More Articles By Laurence Lerman
- 300 : The art of war
JULY 26 | COMIC-CON: We tracked down 300 director Zack Snyder a few weeks back as he was scouting locations for the upcoming Watchmen and got him on the phone to speak about the DVD of 300 , which Warner is issuing on Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD/Combo and standard formats on July 31. We also managed to sneak in a few questions about the much buzzed-about screen adaptation of Watchmen , Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ famed 1986 graphic novel. More - Harryhausen returns—in color
JULY 26 | COMIC-CON: On the occasion of the release of a 50th Anniversary DVD Edition of the 1957 sci-fi flick 20 Million Miles to Earth , VB spoke to special effects legend Ray Harryhausen, the movie magician behind the rendering of the film’s remarkable stop-motion monster, the Ymir, who crashes down on Earth from Venus and wreaks some serious havoc in The Eternal City, Rome. More - Craven has Eyes for a franchise
JULY 26 | COMIC-CON: VB spoke with legendary horror filmmaker Wes Craven about his latest chiller, The Hills Have Eyes 2 , which was released on DVD last week. Craven penned the screenplay for Hills 2 with his son, Jonathan Craven, making the film’s production a family affair of sorts, albeit a far less ruthless one than the clans in the Hills franchise are forced to endure. More - Teenage Mutant Highlander Eastman
JULY 26 | COMIC-CON: Al ong with an immortal Scotsman and a quartet of anthropomorphic reptiles, comic book artist and producer Kevin Eastman is standing tall this summer as two projects with which he is intimately involved— Highlander: The Search for Vengeance and TMNT (otherwise known as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles )—are making their DVD debuts. More - Shout! Factory expands family programs
JULY 16 | Los Angeles-based Shout! Factory is expanding its library of children’s and family animated content with two new deals. More - Team Baby names Lee Corso spokesman
JUNE 28 | Houston-based children’s sports production company Team Baby Entertainment signed ESPN’s popular College GameDay show star Lee Corso as spokesman for the company’s NCAA-themed DVDs. More - Mill Creek launches indie line
Minneapolis-based supplier Mill Creek Entertainment will premiere a new brand called Reel Indies, which will showcase independent feature films and documentaries. More - TCM partners with Movies Unlimited catalog
Philadelphia-based retailer/direct-response company Movies Unlimited and cable channel Turner Classic Movies have teamed to form a co-branded DVD consumer catalog. More - Vivid to release on both high-def formats
Vivid Entertainment will release the first adult title on both HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc on March 28. Debbie Does Dallas … Again will be priced at $39.95 on both formats. More - UrbanWorks takes stage with Talbert
UrbanWorks Entertainment, a division of First Look Home Entertainment, has partnered with playwright David E. Talbert for multi-platform distribution of eight filmed versions of Talbert’s stage plays on DVD and TV over the next two years. More - Criterion shines light on obscure titles
The Criterion Collection will launch “Eclipse,” a new line of DVD titles featuring lost, forgotten and “overshadowed” (hence the moniker) films by the world’s foremost directors. More - Phoenix flies with Internet marketing
Fledgling indie Phoenix Entertainment Group is taking wing by focusing on a handful of proven urban product categories—martial arts flicks, Latin genre entries and hip-hop-themed titles—and giving them a thoroughly modern viral marketing campaign and digital sales push. More - Remembering Robert Altman
Right at the top, I’ll admit I was never a huge fan of director Robert Altman , who died last week at the age of 81. But with the arrival of video, my acceptance and respect for Altman was recalibrated and quickly jump-started. More - Wallpaper high-def-style
DVD International, a division of DVD Acquisition and Development Group, is taking its wallpaper-style DVDs to high-definition. More - Two towers in four configurations
Following its multi-platform release of Mission: Impossible III , Paramount Home Entertainment will issue Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center on all three DVD platforms—standard, HD DVD and Blu-ray—on Dec. 12 (prebook Oct. 31). More - Writers, Depp jewels of Pirates Chest
Johnny Depp and screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio will be the stars of the supplements on the Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest DVDs. More - Indie filmmaker goes on Head trip
Independent filmmaker Lance Weiler is doing a tour of indie video stores to promote his latest title, even though the disc doesn’t street until Sept. 26. More - Castlevania takes bite into DVD
The Konami videogame series Castlevania will be made into a DVD premiere movie before becoming a TV series and theatrical feature. More - HBO takes Sopranos to HD DVD
The Mob is coming to HD DVD. HBO Video has set The Sopranos: Season 6, Part 1 as the studio’s first title to be released on the high-definition format. More - Retailers can profit in gay niche
LAS VEGAS— Maria Lynn, president of Wolfe Video, told about 30 attendees at seminar “Gay Movies: Why Stores Have Embraced This Category and How You Can Profit Too ” that retailers should approach gay films as they would any niche market, creating dedicated sections that show support of the genre. More
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