Month: April 2008 (Page 3 of 3)

Popeye is back with the planned release of Popeye The Sailor 1938-1940 Volume 2 and Popeye and Friends Vol. 1 on June 17, 2008. Popeye The Sailor 1938-194 Volume 2 includes 31 original re-mastered and unedited theatrical shorts created by the legendary Max Fleischer. Popeye and Friends Volume 1 is a 1-disc set including 8 full-color shorts available for $14.97.

Popeye Volume 2 also consists of more than three hours of bonus features:

Popeye Commentaries – Including historians, animators and filmmakers
Popeye Popumentaries – A closer look at Eugene the Jeep, Poopdeck Pappy and the voices of Olive Oyl
“Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story”
“Men of Spinach and Steel”
Early Max Fleischer Short & Art Gallery
Females is Fickle Pencil Test
Stealin Ain’t Honest Storyboard Reel
Vintage Audio Recording from I’m Popeye the Sailor Man
Interview withJack Mercer (audio only)

Popeye and Friends Vol. 1 is an authorized edition from Hanna-Barbera. The DVD features full-color shorts from the “All-New Popeye Hour” TV show which originally premiered on CBS as part of their Saturday morning cartoon lineup. The first volume DVD contains eight shorts from this series in full-color, including “Ship Ahoy” and “Popeye the Plumber.”

Fox Home Entertainment’s Alvin and the Chipmunks sold more than 2.6 million copies on Tuesday, becoming the fastest-selling DVD of the year.

The DVD is getting a boost from a “Get Munk’d” mall tour, which averages more than 2,500 fans at each stop. The tour consists of a stage show concert, and will stop at Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Diego and Salt Lake City.

Alvin and the Chipmunks is also available on Blu-ray.

Nickelodeon has announced that SpongeBob Squarepants: Pest of The West will debut on DVD April 15, 2008. This latest SpongeBob DVD includes the following seven episodes:

Pest of the West
While researching his family tree, SpongeBob discovers he was related to Western hero, SpongeBuck. Flashback to SpongeBuck arriving in Bikini Gulch around 1882 and going head-to-head against dastardly Dead-Eye Plankton!

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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs, the second of four all-new feature-length adventures, invading Earth on DVD June 24.

In their latest adventure, Bender, Fry, Leela and crew encounter a repulsive, planet-sized creature with billions of probing tentacles…and soon find themselves involved in a disturbing – yet sensuous – interplanetary love story.

The Beast With A Billion Backs will include guest appearances from David Cross, Brittany Murphy, Dan Castellaneta and world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking.

Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs is packed with bonus material, including commentary from Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, cast members Billy West, John DiMaggio and Maurice LaMarche, director Peter Avanzino, and producers Claudia Katz, Lee Supercinski, and Michael Rowe; an entire 30-minute “Lost Futurama Adventure”; featurettes “Meet Yivo!” (behind the scenes with David Cross) and “A Brief History of Deathball”; a sneak peek at the next Futurama epic, Bender’s Game; storyboard animatic; deleted scenes; bloopers, and more.