Paramount Home Entertainment has sent over artwork for a new collector’s edition of The Rainmaker which stars Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Jon Voight, Claire Danes, and Mickey Rourke. This Francis Ford Coppola directed film will be available to own on July 24, and should retail at around $14.99.
MGM Home Entertainment has announced a 20th Anniversary Edition of Robocop which stars Peter Weller, Kurtwood Smith, and Ronny Cox. The two-disc special edition will be available to own on August 21, and should retail at around $22.98. The set will include both the theatrical and extended cuts (presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with DTS 5.1 Surround tracks), along with commentary by director Paul Verhoven, writer Ed Neumeier and executive producer Jon Davison, a Flesh And Steel: The Making Of Robocop featurette, a Shooting Robocop 1987 featurette, a Making Robocop 1987 featurette, The Boardroom: Storyboard With Commentary By Animator Phil Tippet featurette, deleted scenes, an OCP Press Conference feature, a Nun In The Street Interview, and further featurettes on the cast, special effects, and design. Completing the set will be a Villains Of Old Detroit featurette, a Special Effects: Then And Now featurette, a Robocop: Creating A Legend featurette, and trailers and TV spots.
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.
