Category: DVD/Blu-ray (Page 21 of 24)

Paramount Home Entertainment has announced that Beowulf will arrive on DVD and HD DVD on February 26, 2008. Paramount will release both a theatrical and director’s cut of the film which features the voices of Ray Winstone and Angelina Jolie.

The only extra feature on the theatrical cut will be A Hero’s Journey: The Making of Beowulf featurette. The Director’s Cut will include that, along with a Beasts of Burden featurette, a Origins of Beowulf featurette, a Creating the Ultimate Beowulf feaurette, an Art of Beowulf featurette, additional scenes, trailers, and easter eggs.

The HD-DVD release will feature a high definition transfer, along with 5.1 Dolby Digital Plus, and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD tracks. All of the above extra material will be included, along with a Conversation with Robert Zemeckis, further featurettes on the stunts, art design, props and a couple of extra additional scenes.

20th Century FOX has announced that Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest is the first ever DVD to include a digital copy of the movie for iTunes. What this means is you get a second, digital, copy of the movie that you can transfer to your iTunes library and then view on your computer, iPod, iPhone or AppleTV.

“The industry has sold nearly 12 billion DVDs to date and the release of BLUE HARVEST is the first one that allows consumers to move their content to an iPod,” noted Mike Dunn, FOX. “Given Apple’s dominance in the portable entertainment market and our rapidly evolving digital world, a DVD with digital copy for Apple, offers a simple way for consumers to satisfy their growing desire to watch what they want, when they want and, importantly, how and where they want.”

Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest is now available in stores everywhere.

Warner Home Video today released the deluxe edition DVD of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, which has been re-mastered and includes a bonus featurette and two extra episodes. The DVD will set you back $19.98, or you can get it from Amazon for $16.99.

The featurette, Unlucky in Love: An Unrequited Love Story, examines the love lives of the Peanuts characters and looks at how creator Charles Schulz’s personal views on love and relationships influenced his work.

Bonus episodes include: You’re in Love, Charlie Brown and It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown.

Via AWN

The cover of DreamWorks Animation’s Bee Movie has been revealed today. The movie will be released as a single-disc DVD, a double-disc “special” edition and on HD DVD on March 11th. Featuring the voices of Jerry Seinfeld, and Renée Zellweger, the movie did reasonably well at the box office; pulling in a domestic total of $125,595,476 and a foreign total of $142,152,051 for a combined $267,747,527 worldwide on a budget of $150,000,000.

Click the image below to see the full size DVD cover:

New details have been revealed about the upcoming Batman: Gotham Knight animated movie. It turns out that the movie will actually consist of six different shorts, written by different writers and animated by three Japanese anime studios. Writers include comic book writers Brian Azzarello and Greg Rucka and Batman Begins screenwriter David Goyer. The animation studios are Production I.G., Studio 4C and Madhouse whose previous work includes Steamboy, Ghost in the Sheel and Ninja Scroll.

The intention of the movie is to bridge the gap between the live action Batman Begins and upcoming The Dark Knight sequel. According to rumors, Christian Bale will provide his voice to the project. The DVD is expected in stores before the July release of The Dark Knight.

Via Joblo

Just in time for Christmas, The Simpsons Movie is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. Grossing over $500 million worldwide, The Simpsons Movie delivered on its promise to entertain and bring something new and exciting to the table. How can you go wrong with Spider-Pig?

The DVD includes a ton of bonus features, including commentaries with writers/producers, actors and directors, deleted scenes and promo spots, including The Simpsons Judge American Idol and Homer’s apperance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

A heads up to everyone — Circuit City is selling it for only $13.99 for this week only!

Buena Vista Home Entertainment have announced the release of The Aristocats Special Edition on 5th February 2008. Features include: 1.75:1 Anamorphic Widescreen, English DD5.1 Surround, English, French and Spanish languages, Never-Before-Seen Deleted song, Games and Activities: Disney Virtual Kitten ROM, English Read-Along The Aristocats, Disney Song Selection, Bonus Short – “Bath Day” a cartoon short from 1946 featuring Figaro, and Backstage Disney: The Aristocats Scrapbook.

ComingSoon scored a preview clip from the recently released Futurama: Bender’s Big Score DVD. Check it out below:

Just a friendly reminder to let you all know that Futurama: Bender’s Big Score is available on DVD beginning today! It is the long awaited return on Futurama so please go out and buy it. Show the network execs that we want more Futurama. They don’t care about all the emails and petitions you guys sign… they care about numbers! So go out and BUY the movie, don’t pirate it!

Here are direct links to places you can buy it:

Amazon

Circuit City

Best Buy

Fry’s Electronics

Deep Discount DVD

DreamWorks Animations’ Shrek the Third is now available on HD DVD and standard DVD. If you plan on getting it, try to get it this week. New releases tend be on sale during their first week.

The DVD version includes hours of bonus material such as “Shrek’s Guide to Parenthood,” where viewers receive parental advice from Donkey, Puss in Boots, Pinocchio and Gingy. Another cool feature included is “Shrek Shmash-Ups,” which allows viewers to choose and mix scenes from all three Shrek films and put them to music.

The HD DVD version includes a number of interactive and web-enabled features. “The Animators’ Corner” is an interactive, picture-in-picture experience featuring storyboards relevant to the scenes on screen. “My Menus” are customizable character-themed menus; “Shrek’s Trivia Track” features pop-up fun facts; and “Donkey’s Digital Coloring Book” is an interactive coloring book that allows viewers to digitally paint their favorite scenes.

It’s a great day for animation lovers who own a Blu-Ray player as Pixar’s Ratatouille, Cars, and Short Films Collection Vol. 1 are now available. All three are also available on DVD for you non-HD folks out there.

John Lasseter, CCO of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios told AWN, “Blu-ray is really exciting because I feel for the first time that you can truly see a Pixar film because there are so many details that get lost on the DVD. Also because of the amazing amount of data available on the Blu-ray, it makes it so you can do special features that you can’t do in any other technology. We have the ‘Cine-Explore,’ which is like having a commentary with visuals. So it’s like watching the movie, hearing the commentary and seeing a documentary at the same time. It’s for real cinephiles, and, for me, as a filmmaker, it’s great because this becomes the ultimate document on the making of the film.”