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New DVD & Blu-ray Titles This Week: ['No Strings Attached', Classic 'Doctor Who']

by on May 9, 2011

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New Movies & TV on DVD and Blu-ray

Hey gang, Bruce here.  I noticed that this week, we have almost 300 new DVD & Blu-ray releases hitting store shelves and internet pages on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011.

I don’t see any real huge titles, but we do have Ashton Kutcher and the lovely Natalie Portman coming to our small screens.

We’re also going to be seeing Justin Bieber, Ryan Gosling, some AC/DC, Sean Bean, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, John Cena, John Wayne, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, and Jon Pertwee playing our favorite doctor coming to some new DVD & Blu-ray releases for our enjoyment!

(Images and links from this point forward take you to Amazon)

Of course, the fans will want to know that the Justin Bieber: Never Say Never title is coming out this week.  It will be available across the board, on DVD, Blu-ray and Amazon Instant Video.  Oh how I can’t wait!  …OK, maybe I can.

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Blu-ray

Here are some old favorite titles coming to Blu-ray this week, which is always a good thing!

Some Like It Hot starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon.

The Horse Soldiers [Blu-ray] Starring John Wayne, William Holden

Aliens [Blu-ray] Starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn

Alien [Blu-ray] Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt

Big Business [Blu-ray] Starring Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin and Fred Ward

From Dusk till Dawn / From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (Miramax Double Feature) [Blu-ray] Starring Robert Patrick, Bo Hopkins

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Movies

These are the new movies on DVD and BD disc this week:


No Strings Attached Starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher (2011)

Blue Valentine Starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling (2011)

Black Death (+ Digital Copy) Starring Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne (2011)

I Saw the Devil [Blu-ray] Starring Lee Byung-hun and Choi Min-Sik (2011)

The Hit List Starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Cole Hauser, Jonathan LaPaglia, et al. (2011)

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New DVD Releases for Nov 16th, 2010 [Avatar, A Christmas Carol, The Last Airbender, Perry Mason]

by on November 16, 2010

in Entertainment, movies, television

New DVD and Blu-ray Releases in movies, TV, kids & family

This week we have over 250 new DVD & Blu-ray releases hitting the shelves on November 16th, 2010.  As Christmas approaches, distributors have been saving some of their better titles for now.  The titles range from highly anticipated, holiday movies, elemental bending kids to new packaging of highly marketed movies… for the umpteenth time!

Titles include Avatar (again) in a new extended format, A Christmas Carol from Disney, The Last Airbender, Christmas season Celtic Thunder & Michael Jackson.  TV titles include Glee, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone & Wycliffe.  Other new DVD & Blu-ray releases are IMAX releases, Cats & Dogs, The Polar Express & many more titles that if you’re of the mind, you can peruse the larger list at the bottom of this article.

The big release that seems to be a best-seller on Amazon is the newest version/release of the three-disc Collector’s Edition of Avatar. (Below this press release description is my usual list of titles, broken into their usual categories here on Brusimm.

AVATAR Extended Collection’s Edition: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition Blu-ray

Avatar Three-Disc Extended Collectors Edition

Disc One

·   Original Theatrical Version
·   Special Edition Re-Release
·   Collector’s Extended Cut
· – - -16 more minutes and exclusive alternate opening

Family Audio Track (All Objectionable Language Removed)

·   Original Theatrical Release
·   Special Edition Re-release

Disc Two

·   “Capturing Avatar“ An in-depth feature length documentary with James Cameron, Jon Landau   and cast and crew
·   Deleted Scenes – including over 45 minutes of new never-before-seen deleted scenes
·   Production Materials

Disc Three

·   Open “Pandora’s Box” and go deeper into the filmmaker process
·   Interactive Scene Deconstruction: Explore the various stages of production through 3 different viewing modes
·   Production Shorts: 17 featurettes covering performance capture, scoring the film, 3D fusion camera, stunts and much more
·   Avatar Archives including original scriptment, 300 page screenplay and the extensive Pandorapedia
·   BD-live Portal with additional bonus materials

AVATAR Collector’s Edition: 3-Disc Special Edition DVD

Disc One

·   Original Theatrical Version
·   Special Edition Re-release
·   Collector’s Extended Cut
o  16 more minutes and exclusive alternate opening

Disc Two

·   Original Theatrical Version
·   Special Edition Re-release
·   Collector’s Extended Cut

Disc Three

·   “Capturing Avatar“ An in-depth feature length documentary with James Cameron, Jon Landau and cast and crew
·   Deleted Scenes – including over 45 minutes of new never-before-seen deleted scenes

Amazon Link:  Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector’s Edition + BD-Live) [Blu-ray]

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Aside from that, below are the usual title lists where I’ve pulled out the more popular sellers in the different categories and below that, a more comprehensive listing of many more titles…

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New Movies on DVD / BD
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  • Avatar (Three-Disc Extended Collector’s Edition + BD-Live) Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
  • Cats & Dogs The Revenge of Kitty GaloreCats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Three Disc: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)
  • Clash of the Titans (Three Disc: Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy)
  • Disney’s A Christmas Carol Starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Steve Valentine
  • The Complete Metropolis Starring Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Frohlich
  • The Kids Are All Right Starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening
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  • The Last AirbenderThe Last Airbender Starring Dev Patel and Noah Ringer
    • Special Features
      – Origins of the Avatar
      – Deleted Scenes
      1. “Talk to the Dead”
      2. “Water Teaches Us Emotion”
      3. “Water Tribe Battle”
      4. “Field Ablaze”
      – Gag Reel
  • The Night of the Hunter (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, and Lillian Gish
  • The Shawshank Redemption [Blu-ray] Starring Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, Bob Gunton, and Clancy Brown

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AMC Halloween FearFest Schedule For October 2010

by on October 5, 2010

in Entertainment, television

AMC TV LogoOf all the cable channels out there, I’ve always felt that AMC was top of the crop of free cable channels.  And October is the perfect month to pull out the stops and hit the viewers with some of the classic horror movies on the tube!  If you’re old enough, you’d remember the days that AMC was commercial free!  Alas, everything changes.

AMC is pulling out the stops and hitting you with Alien and Aliens, some Bruce Campbell, all the Friday the 13th‘s, A collection of Halloween’s and the standard collection of monsters.

Some of my favorites are airing in this Hallowed month:  Alien, Aliens, Pitch Black with Vin Diesel, Thirteen Ghosts and Tremors.  Who doesn’t love Tremors?

Check out the schedule from AMC for October 2010 after the break.  The list is first sorted by date, and then by movie name.

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Opening Movies for Friday, Sept 24th [Wall Street 2, You Again]

by on September 21, 2010

in Entertainment, movies

Opening Movies from Cinema Static

This week’s opening movies this Friday, the movie many are looking forward to is Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps with Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf.  Let Me In is premiering at Fantastic Fest & Jack Goes Boating both open on Thursday, Sept 23rd. (Let Me In opens nationally on October 1st)  Buried with the much in-demand Ryan Reynolds starring, is having a limited opening on Friday, in preparation for a national release on October 8th.

Box Office Numbers

Box Office Numbers from Cinema StaticBefore we chat about this week, check out the Box Office Numbers from last week! The three opening movies last weekend took the top 3 spots in the charts, with the Warner Bros entry, The Town, raking in just under $24 million at the box office, averaging over $8k per theater.  Behind The Town, Easy A from Screen Gems pulled in just under $20 million and Universal Pictures M. Night Shyamalan‘s written project, Devil, performed well enough to earn the No. 3 spot with a $12M weekend.

In it’s 2nd week at the theaters, Screen Gems infect zombie movie, Resident Evil:Afterlife settled into the 4th performing spot, pulling in $10M for it’s 2nd week out. They already kicked in a profit, having spent an estimated $60m making the movie and having the latest Worldwide gross coming in at $145M.

As an FYI, in its 10th week in the theaters, Christopher Nolan‘s Inception pulled in just under $10M this last weekend, contributing to its $285M domestic gross, and that, being part of the Worldwide gross of $753M.

Title Weekend Gross
The Town $23.8M $23.8M
Easy A $17.7M $17.7M
Devil $12.3M $12.3M
Resident Evil: Afterlife $10M $43.9M
Alpha and Omega $9.11M $9.11M
Takers $3.03M $52.4M
The American $2.67M $32.8M
The Other Guys $1.97M $115M
Inception $1.97M $285M
Machete $1.76M $24.4M

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Opening Movies for Friday, 9/24/10

The highly anticipated Michael Douglas starrer, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps opens this Friday and is about a “young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two-tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader’s mentor.”

Along with Douglas, it stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mulligan, Eli Wallach, Susan Sarandon et.al..

It’s written, directed and produced by Oliver Stone. Need we say more?


Check out movie times & skip those lines! Buy movie tickets online now!

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Opening Movies for Friday, August 27th 2010 [THE LAST EXORCISM]

by on August 23, 2010

in Entertainment, movies

Opening Movies from Cinema Static Logo

The upcoming set of opening movies for Friday, August 27th sees a few movies coming at us… one with a limited re-opening.  The opening movies include a limited opening for Centurion, a limited re-release of a special edition of Avatar, and then Takers, Flipped and Eli Roth’s produced horror flicked, The Last Exorcism.

Box Office Numbers

The people have spoken and done so loudly.  The Expendables hung on to the top spot this last weekend at the Box Office and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is slipping into obscurity, bringing in only $5M.  The parody, Vampires Suck took 2nd at the box office.  Piranha 3D stuck it in at 6th for it’s gory, 3D, boob filled opening weekend at $10M!

Title Weekend Gross
The Expendables $16.5M $64.9M
Vampires Suck $12.2M $18.6M
Eat Pray Love $12M $47.1M
Lottery Ticket $11.1M $11.1M
The Other Guys $10.1M $88.2M
Piranha 3D $10M $10M

See more Box Office numbers at IMDb.

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Opening Movies

Avatar, which has already grossed $2.7 billion Worldwide, is going to make just an itty bitty bit more with a limited re-release with 8 extra minutes of footage.

It stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver and others.

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The Last Exorcism stars Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Caleb Landry Jones and more in a movie about a troubled evangelical minister who agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.

Brought to us by producer Eli Roth, and directed by Daniel Stamm (A Necessary Death).

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AVATAR 2 Details Are In the Air… or The Ocean to be Precise

by on April 26, 2010

in Entertainment, movies

Sam Worthington as Jake in AVATAR

Jake meets his Avatar in AVATAR

The day before Earth Day, when the special, no-frills edition of Avatar was coming out, James Cameron sat down in an interview with the LA Times and let out a few bits about the next Avatar, a sequel.

First thing up is that there will be a theatrical re-release of Avatar coming out in August 2010.  It will have an additional six minutes of footage.

They hope to make the Avatar sequel, spending less than they did this first time around.  That might not be too hard, considering he probably won’t have to invent the 3D filming process again when he films the sequel.

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Avatar: A Review of the 2D Experience

by on December 19, 2009

in Entertainment, movie reviews, movies

Avatar movie review:  A Cinema Static 2D review!

Cast: Sam Worthington,  Zoe Saldana,  Sigourney Weaver,  Stephen Lang,  Goivanni Ribsi,  Michelle Rodriques  And  Cch Pounder

Avatar (2009) is created and directed By:  James Cameron, rated PG-13 and clocks in at 2 Hrs 41 min.

Slight plot spoilers included after the break.

I went into AVATAR knowing only that I hate Cameron as much as I love him, and there’s some Smurfy alien, Matrix-like action going on.

I quickly found myself blown away by the amazing display of visual images and emotions. Forget about 3D.  When the 2D visuals are this good, 3D becomes the gimmick.

I realize 3D is mentioned as one of the major theatrical breakthroughs on AVATAR, but it really takes a back seat to the overall 2D cinematography and technological advances in CGI.  In Terminator 2, James Cameron set the standard for CGI with the creation of the T-1000.  It seems he’s done it again with AVATAR.  The film clearly pushes the VFX to the next level destroying the uncanny valley between human and digital photo reality. This technological breakthrough is assisted and enhanced by some incredible acting performances by Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington.

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Avatar Behind the Scenes and Some Spoilers [Cinema Static]

by on November 27, 2009

in Entertainment, movies

I found 13 cast interviews and behind-the-scenes featurettes from Avatar that delve more deeply into some characters and background info and what some folks may consider a chunk of spoilers.  (Depends on your threshold for what you want to see of an upcoming project.)

We see some vids about the characters Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver), Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) & Jake Sully (Sam Worthington).

Is it me or is Sam Worthington becoming the go-to man in cool, epic like movies?  (Just wondering.)

So proceed with caution with the following vids after the break gang!

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Avatar Movie Trailer Gives Us 2.5 Minutes of Thrills [Cinema Static]

by on November 24, 2009

in Entertainment, movies

When I first heard that Avatar was coming out in 3D, I wasn’t too jazzed by it.  3D is not a catch phrase that motivates me.  I have yet to see a decent 3D flick that isn’t gimmick filled.  (It will be released in specific locations as 3D)

Animation is also not an eye catcher for me or my household…  though admittedly when we saw a movie trailer for Avatar on TV the other day, I heard a “whoa!” come from the other room.  That’s got to be a good sign when my animation critic says whoa!

This 2 1/2 minute chase scene from Avatar looks fantastic for animation and you find yourself getting caught up in this strange new world.  Both on the planet and in the animation.

The movie comes from James Cameron and stars Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Michelle Rodriquez, Sigourney Weaver, CCH Pounder and many many more actors.

What’s amazing to me is how often James Cameron is on the leading edge of the movie entertainment field.  The Abyss blew us away, Terminator became synonymous with the doom of humanity, Aliens gave us “Game over man!” and Titanic ripped our hearts out every time we watched it.  Just to name a couple of flicks that delivered intense action and gripping stories of family, human nature and our course of evolution.

Now comes the $500 million Avatar.  Of course this 3D is not the red and blue goggled movie but the newest technologies involving 3D.  It will, or should truly be, an experience.

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