Home Media Magazine - December 28, 2008 - (Page 19) www.homemediamagazine.com TALENT TALK PIPELINE Joss Whedon Pages ‘Dr. Horrible’ By John Latchem oss Whedon, creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” is bringing his hit Internet serial “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” to DVD through Amazon.com’s CreateSpace DVD-on-demand program. “Dr. Horrible,” which debuted in several installments this past summer, stars Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your Mother”) as a wannabe supervillain who sings about how his schemes are constantly foiled by the heroic Captain Hammer, played by Nathan Fillion (“Firefly”). To make matters worse, Hammer also has captured the affections of the girl (Felicia Day) with whom Dr. Horrible has fallen in love. CreateSpace exclusively offers “Dr. Horrible” on DVD at $9.99, discounted from $14.99. Also available exclusively at Amazon is the “Dr. Horrible” CD soundtrack at $11.99. The video and soundtrack also are available as digital downloads via Amazon Video on Demand and Amazon MP3. The DVD version includes behindthe-scenes extras, including “Evil League of Evil” application videos from fans, as well as “Commentary! The Musical,” featuring Harris, Day, Fillion and the writing team. Whedon crafted the program with his family during last year’s writers strike. He said his aim was to prove the Internet is a viable outlet for creativity when mainstream distribution channels are not available. “‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’ was always meant to be part of a new wave of (somewhat old-fashioned) entertainment,” he said. “The next step in that plan relies entirely on CreateSpace, a system that creates the exact supply for our entirely unpredictable demand.” Mark Duplass of ‘Baghead’ Answers More Questions Horror spoof writer-director answers FAQs on DVD’s special feature By Billy Gil n promoting their films, writers and directors inevitably face the same questions, day after day. Writer-directors Jay and Mark Duplass, indie upstarts behind Sony Pictures Classics’ Baghead, circumvented some repeat interviews by recording a special feature in which the Duplass Brothers interview themselves, asking themselves their own most-asked questions while holding their babies. The special feature was included on the Baghead DVD, which came out this week from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, at $28.96. The film follows four Duplass friends — two guys and two girls with complicated entanglements — who are struggling to make it in Hollywood as actors, writers and directors. They decide to hightail it to a cabin for the weekend to write a low-budget horror flick about a murderer who wears a bag on his head. However, their fictional character begins to pop up and wreak havoc upon them. From the special feature, viewers can glean the Sundance Film Festival favorite was mostly scripted and was shot on a budget of $1,000. They can learn that the inspiration for Baghead came while the brothers were shooting their film The Puffy Chair and someone suggested a scary film about “a dude with a bag on his head staring at you through your window.” “Everybody laughed, but then later that night, people kind of had some nightmares, and at breakfast the next morning, people were like, kind of pissed off because they were like, dude, that was actually really scary,” the brothers explain on the special feature. “So we got really excited about the laughing, scaring combination … that that could bring up.” We asked Mark Duplass anything else we could think of. J I I HM: Are the characters in the film modeled after specific people you know or more of an amalgam of personas? MD: We started with character archetypes, almost caricatures. We’re going to have the hottie guy who’s been on “CSI” like four times but wants to get a good role, his chubby friend, the young girl who just got to Hollywood and the older woman … who’s going to be put out to pasture. … The characters define themselves almost in relation to each other. Greta [Gerwig], the actress who played Michelle (the young actress), is a lot smarter as a person than we originally envisioned Michelle to be, but it was something we went with. … A lot of it relies on natural chemistry and people defining their characters. I HM: Are the two male characters Matt and Chad (the two actors) based on you two? to survive in this world. I have a chance of being crushed here, so I have to be careful,’ is maybe something we get from our mom. … In terms of specific dynamics between the two of us, there’s not much that I can see there. I’m sure people who know us could have a field day with us. I HM: Is the special feature in which you answer your own FAQs with your babies something you’ll continue doing with your children on future DVDs? MD: I don’t think so, specifically, but that being said, Jay and I can both identify with a lot of the characters. Our father is a very type A, driving individual, and Jay and I both have that tunnel-vision drive to be successful. Likewise with the Chad character (the chubby friend), that feeling of like, ‘I just may be too sensitive MD: I don’t know. That kind of popped out of nowhere. I actually have not even seen that footage, so I’m kind of curious how it looks. Jay and I try not to overdo things like that and try to make them representative of where we are in our lives. For The Puffy Chair, it was Jay and I driving around to Hollywood meetings because that’s what Jay and I did for a year. I think it would be really awesome to have one of the girls when they were five or six interview us with their own questions. I’m actually at a production lunch meeting as we speak. We usually work with a cast and crew of one to 20 people. Now we have people who look for locations for us. It’s incredible! Read more at HomeMediaMagazine.com B RIEF S I WARNER, TCM RELEASE DORIS DAY PACK Doris Day and her girl-next-door charm come to DVD once again April 7 (prebook March 30) when Warner Home Video and Tuner Classic Movies release the five-DVD set TCM Spotlight: The Doris Day Collection at $49.92. It includes April in Paris, It’s a Great Feeling, Starlift, Tea for Two and Tunnel of Love. In April in Paris, Day plays a chorus girl who mistakenly receives an invitation to represent American theater in an art exposition in Paris. In It’s a Great Feeling, Day hopes to get her big break in Hollywood and receives help from two actors, Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan. Starlift features Day in a musical. Tea for Two is a reworking of No, No, Nannette, in which Day plays a wealthy heiress who bets her uncle $25,000 dollars that she can say no to everything for 48 hours. In Tunnel of Love, Day plays as a wife who cannot conceive and tries to adopt a child. three award-winning animated titles Feb. 10 (prebook Jan. 4). The three films will be listed at $9.98 each. The films are A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. A Grand Day Out features the pair as they head to the moon to replenish their lack of cheese. In A Close Shave the two are involuntarily involved in a scheme where Gromit is framed and sent to jail, and Wallace and his friends must save him. And Wallace gets himself into trouble of his own when he puts on a pair of mechanical trousers controlled by a penguin in The Wrong Trousers. Each title includes a commentary with creator Nick Park, a featurette and “cracking contraptions.” The titles were previously released as Wallace & Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures, which sold more than 750,000 units, according to the companies. — Michael Lee I LIONSGATE, HIT CELEBRATE WALLACE AND GROMIT Lionsgate and HIT Entertainment are set to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the “Wallace and Gromit” series by releasing December 28, 2008–January 4, 2009 Home Media Magazine 19 http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://www.HomeMediaMagazine.com
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