New Releases: Hidalgo, Big Bounce, New Criterion: Updated complete downloadable R1 DVD DB & info lis

Buena Vista has Hidalgo featuring Viggo Mortensen set for release on August
3rd. I only received the initial announcement so far but the studio
representative is certain there will be a Dolby 5.1 audio and anamorphic
2.35:1 video. No word yet on the extras. The suggested retail price will be
$29.95.

Goldhil Home Media has a far number of children/family oriented titles due
out on June 30th. With a couple of exceptions each title will list for
$19.98. Included are:
Friendship's Field
Ghost Of Dickens Past
Hockey Night
Home At Last
In Your Wildest Dreams
Lost In The Barrens
Nicholas' Gift (Goldhil Home Video)
No More Baths
On Our Own
Rigoletto (Goldhil)
Runaway (Goldhil Home Video)
Seasons Of The Heart
Secret Of Treasure Mountain
Seventh Brother
Split Infinity
Willy The Sparrow
Behind The Waterfall
Buttercream Gang

BMG will release several titles on May 11th.
Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer: Live in Japan
Foreigner: Live At Deer Creek
Lisa Stansfield: Biography, The Greatest Hits
Lita Ford: The Complete Video Collection
The announcements listed each title retailing for $8.75.

The Big Bounce (the 2004 remake) will be released by Warner Brother on July
20th. There will be separate P&S and anamorphic widescreen versions. Both
will have Dolby 5,1 audio track. The announce extras include:
The Big Bounce: A Con in the Making,
Wicked Waves - stunt surfer outtakes
Surfing the Pipeline: Surfing in the Aloha State
Outtake reel
Trailers
The retail price will be $27.98. For $2.00 more you can get the two pack
including the original 1969 version.

Music Video Distribuitor will release a couple of music sets on June 15th.
The initial announced specifications indicate both will be Dolby 5.1 and
full screen and list for $19.95:
David Bowie: Origins Of A Starman
Aaliyah: So Much More Than A Woman

Also from MVD on July 13th is Robbie Williams: Whole Story with a suggested
price of $14.95.

Red Distribution has a batch of inexpensive multi-film packs set for release
on June 1st as part of their VIntgage Collection. Included so far are:
Vintage Movie Classics: Hollywood Hotties: Boarding School / Kill Cruise /
Choices
Vintage Movie Classics: Elizabeth Taylor: Last Time I Saw Paris / Father's
Little Dividend / Life With Father
Vintage Movie Classics: Hollywood Un-Leashed: Call Of The Wild / Jungle Book
/ Painted Hills
Each will list for $6.97.

In addition on June 1st Red Distribution will release:
John Kay & Friends: Live At The Renaissance Center
Tribute To Muddy Waters, King Of The Blues (with bonus CD)
Geisters: Fractions Of The Earth - Volume 1

A couple of additions to the well received Criterion Collection will come to
DVD on July 20th:
Early Summer ($39.95)
Port Of Shadows ($29.95)
Stage & Spectacle: Three Films By Jean Renoir (Criterion): Elena and Her Men
/ French Cancan / Golden Coach ($79.95)

From Home Vision:
July 13:
Un Deux Trois Soleil ($19.95)
July 27th:
La Balance ($19.95)
La Cérémonie ($29.95)
Masques ($29.95)
Une affaire de femmes (Story Of Women) ($29.95)

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 features
42,575 titles with 649 additions or changes and 528 Pre-Release
announcements. The All Titles list has 43,103 titles. Recent releases
include: Last Week 277, This Week 320 and Next Week 231 titles.

Previews of Great Escape Smallville Season 2, Monster and Paycheck, Recent
reviews nclude: Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World, Kill Bill
Vol. 1, The Cooler, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Timeline, Matrix Revolutions,
Final Countdown, Freaks & Geeks, Schindler's List, House of Sand and Fog.
Classic reviews: Them and Steambath, Coming titles listed before all the
specs are in can be found in a the 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://www.dvdlist.kazart.com and
DVDLister.

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

Please stop by and visit.
Thank you.

Doug MacLean
http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/