Paramount Home Media’s 50th Anniversary
celebration of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek franchise will continue on
Nov. 15 with the three-disc Blu-ray present of Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Star Trek, the landmark television series finished its
three-season run in June of 1969 and a vacuum was immediately created. Little did they know that Trekkies had been
born and they wanted more, more and more adventures featuring Kirk and Spock
and the rest of the crew of the Starship Enterprise.
It wouldn’t be until December of 1979 when Paramount would
deliver the Star Trek: The Motion Picture … but what to do until that star
date arrived.
The solution was a 22 episode animated series (running from
September of 1973 until October of 1974) featuring the voices of all but one of
the original series characters (thanks to the Mr. Spock for holding firm) —
only Walter Koenig was not included in the group (although he did participate
by providing the script for the first season episode titled “The Infinite
Vulcan.”
In other release news this week, Paramount Home Media has
selected Nov. 29 as the DVD debut date for writer/director Clea DuVall’s The
Intervention.
The ARR works out to 95 days and ticket sales generated in
the film’s very limited theatrical run come to $32,919.
In a radical twist on a family or friends “intervention,” a
group of Generation X couples plan a getaway a beautiful lakeside vacation home
(filmed in and around Savannah, Georgia) for a weekend of “catching up;” a
reunion if you will (think: The Big Chill).
Organized by Annie (Melanie Lynskey — Heavenly Creatures, Up in the Air,
etc.), the plan is not to fix things, to stop bad habits — like drugs or
alcohol addiction — but to tear something apart. That would be the marriage of Ruby (Cobie
Smulders) and Peter (Vincent Piazza).
Annie, what are you thinking!!! Of course this is a very bad idea … but once
there, in this paradise, you have to make the best of it!
Bonus features include a blooper reel and the Tegan and Sara
music video titled, “Fade Out.”
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