The Weinstein Company has announced today that Death Proof and Planet Terror (released theatrically as Grindhouse) will be released on Blu-ray on December 16, 2008.
Grindhouse was a box-office dissapointment (apparently because it was 3+ hours long) but gained a larger audience when it was released (as two separate movies) on DVD.
Planet Terror was directed by Robert Rodriguez and Death Proof was directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Sony Pictures has announced that Open Season 2 will head direct to DVD and Blu-ray on January 27, 2009. The original movie was released theatrically and raked in $189MM worldwide. I’m surprised Sony has decided not to release the sequel on the big screen. Here’s hoping this isn’t an early indication that the sequel won’t live up to the original’s quality.
The Weinstein Company and Genius Products are prepping three horror/action movies for Halloween. Making their Blu-ray debuts are Diary of the Dead, Halloween and Hell Ride.
George A. Romero’s DIARY OF THE DEAD on Blu-ray will include commentary by Writer/Director George Romero, Director Of Photography Adam Swica and Editor Michael Doherty, Character Confessionals, The First Week, The Roots, Familiar Voices, For The Record: The Making Of Diary Of The Dead (3 segments total) and the MySpace Contest Winners. The disc is presented in English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, English 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital with English CC and Spanish subtitles.
HALLOWEEN COLLECTOR’S EDITION, Director Rob Zombie’s re-imagination of the original slasher film, will arrive on Blu-ray as a two-disc set from Dimension Films and Genius Products. The Collector’s Edition will include commentary by Writer/Director Rob Zombie, deleted scenes with optional commentary, alternate endings with optional commentary, bloopers, The Many Masks Of Michael Myers, Re-Imagining Halloween, Meet The Cast, Casting Sessions, Screen Test for Scout Taylor-Compton, the theatrical trailer and Blu-ray Live. The discs are presented in English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD and English 5.1 Dolby Digital with English CC and Spanish subtitles.
An Official Selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the HELL RIDE disc includes extensive bonus materials including commentary by Writer/Director/Producer Larry Bishop and Director of Photography Scott Kevan, The Making Of Hell Ride, The Babes Of Hell Ride, The Guys Of Hell Ride, The Choppers Of Hell Ride and the video diary of Michael Madsen. The disc is presented in English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, English 5.1 Dolby Digital with English CC and Spanish subtitles.
Diary of the Dead and Halloween will be released on October 21. Hell Ride will arrive in stores one week later on October 28.
Warner Music Group announced today that ‘War: Greatest Hits – Live’ will debut on Blu-ray on October 14, day-and-date with the standard DVD.
The footage was shot during the band’s most recent world tour and was captured entirely with high definition cameras and will feature nearly two dozen songs.
Here are this week’s new releases:
The Alps: Climb of Your Life
Baby Mama
Barry Manilow: Manilow Live!
Cool Hand Luke
Day Watch
The Fall
The Forbidden Kingdom
Grey’s Anatomy: Season 4
How The West Was Won
Jerry Maguire
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Night Watch
Rudy
Smallville: The Complete Seventh Season
Superman Returns
Image Entertainment is set to debut Stuart Gordon’s (Re-Animator) Stuck on DVD and Blu-ray October 14. Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, and Russell Hornsby star in the darkly humorous psychological thriller about a young woman who commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
The extensive bonus features on the two-disc Stuck Blockbuster Exclusive DVD include audio commentary from Director Stuart Gordon, Writer John Strysik and Mena Suvari. Also included are three featurettes: Chante’s Inferno, a behind-the-scenes featurette with actual news footage of the incident the film is based on; The Gory Details which highlights the impressive special effects and make-up from the film; and Driving Forces, a video interview with Gordon and Strysik.
The Stuck Blu-ray disc will include all the bonus material from the two-disc Blockbuster Exclusive DVD and will be available at all retail outlets, which will also offer single disc DVD version with the trailer as an added bonus.
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions debuts in stores everywhere on DVD and Blu-ray September 30 from Image Entertainment. Narrated by award-winning actor Gary Sinise (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump), this special edition, 4-disc collectible set features almost four hours of content not seen in the television broadcast, a rare, exclusive interview with the first-man-on-the-moon, Neil Armstrong, as well as a 14-page collectible booklet featuring a timeline of major revolutionary NASA events, trivia and archival photos.Â
To celebrate 50 years of achievements, the Discovery Channel and NASA partnered together to reveal the heroic struggles, triumphs and tragedies in a bold chapter of human history. Footage was transferred from NASA’s own secret film vaults, finally making it available to the public.  Along with candid interviews of the people who made it all happen, hundreds of hours of never-before-seen film footage from the NASA archives, including sequences on board the actual spacecraft in flight, have been carefully restored, edited and compiled for this collection.Â
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Here are this week’s new releases:
Black Mask
Cirque du Soleil: Corteo
Eraser
Every Which Way But Loose
The Gauntlet
The Invincible Iron Man
Marine Aquarium
Married Life
Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow
Outbreak
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
Transformers
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
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Vanguard Animation’s ‘Space Chimps’ is rocketing its way onto DVD and Blu-ray on November 25th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Starz Media. Space Chimps centers on the story of Ham III, the grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, who is recruited to join two NASA chimps, the fearless Lieutenant Luna and the uptight Titan, on an important mission to retrieve a wayward craft. However, things get a little hairy when they find out that they were sent on a space ship with no plans to return to earth. Ham III has to muster the courage and channel his inner chimp to get them home, while saving the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from their evil dictator.
The Space Chimps BD release will be authored in BD-Java with AVC (MPEG 4) compression on a single-layer 25 GB disc presented in widescreen format (2.35:1 aspect ratio) with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio and Spanish/French 5.1 Dolby Digital audio with English & Spanish subtitles. The Space Chimps BD includes all of the standard-def DVD bonus features, plus the BD-exclusive “Trivia Blast Off†trivia track featuring on-screen facts about outer space, space travel and the Space Program.
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