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Five Blu-ray titles from Discovery and Animal Planet announced

On April 7, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet will release five new Blu-ray titles, covering topics ranging from Elephants to Abraham Lincoln.

Africa’s Elephant Kingdom features an extended elephant family that embarks upon a life-and-death journey across the vast African plains.

Mars: The Quest For Life is an all-new, one-hour behind-the-scenes look at the Phoenix lander. The documentary follows the man in charge, Peter Smith, as he and his team struggle to defy the odds and get Phoenix safely onto the surface of Mars.

Gettysburg: The Battle And The Address: As the Civil War raged on, how did Abraham Lincoln find a way to guide the nation through its darkest hour? This is the story of the most famous speech in American history: Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

The Beauty of Snakes celebrates some of the world’s most spectacular snakes from the majestic king cobra to the tiny thread snake, the desert horned viper to the banded sea krait.

The World’s Biggest And Baddest Bugs, hosted by entomologist Ruud Kleinpaste, follows Ruud as he embarks on an entomological odyssey around the globe in search of the ultimate biggest and baddest bugs.

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New releases for March 2, 2009

Here are the new Blu-ray Disc releases for Tuesday, March 2, 2009:

Australia
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
I’ve Loved You So Long
In the Electric Mist
The Silence Of The Lambs
Stargate: The Ark of Truth/Continuum
Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic
Wonder Woman

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New releases for February 24, 2009

Here are the new Blu-ray Disc releases for Tuesday, February 24, 2009.

The French Connection
French Connection II
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
The Matador
Ronin
Samurai 7 Box Set
Sex Drive
Vanishing Point
What Just Happened

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‘Monsters’s Inc.’ and ‘A Bug’s Life’ coming to Blu-ray May 19

Disney has confirmed that both “Monster’s Inc.” and “A Bug’s Life” will make their Blu-ray Disc debut May 19; ten days, conveniently, before the theatrical release of Pixar’s latest “Up” — which just so happens to be tied directly to the releases, with each including free movie bucks for a screening of Up.

Both films will each be presented in their original aspect ratios (2.35:1 A Bug’s Life, 1.85:1 Monster’s Inc.) in 1080p video with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Both discs will also feature a digital copy of each respective film that you can watch on a portable device such as an iPod, BD-Live access, and the brand new Filmmakers’ Roundtable.

In addition, A Bug’s Life will include a new bonus feature: an Original Story Treatment, while Monster’s Inc. will include the all-new “Ride and Go Seek: Building Monstropolis in Tokyo for Monster’s Inc.”

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‘Let the Right One In’ scares up a Blu-ray release

The multi-award Winning vampire tale, “Let the Right One In” is set to make its DVD And Blu-ray Disc debut March 10 from Magnolia Home Entertainment.

Based on the best-selling novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In weaves friendship, rejection and loyalty into a disturbing and darkly atmospheric, yet poetic and unexpectedly tender tableau of adolescence. Helmed by Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In is the first release of the Magnet Six Shooter film series, a collection of six high-quality films that aims to bring fans a mix of the most intelligent, genre-bending titles available.

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Criterion announces Akira Kurosawa’s “Ran”

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa’s late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power. Ran stars Tatsuya Nakadai with music by Toru Takemitsu. Ran will be available on May 12, 2009.

Blu-ray Special Edition Features:
– Restored high-definition digital transfer, with an uncompressed stereo soundtrack
– Audio commentary featuring film scholar Stephen Prince
– An appreciation of the film by director Sidney Lumet
– A.K., a 74-minute film by director Chris Marker
– A 30-minute documentary on the making of Ran, from the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create
– Video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai
– Theatrical trailers
– PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Wilmington and an interview with Kurosawa

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‘Dr. Strangelove’ coming to Blu-ray

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced today that Stanley Kubrick’s satirical comedy “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” will make its Blu-ray debut June 16, 2009. The 45th Anniversary release will feature a 32-page booklet included in a deluxe Blu-ray book package.

Peter Sellers stars in this dark comedy as British Exchange Officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and Dr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-bound ex-Nazi nuclear war expert. The story follows paranoid U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper who sends bombers to destroy the U.S.S.R. which will unleash a cataclysmic series of events ultimately leading to total nuclear Armageddon.

Blu-ray special features include:

– The Cold War: Picture-in-Picture and Pop-Up Trivia Track
– Four Documentaries
– Best Sellers Or: Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove Remembered
– Interviews with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott
– And Much more

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New releases for February 17, 2009

Here are this week’s new Blu-ray Disc releases:

Body of Lies
Capote / In Cold Blood
Changeling
Gandhi
High School Musical
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Kramer Vs. Kramer
The Midnight Meat Train
One Long Night
The Passion of The Christ
Quarantine

Via VideoETA

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