan, “The [...]

The DVD cracking lawsuit now also makes T-Shirts its target

August 2, 2000 // 0 Comments

Copyleft, the maker of a T-shirt displaying code to a DVD-cracking program, has just been added to the high-profile piracy lawsuit surrounding the cracking of DVD’s CSS protection encryption. The retailer who has printed the source code for a DVD [...]

More skeletons from the DVD closet for Halloween

August 1, 2000 // 0 Comments

Fans of horror films have a lot to be excited about as this is shaping up to be one horrific Halloween for new DVD releases. On the heels of yesterday’s news about Rosemary’s Baby (which many of us are drooling over), comes a graveyard full of new [...]
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