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Shout Factory has officially announced and detailed Herzog: The Collection. Limited to 5,000 copies, the 13-disc Blu-ray box set features 16 acclaimed films and documentaries, 15 of which are making their Blu-ray debuts. The release will be available for purchase on July 29th.
Herzog: The Collection also features a 40 page booklet that includes photos, an essay by award-winning author Stephen J. Smith, and in-depth film synopses by Herzog scholars Brad Prager and Chris Wahl. Bonus features include English and German audio commentaries, the documentaries Herzog in Africa and Portrait: Werner Herzog, interviews and original theatrical trailers.
Herzog has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare go, and told stories in ways previously unconsidered. These sixteen masterpieces, which blur the line between "fiction" and "documentary," illustrate why Werner Herzog is the most intrepid, creative, and dangerous filmmaker of our lifetime.
BOX SET CONTENT:
Even Dwarfs Started Small
Land of Silence and Darkness
Fata Morgana
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Heart of Glass
Stroszek
Woyzeck
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Fitzcarraldo
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Where the Green Ants Dream
Cobra Verde
Lessons of Darkness
Little Dieter Needs to Fly
My Best Fiend
Special Features:
English Audio Commentaries: Even Dwarfs Started Small, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Heart of Glass, Strozek and Cobra Verde.
German Audio commentaries: Nosferatu the Vampyre, Fitzcarraldo, Where the Green Ants Dream.
In Conversation - Werner Herzog and Laurens Straub (in German with English Subtitles)
The Making of Nosferatu The Vampyre
Portrait: Werner Herzog documentary
Herzog In Africa documentary
Theatrical Trailers
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=13674
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May 29, 2014 - 6:29 PM
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Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of director John Hough's The Legend of Hell House (1973), starring Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin, Peter Bowles, and Clive Revill. The release will be available for purchase on August 26th.
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
Special Features:
New Interview With Director John Hough
New Audio Commentary With Actress Pamela Franklin
Original Theatrical Trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14103
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Really excited to see Scream is bringing out Without Warning. Been hoping they could get ahold of that one since the label first kicked off. It's an effective little sci fi/horror flick that has a lot of good elements. It's like an early version of Predator, and in fact, Kevin Peter Hall also plays the alien in it, too! Curious to see what bonus features they will create. As they noted, it will also be the very first time it's ever been released on any home entertainment format in the US and Canada, so this is very cool news!
Dumb movie, but for all intents and purposes it's "PREDATOR" just with bad acting and cheap effects.
But I'm still buying it.
Ford A. Thaxton
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Really excited to see Scream is bringing out Without Warning. Been hoping they could get ahold of that one since the label first kicked off. It's an effective little sci fi/horror flick that has a lot of good elements. It's like an early version of Predator, and in fact, Kevin Peter Hall also plays the alien in it, too! Curious to see what bonus features they will create. As they noted, it will also be the very first time it's ever been released on any home entertainment format in the US and Canada, so this is very cool news!
Saw it at a drive-in in 1980 when I was 9. It was part of a double feature with the Incredible Melting Man. The images in Without Warning have always stuck with me very vividly, particularly those skuzzy little monster discs that the main alien threw at his victims. And yellow snot dripping out of Larry Storch's face. Heh. I haven't seen it since then, so it will be a trip to revisit it!
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Jun 24, 2014 - 7:01 PM
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Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of George P. Cosmatos' Leviathan (1989), starring Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Lisa Eilbacher, Meg Foster, Hector Elizondo, and Eugene Lipinski. The release will be available for purchase on August 19th.
Special Features:
New Interviews with:
Actors Hector Elizondo and Ernie Hudson
Creature effects artists Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr.
Original Theatrical Trailer
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14320
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Jul 2, 2014 - 12:41 PM
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Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has officially announced that Clive Barker's long-awaited Nightbreed: The Director's Cut will be released on October 28th and will be available in two retail versions: A 5,000 Unit Limited-Edition 3-Disc Blu-ray set and a Special Edition DVD & Blu-ray Combo.
In 1990, the film was released theatrically nationwide. However, the movie studio edited the film extensively and several scenes were excised or rearranged – much to Director Clive Barker's disappointment. Since then, a fan-driven movement was created (www.OccupyMidian.com) to see the full version of the film restored and re-released. Now, after 25 years, fans and horror enthusiasts can finally experience NIGHTBREED like never before! Scream Factory, in conjunction with Warner Bros., was able to find the long-thought-missing original film elements and combed through over 600 boxes to locate not only the lost scenes but a treasure trove of never-before-seen footage as well. With nearly an hour of lost footage meticulously restored, the result is not only a more faithful adaptation of Clive Barker's book Cabal, but also what he originally intended NIGHTBREED to be.
Official statement from Clive Barker: "This is film history and beyond my wildest dreams of realization. When Scream Factory told me that they found the NIGHTBREED film footage I was gob-smacked! This is the ultimate validation of choices made by myself and Mark Miller [of Seraphim Films] all the way back in 2008. As we embarked down the road of attempting to track down the lost footage, we looked at each other and said, 'Maybe one day they'll find it.' It's my pleasure to announce that the day has come. Speaking personally, I didn't allow myself to believe that it would. Even if we did find some footage (which we did in 2009 in the form of heavily degraded VHS tapes) and even if we did find a company willing to release the film (which we did in 2013 with Scream Factory, God bless them) the prospect of finding the actual lost film materials was remoter than I'd wanted to admit out loud. If the footage could not be found by those who had worked closest on it the same year it had been released, then what were the odds we'd be able to find anything 20 years on? But Scream Factory, in their commendable determination, kept up the search and thanks to them total reconstruction has been made a possibility. There's never been a reconstruction that's had as little chance of succeeding and yet has succeeded on as many fronts as this film has. It's unprecedented. To now have a movie that we can put together in the way that I fully intended it to be seen when I first set out to make this film in 1989 is extraordinary. The project has moved inexorably to this conclusion. Fate and the hard work of individuals such as Mark Miller, Russell Cherrington, Phil and Sarah Stokes, Occupy Midian, Morgan Creek, and ultimately, Scream Factory have made this a possibility and I could not be happier."
CONTENT:
LIMITED EDITION SET (ONLY 5,000 NUMBERED SETS MADE): •Disc 1: Unrated Director's Cut of the film on Blu-ray
•Disc 2: The 1990 R-Rated theatrical version of the film on Blu-ray (through a special licensing agreement through Warner Bros.)
•Disc 3: EXCLUSIVE-TO-THIS-SET Bonus Blu-ray disc packed with extras (details forthcoming)
Includes Collector's Book with an essay and rare photos
Slipcase includes newly-designed artwork by Joel Robinson approved by Clive Barker
SPECIAL EDITION SET: •Disc 1: Unrated Director's Cut of the film on Blu-ray plus bonus features (details forthcoming)
•Disc 2: Unrated Director's Cut of the film on DVD (details forthcoming)
•Slipcase includes artwork designed by Ralph McQuarrie approved by Clive Barker
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14368
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Jul 26, 2014 - 9:55 AM
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Earlier today at Comi-Con, U.S. distributors Shout Factory/Scream Factory revealed that they are planning to add a number of catalog titles to their Blu-ray catalog. Amongst them are George A. Romero's The Dark Half (1993) and Monkey Shines (1988), Bill Condon's Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995), William Wesley's Scarecrows (1988), Tobe Hooper's Invaders from Mars (1986), Emmett Alston's New Year's Evil (1980), Dwight H. Little's Phantom of the Opera (1989), Stuart Gordon's Dolls (1987), George Miller's Mad Max (1979), Jay Levey's UHF (1989), and John Carpenter's Escape From New York (1981).
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14589
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Shout Factory has officially announced and detailed Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Complete Series. The eight-disc Blu-ray set will be available for purchase on October 21.
Experience Pee-wee's Playhouse like never before! All 45 wacky episodes, plus the Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special, have been meticulously remastered from the original film elements - and now you can see this ground-breaking series for the first time in beautiful high-definition!
Scream along to the secret word with Pee-wee Herman and his pals: Jambi the Genie, Miss Yvonne, Cowboy Curtis, Reba the mail lady, Captain Carl, Magic Screen, Conky, Globey, Chairry, Pterri, Randy and all the rest. Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Complete Series Blu-ray box set, with special bonus content, debuts on home entertainment shelves October 21, 2014 from Shout! Factory.
Winner of an amazing 22 Emmy Awards, Pee-wee's Playhouse is a cultural touchstone for a generation, and its visually dynamic design and offbeat sense of humor were a genuine phenomenon. Whether reliving childhood memories or introducing this beloved series to a new generation, the newly re-mastered Pee-wee's Playhouse will take you back to being a kid. This is an essential Blu-ray collection for loyal fans and collectors.
TV Guide named Pee-wee's Playhouse #10 on their list of THE TOP 25 CULT TELEVISION SHOWS EVER! For over 25 years, the enormously popular Pee-wee Herman and innovative television series Pee-wee's Playhouse, created by and starring Paul Reubens, has captured a special place in the hearts of millions of viewers, young and old. Since its initial premiere on CBS in 1986, this highly acclaimed children's program became Saturday morning appointment viewing for kids in the '80s and '90s and has been a staple in the pop culture zeitgeist ever since.
Pee-wee's Playhouse is an educational, artistic and entertaining show that teaches kids strong 'life lessons.' With its innovative production design and Reubens' rich original characters and humor, Pee-wee's Playhouse is a magical place that sparks creativity and imagination-and brings joy to children and adults alike. Parents and grown-ups have always enjoyed the show's many double entendres. The series features beloved regulars Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne), Reba the Mail Lady (S. Epatha Merkerson), Miss Yvonne (Lynne Marie Stewart), Captain Carl (Phil Hartman), The King of Cartoons (William Marshall), Jambi the Genie (John Paragon), Ricardo (Vic Trevino) and Mrs. Rene (Suzanne Kent). And of course, Chairry, Pterri, Conky, Magic Screen, Clocky, Cool Cat, Dirty Dog, Chicky Baby, Penny, the Dinosaur family, and the rest of the gang!
Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Complete Series Blu-ray box set contains OVER 4 HOURS of brand-new interviews with the cast and crew, plus never-seen, behind-the-scenes footage-all part of TEN FEATURETTES, including:
• Building the Playhouse
•Opening the Playhouse
•Writing for the Playhouse
•The Look of the Playhouse
•Music of the Playhouse
•The Cast of the Playhouse
•Puppets of the Playhouse
•Animating the Playhouse
•A Very Merry Christmas Special
•Fans and Memorabilia of the Playhouse
These featurettes include interviews with actors Laurence Fishburne (Cowboy Curtis), S. Epatha Merkerson (Reba the mail lady), Lynne Marie Stewart (Miss Yvonne) and John Paragon (Jambi the genie). Mark Mothersbaugh and Danny Elfman explain the music of the show, and the Emmy award-winning production design team of Gary Panter, Wayne White and Ric Heitzman explain how the sets and puppets were imagined and produced. Animation Supervisor of all 5 seasons of Pee-wee's Playhouse, Prudence Fenton (Liquid Television) talks about all the types of animation used in the program and animators Peter Lord and David Sproxton (Wallace & Gromit) discuss their contributions. Ve Neill, the multi-Oscar winning make-up artist, talks about designing the make-up 'looks'. Two of the shows writers talk about how the scripts were created. Other cast and crew explain, in fascinating detail, stories from the production of Pee-wee's Playhouse. If that weren't enough, many of the shows puppeteers and voice artists are interviewed about how the puppet characters were brought to life.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14921
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Sep 10, 2014 - 7:08 PM
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Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of director Freddie Francis' The Doctor and the Devils (1985), starring Timothy Dalton, Julian Sands, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, and Stephen Rea. The release will be available for purchase on November 4th.
Special Features:
Audio Commentary With Author and Film Historian Steve Haberman
New Interviews With Executive Producer Mel Brooks, Producer Jonathan Sanger And Former Brooksfilms Development Executive Randy Auerbach
Theatrical Trailers
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=14958
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Which video label will be the first to finally release EYE OF THE CAT, with the luscious Gayle Hunnicutt?
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Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has confirmed that it will release on Blu-ray the horror comedies Love at First Bite (1979) and Once Bitten (1985). The double feature Blu-ray is expected to arrive on the market in February 2015.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=15115
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Independent distributors Shout Factory have revealed that they will add a number of titles to their Blu-ray catalog in early 2015. Amongst them are Claude Berri's Jean De Florette (1986) and Manon of the Spring (1986), Mark Rydell's On Golden Pond (1981), and Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989).
Jean De Florette / Manon Of The Spring
Jean De Florette
In Provence in the 1930s, city-bred hunchback Jean (Gerard Depardieu) brings his family to his mother's old farm with plans for an idyllic life on the land. However, his scheming neighbours, Le Papet (Yves Montand) and Ugoli (Daniel Auteil), covet his farm's little-known water source, and the resulting feud escalates towards tragedy. The story was continued in a second film, 'Manon des Sources', released later the same year.
Manon Of The Spring
laude Berri's sequel to 'Jean de Florette' begins ten years after Jean's death, with his beautiful daughter Manon (Emmanuelle Beart) still haunting the hills overlooking the land stolen from her father by Le Papet (Yves Montand) and the simple-minded Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil). When Manon learns the truth behind her father's death she sets out to wreak her revenge, depriving the entire community of their water supply just as they deprived Jean.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 27TH.
Henry V
Having recently been crowned King of England, Henry (Branagh) commands a massive invasion to assert what he believes is his legal right to the throne of France. But a mighty army stands in his way...and the young monarch must rely on untested reserves of courage and cunning as he personally leads his outnumbered forces into a desperate battle for the honor and glory of the British Empire.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 27TH.
On Golden Pond
For forty eight years, Professor Norman Thayer Jr (Henry Fonda, in his last film performance) and his wife Ethel (Katharine Hepburn) have holidayed at their New England cottage on Golden Pond. This time round they have an extra guest - Billy Ray (Doug McKeon), the son of their daughter Chelsea's (Jane Fonda) boyfriend, Bill. The generation gap is soon highlighted, with Norman and Billy clashing frequently and fiercely. However, as the summer progresses Norman begins to forge the kind of close relationship with the boy that he has always denied Chelsea, and comes to realize how much happiness he has missed out on with his own daughter. Fonda and Hepburn won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 20TH.
Capricorn One
Did The Greatest Moment Happen At All? What if one of the greatest space adventures was really a hoax? When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their "Mission" from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. All is going well until they learn that the only way for the hoax to be maintained is for them to die upon re-entry. Their only chance for survival is to make a desperate attempt to escape. Throughout this period, an investigate reporter gets wind of the fact that something is amiss and slowly puts together the pieces of the mystery.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 13TH.
The Phantom of the Opera
In this house of music, evil strikes the final chord. Horror legend Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street) assumes the classic role of the Phantom in this shocking, nerve-jangling retelling of Gaston Leroux's timeless tale of music, madness and murder! An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victoria-era London - and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured maestro determined to make her a star. The silver-throated Christine (Jill Schoulen) enjoys success through the arrangements of her new lover (Englund)...until she realizes that he has been committing unspeakably grisly murders in her honor and won't stop until he's completed his masterpiece...in blood!
STREET DATE: JANUARY 13TH.
The Boys From Brazil
A battle of wits between Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele and Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman in which Mengele plans to harvest hundreds of young men in an attempt to replicate Hitler's genetic structure.
STREET DATE: JANUARY 8TH.
Fitzcarraldo
Peru. Iquitos is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle at the turn of the century. On the outskirts, a few shacks are rotting in the mud. In the center are the splendid houses of the nouveaux-riches rubber barons. Sweeney Fitzgerald - Fitzcarraldo, as the natives call him - has his dream of bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great celebration of Grand Opera. To finance this fantastic dream, Fitzcarraldo decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayala Falls. To circumvent this barrier, he literally has his huge steamboat lifted over a mountain from one branch of the river to the other. With the aid of a tribe of Indians bewitched by records featuring the voice of the greatest singer of all time, Fitzcarraldo fights fever, mosquitos and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible....
STREET DATE: JANUARY 13TH.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
His myth has endured for generations. His legacy is eternal rage. And now he's back... with a vengeance! Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh continues the tale of the phantom-like figure who wreaks a terrible fate upon those who chant his name five times while looking into a mirror and come face to face with grisly death.
A victim of unspeakable evil while he lived, the "Candyman" (Tony Todd, The Crow) has become evil incarnate in his afterlife. This time, he haunts the city of New Orleans, where a young schoolteacher named Annie Tarrant (Kelly Rowan, 187) is struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father. The locals insist that he was slain by the Candyman, but Annie is not convinced... until she unwittingly summons the monster forth, learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects her to him. But can she stop him before he kills again?
STREET DATE: JANUARY 6TH.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=15140
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Oct 8, 2014 - 12:31 PM
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Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has revealed that it plans to release on Blu-ray Luca Bercovici's Ghoulies (1984), starring Lisa Pelikan, Peter Liapis, Michael Des Barres, and Albert Band's Ghoulies II (1988), starring Damon Martin, Royal Dano, and Phil Fondacaro. The double-feature release is expected to arrive on the market in Spring 2015.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=15178
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Scream Factory, the horror-thriller offshoot of independent film distributor Shout Factory, has confirmed that it will release on Blu-ray Robert Bierman's Vampire's Kiss (1988), starring Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, and Jennifer Beals, and Neil Jordan's High Spirits (1988), starring Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah, and Steve Guttenberg. The double-feature release is expected to arrive on the market in February, 2015.
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=15183
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