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MILL CREEK ENTERTAINMENT PIPELINE Edited by John Latchem AMERICA’S CONFLICT VIETNAM IS PROUD TO PRESENT ‘First Sunday’ Marks Playwright’s First Foray Into Film By Billy Gil said. “He would chime in at different junctures and pull me URBAN If playwright-turned-director David E. Talbert had aside and give me tips. Tracy Morgan was doing stand-up a nickel each time he was compared to comedy during the whole thing. The Talbert Plays on DVD Tyler Perry, he says, he’d be able to give DVD has tons of funny stuff that Tracy I David E. Talbert 3-Pack (The up filmmaking altogether. did.” “We both come from the same genre Fabric of a Man/He Say, She Say, The $28.95 DVD (out May 6, with of theater, so it’s not hard to make that But What Does God Say?/Love on orders due April 3) also includes a comcomparison,” Talbert said of his urban- Layaway) – David E. Talbert mentary with Talbert, deleted scenes, themed comedies. “But he’s lived most I David E. Talbert’s He Say She Say outtakes and several featurettes. The of his life in front of the camera, while … But What Does God Say? – Urban $38.96 Blu-ray Disc has the same special Works I’ve been behind the scenes.” features, plus a “fact track” with pop-up Indeed, Talbert leaves the acting in his I David E. Talbert’s The Fabric of a trivia and additional information. The first film, First Sunday, to some scene- Man – David E. Talbert film also is available on a $24.94 UMD. stealing stars, including Ice Cube, Tracy I Love on Layaway – David E. “We saved a lot of the outtakes because Morgan and Katt Williams. The film fol- Talbert there was so much funny in that movie,” lows two petty crooks, Cube and Morgan, I Mr. Right Now! – Zomba Talbert said. “We added a lot of these outwho try to hold up their neighborhood takes from Katt Williams. I made sure to church when they see how much money the church raises. keep the camera on him because he’s a master of ad lib. When “Cube was my unofficial second director on set,” Talbert they sent me the DVD, I went straight to the outtakes.” MULTI-DISC COLLECTORS SET Amazing Documentary Footage Brings this American Conflict to Life! Don Most Shows Us the ‘Moola’ By Billy Gil COMEDY How’s this for an unlikely scenario: A former cast member of “Happy Days” directs a comedy starring a Baldwin brother about a company that makes glow sticks used by dairy farmers to get cows to start producing milk. That’s the story behind Moola, directed by Don Most, formerly known as Ralph Malph on TV’s “Happy Days.” Allumination Filmworks brings Moola to DVD May 6 for $29.98. Orders are due April 1. “I developed the story with one of the producers, Stan Holland, based on things I observed — he was one of the partners in a company very simiDirector Don Most Be an eyewitness to the conflict that divided our nation and changed the very fabric of society. This collection of harrowing and compelling footage traces the evolution from a regional military engagement to an ever-expanding war that ultimately spanned three presidents. From strategic political moves to the immediacy of jungle warfare and he weapons with which the war was waged, Vietnam: America’s Conflict captures the sweep of history and the agony of a generation. $ 4-DISC SET 14.98 MSRP Available: 5-6-08 lar [to the one depicted in the film],” Most said. “Some of it was enhanced for dramatic or comedic events, but unbelievably some of this stuff is actually true.” Moola follows the emotional war zone that develops when the strug- gling company finds its product may suddenly become very profitable. The film stars Daniel Baldwin, William Mapother (“Lost”), Efren Ramirez (Napoleon Dynamite), Charlotte Ross (“NYPD Blue”), Doug Hutchison (“Lost”) and Treat Williams (“Everwood”). “It’s sort of like a corporate Rocky,” Most said. Moola is Most’s second film as director, after the 1999 drama The Last Best Sunday. “The guy who directed most of ‘Happy Days,’ Jerry Paris, was an incredibly talented and unique individual,” Most said. “If you asked anyone, including Ron [Howard], he would tell you Jerry was a big influence.” BRIEFS I SONY SLATES MORE STOOGES Another DVD set of vintage Three Stooges comedy shorts is on its way from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The Three Stooges Collection Vol. Two: 1937-1939 includes 24 digitally restored shorts, arranged chronologically and packaged in a twodisc set. The set, highlighted by such favorites as “Dizzy Doctors,” “Saved by the Belle” and “Calling All Curs,” streets May 27. I FOX, WWE GO ‘BEHIND ENEMY LINES’ Production begins this week in Puerto Rico on Behind Enemy Lines 3: Colombia, the second direct-to-video sequel to Behind Enemy Lines from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. It’s the ﬁrst DTV collaboration between the studio and WWE Films; wrestling superstar Mr. Kennedy heads the cast. – Thomas K. Arnold Call: (866) 410-9000 26 Home Media Magazine March 30–April 5, 2008

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