Home Media Magazine - December 7-13, 2008 - (Page 20) PIPELINE www.homemediamagazine.com Studios Celebrate Black History Month By Kyra Kudick ebruary is Black History Month, and studios are celebrating by releasing film collections honoring black performers and moments in black history. Due Dec. 9 from First Run Features is The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye (DVD $24.95), featuring the works Greetings From Africa, The Potluck and the Passion, An Untitled Portrait, Vanilla Sex, She Don’t Fade and Janine. Dunye, the black filmmaker who has been referred to as “the lesbian Spike Lee” by Newsday, also has her first landmark film, The Watermelon Woman, available on DVD from First Run at $19.95. Jan. 6, 2009, (prebook Dec. 10) 20th Century Fox and MGM Home Entertainment release DVDs in four categories: A History of Determination, A History of Pride, A History of Entertainment and A History of Success. The titles in the categories are available individually at $14.98 each. A History of Determination includes the biopics AKA Cassius Clay, about legendary boxer Muhammad Ali; Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed, the story of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s bid for the presidency; King (1978), the TV mini-series about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; The Jackie Robinson Story; The Antwone Fisher Story; and Woman, Thou Art Loosed, a drama based on a T.D. Jakes novel. A History of Pride includes the dramas Drumline, Hotel Rwanda, Men of Honor, Redemption, Roll Bounce and The Great White Hope. A History of Entertainment features Bill Cosby: Himself; Cedric the Entertainer; The Five Heartbeats, a drama about the rise and fall of a vocal group; the basketball comedy Rebound, starring Martin Lawrence; and The Bernie Mac Show: Season 1. A History of Success has Barbershop; I, Robot; In the Heat of the Night, Man on Fire and The Salon. Also due Jan. 6, 2009 (prebook Dec. 9) is New York Noir: The History of Black New York, from Little Dizzy Home Video (DVD $14.99). The acclaimed documentary examines the history of New York’s black culture from the early 1600s onward, covering such ground as the Harlem Renaissance. Jan. 27. 2009, Mill Creek Entertainment releases Tupac Assassination – Part II: Reckoning, the followup to 2007’s Tupac Assassination: Conspiracy or Revenge, exploring the motives behind the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, and including behind-the-scenes footage from Shakur’s music videos as well as outtakes and alternate footage from the videos. Mill Creek will release it as a two-DVD compilation, with the director’s cut of Conspiracy or Revenge, and the all-new documentary, at $14.98. Warner Home Video Jan. 27, 2009, (prebook Dec. 23) honors two iconic artists when it releases Listen Up! The Lives of Quincy Jones and the Sidney Poitier Film Collection. The Sidney Poitier Film Collection (DVD $39.92) features the films Edge of the City (1957), A Warm December (1973), Something of Value (1957) and A Patch of Blue (1965). Among his many career accomplishments, Poitier was the first black man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor. Listen Up! The Lives of Quincy Jones (DVD $24.98) is a documentary on the life and career of the famed musician, composer and producer. The DVD includes interviews with Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey and Jesse Jackson. Also included are several featurettes and an offer for 50 free song downloads from eMusic.com. Additional music icons are honored in the recent Infinity Entertainment Group doublefeature Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story and Stax Volt Review: Live in Norway 1967 (DVD $24.98). Check out Billy Gil’s online blog at www.homemediamagazine.com for more information on this and other music releases. Billy Gil contributed to this article. Getting ‘Lost’ on Disc TALENT TALK I HM: Watching season four in one or two sittings on DVD, do you think there’s a break in style between the pre-strike and post-strike episodes? By Chris Tribbey n advance of the Blu-ray Disc ($96.99) and DVD ($59.99) releases of Lost: The Complete Fourth Season Dec. 9, from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, co-executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof discussed plot points, bonus features and marketing the series. I ent levels. They’re almost designed for repeat viewings. In fact, our habitual use of planting hidden Easter eggs is tailor-made for the DVD experience. Personally, I love watching my favorite shows (particularly serialized ones like “Dexter”) one after the other. I sometimes think about how frustrating it would’ve been to read the Harry Potter books one chapter at a time once a week. I’d pretty much kill myself. I HM: When will seasons one and two be getting Bluray treatment? Lindelof: The storytelling has never been easy. But we’ve always felt that less is more. The complaint that we got most often in the first Lindelof: Hopefully not. The fact of the matter couple seasons of the show is that we were not is that we designed out — at moving the story forward fast least roughly — the entire 16enough — stalling — which, unepisode season, planting flags fortunately, is a necessary tactic as to what would happen where when you’re doing 25 episodes in the grand scheme of things. a year. I HM: Do you feel that following the various viral campaigns that have been tied to the show is essential for understanding the mythology? I HM: With the end of the series looming in 2010, is a feature film being considered at all? I HM: How do you view the “Lost” DVD sets? Are they part and parcel of the show? Are they extensions of it? And what are your thoughts on the people experiencing “Lost” week-to-week on TV versus in two or three commercial-free sittings on DVD? Cuse: We have heard of no plans to go back and re-release seasons one and two on Bluray. But if I were a betting man, I’d lay down Lindelof: The DVDs are definitely part and a lot of money that you’ll be able to buy a parcel of the show. We’ve always thought of complete-series Blu-ray boxed set when all is an episode of “Lost” playing on several differ- said and done. Lindelof: The answer is no. At least not by us. We’ve always felt that the show should definitively end the same place it started: on television. To bring our characters to some sort of cliffhanger where the audience gets none of the answers that they really care about and then say, “Now give us $10, buy some I HM: By having shorter seasons now, do you feel the popcorn and we’ll give you the rest!” would storytelling has become much easier? pretty much be the worst thing ever. Cuse: We consider the viral campaigns to just be additive and nonessential. Our rule of thumb is you should not need to watch anything but the mothership — the network show — to have a complete understanding (or at least as much as that is possible) of the show. FOX SLATES DVDS FOR WINOS By Billy Gil O n Feb. 3, 2009, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will uncork two titles for the enthusiast of both good wine and good film: Bottle Shock (DVD $27.98) and Sideways (Blu-ray Disc $39.99). Prebook is Jan. 7, 2009. Bottle Shock, a 2008 critical favorite, details the true story of a vintner (Alan Rickman) who in 1976 won a blind taste challenge called “The Judgment of Paris,” helping establish California as a premiere place for wine. The film also stars Bill Pullman, Freddy Rodriguez, Chris Pine, Rachael Taylor, Eliza Dushku and Dennis Farina. The Bottle Shock DVD includes commentary by Pullman, Pine, Dushku, director/producer Randall Miller, writer/producer Jody Slavin, producer J. Todd Harris and writers Ross Schwartz and Lannette Pabon; as well as a making-of featurette, deleted scenes and the “Chateau Montelena: One Winery’s Search for Excellence” featurette. Sideways, from 2004, is an Oscar-win- ning film about a wine fan (Paul Giamatti) who takes his best friend (Thomas Haden Church) to California’s wine country in Santa Ynez Valley for a bachelor party. Things get complicated when they become involved with a local waitress (Virginia Madsen) and a winery employee (Sandra Oh). The Sideways Blu-ray includes commentary by Giamatti and Church, deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes featurette and three Easter eggs, which include a gag reel and a wrap party slide show reel. The two movies also will be available in The Perfect Pairing DVD two-pack at $29.98. FOX STARTS PRODUCTION ON ‘THE MARINE 2’ By Billy Gil 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and WWE Studios have begun production on the direct-to-video film The Marine 2 in Phuket, Thailand. Production started Nov. 21, and the DVD is due in 2010. Roel Reiné (Pistol Whipped) will direct the film, a sequel to the 2006 film The Marine, which starred WWE’s John Cena as a recently discharged marine who must track down a group of diamond thieves who kidnapped his wife. DTV The Marine 2 will feature fellow WWE star Ted DiBiase Jr., as well as Temuera Morrison (Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of The Clones), Lara Cox (“The Lost World”), Robert Coleby (The Marine) and Michael Rooker (Jumper). The Marine 2 marks the second direct-to-video offering from a deal between WWE Studios and Fox Filmed Entertainment for film projects featuring WWE stars. The deal incorporates theatrical, direct digital download and DTV projects. Home Media Magazine December 7–13, 2008 http://www.homemediamagazine.com http://www.eMusic.com http://www.homemediamagazine.com
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