New Releases: 28 Days Later, More Hulk TV: Updated complete R1 DVD DB & info lists

Universal has a two pack of The Fast and The Furious / 2 Fast 2 Furious due
out. On September 3rd it will be released as a two sided disc, on September
30th a side by side version. Each date will have both Pan & Scan as well as
anamorphic widescreen. Both have Dolby 5.1 and DTS audio. The suggested
price for any of the above is $39.98.

Universal also has Incredible Hulk: The Television Series Ultimate
Collection set for the increasing popular date of October 21st. The set is
listed as having 985 minutes of the show which translates to about 22
episodes. The cost is $69.98.

Warner Brothers has Cambridge Spies set for December 2nd. For November 4th
two Biblical special interest discs Empires: Kingdom of David and Empires:
Peter and Paul.

From Crash Entertainment: Holy Robe of Shaolin Temple, The Power Of Five
Collection: Lady Whirlwind Against The Rangers, Battle Of Shaolin: Power Of
Five Collection, Ways Of Kung Fu: Power Of Five Collection, Ten Tigers Of
Shaolin: Power Of Five Collection and Beat Girl all set for next week,
August 12th.

A couple of announcement updates. Pioneer is now listing Judy Collins:
Christmas At The Biltmore Estate and Paul Simon: Live At The Tower Theatre
set for release on October 14th and October 28 respectively, as having Dolby
EX seven channel audio. Anchor Bay's Hills Have Eyes (Special Edition) due
out on September 23rd is listed as 5.1 EX/DTS 6.1 ES.

Coming from Showtime are Charms For The Easy Life, Power And Beauty and
Strange Relations on November 4th; Deacons For Defense and Outsider for
November 18th. All have initially announced full screen and stereo. Each is
$24.98.

On November 18th MGM/UA has plans to release James Bond Collection #2
(Special Edition) and James Bond Collection #3 (Special Edition). Contained
in collection two are; From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds
Are Forever, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights and The
World Is Not Enough. For collection three; Thunderball, On Her Majesty's
Secret Service, Live And Let Die, Octopussy, A View To A Kill and Die
Another Day. Each set will go for $124.95. For those Ian Fleming fans with
children you may want to look into Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Special Edition)
due out on November 25th with 5.1 audio and both pan and scan and anamorphic
video versions.

On October 21st the film 28 Days Later will be released. Following the
growing trend there will be both a pan & scan version (UPC 024543097709) and
an anamorphic version (UPC 024543088172). Both will have Dolby 5.1 audio.
The listed extras are; Director and Writer Commentary; 3 Alternate Endings;
Deleted Scenes; Pure Rage: The Making of Featurette; Production stills
gallery; Jacknife Lee music video: Animated Story Boards; Theatrical Teaser;
Theatrical Trailer. Cost is scheduled to be $27.98.

Coming back out of the sewer thanks to Funmation; Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles: The Shredder Strikes and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Way Of
Invisibility set for October 28th for $16.98 each. For September 2nd there
is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1: Attack Of The Mousers and Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles #2: Meet Casey Jones. They also have Blue Gender: Box Set due
September 28th.

October 21st will see Artisan release of several titles including; Lobster
Man From Mars, Promised Land, Chicago Joe And The Showgirl, Dream A Little
Dream, Brush With Fate, Loco Love and Amandla.

A.D. Vision has Farscape: The Complete Season #2 ready for release on
October 28th for $149.98. No word yet as to any extras.

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
features31,167 titles with 321 additions or changes and 629 Pre-Release
announcements. The All Titles list has 31,798 titles. Reent releases
include: Last Week 207, This Week 198 and Next Week 293 titles.

Featured review this week is Daredevil, preview of Chicago DVDs. Recent film
reviews include Them, 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 and Gormenghast . 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
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(http://kazart.com/mec/DVDList2.html) and DVDLister.

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Universal also has Incredible Hulk: The Television Series Ultimate

I'd love to see the figures on these best of collections sales. Do
they sell better than season box sets? If I just wanted a bunch of
episodes I doubt I'd care if it was a best of collection or season
set. So it doesn't add any more appeal to that audience. And it's
definitely going to loose those buyers who want season sets. I'm not
going to buy a random best of box set for $60. The beauty of having
the seasons on DVD (besides watching them) is being able to watch the
shows in order and follow the larger storyline. You miss out on any
continued threads from episode to episode. Even with comedy like Mary
Tyler Moore or M.A.S.H. it's a lot more enjoyable watching the
character progressions. And it's especially true in shows like Star
Trek, Buck Rogers, or Battlestar Galactica. Imagine if some bright
marketing exec. decided to release a Best of 24 set... don't laugh, it
could happen.

mrG

 

And, like Warner, when they find out that "Best Of"'s don't sell anymore--
But still want to bravely promote the icon license despite the movie damage.

Derek Janssen (it must have come as a great shock to them)

 

The beauty of having

Is there one?

Were there any?


As far as I remember, these shows were the same thing week after week with
no character progression and no change in circumstances. You KNEW he'd
defeat the bad guy (who was always a common criminal, never a
super-villain), you KNEW Mr. McGoo wouldn't catch him, you KNEW he'd never
find a cure.

So what was the point of watching it?

Allan

 

And since nobody's traditionally quoted the Mad Magazine gag yet:
"You wouldn't like me when I'm angry..."
"You wanna see angry?--Try my editors! I've been on this story for two
years and all I've got is THIS! [holds up headline]"

(...Yes, remember way back when movies and TV shows thought the Weekly
World News actually sent out *reporters* to cover UFO stories?)

It was a really cool superhero, just like the Superman movie!
(And besides, Kenneth Johnson had a really big hit with "The Bionic Woman"!)

Derek Janssen (well, okay, he DID have "Alien Nation: the Series", but
still)

 

The figures would be meaningless unless the two are released on the
same day, which I don't think ever happens.

As it is, some people who _would_ have bought a season set if it
were available buy a best-of because it's all they can get, and then
later when the season set comes out they don't want to pay for it
when they already have some of the episodes on their best-of. I have
no idea how big a percentage that is, but it's surely significantly
above zero.