If announcing new
releases for home entertainment were governed by football rules, then Warner
Home Video might just be whistled for “piling on.”
Not a week goes by — as
their dance card is filled in the run-up to the Christmas-selling season — that
the studio isn’t front and center with a ton of new DVD and Blu-ray product
offerings. No exception this week!
The big news this week
was the launch of the new Blu-ray “Diamond Luxe Edition” line. Popular and exceptional film vault treasures
are getting new hi-def editions with newly-prepared bonus nuggets, which are
blended with previously released bonus goodies on both DVD and Blu-ray
editions.
Included in this first
wave are: Ben Hur (a double-disc set that also include the 1925 silent
restoration), Forrest Gump: 20th Anniversary Edition, The Green Mile (with a
new documentary titled “Walking the Mile”), Gremlins: 30th Anniversary
(features a newly-prepared featurette titled “From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating
the Creatures”) and Natural Born Killers: 20th Anniversary Edition (includes both
the original theatrical cut and an unrated director’s cut, plus a new
featurette titled “Natural Born Killers: Method In The Madness”).
Also getting Blu-ray
dates are both Neverending Story: 30th Anniversary Edition and Neverending
Story II: The Next Chapter (both will be available on Oct. 7).
Also from the film vault
are DVD editions (slated for delivery on Oct. 14) of The Westerner (1940,
directed by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan, who won
an Oscar for his performance here Judge Roy Bean) and The Princess and the Pirate
(1940, teaming Bob Hope with the like of Virginia Mayo, Victor McLaglen, Walter
Slezak and Walter Brennan).
On the TV series front
look for Arrow: The Complete Second Season (Blu-ray and DVD editions on
Sept. 16); Reign: The Complete First Season (a five-disc DVD collection on
Sept. 23) and The Mentalist: The Complete Sixth Season (also a five-disc DVD
set on Sept. 30).
Kidvid selections include
Tom
and Jerry: Season One, Part One (a double-disc DVD set on Sept. 23) and
Beware
the Batman: Dark Justice (also two DVD discs, Sept. 30).
To download this week's
complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
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