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ALIENS VS PREDATOR REQUIEM - The War is about to come to Earth 
CLOVERFIELD
- Something is attacking New York on DVD
DRAGON
WARS - Mythical creatures invade Los Angeles on DVD/Blu-Ray
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AM LEGEND - Will Smith is the last man on Earth on Blu-Ray/DVD
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - The Coen's Oscar winner heads
to DVD
STANLEY KUBRICK SPECIAL EDITIONS - The Master on
DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET -
A cut above DVD/Blu-Ray
WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY - John C Reilly makes
music
AVPR: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR REQUIEM
The sequel to the long awaited face off between two of the fiercest and feared species returns to the small screen on Monday 12th May as Alien vs Predator 2: Requiem is released on DVD courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - but this time they have upped the ante as hell is unleashed…on earth!
Released in a hardcore extended edition, this new DVD (also out on Blu-ray) delivers even more relentless carnage than ever before and boasts over seven minutes of additional unseen footage including large helpings of violence and gore.
When a Predator ship crash-lands outside a little town in Colorado, one of most formidable creatures ever spawned is released onto human soil - the Predalien! This advanced specimen immediately sets out on a slaughter mission, but is soon pursued by a sole Predator who has been sent to clean up the mess.
One by one the town's inhabitants become targets of the Aliens and the Predator and the town becomes absorbed in relentless carnage between these two deadly extra-terrestrial lifeforms - with the humans caught in the middle!!
Directed by The Brothers Strause, Colin and Greg, whose visual effects house, Hydraulx, is renowned for it's computer-generated wizardry on films such as 300, X-Men: The Last Stand and Fantastic Four, and featuring a worthy cast including Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me), Reiko Aylesworth (24, ER) and John Ortiz (American Gangster, Miami Vice, El Cantante), this action packed blood bath is an unmissable spectacle that truly delivers on DVD.
Bonus Materials:
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THE most anticipated Blockbuster of 2008 smashes its way onto DVD June 9
From J.J. Abrams, the extraordinary talent that brought us Lost and director Matt Reeves comes CLOVERFIELD, one of the most terrifying, groundbreaking and critically acclaimed thrillers to hit the big screen in 2008, available on DVD from June 9 2008.
On the eve of his departure for Japan, Rob (newcomer Michael Stahl-David) sees his going-away party as an opportunity to confess unresolved feelings and tie up loose ends. However, his agenda takes an unexpected turn when a jolt shakes the revellers. The crowd quiets down to watch news reports of an earthquake, then rushes to the roof to assess the damage. A fireball explodes on the distant horizon. A power failure follows. Confusion gives way to panic as the partygoers stumble through the blackout and into the streets.
Shot entirely through the group’s camcorder, the shaky camera action further heightens the sense of terror as the six young friends attempt to stay one step ahead of an unknown – and seemingly unstoppable – force that is rampaging its way through New York City.
CLOVERFIELD is an exhilarating movie experience that will leave you on the edge of your seat as you get drawn into this spine-tingling action thriller. The two disc Special Edition is jam packed with over 2 hours of bonus materials including ‘Alternative Endings’, ‘The Making of Cloverfield’, ‘Cloverfield Visual Effects’ and commentary from Director Matt Reeves, making CLOVERFIELD a must have for any thrill-seeking movie fans this summer.
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A modern re-telling of a classic Korean legend the spectacular Dragon Wars is released to buy on DVD and High Definition Blu-ray and to rent on DVD from 19th May 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
When reporter Ethan Kendrick (JASON BEHR, TV's Roswell, The Grudge) investigates a series of natural disasters he discovers that mythical creatures are actually real and threatening modern-day Los Angeles. With the help of a girl connected to his past, Ethan must out run vicious monsters and a particularly dogged FBI agent who thinks he knows the key to saving LA.
With staggering special effects and a cast of familiar faces that includes ROBERT FORSTER (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Jackie Brown), Dragon Wars is a thrilling, action-packed fantasy adventure.
"My name is Robert Neville, I am a survior living in New York City. If there is anybody out there...anybody. Please. You are not alone."
The UK Box Office number one, I Am Legend, launches in spectacular style on Blu-ray and DVD from 21st April 2008, available in both single and double disc format. The two-disc DVD introduces a new technology 'Digital Copy' to the UK - the first ever digital downloading service for a movie, which enables people to download the complete movie direct from the DVD disc to their PC. The Blu-ray and two-disc DVD also includes the much hyped alternative ending - making I Am Legend this year's most exciting Home Entertainment release!
Directed by Francis Lawrence (Constantine) and starring the talented and much-admired Will Smith, I Am Legend is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller adapted from the highly acclaimed novel of the same name by Richard Matheson.
Set in New York City, I Am Legend follows the struggle of Robert Neville - a brilliant army virologist who is the last human survivor on earth following the spread of a man-made and incurable virus.
While most of the population perished when the contagious superbug took hold, a small number of people transformed into vile vampire-like mutants - The Infected, a breed of vicious and bloodthirsty monsters, bearing no human resemblance, who fear the light. T
hree years since the demise of civilisation, Neville finds himself in a race to discover a cure to save humanity by experimenting on his own immune blood to reverse the effects, while dealing with consistent loneliness and isolation.
As The Infected begin to focus their attentions on Neville, a cure is looking less and less likely with every trial. How long can he continue his grueling daily regime of sending out desperate radio messages in the hope of making contact with other survivors? More importantly, alone and isolated, how long can he preserve his sanity and how will it all end?
Prepare for exhilarating and heart pounding viewing as Neville struggles to keep The Infected at bay.
DVD Special Features include:
Single disc contains:
See I Am Legend in outstanding high definition, as the Blu-ray disc delivers stunning, crystal clear picture quality and immersive, uncompressed surround sound.
The 2008 Academy Award Best Picture winner comes to DVD from June 2nd 2008
Voted Best Picture at this year's Academy Awards and acclaimed winner of 4 Oscars including Best Direction for the Coen brothers, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a gripping tale of money, murder and mayhem.
Based on the celebrated novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy, it features an all-star cast with stunning performances from Tommy Lee-Jones (The Fugitive), Josh Brolin (Grindhouse), Kelly MacDonald (Trainspotting) and an Academy Award-winning performance from Javier Bardem (The Sea Inside). In the parched scrubland and panoramic skies of West Texas, bloodshed and mayhem erupt after Vietnam veteran turned hunter, Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles across the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong.
Amid the bloodied crime scene, he finds a pickup truck loaded with heroin and two million dollars in cash, but when he flees with the money he sets off a chain of unremitting violence that not even the law, represented by disillusioned Sherriff Bell (Tommy Lee-Jones), can bring to an end.
Before long, hunter Moss has become the hunted, pursued from both sides of the law. Scrambling to hang on to his money and his life, he is relentlessly stalked by emotionless killing machine Anton Chigurh, brilliantly portrayed by Javier Bardem, Best Supporting Actor BAFTA and Academy Award winner, who is intent on recovering the loot at any cost. T
his gritty game of cat and mouse will take you to the edge of your seat and beyond - right up to its heart stopping final moment.
No Country for Old Men is Joel and Ethan Coen's most gripping and accomplished film to date which also won them this year's Best Director BAFTA. Accordingly, the bonus features for the DVD include a look at the Coen Brothers' filmmaking process, showing how they assembled and shot one of the most compelling thrillers of the year, as well as shedding new light on the complex characters and celebrated creators of the film.
Special Features
STANLEY KUBRICK SPECIAL EDITIONS
2001:
A Space Odyssey Special Edition
A Clockwork Orange Special Edition
Eyes Wide Shut Special Edition
The Shining Special Edition
Full Metal Jacket Deluxe Edition
And an Amaray Box Set featuring A Life in Pictures
Remastered and in widescreen on HD DVD, Blu-Ray and DVD from 3rd March 2008
To celebrate what would have been the legendary director's 80th birthday Warner Home Video are re-releasing five of Stanley Kubrick's most highly acclaimed works, fully remastered and accompanied by hours of new and rare features in 2-disc Special Editions. In addition to the individual titles, a ten disc Box Set, complete with A Life in Pictures documentary charting Kubrick's early life, will give fans the chance to own all these iconic films in one beautifully presented Collectors Edition.
2001: A Space Odyssey has been skillfully remastered in time for its 40th Anniversary year; whilst Eyes Wide Shut, The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, debut in their original widescreen cinematic format.
All of the special features have been created in collaboration with, and approved by, the Estate of Stanley Kubrick and offer insightful and in-depth special features including commentaries, documentaries, interviews with the man himself and special new featurettes that provide a rare look into the mind of the master filmmaker. The documentary A Life in Pictures, narrated by Tom Cruise, details Kubrick's early life, at work and at home, with candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues and family.
The films in the Stanley Kubrick Special Editions also represented landmarks for many of our current A-list stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Jack Nicholson, Malcolm McDowell, Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine, amongst others
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Stanley Kubrick's dazzling, Academy Award®-winning achievement (Special Visual Effects) is an allegorical puzzle on the evolution of man and a compelling drama of man vs. machine. Featuring a stunning meld of music and motion, the film was also Oscar® nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Kubrick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke) first visits the prehistoric age-ancestry past, then leaps millennia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea) into uncharted space, perhaps even into immortality.
Disc One
Disc Two
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Stomping, whopping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel.
Controversial when first released, the film garnered three Academy Award nominations - Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Its power still entices, shocks and mesmerizes today.
DVD Special Features:
Disc One
Disc Two
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Kubrick's daring and controversial last film is a bracing psychosexual journey through a haunting dreamscape, a riveting suspense tale and a career milestone for stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. Cruise plays a doctor who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and may ensnare him in a murder mystery - after his wife's (Kidman) admission of sexual longings.
As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. His graceful tracking shots, rich colors and startling images are some of the bravura traits that show Kubrick as a filmmaker for the ages.
DVD Special Features:
Disc One
Disc Two
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
A superb ensemble falls in for Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. The scathing indictment of a film was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Screenplay.
Joker (Matthew Modine), Animal Mother (Adam Baldwin), Gomer (Vincent D'Onofrio), Eightball (Dorian Harewood) and Cowboy (Arliss Howard) are some of the Marine recruits experiencing boot-camp hell under the punishing command of the foul-mouthed Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermy). The action is savage, the story unsparing, and the dialogue is spiked with scathing humour.
DVD Special Features:
The Shining (1980)
From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. The Shining is the director's epic tale of a man in a snowbound hotel descending into murderous delusions.
In a signature role, Jack Nicholson ("Heeeere's Johnny!") stars as Jack Torrance, who's come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd).
DVD Special Features:
Disc One
Disc Two
Stanley Kubrick - A Life in Pictures
Produced and directed by longtime Kubrick associate Jan Harlan, this full-length documentary includes footage and personal photographs made available by Christiane Kubrick, the director's wife of more than 42 years. The film paints a surprisingly accessible portrait of Kubrick, giving a strikingly different view of the man and what influenced him as a filmmaker.
Among the long list of actors, friends and colleagues paying tribute are Woody Allen, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Shelley Duvall, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Christiane Kubrick, Paul Mazursky, Malcolm McDowell, Matthew Modine, Jack Nicholson, Alan Parker, Sydney Pollack, Richard Schickel, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Douglas Trumbull and Sir Peter Ustinov.
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
Who's in need of a short, back & sides then?
Victorian England is the setting for this harrowing melodrama. Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) is living a simple life as a barber with his wife Lucy and his daughter Johanna (Jayne Wisener) when the lust of a judge (Alan Rickman) throws all of their lives into chaos. The judge has Benjamin Barker deported to Australia, and it is many years later that he returns to England, under the pseudonym Sweeney Todd with revenge on his heart. He wishes to reclaim his family and punish the judge and the society who destroyed it. With the help of Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), a pie shop owner who had known Sweeney and his family all of those years ago, Sweeney goes about seeking vengeance and reaping the benefits of that bloody journey.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Special Edition is released on 2 Disc Special Edition DVD and Blu Ray on 19 May 2008
WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY
Available to buy on DVD and High Definition Blu-ray / to rent on DVD 12th May 2008
You'd be forgiven for thinking that once you've seen one music biopic then you've seen them all but Dewey Cox is about to change all that! Another comedy gem from the stable of producer JUDD APATOW (Superbad, Knocked Up), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story arrives on DVD and High Definition Blu-ray from 12th May 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Charting the hilarious rise, fall and rise again of fictional music hero Dewey Cox (JOHN C REILLY, Magnolia, Talladega Nights), Walk Hard follows Dewey as he beds 411 women, has 22 kids, stars in his own TV show and becomes addicted to and kicks every drug known to man.
With friends including Elvis, The Beatles and even a chimp, no music star in history lead a life that compared to Dewey's. But the love of a good woman (JENNA FISCHER, The Brothers Solomon, TV's The Office: An American Workplace) calms his wilder excesses and earns him the status of a true American hero.
Taking pot shots at earnest music biopics like Ray and Walk The Line, Walk Hard features a Golden Globe-nominated performance from JOHN C REILLY.
The DVD and High Definition Blu-ray release of Walk Hard features a host of extra material and is a must-have for comedy fans everywhere.
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