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Universal Home Video has announced a special edition of the Mike Hodges directed Flash Gordon which stars Melody Anderson, Timothy Dalton, and Sam J. Jones. The “Saviour of the Universe Edition” will be available to own on August 7th, and should retail at around $26.98. The film itself will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. The extra material has yet to be revealed.
Warner Brothers has announced the made-for-video movie Babylon 5: The Lost Tales which features the original cast including Bruce Boxleitner, Tracy Scoggins and Peter Woodward. The disc will be available to own on July 31st, and should retail at around $24.98. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. The only extra material will be the Straczynski Diaries – a multi-part series of vignettes as filmed by J. Michael Straczynski as he documents every phase of pre-production, production and post-production for The Lost Tales. Stay tuned for artwork.
Anchor Bay Entertainment has been renamed Starz Home Entertainment. In 2006, Liberty Media (the owner of the Starz cable network) purchased Anchor Bay’s parent company IDT Entertainment and renamed it Starz Media. Starz (Anchor Bay) Entertainment has been the current home for a number of cult horror films, the “Three’s Company” and “Xena: Warrior Princess” television series, as well as most of the libraries of Carsey-Werner Productions, Embassy Pictures, EMI Films, New World Pictures, Rankin-Bass, Stephen J. Cannell Productions, Trancas International Pictures and some of the 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures libraries, among others.
Heroes star Masi Oka and Nate Torrence, who are shooting the big-screen adaptation of Get Smart, are set to reprise their characters for a direct-to-DVD spinoff. Get Smarter: Bruce and Lloyd Out of Control is being positioned as parallel content to the feature film, and will be released domestically 10 days after Get Smart. The story will at times cross over with the feature film and the direct-to-DVD movie might even recycle scenes from the feature. It is being put out by Warner Premiere, the new direct-to-DVD and direct-to-platform production arm of Warner Brothers Entertainment. Oka will play Bruce, a techie at spy agency CONTROL, while Torrence is Lloyd, a geeky analyst. No director has yet been hired yet but the division hopes to shoot this summer, as Get Smart, is wrapping up. Torrence is a regular on NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
