Home Media Magazine - November 23-29, 2008 - (Page 22) NEWS ‘Redemption’ on DVD www.homemediamagazine.com JUST ANNOUNCED A Weekly Product Update* The House Bunny STREET DATE Righteous Kill BOX OFFICE (MILLIONS) Igor TITLE PREBOOK GENRE PRICE The House Bunny 12/19 11/20 $48.2 Comedy DVD $28.96, BD $39.95 Actors Robert Carlyle (left) and Kiefer Sutherland arrive at the 24: Redemption premiere screening in New York City Nov. 19. The film airs on Fox Nov. 23 and heads to DVD this week from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment as a special extended cut Photo by: Amy Sussman/Fox featuring more than 10 minutes of new footage. DATE CHANGE. Sony Pictures. 2008. Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Kat Dennings. After she is kicked out of the Playboy mansion, a Playboy bunny takes a job as a housemother to a group of socially awkward sorority girls. Also available on UMD ($24.94). Righteous Kill 1/6/09 12/04 $39.7 Thriller DVD $29.98, BD $39.98 Anchor Bay. 2008. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, John Leguizamo, Brian Dennehy, Donnie Wahlberg. Two detectives who are ready for retirement are called for one last case involving a serial killer who is killing criminals. TALENT TALK ‘Wall-E’ Director Discusses Influences By Craig Modderno ith a string of original animated hits, Pixar has become a brand label for families seeking quality entertainment. Wall-E director-screenwriter Andrew Stanton joined Pixar in 1990 as its second animator and ninth employee. Finding Nemo, which he cowrote and directed, won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003. Stanton also received an Oscar nomination for that film and Toy Story. Wall-E, which came out on DVD and Blu-ray Disc this month, deals with an isolated robot in outer space as its simple plotline. But like most Pixar films, it’s much more emotionally complex than that. Igor 1/20/09 12/31 $19.1 Animated DVD $17.99, BD $39.99 Fox/MGM. 2008. Voices of John Cusack, John Cleese, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, Eddie Izzard. In this family-friendly twist to a classic tale, a mad scientist’s assistant creates a female monster, a sweet girl who he then has to rescue from the evil Dr. Schadenfreude. The Duchess 12/28 Now $13.5 Drama DVD $19.99, BD $29.99 W of the Third Kind big time. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Outland — to me this was the golden era of pictures. 2001 has the most clinically clean environment I was seeking for Wall-E. For my fellow filmmakers to get an idea of the tone and mood of Wall-E, I showed a clip reel containing moments from 2001, Amadeus, The Station Agent and Black Stallion. For technical purposes and again for the type of picture I wanted, on our lunch breaks for a year I showed all the Buster Keaton films and Charlie Chaplin films I could find and director Douglas Trumbull’s underrated masterpiece Silent Running. I HM: Do you have actors in mind when you write the characters for your films? Paramount. 2008. Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper. Based on the true story of Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, who became one of Britain’s most famous, and fashionable, political icons. Ghost Town 12/28 Now $13.3 Comedy DVD $19.99, BD $29.99 Paramount. 2008. Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear. A man with zero people skills undergoes routine surgery, only to die and be revived with the ability to see and speak to the dead. Includes commentary, a making-of featurette and more. City of Ember 1/20/09 12/24 $7.6 Fantasy DVD $29.98 Fox. 2008. Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Saoirse Ronan. Based on the bestselling novel by Jeanne Duprau, two teenagers race against time to save an underground city powered by a failing generator. The Rocker 1/27/09 12/31 $6.4 Comedy DVD $29.98, BD $39.99 Fox. 2008. Rainn Wilson, Emma Stone, Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger. A middle-aged man has the opportunity to relive his rock-and-roll dreams when his teenage nephew’s band desperately needs a drummer to play the senior prom. College 1/27/09 12/31 $4.7 Comedy DVD $29.98 Fox/MGM. 2008. Drake Bell, Nick Zano, Kevin Covais, Andrew Caldwell. Three high-school seniors pledge a rowdy fraternity to gain access to the house party during a weekend visit to a local college campus. Frozen River 2/10/09 12/25 $2.3 Drama DVD $28.96 I HM: What part of the filmmaking process is most revered at Pixar? Stanton: The story. Without a good one we won’t move forward. It’s as simple as that. The story has to appeal to people of all ages and ethnicities, which is why our films are syndicated all over the world. We take risks. However, as we deal in subjects from talking fish and talking toys to talking cars etc., we have one constant in all our films, and that is to never have our characters talk down to our audience. I HM: How much of an influence did 2001: A Space Odyssey have on Wall-E? Stanton: Sometimes. And sometimes I’m wrong. Originally I wouldn’t see Albert Brooks to read for the lead in Finding Nemo because I thought he was too old (laughs). I know what you’re thinking. How can someone be too old to play an animated character? He just wasn’t who I had in mind when I wrote the part, and, of course, he turned out to be wonderful. In Wall-E I had one of the two main characters saving the other and after I showed the sequence to the many employees at Pixar, they all agreed it should be the opposite of what I had envisioned. I HM: A handful of Pixar titles are available on Blu-ray Disc. Will other films debut soon on Blu-ray? Sony Pictures. 2008. Melissa Leo, Misty Upham, Charlie McDermott, Mark Boone Jr. Two single mothers transport illegal immigrants across the U.S. border in an attempt to earn enough money to make ends meet. Everybody Wants to Be Italian 2/3/09 1/7/09 $0.35 Comedy DVD $27.98 Lionsgate. 2008. Penny Marshall, Jay Jablonski, Cerina Vinent, Marisa Petroro. A man who still pines for his ex-girlfriend is set up on a blind date with a beautiful Italian woman, who he fears won’t like him because he is not Italian. Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway 2/3/09 1/1/09 DTV Musical DVD $24.95, BD $38.96 Sony Pictures. 2008. The video captures the final performance of the ground-breaking musical that played for 12 years on Broadway. Includes a retrospective documentary, featurettes and more. Alien Raiders 2/17/09 1/13/09 DTV Horror DVD $24.98 Warner. 2008. Carlos Bernard, Matthew St. Patrick, Rockmund Dunbar, Courtney Ford. A small band of raiders is on a mission to destroy the alien forces who have taken shoppers hostage inside a market. Wonder Woman 3/3/09 1/20/09 DTV Animated DVD $19.98, BD $34.99 Stanton: A lot, but I was influenced by seemingly all science-fiction films made between 1968 and 1982, which were the years that shaped my consciousness about movies. It includes Silent Running, Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars and Close Encounters Warner. 2008. Voices of Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Alfred Molina, Virginia Madsen, Rosario Dawson, Oliver Platt, David McCallum. Wonder Woman saves the world from destruction in this new animated feature. Also available in a two-DVD special edition at $29.98. Ace Ventura Jr. — Pet Detective 3/3/09 1/27/09 DTV Comedy DVD $24.98 Stanton: Most definitely. We love the format and respect the technology and will with our future films release them on DVD and Blu-ray at the same time. Warner. 2008. Josh Flitter, Emma Lockhart, Austin Rogers. The 12-year-old son of Ace Ventura is following in his father’s footsteps as a natural pet detective, complete with funny missteps. Includes extended scenes, a gag reel, making-of featurettes and more. * In order of box office, then prebook date 22 Home Media Magazine November 23–29, 2008 http://www.homemediamagazine.com
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