Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will debut Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan on DVD March 6 without any changes to the big screen version, as lawsuits seeking to have the film altered for disc have been defeated, reports Variety. The disc will come with deleted scenes and scenes from Borat’s visits to the Toronto International Film Festival, Cannes and Comic Con. Borat has received Golden Globes nominations for comedy pic and for Cohen as actor.
Warner Home Video announced that it will release the Matrix franchise and all of the Harry Potter films on HD DVD in 2007. The company will also release an HD DVD version of its hit animated film Happy Feet this year. The new titles are among a full slate of releases for 2007, joining such films as Superman Returns in the high-definition format. Warner Home Video will continue to release a variety of the most successful titles from its library on HD-DVD Blu Ray.
World Wrestling Entertainment today unveiled its home entertainment release schedule for 2007. Twenty-five new titles are slated for release in 2007. Among the highlights is �Royal Rumble The Complete Anthology,� a 20-disc box set covering the first 20 Royal Rumble events, including 14 never before released on DVD. Additionally the schedule includes a profile DVD on one of the most popular professional wrestling factions of all time, Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen, plus a first ever WWE DVD release on the recent library acquisition of World Class Championship Wrestling, and an in-depth look back at the history of the Ladder Match. Additional profile DVDs about John Cena, Rey Mysterio�, and Stone Cold Steve Austin will cover their lives both inside and outside professional wrestling.
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Brett Ratner, director of X-Men: The Last Stand, told IGN that he is working on a Special Edition DVD to follow the initial release of the film on October 3. “Well, there’s almost an hour-long making-of, my personal making of the movie, my experiences making the movie,” Ratner said during a phone interview. “There’s special features which include, you know, just basically the creation of the movie – I mean, how we did it in the storyboards and original animatics.”
What’s also interesting is that XMenFilms is reporting that Wal-Mart stores will include a bonus disc when you buy X-Men: The Last Stand there which features 50 minutes of additional behind-the-scenes footage.
The Weinstein Company has revealed the official artwork for Clerks II which stars Rosario Dawson, Kevin Smith, and Jason Mewes. The disc will be available on December 5, 2006, and should retail at around $29.95. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 track. Extras will include an audio commentary with Kevin Smith and co, deleted scenes, a ninety-minute behind the scenes documentary, the complete MySpace credits list, trailers, and more. A HD DVD release will be available from the same day, priced at $35.99. Extras are believed to be identical.
