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Alpha Video has several titles for release on August 19th including Love
Affair, Mystery Liner, One Step Beyond (the 1959 TV show), Scarlet Letter
(1934), Shriek In The Night, Svengali, Three Musketeers #1 and Three
Musketeers #2.

From Central Park Media something for anime fans on October 14th there is
DNA2 #5: Epiphany, DNA2 Collection, Legend Of The Dragon Kings: Red Dragon,
Patlabor: Mobile Police / Original Series Collection, Revolutionary Girl
Utena: Revelation and Time Stranger.

Some very preliminary announcements from Buena Vista. On November 11th
Jefferson In Paris, Money For Nothing, Shadow Conspiracy and Shoot To Kill.
For December Blame It On The Bellboy and In The Army Now. On October 14th
Lion King (Special Edition/ Gift Set) and Lion King (Special Edition) will
hit the stores. There will be 5.1 audio and anamorphic widescreen for both.

Preliminary announcements have also been made by Fox for a series of special
edition releases on October 14th. Included are Abyss (Special Edition/
DigiPack), Cast Away (Special Edition/ DigiPack), Christmas Carol (1984) /
Miracle On 34th Street (1994), Die Hard (Special Edition/ DigiPack),
Independence Day (2-Disc Special Edition/ Widescreen/ DigiPack), It's A
Wonderful Life (Special Edition)/ Miracle On 34th Street (1947), Planet Of
The Apes (2001/ 2-Disc Special Edition/ DigiPack) and Sound Of Music (2-Disc
Special Edition/ DigiPack). More on these DigiPacks as its made official.

Confirmation from Columbia/TriStar that the first Starship Troopers (UPC
043396717190) released on 7/11/2000 is discontinued, replaced by the two
disc set and the Superbit release.

Among the releases for next week, August 5th.

A.D. Vision: Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict: No Refuge

Buena Vista: Cemetery Club, Slam Dunk Ernest, Rowing With The Wind, Royal
Deceit, Camp Nowhere, Bringing Down The House (Special Edition/ Pan & Scan),
Bringing Down The House (Special Edition/ Widescreen), Crossing The Bridge,
Cool And The Crazy, French Twist, Tower Of Terror and Wedding Gift.

Columbia/Tri-Star: Starship Troopers (Superbit), John Carpenter's Vampires
(Superbit), Nightstalker, Jet Li: The One (Superbit) and Quick And The Dead
(Superbit).

Criterion: Pornographers.

MGM/UA: Last American Virgin, Foxes, Breakin', Flamingo Kid, Sure Thing,
Bright Lights, Big City, Valley Girl (Special Edition), Agent Cody Banks
(Special Edition), Johnny Be Good and Hot Dog: The Movie.

Warner Brothers: What A Girl Wants (Pan & Scan), What A Girl Wants
(Widescreen), Casablanca (2-Disc Special Edition), Omega Man, Soylent Green,
Haunting (1963), Wait Until Dark and Thing From Another World.

Stop by for a complete downloadable information list of all region one DVDs
in several formats as well as daily changes. The official list now
features30,741 titles with 84 additions or changes and 578 Pre-Release
announcements. The All Titles list has 31,319 titles. Recent releases
include: Last Week 242, This Week 210 and Next Week 194 titles.

Featured review this week is Flight of the Phoenix, previews of Daredevil,
Them, and Chicago DVDs. Recent film reviews include May, Phone Booth, Gangs
of New York, It Came From Beneath the Sea, Children of Dune, The Hulk
Original TV Pilot, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, , Killing Me
Softly, Real Women Have Curves, The Day the Earth Stood Still , Invaders
From Mars (1953), Usual Suspects, Gormenghast and Dr. Strangelove. Coming
titles listed before all the specs are in can be found in a new list,
http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/pre-releases.htm

Updated lists for discontinued, cancelled, postponed and rescheduled titles
as well as lists for DTS, ES/EX and Superbit titles. UPC numbers and
original release dates now being added to the database. There is also a
greatly expanded list of titles that were rescheduled or reissued. Search
function for the database, (now including UPC search) complements of site
partner and friend, Michael's Movie Mayhem
(http://kazart.com/mec/DVDList2.html) and DVDLister.

Updates to the DVD database, including release specs usually made twice
daily.

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Thank you.
--
Doug MacLean
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