Category: DVD/Blu-ray (Page 19 of 23)

DC Comics and Warner Bros have announced that BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHT is set to premiere at Wizard World Chicago on June 28, 2008.

The premiere will be followed immediately by a panel featuring members of the film crew and cast, including producer Bruce Timm; comics writer Brian Azzarello and writer Alan Burnett. Other filmmakers and voice talent are expected to participate.

BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHT will arrive July 8, 2008 on DVD and Blu-Ray disc, and will also be available On Demand via digital cable and for download.

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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.

Cartoon Network’s Robot Chicken: Star Wars DVD has been delayed from May 20 to July 22, 2008 in order to capitalize on Comic Con and the theatrical release of Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

The Robot Chicken: Star Wars episode first aired on Cartoon Network in July. Bonus features include behind-the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes and commentary.

Kevin Conroy returns to the title role in Batman Gotham Knight, scheduled for release July 8, 2008 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, as well as OnDemand and Pay-per-View. The film will be available for download on the same date.

Conroy set the standard for modern day Batman voices with his performance in Batman: The Animated Series, The New Adventures of Batman and Robin and The New Batman Superman Adventures. He reprised the role as an aging Bruce Wayne playing mentor to a new Caped Crusader in Batman Beyond.

“Anytime we initiate an animated Batman project, ‘Will Kevin Conroy voice Batman?’ is the first question we hear from fans,” said Bruce Timm, Executive Producer. “To meet Kevin is to know that he’s not anything like Batman, and yet he manages to perfectly nail that indefinable element that is Batman. He’s got the voice, he’s got the acting chops, and he’s absolutely the best man for the job.”

Gary Dourdan (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) and Ana Ortiz (Ugly Betty) are heard in multiple segments of the six-story film as police detectives Crispus Allen and Anna Ramirez, key members of a special unit who learn to trust the Dark Knight’s motives. Parminder Nagra (ER, Bend It Like Beckham) supplies the voice of Cassandra, a mystical Indian woman who teaches Bruce Wayne to endure and manage his pain. David McCallum (Navy NCIS, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Great Escape) takes on the role of loyal servant Alfred. George Newbern (Father of the Bride) and Alanna Ubach (Legally Blonde) also join the cast.

The cast also features popular voice over artists Corey Burton, Rob Paulsen, Kevin Michael Richardson, Will Friedle, Jason Marsden, Jim Meskimen, Pat Musick, Scott Menville, Hynden Walch, Corey Padnos and Crystal Scales.

Scheduled for release on June 17, 2008 is a special edition of The Jungle Book 2. The film will be presented in 1.66:1, along with Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 Surround tracks. Extras include deleted scenes, a Story of Jungle Book featurette, music videos, a Legacy Of The Jungle Book featurette, a Mowgli’s Jungle Ruins Maze game, and a sing-along function.

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Disney’s Enchanted, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 18, 2008, is a live-action film that is inspired by the classic animated Disney movies — as you can see below in the comparison shots, courtesy of ComingSoon:

Beauty and the Beast

Cinderella

The Little Mermaid

Check out these and more at ComingSoon.

On March 25th, Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors Volume One arrives on DVD, courtesy of Shout! Factory. This 4-disc set features season one of this 1985 cartoon. Click here to refresh your memory with a streaming trailer.

When a solar flare wreaks havoc on his botanical experiments, Jayce’s father is forced to flee from his accidental creations: Saw Boss and his band of ruthless mutated plant life called the Monster Minds. Now it’s up to Jayce, joined by the valiant Lightning League, to reunite with his father and combine the two halves of the magic Root amulet—the only object capable of purging the universe of Saw Boss and his army forever.

Volume 1 includes the first 33 episodes of Jayce and The Wheeled Warriors.

Steve Purcell’s popular comic book series Sam & Max Freelance Police comes to live in Sam & Max: Freelance Police!!! The Complete Series DVD box set on March 11, 2008 from Shout! Factory. Featuring collectible DVD packaging art with original illustrations by creator Steve Purcell, this 3-DVD box set contains all 13 action-packed episodes and hours of exclusive interactive bonus features.

Exclusive Bonus Features Include: A COMIC-CONversation with Steve Purcell, 3 Animated Shorts Originally Seen on FOX Kids, Sam & Max: Our Bewildering Universe – An original animated short written and co-directed by Steve Purcell, A Look at Telltale Games with Dan Conners, Dave Grossman, and Daniel Herrera, Sam & Max Season 2 Playable Demo by Telltale Games and an Original Series Bible by Steve Purcell.

Paramount has announced today the release of Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf on DVD and HD DVD in both a theatrical and unrated director’s cut version.

The DVD will include the following special features: Deleted Scenes, A Hero’s Journey: The Making of Beowulf, Beasts of Burden: Designing the Creatures of Beowulf, The Origins of Beowulf, Creating the Ultimate Beowulf, The Art of Beowulf and Theatrical Trailer.

HD DVD will include the following special features:

Disc 1: In The Volume — feature-length picture-in-picture track, including motion capture performance, animatics and storyboards, Web Enabled Features, Beowulf Profiler and Scene Sharing.

Disc 2: A Hero’s Journey: The Making of Beowulf, A Hero’s Journey: The Making of Beowulf Interactive Version with Optional Pop Up Trivia and Additional Featurettes, The Art of Beowulf, A Conversation with Robert Zemeckis, Deleted Scenes and much more.

Warner Home Video has announced that Batman: Gotham Knight, will make its way into stores on DVD and Blu-ray on July 8, 2008.

Batman: Gotham Knight is a new entry into the Batman mythos created by award winning producers and acclaimed writers who weaved six interlocking stories that reveal Bruce Wayne’s journey to Dark Knight, each with art from some of the world’s most revered animators.

The production was divided among three renowned studios: Studio 4ºC, Production I.G and Madhouse, and included the visions of directors Shojiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yasuhiro Aoki and Toshiyuki Kubooka.

Stories were written by several of the most talented writers of film, comic books, and animation, including Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Josh Olson, David S. Goyer, Emmy-winner Alan Burnett, Jordan Goldberg and award-winning comics writers Greg Rucka and Brian Azzarello.