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Please Give DVD and Blu-ray Release Date

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment places human nature under a microscope when Nicole Holofcener’s (Friends with Money, Lovely & Amazing) Please Give debuts on high-definition Blu-ray Disc on October 19, 2010. Kate (Catherine Keener, Oscar® Nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Capote, 2005 and Oscar® Nominee for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Being John Malkovich, 1999) and Alex (Oliver Platt, Frost/Nixon, The Bronx Is Burning) star as a couple living in New York with their daughter Abby (Sarah Steele, Spanglish, The Lucky Ones) who decide to take over the apartment next door to ease the growing pressure on their marriage, business and family. When their elderly neighbor Andra (Ann Morgan Guilbert, Grumpier Old Men, Sour Grapes) and her two loyal granddaughters, Rebecca (Rebecca Hall, Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Prestige) and Mary (Amanda Peet, Syriana, The Whole Nine Yards), don’t see eye to eye with Kate and Alex, this quirky comedic tale of human foibles takes an unpredictable turn. Since its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Please Give continues to captivate audiences with its A-list ensemble cast.


Special Features Include:

•Behind the Scenes of Please Give
•Outtakes
•Nicole Holofcener Q&A Clips
•BD-Live™ (Blu-ray™ only)

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Fantasia & Fantasia 2000:2-Movie Collection Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray Release Date

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 — the magical, animated musical masterpiece and the contemporary classic inspired by it — debut in highly anticipated Blu-ray High Definition and DVD 2-Movie Collection Special Editions on November 30. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is opening the Disney vault to be able to present these two films that broke the boundaries of imagination in the highest quality possible.

The Fantasia and Fantasia 2000: 2-Movie Collection Special Edition will be available in a 4-disc Blu-ray Combo Pack ($45.99 SRP) and a 2-Disc DVD ($39.99 SRP) for a very limited time only. The Blu-ray transformation of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 will reveal the magic, music and majesty of both films as never before experienced, with state-of-the-art picture restoration of the original Fantasia and pristine 7.1 Digital Theater System Hi-Def Surround Sound. The Blu-ray combo pack is a tremendous value featuring, in addition to the two films in two different formats, a wealth of bonus features.

Among those Blu-ray special features is the highly requested Academy Award® nominated short Destino. Available for the first time ever on Blu-ray, the seven minute film is the result of a unique collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali begun in 1946, but put on hold due to studio financial concerns. In 2003, Roy E. Disney worked with a team of modern day animators to complete the film as a tribute to Walt’s pioneering artistic vision. Accompanying the highly anticipated short is an all-new feature length documentary entitled “Dali & Disney: A Date With Destino,” which explores the origins of the relationship between Disney and Dali, their collaboration on Destino, and ultimately how the film came to fruition so many years after its inception.


Fantasia DVD Bonus Features:

  • New Audio Commentary with Disney historian Brian Sibley
  • Disney Family Museum (running time: approx. 5 minutes) – Walt’s daughter Diane Disney-Miller takes viewers on a tour of the new Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, California featuring a very large exhibit on Fantasia and most importantly, the Schultheis notebook with long lost Fantasia production notes found in more recent years in the walls of a convent.

    • Fantasia Blu-ray Bonus Features:

    Everything on the DVD plus:

  • Disney View – This viewing mode maximizes the Blu-ray viewing experience with a 16 x 9 aspect ratio. Original artwork created by a Disney artist, in a style that complements the beauty of the film.
  • The Shultheis Notebook: A Disney Treasure (running time: approx. 14 minutes) –An in depth look at the recently discovered Schultheis Notebook. The detailed log was created by Herman Schultheis, an effects man on Fantasia, and intricately breaks down the film from a technical view. Many of the special effects used in Fantasia were a mystery to modern day animators until this notebook was recovered.
  • Interactive Art Gallery and Screensavers – Viewers can explore the artwork of Fantasia as never before, in HD resolution with unique Blu-ray interactivity and programming.
  • Audio Commentaries from Fantasia Legacy Collection

    • Fantasia 2000 DVD Bonus Features:

  • Musicana – Walt’s Inspiration for a Sequel (running time: approx. 10 minutes) – This documentary reveals rarely-seen art created for Musicana, a late 1970’s project intended as a Fantasia sequel with a focus on exploring other cultures via their greatest musical compositions. Viewers are offered a look at the origins of pieces that were started by Walt, such as “The Emperor and the Nightingale” which was then taken over by a very young John Lasseter. Ultimately, Musicana was stopped to begin production on “Mickey’s Christmas Carol,” but the memories of this piece still live on with the animators who conceived it.

    • Fantasia 2000 Blu-ray Bonus Features:
    Everything on the DVD plus:

  • Dali & Disney: A Date With Destino (running time: 82 minutes) – This feature length documentary explores the collaborative relationship between Walt Disney and Salvador Dali, revealing how and why the Destino short came to fruition under the lead of Roy E. Disney in 2003 so many years after its inception in 1946.
  • Destino (running time: approx. 7 minutes) – The legacy of Walt Disney and Salvador Dali lives on in this highly anticipated short film.
  • Disney’s Virtual Vault — BD-Live Feature
  • Audio Commentaries from Fantasia Legacy Collection (total running time: 84 minutes)

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    Disney Hosts Outdoor World Premiere of Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue!!

    Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

    Tinker Bell, Rosetta, Iridessa and Fawn were there live to greet all of their fairy friends. They were joined by film talent Mae Whitman (voice of Tinker Bell), Raven-Symonѐ, Michael Sheen, Pamela Adlon, Rob Paulsen, Dominika Paleta, director Brad Raymond & producer Helen Kalafatic as well as Jason Earles (Hannah Montana), Billy Bush, Gilles Marini (Brothers & Sisters), Chris Cornell (Soundgarden), Mark Feuerstein (Royal Pains), Ariel Winter (Modern Family), Rick Fox (Ugly Betty), Zendaya Coleman (Shake It Up!), Roshon Fegan (Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam) and Landon Pigg.



    The very special outdoor premiere of Disney’s All-New Movie Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue was screened for more than 1,000 families in the local Los Angeles area. The event featured a dozen of L.A.’s most popular food trucks, including Top Chef alum Brian Hill’s gourmet food truck, along with a bevy of activity stations for the kids – including face painting, Tink tattoos, coloring stations and Radio Disney, who emceed the event. All fairy attendees received Tinker Bell blankets, Tinker Bell glow sticks, Fairy wings and enjoyed many Fairy activities.



    Tinker Bell, the world’s favorite fairy, will be spreading her magic for audiences of all ages, as the worlds of fairies and humans converge for the very first time in Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue. An all-new original full-length CG animated film featuring breathtaking animation, spectacular music and an all-star cast of voice talents debuts September 21st on Blu-ray Combo Pack (includes Blu-ray and bonus DVD of the film and movie download) and DVD.

    Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Movie Premiere

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    Lake Placid 3 DVD Release Date

    Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

    The monster crocodiles return in a frightening new installment of the successful horror franchise when the unrated Lake Placid 3 debuts on DVD October 26 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Colin Ferguson (TV’s “Eureka”), Yancy Butler (Kickass), Kacey Barnfield (Resident Evil: Afterlife), and Michael Ironside (Terminator Salvation) star in the latest incarnation of the campy, blood-thirsty horror series. Fans will eat up the steamy, sexy and gory Lake Placid 3 when it arrives on DVD for $24.96 SRP, boasting unrated, unreleased scenes suitable only for adult audiences.

    Get ready for a living, feeding nightmare when a swarm of gigantic crocodiles terrorizes a secluded country lake. When local wildlife is brutally mauled and campers are reduced to carcasses, biologist Nathan Bickerman (Colin Ferguson) knows a voracious predator is on the loose. So does a feisty female hunting guide (Yancy Butler) out for her next trophy. As the body count rises, the local sheriff tries to keep things quiet and keep the tourists coming. But when the horrifying, hulking truth emerges, can anyone stop these cold blooded killers before they claim their next victim? Lake Placid 3 is pulse pounding, adrenaline pumping, pure horror film fun.


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    FlashForward DVD Clips

    Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

    To celebrate the release of FLASHFORWARD THE COMPLETE SERIES on DVD today here are a few DVD clips.

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    Joseph Fiennes

    Suspect Zero

    Bloopers

    A Day at the Park – On Location

    Crash Forward – On Location

    Working with Yuko

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    DVD and Blu-ray Releases, August 31,2010

    Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

    THE MIDDLE SEASON ONE



    Welcome to Orson, Indiana, home of the world’s largest polyurethane cow and TV’s funniest new family: the Hecks. Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond) makes a triumphant return to the family sitcom as Frankie Heck, a harried wife and working mother of three who uses her wry wit and sense of humor to try to get her family through each day intact. Neil Flynn (Scrubs) stars as her sardonic husband Mike, helping Frankie navigate hanging-on-to-middle-class life without a GPS app. The series also stars Charlie McDermott (The Office, Frozen River), Eden Sher (Sons & Daughters, Weeds), Atticus Shaffer (Hancock, The Class) and Chris Kattan (Saturday Night Live). 

    Release Date: August 31, 2010

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    FLASH FORWARD THE COMPLETE SERIES



    Chaos reigns in Los Angeles after a mysterious event causes everyone in the world to lose consciousness at exactly the same moment. Was it an act of nature? Something man made gone wrong, or something even more sinister? Whatever it was, every person on Earth blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds and sees a series of events from their own future, taking place on April 29, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. For some the future will be joyous and hopeful; for others, shockingly unexpected; and for a few, it simply doesn’t seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person’s life in one way or another and poses the questions: Can destiny be changed? And by changing just one destiny, what effect would that have on those of others?

    Release Date: August 31, 2010

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    BEATDOWN



    Respected street fighter Brandon (Youngblood) finds himself the latest target of the dangerous gangsters who viciously murdered his brother for money. Now, with a price on his head, he turns to his father’s home in a small Southern town. While settling into his new surroundings, he quickly learns of an underground cage fighting circuit. It’s not long before he decides enough is enough and it’s time to come out of hiding and seek revenge. The clock is ticking and, win or lose, Brandon is not going down without a fight.

    Release Date: August 31, 2010

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    HARRY BROWN
    MARMADUKE
    WHY DID I GET MARRIED TOO

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    Sound Of Music 45th Anniversary on Blu-ray and DVD

    Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

    Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment toasts the 45th anniversary of the five-time Academy Award®-winning The Sound Of Music with its highly anticipated Blu-ray Disc debut November 2. Starring Oscar® winner Julie Andrews in one of her most memorable roles, the film adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical follows Maria, a spirited young woman who leaves a convent and becomes a governess to seven unruly children. Her charm and songs soon win the hearts of the children and their father but when Nazi Germany unites with Austria, Maria is forced to attempt a daring escape with her new family.


    Limited Edition Collector’s Set
    •2-Disc Blu-ray with all extras as detailed below
    •Standard Definition DVD
    •45th Anniversary Soundtrack
    •100-Page “My Favorite Things” scrapbook
    •Snapshots from Salzburg
    •Reproduction of the original 1965 Souvenir program
    •Exclusive “My Favorite Things” Music Box with letter of authenticity

    Blu-ray Details: Blu-ray Disc 1:
    •Feature Film Remastered in 1080p Hi-Def with 7.1 DTS-HD Sound
    •Your Favorite Things: An Interactive Celebration — All-New Immersive Viewing Experience with Behind-the-Scenes Images, On-Screen Lyrics, Trivia Track and Location Quiz
    •Music Machine Sing-Along
    •Audio Commentaries with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and Director Robert Wise
    BD-LIVE**: Live Lookup™ Powered by IMDb®

    Blu-ray Disc 2:
    •Musical Stages: Creating The Sound of Music — All-New Interactive “Backlot Tour” with In-Depth Featurettes on the Songs, the Stage Show & Movie, the Film and Sound Restoration and the Real-Life von Trapp Family
    •A City of Song — Virtual Map of Filming Locations in Salzburg, Austria
    •Vintage Rodgers & Hammerstein and The Sound of Music Programs
    •Screen Tests, Rare Treasures, Interviews, Photo Galleries & More!

    DVD Disc:
    •Feature Film In Standard Definition
    ◦Newly Remastered Picture and Sound
    ◦Optional Sing-Along Track
    •Music Machine Sing-Along
    •The Sound of Music Tour – A Living Story

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    The Middle DVD Clips

    Sunday, August 29th, 2010

    To celebrate the release of THE MIDDLE THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON on DVD August 31th, here are a few DVD clips.

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    The Middle – Season “Swim Team” Clip

    The Middle – Season 1 “Watching Doris” Clip

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    The Black Cauldron 25th Anniversary DVD Release Date

    Saturday, August 28th, 2010

    The Black Cauldron, Walt Disney Pictures’ 25th animated feature-length film, celebrates its 25th anniversary with a Special Edition DVD release September 14 from Walt Disney Home Entertainment. Based on Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain books, this mystical, action-packed adventure debuts just in time for Halloween. The film tells the story of Taran, an apprentice pig keeper with dreams of becoming a great warrior, who embarks on a quest to find a magical and powerful Black Cauldron before the evil tyrant Horned King can possess it for his own diabolical purposes. Fantastical characters like the oracular pig Hen Wen, the willful princess Eilonwy, and the droll but annoying Gurgi face witches, elves, magic swords and other obstacles. As they journey through these thrilling escapades, Taran begins to learn the true meaning of what it is to be a hero.

    New Bonus Features Include:

    •Deleted Scene
    •The Witches’ Challenge Game

    Plus Classic DVD Bonus Features:

    •Still Frame Gallery—A compilation of behind-the-scenes artwork and photos.
    •Quest For the Black Cauldron
    •Trick Or Treat—Classic Donald Duck cartoon from 1952.

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    Predators DVD and Bluray Release Date

    Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

    “This planet is a game preserve, and we’re the game.” The ultimate hunters are back when Robert Rodriguez’ PREDATORS arrives on Blu-ray and DVD on October 19th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment with all new special features, bringing you deeper into the Predator universe. Robert Rodriguez also presents a series of exclusive prequel motion comics on the Blu-ray and DVD that take you beyond the movie and deliver a truly one-of-a kind PREDATORS experience. The Blu-ray version, harnesses the power of BD Live to extend the experience even more with exclusive PREDATORS content and interactive entertainment.


    PREDATORS Blu-ray Special Features
    •Commentary by Robert Rodriguez and director, Nimród Antal
    •Motion Comics

  • Moments of Extraction: Robert Rodriguez presents exclusive prequel vignettes voiced by the cast of PREDATORS. Witness the secret adventures that turned our world’s most ruthless killers into the ultimate Predator prey
  • Crucified

    • •Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn

  • Bloodline
  • De-cloaking the Invisible: Alien Terrain
  • Intelligent Design: The Hunting Camp
  • Predators as Prey
  • Yuatja Transformed
  • Rite of Passage

    • •The Chosen Featurette
    •Fox Movie Channel presents Making a Scene
    •Deleted and Extended Scenes
    •BD-Live Extras

    PREDATORS DVD Special Features
    •Commentary by Robert Rodriguez and director, Nimród Antal
    •De-cloaking the Invisible: Alien Terrain
    •Motion Comics

  • Moments of Extraction: Robert Rodriguez presents exclusive prequel vignettes voiced by the cast of PREDATORS. Witness the secret adventures that turned two of our world’s most ruthless killers into the ultimate Predator prey
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