Upcoming DVD releases

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Lionsgate has released a trailer for what looks to be a stunning upcoming release of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now on Blu-ray. The film will be released in high definition on October 19th and will be available in a choice of 3-disc and 2-disc Blu-ray editions or as a Digital Download.

http://www.cinemaspy.com/Movie-News/...se-Now-BD/4671

Love it or hate it, Apocalypse Now is one of the most controversial and unforgettable films ever made. Directed by Coppola, it is set during the Vietnam War and has a stellar cast that includes Marlon Brando (The Godfather), Martin Sheen (The West Wing), Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider), Harrison Ford (The Indiana Jones series) and Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix Trilogy). It is epic in scope, thought-provoking and powerfully non-commercial. It was also apparently hell to make and almost ended Coppola's life.

The story of the troubled production of Apocalypse Now is told in the award-winning documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. It is included in the 3-disc edition of the upcoming hi-def release. Both Blu-ray editions will have the theatrical version of the film and the extended version, Apocalypse Now Redux.


2-FILM SET BLU-RAY DISC SPECIAL FEATURES*

· Apocalypse Now and Apocalypse Now Redux - presented in 1080P High Definition Widescreen, in their original 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratios and new 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
· NEW "A Conversation with Martin Sheen and Francis Ford Coppola"
· NEW "An Interview with John Milius" interview by Francis Ford Coppola
· NEW "Fred Roos: Casting Apocalypse" featurette
· NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN Complete Francis Ford Coppola interview with Roger Ebert at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
· NEW TO THIS EDITION Original 1938 Mercury Theatre Radio Reading of "Heart of Darkness" featuring Orson Welles
· Monkey Sampan "lost scene"
· Additional Scenes
· "Destruction of the Kurtz Compound" end credits with audio commentary by Francis Ford Coppola
· "The Hollow Men," video of Marlon Brando reading T.S. Eliot's poem
· "The Birth of 5.1 Sound" featurette
· "Ghost Helicopter Flyover" sound effects demonstration
· "A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now" featurette
· "The Music of Apocalypse Now" featurette
· "The Synthesizer Soundtrack" article by music synthesizer inventor Bob Moog
· "Heard Any Good Movies Lately? The Sound Design of Apocalypse Now" featurette
· "The Final Mix" featurette
· "Apocalypse Then and Now" featurette
· "The Color Palette of Apocalypse Now" featurette
· "PBR Streetgang" featurette



3-DISC FULL DISCLOSURE EDITION BLU-RAY DISC SPECIAL FEATURES*

· Apocalypse Now and Apocalypse Now Redux - presented in 1080P High Definition Widescreen, in their original 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratios and new 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
· INCLUDED ONLY ON THE FULL DISCLOSURE EDITION Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, including optional audio commentary with Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola - first time in 1080P High Definition
· EXCLUSIVE TO EDITION 48-page collectible printed booklet with special note from Francis Ford Coppola, never-before-seen archives from the set, behind the scenes photos and more!
· EXCLUSIVE TO EDITION John Milius Script Excerpt with Francis Ford Coppola Notes
· EXCLUSIVE TO EDITION Storyboard Gallery
· EXCLUSIVE TO EDITION Photo Gallery, including images from photographer Mary Ellen Mark
· EXCLUSIVE TO EDITION Marketing Archive
· NEW "A Conversation with Martin Sheen and Francis Ford Coppola"
· NEW "An Interview with John Milius" interview by Francis Ford Coppola
· NEW "Fred Roos: Casting Apocalypse" featurette
· NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN Complete Francis Ford Coppola interview with Roger Ebert at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival
· NEW TO THIS EDITION Original 1938 Mercury Theatre Radio Reading of "Heart of Darkness" featuring Orson Welles
· Monkey Sampan "lost scene"
· Additional Scenes
· "Destruction of the Kurtz Compound" end credits with audio commentary by Francis Ford Coppola
· "The Hollow Men," video of Marlon Brando reading T.S. Eliot's poem
· "The Birth of 5.1 Sound" featurette
· "Ghost Helicopter Flyover" sound effects demonstration
· "A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now" featurette
· "The Music of Apocalypse Now" featurette
· "The Synthesizer Soundtrack" article by music synthesizer inventor Bob Moog
· "Heard Any Good Movies Lately? The Sound Design of Apocalypse Now" featurette
· "The Final Mix" featurette
· "Apocalypse Then and Now" featurette
· "The Color Palette of Apocalypse Now" featurette
· "PBR Streetgang" featurette

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Coming on October 26th...

Altitude follows a group of teens on a weekend getaway aboard a small plane that suddenly turns deadly for the rookie pilot (Lowndes) and four young friends: Julianna Guill (Friday the 13th, “90210”), Ryan Donowho (Bandslam, “The O.C.”), Landon Liboiron (“Degrassi: The Next Generation”) and Jake Weary (“As the World Turns”). Minutes after the group takes-off, an unexplained malfunction sends the aircraft climbing out of control into the heart of a mysterious storm. Unable to get their bearings or contact the ground, the survivors gradually realize they are locked in combat with a terrifying supernatural force.

Coming soon on October 19th...

PREDATORS will be available on a 2-Disc Blu-ray package with Digital Copy for suggested retail price of $39.99 U.S. / $49.99 Canada and on a standard DVD for suggested retail price of $29.98 U.S. / $43.48 Canada. Pre-book is September 22nd.

PREDATORS 1-Disc Blu-ray Special Features
Commentary by Robert Rodriguez and director, Nimród Antal

Motion Comics

Moments of Extraction: Robert Rodriguez presents exclusive prequel vignettes voiced by the cast of PREDATORS. Witness the secret adventures that turned our world's most ruthless killers into the ultimate Predator prey
-Noland Intro (part 1)
-Isabelle
-Cuchillo
-Hanzo
-Mombasa
-Noland Ending (part 2)

-Crucified

Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
-Bloodline
-De-cloaking the Invisible: Alien Terrain
-Intelligent Design: The Hunting Camp
-Predators as Prey
-Yuatja Transformed
-Rite of Passage

The Chosen Featurette

Fox Movie Channel presents Making a Scene

Deleted and Extended Scenes
-Dead Man’s Parachute
-Cuchillo and Isabelle
-Team “Orientated” Group
-Third Most Wanted
-Cuchillo Unleashes
-“Why Are You Here?”
-“They’re Smarter Than That”
-Stans and Isabelle Naked
-“They’re Still Coming”

BD-Live Extras
-Exclusive PREDATORS Features

Also, released on August 31, the complete series in a 14-dvd Box Pack...

Image Entertainment's 14-disc presentation of the acclaimed anthology series Thriller is arguably among the most anticipated DVD releases for horror fans and vintage-TV aficionados alike.

Hosted by screen legend Boris Karloff, who also appeared in five episodes of the series, and aired on NBC from 1960 to 1962, Thriller immediately earned a reputation as one of the most frightening programs ever broadcast on television--a legacy that endures some four decades after it left the airwaves. Though it featured an all-star lineup both in front of and behind the camera--actors such as William Shatner, Richard Chamberlain, Rip Torn, Leslie Nielsen, Elizabeth Montgomery, Warren Oates, Robert Vaughn, and Marlo Thomas were among its guest stars, while directors included veterans like John Brahm (The Lodger), John Newland (One Step Beyond), and actor-directors Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, and Ray Milland--the chills of Thriller hinged on its stories.

Psycho author Robert Bloch adapted several of his short tales for the series, including one of its most nerve-jangling episodes, "The Cheaters," about a pair of glasses that reveal terrifying truths to the wearer.
Twilight Zone scribes Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont also contributed scripts, while others were based on stories by Cornell Woolrich, Edgar Allan Poe, and Conan creator Robert E. Howard; the latter provided the source material for "Pigeons from Hell," the episode widely regarded as the most terrifying of the series, with Brandon De Wilde as a young man who encounters restless spirits and a unique monster in an abandoned Southern mansion.
Other standouts include Bloch's "The Grim Reaper," about a cursed portrait that brings death to its owners (including Shatner); "The Purple Room," with Torn as the skeptical inheritor of a haunted house, which viewers will immediately recognize as the Bates home from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho; and "La Strega," with Ursula Andress as a young woman bedeviled by her sorceress aunt.

The 14-disc Thriller: The Complete Series offers all 67 episodes of the series, each remastered and uncut for the first time since their original broadcast. Some 50 hours of supplemental features have also been included; chief among these are 24 hours of commentary tracks by Thriller participants like directors Arthur Hiller and Ted Post and actors Richard Anderson and Beverly Washburn (Spider Baby), as well as genre experts like Tim Lucas, David Schow, Gary Gerani, and Lucy Chase Williams. Episode promos and isolated score tracks by composers Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen) and Morton Stevens all help to underscore why no less an authority than Stephen King declared Thriller to be the best series of its type to ever air on television.

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Originally Posted by Erika_Knight

Added Night of the Hunter and AntiChrist to my list of films to purchase, so hopefully I'll get around to it soon. They look like good recommendations - Thanks, fortunato.

No problem ! A warning about Antichrist though: it's intensely graphic in pretty much every way imaginable.

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Oh man, I really want this but it's soooo expensive.

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Originally Posted by horrorzack

looks amazing? this movie is from asylum. fucking asylum. all asylum does is rip of ather movies. for exaple they ripped off transformers into transmorphers and added lesbians. and who could forget hillside cannibals the ripoff of the hills have eyes. and also alien vs predator was ripped off into alien vs. hunter and the hunter looks like an english tin can. never watch one of the movies. one more of their movies is snakes on a train the ripoff of snakes on a plane.

Thats the fun part - Asylum's shit is fucking hilarious.

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Originally Posted by horrorzack

looks amazing? this movie is from asylum. fucking asylum. all asylum does is rip of ather movies. for exaple they ripped off transformers into transmorphers and added lesbians. and who could forget hillside cannibals the ripoff of the hills have eyes. and also alien vs predator was ripped off into alien vs. hunter and the hunter looks like an english tin can. never watch one of the movies. one more of their movies is snakes on a train the ripoff of snakes on a plane.

Asylum at least did a wonderful job with Paranormal Activity rip off...Paranormal Entity; to some extent which I think was even better than the original.:)

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Originally Posted by horrorzack

looks amazing? this movie is from asylum. fucking asylum. all asylum does is rip of ather movies.

I know.

That's why it looks amazing.

....and do you have to have such a massive signature?

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Severin Films today announced the 1/25/2011 release of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s internationally acclaimed Santa Sangre.

The 1989 production, rarely seen since its U.S. theatrical release, comes to Blu-ray and DVD featuring a restored print of the film’s European version as well as over 5 hours of Bonus Material.

In addition, Jodorowsky will be honored by The Museum Of Art & Design with his first-ever American retrospective. The series, called ‘Blood into Gold: the Cinematic Alchemy of Alejandro Jodorowsky’, runs from September 23rd thru October 8th and will feature the 81-year-old Chilean-born filmmaker/playwright/graphic artist/shaman in attendance to conduct a rare master class on his films and philosophy.

Jodorowsky exploded onto the international scene with his 1970s sensations EL TOPO and HOLY MOUNTAIN. Endorsed by John Lennon and embraced by underground culture worldwide, the films redefined movies as both art and entertainment while single-handedly creating the ‘midnight movie’ genre. Legal frustrations with the films’ owner (and Beatles’ manager) Allen Klein, as well as a failed attempt to direct a 14-hour movie adaptation of Dune starring Orson Welles and Salvador Dali, kept Jodorowsky from making films for 16 years until his triumphant return with SANTA SANGRE.

Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell and the filmmaker’s sons Axel and Adan Jodorowsky star in this surreal epic about a young circus performer, the crime of passion that shatters his soul, and the macabre journey back to the world of his armless mother and deaf-mute lover. “This is a movie like none I have seen before,” wrote Roger Ebert in his original four-star review, “a wild kaleidoscope of images and outrages, a collision between Freud and Fellini. It contains blood and glory, saints and circuses, and unspeakable secrets of the night. And it is all wrapped up in a flamboyant parade of bold, odd, striking imagery, with Alejandro Jodorowsky as the ringmaster. SANTA SANGRE is a movie in which the inner chambers of the soul are laid bare.”

Bonus Features on the Blu-ray and two-disc DVD include deleted scenes, domestic and international trailers, an audio commentary with Jodorowsky, multiple documentaries, new on-camera interviews with the majority of the film’s cast and crew, and coverage of Jodorowsky’s forthcoming NYC appearances. A complete list of Extras, as well as preview clips, will be posted in the coming days at SantaSangreFilm.com.

“SANTA SANGRE is a landmark acquisition for us,” says David Gregory, co-founder and CEO of Severin Films. “Jodorowsky is one of the few true visionaries of cinema, and the opportunity to bring his modern masterpiece back to America is a genuine honor. Our restoration of the film, combined with an unprecedented collection of Bonus Features, will now introduce this brilliant film to a whole new audience.”

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On September 28, 2010, the original 1933 RKO classic King Kong makes its long awaited debut on Blu-ray Disc™.

Presented by Warner Home Video, the newly remastered King Kong features extensive bonus content, including a collectible Blu-ray Book written by renowned film historian Rudy Behlmer; a feature length documentary on Kong creator Merian C. Cooper, directed by acclaimed filmmakers Kevin Brownlow and Christopher Bird; commentary by Ray Harryhausen and Ken Ralston with Merian C. Cooper and Fay Wray; and a seven-part documentary that delves deeply into just about every aspect of the making of the film.

With 32 pages of rare photography and trivia, the captivating Blu-ray Book, written by Rudy Behlmer, centers around the vision of director, Merian C. Cooper and his larger than life persona that brought the story of King Kong to the screen. A prolific film researcher and historian, Behlmer personally interviewed Cooper and has written numerous books and contributed to a wide variety of documentaries, videos, DVDs and laser discs about Hollywood's Golden Age.

In this very special Blu-ray release, the newly remastered film is presented in its 1933 entirety and includes scenes that were originally considered too shocking for the 1938-1956 re-releases. With equal parts adventure, horror and old-fashioned romance, King Kong is a milestone of movie-making that has endured for more than seven decades. Named as one of the “100 Best Films of All Time” by Time Magazine, King Kong premiered in New York City in 1933. The film was an instant success, breaking box-office records to become one of the top moneymakers of the 1930s.

Available on Blu-ray September 28, 2010.

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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has released the final special feature list and specs for the Avatar Extended Collector’s Edition, which will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 16th 2010.

The three-disc AVATAR Extended Collector’s Edition Blu-ray and Theatrical Special Edition Re-Release DVD will both feature

the original theatrical release,
a special edition re-release,
family audio track with all objectionable language removed, and
new collector’s extended cut with sixteen more minutes including an exclusive alternate opening Earth scene.

Viewers will journey to the depths of Pandora with filmmakers during “Capturing Avatar“ an in-depth feature length documentary covering the 16 year filmmaker journey including all new interviews with James Cameron, Jon Landau and cast and crew. …

The AVATAR Extended Collector’s Edition Blu-ray will also have even more bonus material and interactive viewing. Through the unparalleled, interactive technology of Blu-ray, fans can dive further into the world of the Na’vi and experience the #1 international sensation from behind the scenes, with a “master class” on the production of the film.

Leveraging the interactivity of Blu-ray, viewers can experience the full film in three stages of production: Performance Capture, Template (1990’s video game version) and Final as well as a composite of all stages in “Pandora’s Box”. This will be supported with interviews by Jim Cameron and the filmmakers and serve as a “master class” on the making of AVATAR.

Click the link to see the box art - http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/10/04/...ures-revealed/

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Oh wow! The Santa Sangre and King Kong releases are very exciting. It's about freaking time there was an R1 release of Santa Sangre.