Month: November 2008 (Page 1 of 5)

‘RENT: Filmed Live on Broadway’ coming to Blu-ray

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release RENT: Filmed Live on Broadway on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on February 3, 2009. The Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning musical thrived for an impressive 12 years on Broadway, and on Sunday, September 7, 2008, Sony Pictures Releasing’s new alternative programming division THE HOT TICKET was there to capture the final Broadway performance. This special release is timed to the launch of the National Theater Tour of RENT, which begins January 2009 starring original Broadway cast members Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, and others.

Both the Blu-ray Disc and DVD are loaded with special features including numerous original featurettes. Special Features Exclusive to Blu-ray Include: “Home” – A Behind-the-Scenes look at the theater that was transformed into the home for RENT; “Casting” – Bernard Telsey talks about casting the show for the past 12 years; and Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation PSA.

The Blu-ray Disc version of RENT: Filmed Live on Broadway is BD-Live enabled, allowing users to get connected and go beyond the disc via an Internet-connected Blu-ray player.

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‘Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder’ heads to Blu-ray

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents the fourth and final feature-length “Futurama” movie, “Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder,” arriving in stores February 24, 2009 on DVD and Blu-ray. Guest stars include Penn Jillette, Snoop Dogg, Phil Hendrie, and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. In addition, fans of the series will finally discover the truth about “Number 9 Man,” a mysterious character from the earliest days of the series.

Synopsis:
In this all-new Futurama movie, mankind stands on the brink of a new Green Age. But ancient forces of darkness, three years older than time itself, have returned to wreak destruction. Even more shocking: Bender’s in love with a married fembot, and Leela’s on the run from the law – Zapp Brannigan’s law! Fry is the last hope of the universe… Could this be the end of the Planet Express crew forever?

Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder is packed with bonus features, including audio commentary from Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, writers and animators, a making-of mockumentary, deleted scenes, How to Draw Futurama, “Bender’s Movie Theater Etiquette,” “Zapp Brannigan’s Guide to Making Love at a Woman” and much more.

The Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder Blu-ray Disc will include all of the special features of the standard def version in high definition (except the Storyboard Animatic: Into the Wild Green Yonder, Part 1 and Matt Groening and David X. Cohen in Space! which are presented in standard def) as well as:

Video Picture–In–Picture commentary by Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche, Michael Rowe, Lee Supercinski, Patric M. Verrone and Peter Avanzino.

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New releases for November 25, 2008

Here are the new releases for November 25, 2008:

ABBA: The Movie
B.B. King: Live
Barenaked Ladies: Talk to the Hand Live
Beckett
Flesh For The Beast
Fred Claus
George Carlin: It’s Bad For Ya
Hall & Oates: Live at the Troubadour
Hancock
Heart: Dreamboat Annie Live
Jarhead
Jimi Hendrix: Live At Woodstock
The Kingdom
Meet Dave
O.A.R.: Live From Madison Square Garden
Ricky Martin: Live Black & White Tour
Shadow: Dead Riot
Space Chimps
Sting: Bring on the Night
Superman: Doomsday
Talento de Barrio

Via VideoETA

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