Green Lantern: First Flight Trailer
Green Lantern: First Flight, the next DC direct-to-DVD animated film, is due out July 21. Here’s the trailer: I’m getting a Star Wars vibe from it, but maybe that’s just the flying lettering.
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Green Lantern: First Flight Released Sooner
The release date for Green Lantern: First Flight, the next DC animated direct-to-DVD movie, has been adjusted. Instead of coming out July 28, it’s now due July 21. That means instead of after the San Diego Comic-Con, it’s now due out just two days before, making for more promotional opportunities.
Read moreDisney Continues Desperately Pushing Blu-Ray
First, Disney decided that they would only provide Blu-ray copies to reviewers, because that’s all they wanted talked about. Then, they released the Blu-ray version of Bolt two days early, to goose sales figures. I guess two days wasn’t enough to stack the deck, though, because Disney has just announced that Snow White will be available on Blu-ray almost two months before the standard DVD two-disc edition. That’s right, you can buy Blu-ray October 6 (at a list price of […]
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Warner Begins Selling On Demand DVDs Direct to Customers
Yesterday was the debut of the Warner Archive, an online store where customers can buy made-on-demand DVDs of lesser-known movies. 150 titles are available taken from pre-1986 MGM, RKO Radio Pictures, and Warner Bros. Pictures films, with about 20 more titles added every month. DVDs are priced at $19.95 each for US customers only. [U]pon purchase, a state-of-the-art manufacturing on demand (MOD) system creates a made-to-order DVD indistinguishable in quality from a standard pressed DVD. The system places the DVD […]
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The Zeta Project Season 1
Review by KC Carlson Former killer robot and spunky gal-pal make good! The Zeta Project is one of the lesser-known WB Animation/DC Comics projects. Lead character Zeta was spun off from a second season episode of Batman Beyond. The series first aired on Kids’ WB beginning in 2001 and ran — sporadically — for two seasons. It initially struggled to find an audience, but since then it has become a worldwide cult classic. As introduced in the Batman Beyond episode […]
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Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter / Under the Hood
These two special features collected on DVD are due in stores March 24. Tales of the Black Freighter 26 minutes. Rated R for “violent and grisly images”. (That’s fun to say.) Those images consist of various body parts floating around the ocean, and bodies exploding from decay, and the protagonist building a raft of bodies. Anyone who’s read the graphic novel or seen the movie won’t be terribly shocked by all this, I fear. (And if you haven’t, why would […]
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Wonder Woman (The DVD Movie)
Well, that was disappointing. I knew that watching Wonder Woman’s origin story made into an animated film would have some overly familiar bits, but I didn’t expect to be so put off by the attempts to make it new and modern. The movie starts with Hippolyta and Ares fighting. As someone who’s not particularly interested in Greek/Roman mythology, I was bored waiting for the title woman in the costume to show up. Instead, we got battle, clay baby, Amazon bickering, […]
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Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic
Review by KC Carlson Depending on your worldview, the new Watchmen Complete Motion Comic DVD is: The graphic novel version of Cliff Notes, or more directly, the “For Dummies” series. Both series have become synonymous for the lazy person’s method of learning about literature without having to go through the tedious work of actually reading it yourself. A true milestone event! (Although it should be noted that watching this entire production will take over five hours of your time, and […]
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