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June 26, 2001
Site Outage.
Our site was down last Thursday through much of Saturday due to an
"unscheduled emergency maintenance" on our web server.
Sorry about that. The worst part is that we sent out Issue 14 of
our e-Newsletter Wednesday night.
While the site was down, some of our subscribers
had no way of accessing the featured stories referenced in the
e-Newsletter.
 The Mexican.
DreamWorks' $67 million comedy-adventure, starring Julia Roberts an Brad
Pitt, is being released to DVD on August 7. The DVD will feature
almost 30 minutes of deleted scenes, including new comedic story lines
such as a new wedding scene. Other bonus features include an audio
commentary by director Gore Verbinski, screenwriter J.H. Wyman, and editor
Craig Wood, a "making-of" featurette, production notes, cast and
crew bios, and theatrical trailers. As with almost all DreamWorks
DVDs, The Mexican features both Dolby Digital and DTS surround
sound. The suggested retail is $26.95. You can pre-order a
copy from Amazon.com.
New DVD Movie Reviews.
We recently posted our reviews of the high tech paranoid thriller Antitrust,
and Jet Li's Once
Upon A Time in China II. Check out these and other reviews on our DVD
movie reviews page.
June 19, 2001
Late
Update:
 The
Phantom Menace. So it's true!!! Earlier today,
Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment officially
announced the DVD release of the long-awaited Star Wars: Episode I
The Phantom Menace for October 16. This 2-disc edition will
feature over six hours of bonus material. Read
more about this release here.
Early Update:
 New Line's new infinifilm™
DVD series. New Line Home Entertainment is introducing an
awesome "new line" (pun intended!) of premium DVDs: the infinifilm™
DVD series, beginning with their release of Thirteen
Days on July 10. infinifilm promises (and delivers!)
a whole new level of immersive bonus features. Read more about infinifilm
in our review of Thirteen
Days.
The Mummy Returns.
Universal Studios Home Video has just announced the DVD release date for
their summer blockbuster, The Mummy Returns, for October 2.
This DVD will feature the following bonus materials: "Spotlight on
Location" featurette, behind-the-scenes featurette, interactive
visual and special effects formation, feature commentaries with the
director and editor, deleted scenes, a historical background segment
called "Egyptology 201", outtakes, theatrical trailers,
production notes, cast and filmmakers bio, an exclusive advanced footage
from the Universal Pictures Spring 2002 release, "The Scorpion
King" starring "The Rock". Then, there are DVD-ROM
features including "The Mummy" game, screen savers and
browser. The DVD will carry a suggested retail of $26.98 .
Rumors of Shrek.
We recently heard a rumor that DreamWorks' current animated hit, Shrek, is coming
to DVD sometime fourth quarter this year, just in time for the holidays.
Upcoming Releases and Release
Date Adjustments.
On our Upcoming
Releases page, we've added a few more titles: You Can
Count on Me (6/26), Sugar and Spice (7/17), City on
Fire (7/17), Mimic 2 (7/17), Josie and the Pussycats
(8/14), Spy Kids (confirmed for
9/18, we previously reported a rumored date of 9/4), The Mummy Returns
(10/2). We also updated the release date for
Malena from 7/3 to 7/10.
New DVD Movie Reviews.
And finally, in addition to our review of Thirteen
Days mentioned above, we added a review of Save
the Last Dance (releasing today). Check out these reviews and others on our DVD
movie reviews page.
Have a good week.
June 14, 2001
Happy Flag Day, America!
The Godfather Trilogy.
The highly-anticipated Francis Ford Coppola's The
Godfather trilogy is coming on October 9 as a five-disc (that's right,
five!) collector's gift set. This box set includes The Godfather, The
Godfather Part II (spanning two discs), The Godfather Part III,
and a 5th "bonus features" disc that includes three hours and 20
minutes of additional programming. Each movie features an anamorphic
widescreen video transfer and English Dolby
Digital 5.1 surround sound and French mono track. Each title will
also have a feature-length director's commentary. For additional
information or details on the
bonus features of the 5th disc, click
here. This set will list for $105.90, but the street price will
be closer to $80. You can pre-order your copy today from Amazon.com.
Upcoming Releases and Release
Date Adjustments.
On our Upcoming
Releases page, we've added some more titles: Double
Take (7/17), Time & Tide (8/7), John Carpenter
Collection (includes Starman, Christine, John
Carpenter's Vampires) (8/7), Safe (8/21), Wish Upon A
Star (8/21), Le Dernier Combat (8/21), Batman: The Movie
(8/21), Ghandi: SE
(8/28), Wicked (8/28), The
Godfather Collection 4-disc set (10/9). And, be sure to note
that we updated the release date for Thirteen Days from 7/3 to
7/10, and Head Over Heals from 7/3 to 7/31.
New DVD Movie Reviews.
Ah, let's not forget about our recent DVD
movie reviews: VeggieTales' Lyle, The Kindly Viking,
Sunshine, and Disney's The
Emperor's New Groove - Ultimate Groove Collector's Edition.
Have a great weekend!
June 7, 2001
How is everyone doing this week? Here we are with
another update for you this week.
Our
first HTML e-Newsletter. In our last (free)
e-Newsletter, we polled whether our subscribers would prefer the old
text-based e-Newsletter or a new HTML version. With overwhelming response,
the clear preference was HTML (though a number of our subscribers really
wanted to keep the text version). So here we are with our
first HTML e-Newsletter. Our plan is to roll out at least one
e-Newsletter per month, around the first Tuesday of each month. And
when there's
significant news or an interesting development, we'll follow up with another e-Newsletter
as needed. If you're not a
subscriber already, you can sign up
here. It's free and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Star
Wars: Episode 1 Release Date. Given all the rumors
flying around the internet about the release date of The Phantom Menace,
we decided to check this out ourselves with our studio contact. And guess
what? They replied saying that they can neither confirm or deny the
rumor, but added that we may be receiving some official information on it
very soon. Cool! As Jar Jar would say, "we se wait long
enough." We'll let you know as soon as we hear anything more or
official...
 Panasonic
introduces a DVD recorder offering backwards compatibility.
Panasonic announced its second generation DVD recorder. The Panasonic
DMR-E20 DVD recorder will debut in October for $1,500 list price and
will offer recording capability for DVD-R as well as DVD-RAM. The
write-once DVD-R format allows for backwards compatibility with virtually
all existing DVD players. We think this is a move in the right
direction for Panasonic, whose previous DVD recorder used only the DVD-RAM
format, which is incompatible with current DVD players. It's just
the latest sign of convergence in the recordable DVD format war which has
at least three competing camps: DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM. For more
information about this DVD recorder, read the full
press release.
Upcoming Releases
and Release Date Adjustments.
On our Upcoming
Releases page, we've added some more titles: Monkeybone
(7/10), Wayne's World (7/10), Wayne's World 2 (7/10), Mommy
Dearest (7/17), Enemy at the Gates (8/14), Kramer vs. Kramer
(8/28), My Best Friend's Wedding (8/28), The Never Ending
Story (9/4), The Never Ending Story II (9/4), Home for the
Holidays (9/4), The French Lieutenant's Woman (9/4), Little
Man Tate (9/4), Under Fire (9/4), and Quigley Down Under
(9/4) . Then with respect to street date adjustments, The Mask of
Zorro: Special Edition has been postponed to August 28, from June 12.
June 4, 2001
Well, it's almost been a month since we've updated this
page. But we're back! As you can guess, we've been very busy
working on our web site re-design. We're still trying to debug some
unexpected "features" and will be converting the rest of the
site content to the new design over the course of this month. Thanks
for your patience and support. If you have any comments on the site
re-design, send them to us at Feedback@TimeForDVD.com.
Thanks, as always, we welcome your feedback and suggestions.
Anyways, we're back and without further delay, we've got a ton of update
for you.
New DVD Movie Reviews.
First up, we've got half a dozen new DVD
movie reviews: Cast
Away (available on June 12), Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon (which comes out tomorrow, June 5), Vertical
Limit, What Women
Want, Quills, and Bounce.
There's a lot of good movies in this bunch, so be sure to check out these
reviews.
A Tiger and
a Dragon On Sale. If you're looking to pick up a copy
of Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, head on over to your local Best Buy (in
stores only) on Tuesday (June 5) and pick it up for only $16.99 (about 39%
off -- which is pretty good). Don't wait too long, the sale will be
over this Saturday (June 9).
Upcoming Releases.
On our Upcoming
Releases page, we've got a massive update for you (in
trying to catch up on some recent announcements): Dude, Where's My Car?
(6/26), Head Over Heals (7/3), Jurassic Park DVD Collection
2-pack with Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(7/10), The Family Man (7/17), The Caveman's Valentine
(7/17), Once Upon A Time in China 3-pack with Jet Li's Once Upon A
Time in China parts I, II, and II (7/17), Pollock (7/24), Sweet
November (7/24), Akira (7/24), Hanover Street
(7/31), Short Circuit 2 (7/31), Trumpet of the Swan
(animated, 7/31), American Pie: Ultimate Edition in either R-rated
version or unrated version (re-release as Ultimate Edition, 7/31), The
Mexican (8/7), Fly Away Home: SE (re-release as an anamorphic
widescreen Special Edition, 8/7), 15 Minutes (New Line's infinifilm,
8/14), Tomcats (8/14), Meet Joe Black: Ultimate Edition
(re-release as Ultimate Edition, 8/14), Silence of the Lambs: SE
(re-release as a Special Edition, 8/21), The Goonies (8/21), The
Never Ending Story (8/21), The Never Ending Story 2 (8/21), Forrest
Gump: SE 2-disc set (8/28), The Adventures of Joe Dirt (8/28), See
Spot Run (8/28), The Next Karate Kid (8/28), Willy Wonka and
the Chocolate Factory: 2001 Edition (8/28), The Princess Bride: SE (re-release
as a Special Edition, 9/4), Buffy, The Vampire Slayer (The Movie)
(9/4), Wallace & Gromit (9/4), Heartbreakers (9/18), and
Cape Fear (1991, 9/18). We'll also keep the "New"
designation on specific titles on the Upcoming
Releases page for about 10-14 days (a change from only
7-10 days before), for those of you who frequent our site only every other
week or so. It's a quick way to see what titles we've recently
added.
Release Date Confirmations.
We got confirmation that Hannibal will in fact be released as a
2-disc Special Edition on August 21. The DVD will feature a
"shocking alternate ending". As noted above, Silence of
the Lambs will be re-released on the same date as a Special Edition.
Release Date Adjustments.
Disney has pulled their scheduled release of Oliver and Company
from June 5 indefinitely. We'll let you know if we hear anything in
the future. We also had incorrectly reported the release date for Cast
Away as June 5. The actual release date is June 12.
Sorry about that.
Some Truth
to the Episode 1 DVD Date. We're hearing that the
rumored release date for Star Wars: Episode 1--The Phantom Menace
of October 16 may have some truth to it after all! The latest word
is that Fox Home Entertainment will make a formal announcement this
month. Let's keep our fingers crossed. We'll definitely keep
you posted on this one.
Rumored Release Date.
Rumor has it that the original Terminator will be re-released as a
Special Edition by MGM sometime fourth quarter 2001.
Well, that's it. We will be returning to our old
schedule of updating this page every week or two, or when there's
significant news. Don't be a stranger, and have a good week.
Your
comments and suggestions are always welcomed. Please e-mail us
at: Editor@TimeForDVD.com
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