More Blu Ray, Scotty!Tons of Star Trek On The Way!5-12-09

Start saving fast, Trekkers.

On Tuesday, May 12th, Paramount/CBS
brings out a quartet of box sets saluting
ST: The Original Series, ST: The Next Generation
as well as Blu Ray/DVD releases of the first six films in the Star Trek franchise.


-Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection (Blu-Ray):

First six films in the series with tons of new stuff
and pretty much all the material from past DVD releases..


-Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy
(Blu-Ray and DVD Editions):

Perfect alternative to those who can't afford the OMPC above.

Features Wrath of Khan, Search For Spock
and The Voyage Home. Limited bonuses on this set,
but hey, it's blu-ray...available on standard DVD, too.


-The Best Of Star Trek: The Original Series (Standard DVD Only)

BTW, this set includes the spiffed up/George Lucas-esque versions of the episodes
City On The Edge Of Forever, Trouble W/Tribbles,
Amok Time and Balance of Terror


-The Best Of Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Standard DVD Only)

Includes Best Of Both Worlds (w/digitally inserted
special guest *Miley Cyrus),Yesterday's Enterprise,
and Measures Of A Man..

Artwork coming soon, but live long, prosper, and start skipping lunch.

*: Advance April Fools 2010 joke....

Transformers (1984)-Complete 1st Season25th Anniversary Edition: 6-16-09

Think this might make a nice tie-in with the Transformers 2 movie coming, campers?

(Visualize Hawkeye Pierce s*** eating grin here)

Even though I didn't care for it, I know there are thousands upon thousands, and "billions and billions" of you
in the universe who did...and still do.

So Shout (!) Factory the news, folks...as the coolest indie DVD studio in the world brings you:


The Transformers-The Complete First Season-25th Anniversary Edition on 6-16-09

Extras are scant, but all of the episodes will now sport all new stereo soundtracks along
with a rare PSA spot, a printable script and Origins of Transformers featurette...

Also, for the real die hard fans of the show: A massive 16 (!) disc collector's edition package featuring everything but your very own Transformer Chia Pet (scary thought) is being readied for July.

Details on the above the minute I get it...

-Jeffrey

MTV's "The State: Complete Series" 7-14-09

If you were a huge fan of this short lived but buzz worthy MTV favorite, you're gonna want to call in sick the week of July 14th, folks...


Paramount Home Video/MTV releases "The State: The Complete Series" 7-14-09 in a 5 disc set. Commentaries on every episode, outtakes, nearly two hours of un-aired sketches, interviews, cast appearance on Jon Stewart's MTV series, the infamous "Shut Up and Laugh, Panama City" MTV special from 1996...and more..

To refresh you noggins, some of the careers launched by this groundbreaking show:

Michael Ian Black (“Ed,” “STELLA,” “Viva Variety,” Run, Fat Boy, Run), Michael Showalter, David Wain , Kerri Kenney-Silver (“RENO 911!”, “Viva Variety”) and Thomas Lennon (“RENO 911!”, I Love You Man, The Unusuals).

Working on getting at least one of the cast members for a July appearance on the show...stay tuned..

For now, get updates on one of the biggest TV/DVD box sets of '09 @: TheState.mtv.com

Now if we could just get Michael Ian Black's genius on the long overdue "Ed" out on disc, my summer vacation plans will be complete..

-Jeffrey

Final Season Of October Road: 5-5-09

All 13 Episodes of the Final Season
Plus an Exclusive to DVD
Series Wrap-Up With Answers
to Fans’ Most Burning Questions

OCTOBER ROAD:
THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON

Three-Disc Set Coming

5-5-09

The residents of a small town come to terms with
lost love, regret and redemption in October Road
The Complete Second Season coming to DVD
on May 5, 2009 from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

Fans of this heart-warming hour-long drama can
own a special three-disc set, complete with all
13 second season episodes, plus a never-seen series
wrap-up created exclusivelyfor DVD, that addresses
the show’s unresolved storylines, such as the fate
of Nick and Hannah’s unrequited relationship,
the identity of Sam’s father, and what the future
holds for the citizens of Knight’s Ridge.

October Road Season 2 stars Bryan Greenberg
(Bride Wars, “One Tree Hill”),
Odette Yustman (The Unborn, Cloverfield),
Laura Prepon (“That’s 70’s Show”)
and Geoff Stults (The Break-Up, Wedding Crashers)
in a captivating and touching look at the challenges of going home again.

The series is executive produced by Josh Appelbaum,
Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg, who also serve as
executive producers of the ABC hit series, “Life on Mars.”

Bonus Features:

• Road’s End: The Final Chapter –
An exclusive series epilogue,
produced specifically for the
Season 2 DVD, wraps up the series
and finally reveals the identity
of Sam’s father and the fate of
Nick and Hannah’s unrequited relationship.

• Bumps In The Road – October Road Season 2 bloopers

• The Scenic Route: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour –
The cast of October Road shows viewers
around the newly transplanted Atlanta set,
now nestled in the heart of Hollywood.

The last time writer Nick Garrett (Bryan Greenberg)
left his hometown of Knight’s Ridge, he promised his
high school girlfriend, Hannah Daniels (Laura Prepon),
he would be back in six weeks. Ten years later,
he finally returns to and discovers life in the Ridge
has moved on without him. Hannah is a single mom,
raising a bright and articulate nine-year-old son, Sam,
and dating Nick’s high school nemesis, and the
men Nick once thought of as his closest friends
have grown older, and even grown up.

In the complete second season of this acclaimed
ABC television series, Nick stays on in Knight’s Ridge to repair his
relationships with family and friends, explore his budding romance
with Aubrey (Odette Yustman), and satisfy his suspicion
that Hannah’s son Sam may be his son.

The Island’s Secrets Are Revealed as
Television’s Ultimate Mystery Unfolds



LOST:

THE COMPLETE
FIFTH SEASON

Coming to Blu-ray™
Hi-Def with
Exclusive Content

Also on DVD

December 8, 2009

“LOST is one of TV’s best series”
- USA Today

Burbank, California, April 6, 2009 – Viewers can bring home the most sensational season to date of TV’s most intriguing series when LOST: The Complete Fifth Season comes to Blu-ray Hi-def and DVD on December 8, 2009 from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. All 17 episodes of the season fans and critics alike are calling the best ever are available to watch again and again in a five-disc set packed with never-before-seen bonus material, including revealing cast interviews and behind-the-scenes features, including exclusive content only available on the Blu-ray. The mystery, action and intrigue that have made LOST one of the most influential shows of the decade gather speed as the show nears its highly anticipated final season. The ultimate addition to every TV lover’s collection, LOST: The Complete Fifth Season is perfectly timed for holiday gift giving.

The show that revolutionized primetime proves once again why it is television’s most addictive and creative series, as the epic story of LOST twists, turns and spirals through time in its brilliant fifth season. Destiny sends the Oceanic 6 back to the Island and into the heart of the enigmatic Dharma Initiative. The reason they had to return and the fate of all those who were left behind is revealed as the momentum builds toward the much anticipated series finale in 2010. Some of LOST’s most pressing questions are finally answered in a spectacular 5-disc collection, packed with deleted scenes, exclusive interviews, as well as Blu-ray exclusive content.

LOST stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet and Terry O’Quinn as Locke.

LOST was created by Jeffrey Lieber and J.J. Abrams & Damon Lindelof. Abrams, Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz and Carlton Cuse serve as executive producers. LOST, which is filmed entirely on location in Hawaii and premiered on September 22, 2004, is from ABC Studios.

A fan favorite and critical darling since its 2004 premiere, LOST is “an epic big-screen adventure done for the small screen,” according to USA Today. “You will want to be there,” proclaims the Kansas City Star. TV Guide says, “You’d be crazy not to watch.” The San Francisco Chronicle raves that the show is “massively creative and
always entertaining.”

Final Season Of The Shield: 6-9-09

“One of television’s finest achievements and a game-changer in the cop genre.”

-- San Francisco Chronicle, Tim Goodman

Starring Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award Winner

Michael Chiklis

THE SHIELD: SEASON SEVEN

THE FINAL SEASON

Debuts on DVD on June 9

Packed with All-New Bonus Content

Including Featurettes on Final Season and Last Episode

Plus 51 Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Creator Shawn Ryan

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (March 30, 2009) – Los Angeles’ most controversial and corrupt cops are back one last time on June 9 when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment debuts The Shield: Season Seven on DVD. The final season of this gritty, hard-hitting police drama is loaded with exclusive bonus features, including commentary on every episode, plus 51 deleted scenes with optional commentary by creator Shawn Ryan and two all-new featurettes: one, a look at shooting the final season; the other, at being on set for the last episode. The Shield: Season Seven will be released as a four-disc collection containing all 13 episodes for $59.95 SRP.

The Shield -- a basic cable trailblazer and an all-time classic cop drama -- is centered around a tough crime-infested L.A. police precinct and its elite team of cops who are undeniably effective when it comes to cracking tough cases yet undeniably ‘dirty’ too. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Tim Goodman notes, “With its fearless writing and the ferocious intensity of Chiklis leading the way, ‘The Shield’ reinvented the cop genre. What remains compelling about ‘The Shield’ as it heads into its last hurrah are the gray areas and ethical gradations of the characters that have defined it. Creator Shawn Ryan found in the Vic Mackey character a likable monster. Much in the way that Tony Soprano’s actions conflicted viewers, Mackey’s poisonous mix of God-complex-meets-sanctimonious-criminality is hard to turn away from.”

Created and by Shawn Ryan (TV’s “The Unit”) and executive produced by Ryan, Kurt Sutter, Charles Eglee, Adam Fierro and Kevin Cremin, the show stars Emmy^® and Golden Globe^® winner Michael Chiklis (Fantastic Four) as rogue cop Detective Vic Mackey who administers his own brand of justice as he tries to keep balance in the criminal ecosystem of L.A.’s seedy Farmington Division. Mackey and his team -- which includes Emmy^® nominee CCH Pounder (TV’s “ER”), David Marciano (Lethal Weapon 2), Benito Martinez (Million Dollar Baby); Walton Goggins (The Bourne Identity), Jay Karnes (The Next Best Thing), Catherine Dent (Someone Like You) and Michael Jace (Forrest Gump) -- write the rules as they go along.

The Shield: Season Seven episodes:

Coefficient of Drag

Snitch

Money Shot

Genocide

Game Face

Animal Control

Bitches Brew

Parricide

Party Line

Petty Cash

Possible Kill Screen

Family Meeting

Major plot lines for The Shield: Season Seven

Shane (Goggins) resorts to kidnapping in his dangerous dance with the Armenian mob. Dutch (Karnes) risks everything by becoming personally involved in a homicide investigation. Pressured to take down Pezuela (F.J. Rio), Vic negotiates an immunity deal with ICE to vanquish Beltran (Francesco Quinn) at last, and the skeletons come tumbling out of the closet.

DVD Special Features:

· Widescreen Presentation

· Audio English 5.1 (Dolby Digital)

· Cast and Crew Commentary on Each Episode

· 51 Deleted Scenes with optional commentary by creator Shawn Ryan

· Featurette: Nobody Expects to Lose, Nobody Expects to Die: The Shield’s Final Season

· Featurette: Last Call: The Final Episode

· Closed Captioned

Six Disc Jack Lemon Set: 6/9/09

The Jack Lemmon Film Collection

Five Films on DVD for the First Time

Starring the Legendary Two-Time Academy Award® Winner

Phffft!- Operation Mad Ball

The Notorious Landlady

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Good Neighbor Sam

Bonus Materials Include a Two-Part Documentary

Hosted by Chris Lemmon and Featuring New Interviews

with Kevin Spacey, Andy Garcia and Shirley MacLaine

Six-Disc DVD Collection Debuts June 9

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (April 6, 2009) – In a career that spanned half a century, Jack Lemmon was truly America’s Everyman. Although he worked in every genre from musical to western, he truly excelled at comedy, turning in a series of nuanced performances that garnered worldwide acclaim. On June 9, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) honors one of the most versatile and accomplished actors in Hollywood history with The Jack Lemmon Film Collection, in partnership with Chris Lemmon, Jack’s son and biographer. This must-have six-disc boxed set features five classic performances from the gifted two-time Academy Award® winner for Save the Tiger (1973) and Mister Roberts (1955). The set includes Phffft! featuring Kim Novak, Operation Mad Ball, featuring the film debut of Ernie Kovacs, The Notorious Landlady featuring Fred Astaire, Under the Yum Yum Tree, and Good Neighbor Sam. In addition, the bonus materials include a two-part documentary hosted by Chris Lemmon featuring intimate interviews with friends, fans, and colleagues, including Kevin Spacey, Andy Garcia and Shirley MacLaine; and photographs from the life and work of Jack Lemmon. The collection also includes the Ford Television Theatre’s “Marriageable Male” episode starring Jack Lemmon. The Jack Lemmon Film Collection will be available for $59.95 SRP.

About Jack Lemmon (February 8th, 1925 - June 27, 2001)

One of the most versatile actors in the history of Hollywood was born in an elevator in the Boston suburb of Newton and attended Harvard University (Class of ‘47), where he became president of the Hasty Pudding Club. After a stint in the Navy, Lemmon became a professional actor, working on radio, television and Broadway.

Although he made his film debut playing a bit part in the 1949 film The Lady Takes a Sailor, his official debut as a cinematic leading man was opposite Judy Holliday in the 1954 comedy, It Should Happen to You. Lemmon worked with many legendary leading ladies over the course of his five-decade-long career, including Rita Hayworth (Fire Down Below), Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot), Julie Andrews (That’s Life!), Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment), Natalie Wood (The Great Race), Betty Grable (Three for the Show), Janet Leigh (My Sister Eileen), Doris Day (It Happened to Jane), June Allyson (You Can’t Run Away From It), Ann Margret (Grumpy Old Men), Sophia Loren (Grumpier Old Men) and many more.

In addition, he teamed with Walter Matthau in 11 films (including The Odd Couple, The Front Page and Grumpy Old Men), forming one of the most-beloved duos in film history. Lemmon was also a favorite actor of legendary director Billy Wilder, who cast Lemmon in many of his classic films, including Some Like It Hot (named by the American Film Institute as the funniest film of all time), The Apartment, Irma La Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti!, The Front Page and Buddy Buddy.

In 1956, Lemmon was awarded his first Academy Award® as Best Supporting Actor for Mister Roberts and in 1974 was named Best Actor for Save the Tiger, becoming the first actor to achieve this honor in two categories. His other Best Actor nominations include Some Like it Hot (1960), The Apartment (1961), Days of Wine and Roses (1963), The China Syndrome (1980), Tribute (1981), and Missing (1983). In 1988, the American Film Institute honored him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. He also holds the record for the most Golden Globe® nominations for acting (22, including both actors and actresses) of which he won six, plus the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1991. At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, he was nominated for “Best Actor in a Made for TV Movie” for his role in “Twelve Angry Men” losing to Ving Rhames. After accepting the award, Rhames asked Lemmon to come onstage, and in a move that stunned the audience, gave his award to him.

Lemmon was one of the best-liked actors in Hollywood. He is remembered as a genuine mentor as the actor Kevin Spacey recalled in a tribute. Already regarded as a legend, he met the teenage Spacey backstage after a theater performance and spoke to him about pursuing an acting career. Spacey would later work with Lemmon in Dad (1989), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and on stage in a revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” In 2000, Spacey dedicated his Oscar® for American Beauty to Lemmon.

Jack Lemmon’s place in film history is firmly established and his work will live on for generations, as evidenced by his being voted the 33rd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly and the 45th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premiere Magazine.

PHFFFT! (1954):

After their successful pairing in It Should Happen to You (1954), Oscar® winner Judy Holliday (Best Actress, Born Yesterday, 1951) and Lemmon were reteamed in this romantic comedy by George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch, Breakfast at Tiffany’s). Phffft! follows a married couple who divorce only to find out that their divorce is even less successful than their marriage. Columbia’s rising love goddess Kim Novak and Jack Carson provide support as the romantic interests Lemmon and Holliday take up with in an effort to make each other jealous.

OPERATION MAD BALL (1957):

Lemmon teamed up with director Richard Quine for the second of six films, (including My Sister Eileen; Bell, Book and Candle; It Happened to Jane; and How to Murder Your Wife) for this hilarious comedy about a party being planned by a group of enlisted men and their efforts to keep the fact a secret from an obnoxious, busy body officer. Lemmon headlined a cast of comedy legends including Ernie Kovacs (Our Man in Havana) and Mickey Rooney (Babes in Arms).

THE NOTORIUS LANDLADY (1962):

Richard Quine teamed two of his most frequent collaborators, Lemmon (in the fifth of their six films together) and Kim Novak (who made four films with the director) in a comedy/drama written by Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther, Victor/Victoria) and co-starring Fred Astaire (Top Hat, The Band Wagon). An American diplomat (Lemmon), stationed in London, rents a room from a landlady (Novak) only to discover she’s being watched by Scotland Yard and may have killed her missing husband.

UNDER THE YUM YUM TREE (1963):

Nominated for Best Motion Picture Musical/Comedy and Best Actor (Lemmon) Golden Globes, Under the Yum Yum Tree is a comedy about a young couple in love (Carol Lynley and Dean Jones) who agree to determine their “character compatibility” by living together platonically. Virtue eventually triumphs after a series of humorous incidents during which the couple’s lecherous landlord (Lemmon) hopes to seduce his new female tenant. Based on the risqué Broadway play by Lawrence Roman and co-starring Edie Adams (The Apartment, Lover Come Back), Imogene Coca (TV’s “Your Show of Shows”), and Paul Lynde (TV’s “Bewitched”); Under the Yum Yum Tree was a top-grosser at the box office.

GOOD NEIGHBOR SAM (1964):

This wacky comedy about a happily married advertising agent (Lemmon) trapped into posing as his sexy neighbor’s husband so she can inherit $15 million, co-stars Romy Schneider (The Victors), Dorothy Provine (The Great Race), and Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar). The story soon spirals out of control when her greedy in-laws hit the scene.

DVD Special Features Include:

· Two-part Documentary

· The Ford Television Theatre’s “Marriageable Male” episode

Snow White Coming to Blu-Ray: 10-6-09

The First...and "Fairest One Of All" Comes To Life As Never Before!!

Walt Disney Studios
Home Entertainment
Proudly Announces
the Highly Anticipated
Hi-Def Debut

of Walt Disney's
Animated Classic:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

An Exciting Industry First:
Blu-ray™+ DVD Combo Pack

*October 6, 2009

*(7 Weeks Before Standard Definition DVD Release)

Burbank, Calif., April 3, 2009 – Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) proudly announces the highly-anticipated, October 6 high definition debut of the most-acclaimed animated movie ever made, Walt Disney’s original classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Making history again with its exciting debut, the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ Blu-ray bow marks the first time Disney Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack (2 Blu-ray discs + DVD) has ever been released, followed seven weeks later with the release of a Deluxe 2-Disc Classic standard definition DVD on November 24. The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ Blu-ray edition will undoubtedly represent the quintessential way to experience this landmark film.

“We are thrilled that the consumer has clearly recognized the value in our Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack releases and will have another opportunity to maximize their viewing options in October with Snow White,” Bob Chapek, President of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, said. “With today’s technological breakthroughs found in Blu-ray, we are confident that this version of Snow White will easily become the reference point for high definition home entertainment libraries and family collections all over the world.”

Perfectly timed for holiday gift-giving and available for a limited time only, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ historic high definition release will include a spectacular assortment of all new bonus features. A magical tale filled with laughter and excitement, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the jewel in Disney’s cinematic crown.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been unavailable in any form, since 2001. The film earned a 1939 honorary Academy Award® for “significant screen innovation which has charmed millions, and pioneered a great new entertainment field." And now, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Blu-ray becomes the ultimate home entertainment experience with state-of-the-art picture restoration and a pristine 7.1 Digital Theater System Hi-Def Surround Sound.

About Platinum Combo Packs (Blu-ray + DVD in a single package):

To provide consumers with unprecedented quality, value and portability of their favorite Disney classics, in 2008 WDSHE pioneered the Combo Pack – Blu-ray Disc(s) plus a DVD in a single package. Current Disney Platinum Edition titles available as Combo Packs include Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio.

About Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:
Celebrated as an entertainment landmark for over 70 years, the first full-length animated film ever made, and still the ‘fairest of them all,” Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ world premiere represented a major milestone for the world of animation, a giant leap forward for The Walt Disney Company. It is one of the most beloved and most watched films in history. As one of the first films ever to be designated for preservation by the Library of Congress, it has been entertaining movie-goers and critics alike for decades. It is also the first film ever to have a motion picture soundtrack, as well as the first film that uses music to advance the story. To date, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has been released theatrically a total of nine times.

Synopsis:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the time-honored story of a beautiful princess whose blossoming beauty disturbs her stepmother the Queen. Each day the Queen asks a mysterious magic mirror the quintessential question: "mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all." As long as the mirror answers the Queen's name, all is well. However, when one day the mirror replies with Snow White’s name, the evil Queen begins her quest to kill the young girl, so she may once again be "the fairest of them all."


Snow White’s escape from the evil Queen's plan leads her deep into the forest and to a small cottage where she meets, in one of the most famous scenes in motion picture history, the Seven Dwarfs. Once "off to work" they go, the wicked Queen persuades Snow White to take a bite of a poisonous apple that places a powerful sleeping curse on the young beauty. Heartbroken, the dwarfs make a glass coffin for their friend, because she is too beautiful to bury. Only when a handsome Prince -- who had previously fallen in love with Snow White -- finds her and kisses her, does she awaken, "to live happily ever after."


The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Blu-ray™ + DVD Combo Pack is priced at $39.99 SRP and the 2-Disc DVD set is priced at $29.99 SRP.