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The five-time Academy Award winning classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest will make its Blu-ray debut on July 15 from Warner Home Video. The psychological drama that swept all five major categories at the Academy Awards including Best Picture, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Director and Adapted Screenplay stars Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Danny DeVito. The Blu-ray release will include a 36-page collectible book that includes actor and director biographies, film trivia and more.

All bonus materials on the Standard Definition will be included on the Blu-ray version which is scheduled for release on July 15, 2008.

Blu-ray Special Features:

Theatrical Trailer

Behind the Story:
Commentary by Director Milos Forman, Producers Michael Douglas and Saul Zaentz
Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Behind-the-scenes documentary)

Additional Footage:
McMurphy and Dr. Spivey
Chief Captured between Mops
Shaving Chief
Who’s the top loony here?
McMurphy Meets Nurse Ratched
First Group Therapy Session
A bunch a chickens at a pecking party
Mr. McMurphy, where are your clothes?

Release date: June 15, 2008

Warner Bros. today announced BBC High Definition Natural History Collection, an 8 disc Blu-ray set that includes Planet Earth Episodes 1-11, Wild China Episodes 1-6, Galapagos Episodes 1-3 and Ganges Episodes 1-3. The set is scheduled for release on July 22, 2008. Don’t forget to check out the cover art.

Planet Earth, with an unprecedented production budget of $25 million, takes you to places you have never seen before. Five years in production, over 2000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, shot entirely in high definition.

An exotic fusion of natural history and Oriental adventure, Wild China is a series of journeys through four startlingly different landscapes, each based around the travels of a real historical character. Journey across China from the glittering peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see, in pioneering images, a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.

The inspiration for Darwin ‘s theory of evolution, the Galápagos Islands are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of many species of plants and animals. As the western islands rise up from the sea offering a chance of life, the eastern islands sink back beneath the waves guaranteeing only death. Between the two are the middle islands; fertile, lush land in its prime that contains an incredible diversity of life.

Ganges tells the story of the most extraordinary river in the world . Human life and nature bustle along her river banks, in a kaleidoscope of color and energy. From man-hunting tigers to giant lizards, here the wildlife is as diverse as the people. Traversing from the peaks of the Himalayas through frenetic cities to the teeming delta where the river meets the sea, this is a vibrant and colorful look at how the Ganges shaped the wildlife, culture and beliefs of India.

Sony announced today that the box-office hit “21” will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 22, 2008. Bonus Blu-ray features shared with the DVD version include audio commentary with director Robert Luketic and cast along with three featurettes: “21: The Advantage Player,” “Basic Strategy: A Complete Film Journal,” and “Money Plays: A Tour of the Good Life”. Exclusive to the Blu-ray version is the BD-Java game “21: Virtual Blackjack.”

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

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
Mrs. Doubtfire
Shinobi
Untraceable
Youth Without Youth

Via EngadgetHD

The critically acclaimed, Academy Award nominated film Persepolis arrives on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on June 24, 2008. Based on the autobiographical graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi and directed and written by Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, Persepolis won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and was named Best Animated Feature by the New York Film Critics Circle.

Persepolis is the story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of nine year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power – forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the “social guardians” and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden.

DVD/Blu-Ray Bonus Features Include:

English Language version of the film featuring the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Sean Penn, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands and Iggy Pop

“The Hidden Side of Persepolis” Featurette: The making of the French version

“Behind the Scenes of Persepolis”:  The Recording of the English version

Audio Commentary by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud & Chiara Mastoianni on Select Scenes

Animated Scene Comparisons with Commentary by Marjane Satrapi

2007 Cannes Film Festival Press Conference Q & A with Cast and Crew