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Welcome to the Video Business Just Announced enewsletter, featuring notable title listings coming soon to stores. For more new releases, go to www.videobusiness.com/newreleases.

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Title Prebook Date Street Date MSRP
51 BIRCH STREET (IMAGE) now 8-14 DVD $19.99
Documentary: Filmmaker Dough Block explores his parents’ relationship. Bonuses: featurette, music video.

TAXI DRIVER LIMITED COLLECTOR’S EDITION (SONY) now 8-14 DVD $24.96
Drama: Martin Scorsese’s 1977 film stars Robert De Niro as a war veteran who tries to save a young prostitute. Bonuses: featurettes, documentaries, commentaries, photo galleries.

BODY ROCK (STARZ) now 8-21 DVD $14.98
Drama: The 1984 musical stars Lorenzo Lamas as Chilly D, a New Yorker who raps and dances with his gang, the Body Rocks.

FINAL DRAFT (GENIUS) 8-7 9-18 DVD $19.95
Thriller: James Van Der Beek stars as a screenwriter who begins to confuse fiction and reality. Bonuses: making-of featurette, music video.

AMERICAN CANNIBAL (LIFESIZE) 8-14 9-11 DVD $24.98
Documentary: Two TV writers and a producer try to create the ultimate reality show, in which starved contestants might resort to cannibalism to win the competition. Bonuses: commentaries, interviews, TV commercials, video shorts.

A FEW DAYS IN SEPTEMBER (KOCH LORBER) 8-14 9-11 DVD $26.98
Thriller: Juliette Binoche, John Turturro and Nick Nolte star in this DVD premiere about a group of people who know a cataclysmic event is about to happen and hope to profit from it.

BONDI TSUNAMI (MVD VISUAL) 8-14 9-18 DVD $19.95
Adventure: Four Japanese characters, including a surfer cowboy and a hitchhiking ghost, embark on a journey through Australia in this DVD premiere.

COLLIER & CO.: HOT PURSUIT! (WESTLAKE) 8-14 9-18 DVD $19.98
Action: John Schneider stars as a race car driver whose family is kidnapped in this DVD premiere. Bonuses: documentary, photo album, commentaries, deleted scenes.

THE HAUNTING OF #24 (MTI) 8-14 9-18 DVD $24.95
Horror: In this DVD premiere, a man starts to have nightmares that get worse and worse.

TWISTED TERROR COLLECTION (WARNER) 8-14 9-25 DVD $49.92
Horror: This six-disc set contains From Beyond the Grave, Someone’s Watching Me, The Hand, Eyes of a Stranger, Deadly Friend and Dr. Giggles, all of which also will be available individually for $14.97.

THE DEAD ONE (ECHO BRIDGE) 8-21 9-18 DVD $26.99
Thriller: That ’70s Show’s Wilmer Valderrama stars as a murdered man who becomes possessed by an evil god in this limited-release movie. Bonuses: interviews, gag reel, commentary, featurette, slide show, DVD-ROM, comic book.

BEYOND THE GATES (FOX) 8-22 9-18 DVD $27.98
Drama: In this limited-release movie, John Hurt stars as a Catholic priest during the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Bonuses: featurettes, commentaries.

DEAD IN THE WATER (INDICAN) 8-22 9-25 DVD $21.99
Horror: Women staying in a cabin by the lake are attacked by zombies.

JOHNNY KAPAHALA: BACK ON BOARD (DISNEY) 8-28 10-9 DVD $26.99
Family: In this sequel to Disney Channel original movie Johnny Tsunami, Johnny returns to Hawaii for his grandfather’s wedding. Bonuses: featurettes, music videos, interviews.

AND THERE YOU ARE (TLA) 9-4 10-2 DVD $19.99
Comedy: A successful business man looking for love only dates straight men with girlfriends in this DVD premiere. Bonuses: music video, deleted scenes.

ROOTS: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (WARNER) 9-4 10-9 DVD $119.82
Drama: A 10-disc box set of Roots, Roots: The Next Generations and Roots: The Gift. Bonuses: featurettes, interview.

MOUTH TO MOUTH (STRAND) 9-6 9-25 DVD $27.99
Comedy: A runaway joins a radical street collective but must pay a price for her rebellion in this limited-release movie. Bonuses: behind-the-scenes montage, trailers.

REIGN OVER ME (SONY) 9-6 10-9 DVD $28.95, BD $38.96
Drama: Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle star as two college friends who run into each other as adults in this $19.7 million-grossing movie.

RISE: BLOOD HUNTER (SONY) 9-6 10-9 DVD $24.96
Thriller: Lucy Liu stars as a reporter who discovers an underground cult whose members are turning up dead in this limited-release movie.

SURF’S UP (SONY) 9-6 10-9 DVD or PSP $28.95, BD $38.95
Comedy: In this $56 million-grossing animated movie, a penguin, voiced by Transformers’ Shia LaBeouf, enters a surfing competition. Bonuses: animated shorts, games, documentary, music video, commentary, bloopers.

CRAZY LOVE (MAGNOLIA) 9-18 10-16 DVD $26.98
Documentary: A married attorney and a beautiful young girl look back at their violent and psychologically complex affair.

RETURN TO HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (WARNER) 9-18 10-16 DVD $27.99, BD or HD $34.99
Horror: In this DVD premiere, a woman tries to find out who or what was responsible for her sister’s suicide. Bonuses: additional scenes, featurettes, music video; high-def versions also have Navigational Cinema.

HOSTEL PART II (SONY) 9-20 10-23 DVD or PSP $28.95, BD $38.96
Horror: In Eli Roth’s $17.5 million-grossing sequel, three Americans are lured to a hostel where they become pawns to the sick and privileged. Also released on that day will be Hostel: Director’s Cut (DVD $19.98, BD $28.95), which has the original ending. Bonuses: featurettes, blood and guts montage, deleted scenes, commentaries, interview; Blu-ray also has additional torture sequences.

I AM CUBA: THE ULTIMATE EDITION (NEW YORKER) 9-26 10-23 DVD $44.95
Foreign-language drama: A three-disc set of the 1964 film about the need for revolution; in Spanish with English subtitles. Bonuses: interviews, stills gallery, documentaries.

KING OF NEW YORK (LIONSGATE) 9-26 10-23 BD $29.99
Drama: Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne and Steve Buscemi star in this 1990 movie about a crime boss who wants to give his drug money to charity. Bonuses: commentaries, documentaries.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END (DISNEY) 10-9 12-4 DVD $34.99, BD $35.99
Action: In the Pirates franchise’s third film, which grossed $301.7 million in theaters, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) must be rescued from Davy Jones’ Locker. It also will be available as a single disc for $29.99. Bonuses: bloopers, behind-the-scenes documentaries, featurettes; Blu-ray also has BD-Java featurettes.

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND: 30TH ANNIVERSARY ULTIMATE EDITION (SONY) 10-11 11-13 DVD $39.95, BD $49.95
Sci-fi: Steven Spielberg’s 1977 movie will be released in all three versions: 1977’s original theatrical, 1980’s re-edited version and 1998’s director’s cut. Bonuses: interview, making-of documentary; Blu-ray also has storyboard to scene comparisons, featurette.

20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (SONY) 11-1 12-4 BD $28.95
Sci-fi: Ray Harryhausen’s 1957 classic about an American spaceship that brings back a curious substance from Venus. Bonuses: commentary.

BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (WARNER) 11-13 12-18 DVD $20.97
Sci-fi: Ridley Scott’s classic starring Harrison Ford is remastered and restored with additional scenes. Four-disc ($34.99) and five-disc ($78.92) versions also will be released on the same day. Bonuses: deleted scenes, documentary. Promotion: An Oct. 5 theatrical run in Los Angeles and New York.




Title Prebook Date Street Date MSRP
GOOSEBUMPS (FOX) 8-8 9-11 DVD $9.98 each
Horror: Three episodes from the kids’ show based on R.L. Stein’s books: Night of the Living Dummy, It Came From Beneath the Sink and Say Cheese and Die.

EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND: THE COMPLETE NINTH SEASON (HBO/WARNER) 8-14 9-18 DVD $44.98
Comedy: The last season of the CBS sitcom about a sportswriter, his family and his overbearing parents. Bonuses: documentary, commentaries, bloopers, deleted scenes.

METALOCALYPSE: SEASON ONE (WARNER) 8-14 10-2 DVD $29.98
Animated: A two-disc set of the Cartoon Network series about an insanely popular Norwegian heavy metal band. Bonuses: interviews, tour footage, guitar video, commentaries, deleted scenes.

MY NAME IS EARL: SEASON TWO (FOX) 8-29 9-25 DVD $49.98
Comedy: Jason Lee stars as a simpleton who tries to correct his past mistakes. Bonuses: deleted scenes, commentaries, featurettes, blooper reel.

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (PARAMOUNT) 10-16 11-20 HD $217.99
Sci-fi: The first season of the ’60s TV show arrives in a 10-disc high-def set. Bonuses: picture-in-picture commentaries, trivia, documentary, featurettes, game.




Title Prebook Date Street Date MSRP
ESPN ULTIMATE NASCAR VOLS. 1-4 (GENIUS) now 7-31 DVD $16.95 each
Sports: Four volumes that cover NASCAR’s rise in popularity, the cars, the drivers and the races. Bonuses: extended footage, interviews, featurettes, ad gallery.

OPEN WIDE: TOOTH SCHOOL INSIDE (SCHOLASTIC) 7-31 8-28 DVD $14.95
Children: Tiny teeth teach children about helping others as well as good dental hygiene.

BECOMING THE AUTHOR OF YOUR LIFE (PASSION RIVER) 8-7 9-4 DVD $24.99
Instructional: Author Ben Mikaelsen teaches aspiring writers how to realize their potential.

RUSH TO WAR (ECHO BRIDGE) 8-7 9-4 DVD $19.99
Documentary: Director Robert Taicher looks at the past 50 years of U.S. foreign policy leading up to 9/11. Bonuses: interview.

WAR AND CIVILIZATION (KOCH VISION) 8-14 9-11 DVD $39.98
Documentary: Walter Cronkite narrates this look at war, from the Stone Age to today, chronicling 5,000 years of combat.

WINDOWS VISTA FOR DUMMIES (RAZOR & TIE) 8-14 9-11 DVD $9.98
Instructional: A how-to program about the computer operating system.

HOLLY HOBBIE: BEST FRIENDS FOREVER (SONY) 8-16 9-18 DVD $12.99
Children: Holly befriends a misunderstood lady, who is known as the town witch. Bonuses: sing-along videos, games.

BROADWAY’S BEST AT POPS (WGBH BOSTON) 8-28 10-2 DVD $19.95
Music: Highlighting the past 35 years of Evening at Pops, this title has the Boston Pops Orchestra’s collaborations with all-stars from Broadway. Bonuses: interviews, extended performances.

A MUSICAL QUARTET (FIRST RUN) 9-18 10-23 DVD $69.95
Documentary: Four films about music: From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China, Small Wonders, High Fidelity: The Adventures of the Guarneri String Quartet and The Turandot Project.

PIXAR SHORT FILMS COLLECTION (DISNEY) 9-25 11-6 DVD $29.99
Animated: Thirteen of Pixar’s animated shorts, including Knick Knack and For the Birds. Bonuses: behind-the-scenes footage, featurette, commentary, animation tests.

THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME (WARNER) 10-9 11-13 DVD $19.97, HD or BD $28.99
Music: All 14 songs from Led Zeppin’s concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1973. A two-disc commemorative edition ($39.92) also will be available on that day. Bonuses: concert footage, extra performances, interview, TV footage, radio show.

REBELLION OF THOUGHT: POST-MODERNISM, THE CHURCH AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AUTHETIC FAITH (EXPLORATION FILMS) 10-16 11-13 DVD $22.95
Documentary: A critical look at the role of the church in post-modern culture.



Online Editor: Samantha Clark
VideoBusiness.com

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