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Thursday March 18, 2010 BFI Doubles Up
The BFI has given us a look at its first ‘Dual Format Edition’ title. The new double-format release bundles both the DVD and Blu-ray versions – main features and extras alike – in a single package. The Dual Format Editions launch on 26 April with an at RRP £19.99, starting with two classics from the master of Japanese cinema, Yasujiro Ozu: Tokyo Story (1953) and Early Summer (1951). The BFI said that over the next 12 months a total of 25 releases will be packaged in this way. HMV’s Dog Bitten By New Moon FeverHMV’s iconic dog Nipper is looking a bit out of sorts, ever since the last full moon... His new appearance ties in with E1 Entertainment’s launch of The Twilight Saga: New Moon on DVD & Blu-ray next week. And it’s only the second time ever that the logo has been changed. HMV is also producing a collector’s edition The Twilight Saga: New Moon gift card – featuring Bella, Edward and Jacob, along with a bespoke paper carrier bag to carry home your purchases. Selected HMV stores around the country, including in London’s Oxford Street and Piccadilly Circus, will be opening on Sunday 21 March at 00.01 hrs to give fans the earliest possible opportunity to get hold of the film on DVD and Blu-ray.
Wednesday March 17, 2010 WIN! Twin Peaks Seasons 1&2 Gold Boxset, 32-inch HD TV and a DVD Player! Issue 140 Out Today!What have Avatar on 3D Blu-ray, Joel Silver, Sam Worthington and Mighty Boosh director Paul King got in common? They all got some face time with DVD & Blu-ray Review this month... Make sure you pick up a copy from you news agent today. Alternatively, you can subscribe by following this link or calling 0844 848 2852. THE BIG NEWS ...PLUS ...AND ...WITHOUT FORGETTING INTERVIEW: ON THE COUCH
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Tuesday March 16, 2010 Blockbuster Goes Exclusive
Our friends over at Blockbuster have been in touch to tell us about a few exclusives the company has managed to arrange. It seems Blockbuster customers will be able to enjoy some exclusive rental windows on the following titles in April:
Not Long Now For AvatarApril 26. That’s how soon UK fans will be able to journey to the world of Pandora in the comfort of their own homes (see below if you have no idea what we're jabbering about).
Yes, the bluest film stars since Dr Manhattan got his kit off are coming to Blu-ray and DVD – albeit it in traditional 2D, rather than that lovely third dimension you’d have experienced in cinemas. Shame, as DVD & Blu-ray Review recently got a sneak peak at a short 3D Blu-ray version of the film – read all about it in Issue 140, which is out in shops tomorrow! Anyway, the UK is exclusively releasing a Limited Edition Blu-ray that’s only available if you pre-order online. Your eagerness will get you four lenticular art cards and a Survival Guide book. Play.com is selling the DVD for £9.99, the Blu-ray for £14.99 and the steelbook edition with guide for £24.99. The first 10,000 orders also snag a free Avatar T-shirt.
Up In The Air Touches Down
It’s plane to see that Mr Clooney’s latest excursion will soon be flying onto shop shelves... Anyway, before we get too carried away with flying puns, the movie starring Gorgeous George and directed by Juno-man Jason Reitman (son of the Ghostbusters director, fact fans) is touching down (sorry) on DVD and Blu-ray on May 24. Extras-wise, the DVD offers up a commentary with Reitman, the assistant director and the director of photography; trailers; a featurette entitled ‘Shadowplay: Before the Story’ and five deleted scenes with optional chit-chat. The Blu-ray has all of the above, plus it adds eight extra deleted scenes with optional commentary, a music video, storyboards and an ‘American Airlines Prank’, whatever that entails. Clooney dressing up as a stewardess and doing the point-at-the-exits thing to an audience of bewildered flyers? We can only hope (it isn’t). Up in the Air comes with a 15 certificate and an RRP of £19.99 for the DVD or £26.99 for the Blu-ray. For some reason we’ve now got the Foo Fighters’ ‘Learn to Fly’ stuck in our heads so you’ll have to excuse us while we jet off to YouTube...
Monday March 15, 2010 Green Zone Featurette Exclusive Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass go to war in Green Zone, a tense action thriller set in the shadow of the search for weapons of mass destruction during the Iraq conflict. We've got hold of a preview of some exclusive behind-the-scenes clips that we reckon is set appear on the DVD and Blu-ray release which should be arriving at the end of the summer. Green Zone is in cinemas now. Film Trailers by Filmtrailer.com
Friday March 12, 2010 Money OversleepsOliver Stone's timely sequel to Wall Street has been postponed in cinemas, which has had a knock-on effect to the shiny new Collector's Edition DVD that was due out on 5 April. “Please note that due to the theatrical release date of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps moving to Autumn 2010, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will postpone the release of Wall Street: Collector’s Edition on DVD until September,” said an official company statement. Amazon.co.uk has the new date as 13 September 2010.
Interview: Don Cheadle
Don Cheadle plays How did you prepare for the role? Whenever you try to condense someone’s life story into 90 minutes, there are going to be changes and omissions, characters get amalgamated and re-invented. When I prepare, I research the character and read up about the person but I do try to read between the lines as we’re only trying to tell the story in one particular way. As far as Petey goes, I wanted the audience to get a real sense of who he was. [The real] Dewey Hughes was around a lot and he was a great help, somebody we could talk to. I also had some archival audiotapes of Petey, though most of that stuff had been erased or recorded over many years previous. Radio and TV stations just didn’t keep stuff back then. What do you think made Petey Green so outspoken? He had a rough life, he spent a lot of time in jail and it was his mouth that had gotten him through that. He just had the gift of the gab and could talk himself in and out of problems. When you hear stories about him, he was drawn to controversy – he would always put himself in the centre of the picture, he wanted people to talk about him. That’s where he found his gift as a DJ on a radio station. He had Howard Stern on his show before Howard Stern was Howard Stern and that pissed a lot of people off, but that’s just the reaction he wanted as that proved he was cutting edge. From the few recordings you did hear, what was most compelling? Just that he was a live wire and you never knew what he was going to say or where he was going to go with something. His perspective on things was dangerous, yet precise and insightful. He never tried to talk around the edges of an issue and figure out a different way, he just went straight to the heart of it, which is what I think was great about him. Director Kasi Lemmons said she wanted you in this film regardless of whether you played Petey or Dewey. Why did you choose Petey? I first heard about this movie from Ted Demme over 10 years ago when he was due to direct it and at that time I was due to play Petey. However, these movies go through many states and at one point, when Terrance Howard was attached, I was going to play Dewey. Terrance then fell out and Chiwetel came on board, but I don't actually recall the exact moment my role was decided. How did you find working with Kasi? Kasi is really tenacious, but I knew that before we started shooting because of the drive she needed just to get the film made. It was great to do this film with a female director, too because it's such a male story. Kasi brought a different perspective and approach to things that may not have happened with a male director. She’s also got a really good eye and is very open to the way we all worked, which was really supportive and I think made for a really good result. Dewey seemed like the only person willing to take a risk on a character like Petey... Absolutely, and that was Dewey's gift. He recognised something in Petey that he didn't have. He knew the town would want it and that the community would respond to it but Dewey is very open about saying that he and Petey knew their dreams were not in union. Ultimately, Dewey wanted something for Petey that Petey didn't want, and Petey rebelled against that. That’s why they fell out, They did finally make up, but they didn’t speak for a long time because Petey resented being pushed in a direction he wasn’t happy with.
Taraji P Henson plays Petey’s girlfriend Vernell. Was she based on one woman or was she an amalgamation of a number of characters? Petey was with a lot of women. I think Vernell was a composite of several of the ones he was with that were important. It would take someone like Vernell to be with somebody like Petey. There were other women up for the part when we were casting Vernell but Taraji was off the hook, she was the girl that had to be. The film illustrates the people power at the time, of performers such as James Brown. Did doing that scene tell you anything about the important roles these musicians played? It is quite something that his coming out to perform could stop a riot. And whilst we showed it in DC, this wasn’t the only place it happened. It's a power musicians just don’t have today. And again, that's what was special about Petey. He was a specific spokesperson, in a specific area, for a specific group of people. And that was really his power. What was it like for you to look back at ’60s It was great to talk to my family about it, my parents and my uncles and aunts who were of this generation, who were contemporaries of Petey Greene even if they didn't know who he was. It was interesting to get their take on what was happening in the country at the time. The film spans a turbulent and controversial time in our country and it was interesting to look at that through Petey’s eyes. Greene was unrestrained. Is there anything from the film or in his life that you wish you could say yourself? Petey embodied the kind of spirit that would be refreshing today. He was someone who spoke his mind, whether or not you agreed with him. Too many people nowadays go around with a smile on their face and you don’t really know what’s happening behind it. Petey left nothing to wonder, if he didn’t like you, he would just say so, straight off the bat. But he applied this outlook to everything, whatever it was about, he would say what he felt and I think that's refreshing and rare. Talk To Me is released on DVD by Verve Pictures on 22 March.
Thursday March 11, 2010 The Lost Boy By now you will have no doubt read about the tragic death of Corey Haim from an apparent accidental overdose on March 10. He was 38 years old. Haim will be fondly remembered as smart-mouthed comic-book aficionado Sam in the iconic vampire flick The Lost Boys, and as one half of 'The Two Coreys' alongside friend and regular co-star Corey Feldman. A precocious teen in Hollywood in the '80s, Haim was one of the most bankable young stars of the era, however he struggled to capitalize on his early success and by the mid-90s he was churning out straight-to-DVD schlock as he faced bankruptcy and struggled with an ongoing drug problem. You probably won't have seen Haim's brief turn in the Lost Boys sequel, The Tribe, so here it is, as our own little tribute. Thanks to The Lost Boys it turns out Corey's going to live forever, anyway...
Wednesday March 10, 2010 Come on Barbie, let's get drunk and have extra-marital sex
Mattel is making Mad Men Barbie dolls, according to this story in the New York Times.  They're $74.95 a pop, and are on sale in July in time for the fourth season. Accessories include narrow-lapelled single-breasted suits, snappy hats, pearl necklaces, bottles of J&B whisky, cigarettes and divorce papers, possibly, probably not.
Tuesday March 09, 2010 For Your Consideration
Irritatingly clever internet wags have made a fake movie trailer in time for Oscar season – a fake movie trailer that, for once, is actually funny. Watch below... (Snide comment about how it isn't as good as the book/a stale retread of the original.) New Tron Legacy Trailer!Iron Man 2 yesterday, Tron 2 today! Yes, there's a new trailer for Disney's sequel Tron Legacy available online. Review thinks there's a definite Dark Knight vibe going on. You can find it online here...
Monday March 08, 2010 New Iron Man 2 Trailer UnleashedWe're going to let the action in this one do all the talking...
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