Paramount done with HD DVD next week FEB. 28 | The March 4 releases Into the Wild and Things We Lost in the Fire will be Paramount Home Entertainment’s last titles in the HD DVD format, the studio confirmed. The studio pulled the plug on the HD DVD versions of other titles that had been announced for the format, including DreamWorks Animation’s Bee Movie (pictured), due March 11, and Sweeney Todd, due April 1. Their standard DVD versions will come out as planned.
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FEB. 29 | I Am Legend will mark Warner Home Video’s second DVD release with an embedded digital copy, as the studio and others experiment with files for a widening selection of media platforms. Like Warner’s first file-embedded DVD, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Legend will carry the embedded file only on its special-edition standard DVD, due for release March 18.
FEB. 29 | TV writers may have ended their strike and gone back to business, but TV DVD titles will likely feel the lingering effects of the prolonged work stoppage. Fewer completed scripts mean certain disc sets will be a few episodes—or more—short of a full season when they are released.
FEB. 29 | Anchor Bay Entertainment will begin its exclusive U.S. DVD agreement with sister company Overture Films by releasing the Diane Keaton-starring Mad Money on May 13. The comedy, which also stars Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah, is Anchor Bay’s largest release ever, from both a box-office and marketing standpoint.
FEB. 29 | Love in the Time of Cholera is getting a second chance to click with audiences, courtesy of leading man Javier Bardem. New Line Home Entertainment has switched packaging and marketing materials for the March 18 DVD release to spotlight Bardem, who won an Oscar for his supporting turn in Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men.
FEB. 29 | FROM TWICE: Dissident investor and Ultimate Electronics owner Mark Wattles wants to unseat all 12 of Circuit City’s sitting directors and replace them with the five board candidates he nominated earlier this week.
After two attempts at a direct-to-consumer model, the Internet video company is now offering a turnkey solution for business customers looking to set up their own Web TV channels.
DVDIALOG Laurence Lerman, Product Digest Editor, Video Business February 28, 2008 Just a Mongolian Love Song
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MEDIA WONK Paul Sweeting, Editor, ContentAgenda February 28, 2008 From Y2K to DTV
Standing behind a podium equipped with a countdown clock to next February's cut-off o... More
DISC DISH Samantha Clark, Managing editor and online editor, Video Business February 26, 2008 No HD DVD on There Will Be Blood?
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BETWEEN THE LINES Marcy Magiera, Editor in chief, Video Business February 22, 2008 Blu-ray should be cooking by Q4
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Cops turns 20 Fox celebrated the Cops: 20th Anniversary DVD with creator John Langley at the Auto Club 500 at the California Speedway on Feb. 24. At the event, Langley was named an honorary race official.
Blood + at WonderCon Sony hosted a Blood + panel with the voice actors and crew at WonderCon, which took place in San Francisco Feb. 22-24.
Last Emperor event Image held a reception and screening for The Last Emperor at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre on Feb. 19. Emperor will be released by Criterion as a 20th anniversary special edition DVD on Feb. 26.
2/22/2008 OPINION: Blu blues Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda FEB. 22 | The format war has been a remarkable story to cover, not least because it’s a story of how individual companies, pursuing narrow, often parochial interests, led to the industry’s adopting what—I’ll now confess—I’ve always believed is the wrong format. More
1/11/2008 LETTER TO THE EDITOR: HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Steve Bliss, Microcinema DVD, Albuquerque, N.M.JAN. 11 | I was a little surprised by Warner’s decision to abandon HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray Disc, but there is no question about its motives. More