First it was amazon.com
and it’s all too familiar habit of jumping the gun on official announcements to
collect as many pre-book orders as possible.
It was touting Dec. 5 as the street date for writer/director Christopher
Nolan’s sure-to-be Best Picture nominee, Dunkirk.
Amazon subsequently
pulled the offer and a whole week went by without Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment making an official announcement.
Nothing. Crickets.
Then on Friday, Oct. 13,
Best Buy jumped into the battle for its fair share of the sales action by
offering up Dunkirk on Dec. 19. The
entire week slipped by and come Friday, Oct. 20, still nothing official from
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
But that doesn’t mean
that it was quiet over in Burbank as there was plenty of catalog action, so
let’s get that … the turf war over Dunkirk between Warner and Amazon
can wait for now.
On the Blu-ray front
there are three new releases heading home in November. Chief among these is the Nov. 21 Blu-ray
launch of director Taylor Hackford’s 1995 film adaptation of the Stephen King
novel, Dolores Claiborne, teaming Kathy Bates (who also shined in
another King adaptation, Misery, five years earlier) with Jennifer
Jason Leigh as mother/daughter involved in what may or may not be a murder.
The other two
new-to-Blu-ray releases from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment in November are Summer
of ’42 (Nov. 7) and Doc Hollywood (Nov. 28).
More “un-bundling” of
previously released films as part of collections continues in November with
stand-alone DVD releases on Nov. 14 of Eleanor Powell, Ann Sothern and Robert
Young starring in the 1941 film release of Lady be Good (part of a
double-feature release in 2008), Jane Powell and Ann Sothern lead an all-star
cast in the 1950 musical comedy, Nancy Goes to Rio and Jane Powell
stars in the 1950 romantic comedy, Two Weeks With Love (these two films
were part of a double-bill released in 2008).
The following week, Nov.
21, we have two unique double feature collections … Kind Lady Double Feature,
which includes the original 1935 version (with Aline MacMahon and Basil
Rathbone) and the 1951 remake (featuring Ethel Barrymore and Maurice Evans),
and Strictly
Dishonorable Double Feature, which showcase the 1931 original
adaptation of the Preston Sturges stage play (with Sidney Fox and Paul Lukas)
and the 1951 remake starring Janet Leigh.
And finally, Nov. 28
brings us three Doris Day films from the 2009 box set titled TCM
Spotlight: Doris Day Collection —
April
in Paris, The Tunnel of Love and Starlift — and Old Maid (originally
released as part of the Bette Davis Collection, Volume 3 in
2008) Renegades of the West (1932, starring Tom Keene) and Kid
from Texas (1939, starring Dennis O’Keefe and Florence Rice).
Now back to waiting for
an official announcement for Dunkirk.
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