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Title Prebook Date Street Date MSRP
DAD ON THE RUN (FIRST RUN) MORATORIUM

THE WOUNDS (FIRST RUN) MORATORIUM

HOPEVILLE (LIONSGATE) 7-2 7-29 DVD $19.98


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Title Prebook Date Street Date MSRP
LAST HOUR (CODEBLACK/VIVENDI) now 4-15 DVD $19.99
Thriller: After his father dies, a man receives a letter inviting him to an abandoned house in China. But when he gets there, he’s met by four other men who received the same letter, and they all find out they have one hour to live.

PURPLE HEART (INDICAN) now 5-13 DVD $24.99
Action: William Sadler and Mel Harris star in this movie about Marine Corps snipers.

NEO NED (CODEBLACK/VIVENDI) 4-8 5-6 DVD $19.99
Drama: A former Aryan Brotherhood member (Jeremy Renner) is placed in a mental hospital, where he falls in love with an African American woman (Gabrielle Union), who believes Hitler was reincarnated within her.

FRANK SINATRA & GENE KELLY COLLECTION (WARNER) 4-8 5-13 DVD $24.98
Collection: Includes On the Town, Take Me Out to the Ball Game and Anchors Aweigh.

FRANK SINATRA: THE EARLY YEARS (WARNER) 4-8 5-13 DVD $39.92
Collection: Includes Double Dynamite, It Happened in Brooklyn, Step Lively, Higher and Higher and The Kissing Bandit.

FRANK SINATRA: THE GOLDEN YEARS (WARNER) 4-8 5-13 DVD $39.92
Collection: Includes Marriage on the Rocks, None But the Brave, Some Came Running, The Man With the Golden Arm and The Tender Trap.

GRADUATION (MAGNOLIA) 4-15 5-13 DVD $26.98
Crime: Four high school friends plan a bank robbery in this movie starring Chris Lowell and Adam Arkin.

TIMBER FALLS (VIVENDI) 4-15 5-13 DVD $24.99
Thriller: Josh Randall and Brianna Brown star in this movie about a serial killer who harvests babies from the women he kidnaps.

NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM (WATER BEARER) 4-15 5-16 DVD $29.95
Drama: Two Orthodox Jewish men fall in love but try to hide their relationship from their strictly traditional families in this 1999 movie.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE BATHS DIRECTOR’S CUT (WATER BEARER) 4-15 5-16 DVD $29.95
Drama: A complete and unedited version of the 1975 movie about a piano player who develops a relationship with a club owner. Bonuses: featurette.

WEIR’S WAY (BFS) 4-22 5-20 DVD $32.98
Documentary: Tom Weir explores scenic Scotland in this two-disc set.

H.P. LOVECRAFT COLLECTION: VOL. 1-4 (MICROCINEMA) 4-29 5-27 DVD $19.95 each
Horror: Four films based on the writer’s work: Cool Air, Dreams of Cthulhu, Out of Mind and Pickman’s Model. Bonuses: short films, featurettes, interviews, commentaries.

VALENTINA’S TANGO (MTI) 4-29 5-27 DVD $24.95
Thriller: A professional dancer becomes obsessed with dancing the tango with her husband in this DVD premiere.

MAMA’S BOY (WARNER) 4-29 6-3 DVD $27.95
Comedy: Jon Heder and Anna Faris star in this limited-release movie about a 29-year-old man whose home with his mom is threatened when she decides to marry a self-help guru. Bonuses: commentary, additional scenes.

MEET THE SPARTANS (FOX) 5-7 6-3 DVD $29.98, BD $39.98
Comedy: The $38 million-grossing spoof will be released in rated and unrated versions. Bonuses: commentary, trivia game, gag reel, featurettes.

THE RED VIOLIN (LIONSGATE) 5-7 6-3 DVD $26.98
Drama: Released as part of the Meridian Collection, this 1998 movie stars Samuel L. Jackson as an appraiser who traces the history of a priceless violin across generations. Bonuses: commentary, featurettes.

ICONS OF ADVENTURE (SONY) 5-8 6-10 DVD $24.96
Collection: Two-disc set includes 1960 The Stranglers of Bombay, 1962 The Pirates of Blood River and 1964 The Devil-Ship Pirates. Bonuses: commentaries, cartoon, first chapter of 1951 Captain Kidd serial, short film.

THE SIGNAL (MAGNOLIA) 5-13 6-10 DVD $26.98, BD $34.98
Thriller: All forms of communication have been stopped due to an enigmatic transmission that causes murder and madness in this limited-release movie. Bonuses: alternate beginning, commentary, deleted scenes.

FOOL’S GOLD (WARNER) 5-13 6-17 DVD $28.98, BD $35.99
Comedy: Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star as a couple who rekindle their relationship while on a treasure hunt in this $67.1 million-grossing movie. Bonuses: featurette, gag reel.

THE CELEBRITY SERIES: SOPHIA LOREN COLLECTION (LIONSGATE) 5-14 6-10 DVD $39.98
Boxed set: Includes Girasoli, Carosello Napoletano, Attlia, It Flagello Di Dio and Madame Sans-Gene. Bonuses: featurette.

JUMPER (FOX) 5-14 6-10 DVD $34.98, BD $39.98
Sci-fi: Hayden Christensen stars as a man who can jump to different places around the world in the blink of an eye in this $77 million-grossing movie. A single-disc version also will be released on DVD at $29.98. Bonuses: commentary, featurettes, deleted scenes, PIP on BD.

WITLESS PROTECTION (LIONSGATE) 5-14 6-10 DVD $29.95, BD $39.99
Comedy: Larry the Cable Guy stars as a small-town sheriff who gets involved in a high-profile FBI case in this $4.1 million-grossing movie. Bonuses: featurettes; BD also has additional featurettes, blooper reel, deleted and extended scenes.

MEN IN BLACK (SONY) 5-15 6-17 BD $28.95
Comedy: The sci-fi movie starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as alien-seeking agents debuts on high-definition. Bonuses: commentary with director circling aspects on the screen, trivia game, game, alien subtitle track, technical commentary, extended/alternate scenes, original featurettes, scene editing workshop, visual effects demonstrations with commentary, storyboard comparisons, galleries, music video.

MY MOM’S NEW BOYFRIEND (SONY) 5-15 6-17 DVD $24.96
Comedy: A divorced woman (Meg Ryan) meets the man of her dreams (Antonio Banderas), but he turns out to be a notorious art thief. Bonuses: deleted scenes, featurette.

FUTURAMA: THE BEAST WITH A BILLION BACKS (FOX) 5-28 6-24 DVD $29.98
Animated: The second of the four planned feature-length adventures finds the crew in an interplanetary love story with a planet-sized creature with billions of probing tentacles. Bonuses: commentary, featurettes, videogame, videogame commentary, Blooperama, storyboard animatics, deleted scenes/storyboards, sneak peek at next movie.

RAISING JEFFREY DAHMER (LIONSGATE) 5-28 6-24 DVD $26.98
Drama: The family of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to understand what led to his crime spree. Bonuses: commentary.

THE SERIAL KILLER COLLECTION (LIONSGATE) 5-28 6-24 DVD $14.98
Collection: This three-disc set contains Ulli Lommel’s Zodiac Killer, Black Dahlia and Green River Killer.

HANNAH MONTANA & MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS 3D CONCERT (DISNEY) 7-8 8-19 DVD $34.99, BD $35.99
Music: The concert event that grossed $64.5 million in theaters includes a special performance by Jonas Brothers. Bonuses: featurette, sing-along mode, additional songs.




Title Prebook Date Street Date MSRP
AMONGST WOMEN (BFS) 4-22 5-20 DVD $34.98
Drama: A former soldier tries to keep his family together in this British miniseries.

HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, VOL. 2 (BCI) 4-22 5-27 DVD $26.98
Animated: This three-disc set contains 13 episodes from the 2002 TV series about He-Man, who continues his fight against Skeletor. Bonuses: “Morals” segment, animatics, art cards, sketch galleries, commentaries, scripts.

LIPSTICK JUNGLE: SEASON ONE (UNIVERSAL) 4-22 5-27 DVD $29.98
Drama: Based on the novel by Sex and the City’s Candace Bushnell, this NBC series starring Brooke Shields follows three successful career women. Bonuses: deleted scenes.

MONSTERQUEST: THE COMPLETE SEASON ONE (A&E) 4-29 5-27 DVD $39.95
Reality: This History Channel series explores the truth behind legendary monsters, from Bigfoot to aquatic dinosaurs.

JERICHO: THE SECOND SEASON (PARAMOUNT) 5-6 6-17 DVD $39.99
Drama: The last season of the series about a small Kansas town that is affected by a series of terrorist attacks. Bonuses: episode commentaries, series finale alternate ending, featurettes.

ELMO’S WORLD: SUMMER VACATION (GENIUS) 5-13 6-24 DVD $12.93
Children’s: Three episodes explore vacationing at the beach and demonstrating such summer skills as spreading a towel on the sand.

SHAGGY AND SCOOBY-DOO GET A CLUE VOL. 2 (WARNER) 6-3 7-8 DVD $14.97
Children’s: Episodes include “Smart House,” “Lightning Strikes Twice,” “Don’t Feel the Animals” and “Mystery of the Missing Mystery Solvers.”

BIRDS OF PREY: THE COMPLETE SERIES (WARNER) 6-24 7-29 DVD $39.98
Crime: The WB series about three female heroines who fight crime in the new Gotham City. Bonuses: shorts.

FREAKAZOID: SEASON 1 (WARNER) 6-24 7-29 DVD $26.99
Cartoon: The ’90s series is about a strange superhero who defends Washington D.C. Bonuses: documentary, archival promos, episode commentaries.

TINY TOON ADVENTURES SEASON 1, VOL. 1 (WARNER) 6-24 7-29 DVD $44.98
Cartoon: This four-disc set contains 35 episodes about Acme Acres Looniversity and the characters who attend. Bonuses: featurette.

64 ZOO LANE (PORCHLIGHT) 6-25 7-29 DVD $14.98
Children’s: A little girl who lives next to a zoo listens to stories told by the animals in this preschool series that airs on Nickelodeon Jr.’s Noggin network.

THE WIRE: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON (HBO/WARNER) 7-8 8-12 DVD $59.99
Drama: The final season of the investigation show. Bonuses: documentary, retrospective featurette, six commentaries.




Title Prebook Date Street Date MSRP
RAY HARRYHAUSEN INTERVIEWS (VISIONARY CINEMA) now now DVD $14.99
Documentary: This DVD premiere contains a 2004 interview with the stop-motion animator and filmmaker. Bonuses: slideshow.

KING OF THE CORN (DOCURAMA/NEW VIDEO) now 4-29 DVD $26.95
Documentary: Two friends on a journey to discover more about what they eat discover troubling things about genetically modified seeds and herbicides used in farms.

ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA (RAZOR & TIE) now 4-29 DVD $39.98
Music: Dweezil Zappa performs the songs by his father, Frank Zappa, in this two-disc set. Promotion: Zappa Plays Zappa tour starts in June.

CHRIS BARBER: AS WE LIKE IT (MVD) 4-8 5-13 DVD $19.95
Music: The jazz and blues legend performs his hits with an 11-piece band.

HDNET FIGHTS: FEDOR RETURNS (MAGNOLIA) 4-15 5-13 DVD $19.98
Sports: The Mixed Martial Arts No. 1 heavyweight fights Hong Man Choi on New Year’s Eve in Tokyo.

THANK YOU BILLY GRAHAM (MAGIC PLAY) 4-15 5-20 DVD $16.99
Religious: A tribute to one of the world’s most famous preachers, featuring Bono, George Strait, Faith Hill and others. Bonuses: audio CD, music video, featurettes. Promotion: a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse and Mercy Corps.

THE HUNT FOR JOHN WILKES BOOTH (A&E) 4-21 5-20 DVD $19.95
Documentary: This History Channel program shows the real story behind the conspiracy shown in National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

RESISTANCE[S] VOL. 2 (MICROCINEMA) 4-29 5-27 DVD $25
Collection: Experimental film and video art from the Middle East and Africa. Bonuses: interviews, bios.

POPEYE AND FRIENDS VOL. 1 (WARNER) 5-13 6-17 DVD $14.97
Cartoon: Includes eight color short films from the All-New Popeye Hour TV show.

POPEYE THE SAILOR 1938-1940 VOL. 2 (WARNER) 5-13 6-17 DVD $34.98
Cartoon: Two-disc set includes 31 theatrical black and white 7- to 10-minute shorts and one 20-minute color cartoon. Bonuses: commentaries by historians, animators and filmmakers; Popeye Popumentaries; featurettes; shorts; art gallery; storyboard reel; audio recording; audio interview.

SWEDEN ROCKS (EAGLE ROCK) 5-21 6-10 DVD $14.98
Music: Ted Nugent’s performance is filmed at the 2006 Sweden Rock Fesival.

I GOT THE FEELIN’: JAMES BROWN IN THE ’60S (SHOUT FACTORY) 7-8 8-5 DVD $39.98
Collection: This three-disc set contains The Night James Brown Saved Boston, James Brown Live at the Boston Garden April 1968 and Man to Man—James Brown Live at the Apollo Theater 1968. Bonuses: deluxe booklet, TV spots, interviews, radio audio, performance footage.



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