Paramount Home Media
Distribution announced this past week that James Clavell’s 1980 blockbuster TV
mini-series, Shogun, will be getting a Blu-ray push on Aug. 5. A five disc Blu-ray set is planned.
Since the series was
originally filmed in 35mm (the late Andrew Laszlo was the Cinematographer — Star
Trek V: The Final Frontier, Streets of Fire, Thieves,
etc.), Paramount will be working with some pretty choice material for the
MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p presentation. It
should pop!
Shogun won both the Emmy for Best TV Series – Drama and
the Golden Globe for Outstanding Limit Series … additionally Richard
Chamberlain and Yôko Shimada won Golden Globes for Best Actor and Actress
respectively and were nominated for Emmys in both categories. In all, this landmark television series
captured three Emmys.
Bonus features announced thus
far include commentary by series director Jerry London the featurette titled
“The Making of Shogun” and series (unspecified) of featurettes focusing on the
“Historical Perspective” of the series.
In other August home
entertainment release news this past week from Paramount Home Media
Distribution we find that Aug. 5 is also the street date for a four-disc DVD
collection of Awkward: Season 3 and a double-disc DVD presentation of Californication:
The Seventh Season.
The following week, Aug.
12, there will be two five-disc DVD sets of Gunsmoke: The Tenth Season,
Volume One and Gunsmoke: The Tenth Season, Volume Two.
Plus Aug. 12 also brings
to market the DVD debut of the labor-of-love documentary from producers Randall
Lobb, Isaac Elliott-Fisher and Mark Hussey, Turtle Power: The Definitive
History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Five-years in the making, with over 100
hours of extensive interviews to draw from and the goal of providing “the most
complete history of this amazing phenomenon,” this should be a real treat from
TMNT fans worldwide!
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