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Too Hot to Handle: Just Announced Flash (August 30): Eddie Murphy-Martin Lawrence starrer "Life" will arrive on home video October 19 ... Flop thriller "Arlington Road," starring Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins, will be released October 26 ... Disney's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" will get the DVD treatment on September 28 at $29.99 ... Disney will also release to DVD nine of its classic animated features, beginning October 26 with "Pinocchio," followed by "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter Pan," "The Lion King II," "Mulan," "101 Dalmatians," "Hercules," "The Jungle Book" and "The Little Mermaid" ... MGM is releasing seven James Bond adventures on DVD as single discs and as a set: Special Editions of "GoldenEye," "Thunderball," "Live and Let Die," "For Your Eyes Only," "Goldfinger," "Licence to Kill" and "Tomorrow Never Dies"; $34.98 each or $199.98 the set. The company is also re-releasing re-packaged VHS editions at $14.95, including the sell-through debut of "Tomorrow Never Dies." All are due October 19, in time for the theatrical release of the 19th James Bonds feature, "The World Is Not Enough" ... MGM is also releasing a set of three Clint Eastwood epics: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "For a Few Dollars More" and "A Fistful of Dollars," due October 5 at $34.98 VHS and $59.98 DVD ... "Easy Rider" turns 30 this year and Columbia TriStar Home Video will re-release the groundbreaking film October 12 for $14.95 VHS ... Fox will commemorate the 25 1/2 year anniversary of Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" on October 5 with a Special Edition in VHS and DVD, featuring bloopers, outtakes, and behind-the-scenes footage, on VHS widescreen ($14.98), with the addition of audio commentary by Mel Brooks and the theatrical trailer on DVD ($34.98) ... And in the Frankenstein mode, Universal will release the DVD version of 1935's "The Bride of Frankenstein" on October 19 at $29.98. NEW: Calendar of DVD Releases: Listings of old and new films released in the DVD format. NEW: DVD Resources Links to DVD news, information and sales sites. Feature Article: Wild, Wild Westerns: Wonderful and Weird Oat-Eaters. NEW: Recommended Video and Film Books: Best references to home video and film -- and you can buy them online. New: DVD Reviews This Week's Releases: Print out a list for Tuesday, Aug. 31 -- Monday, Sep. 6. August and September reviews: The top releases each month. Hot Video News: Top DVD sellers and VHS renters, plus latest information on sell-throughs, widescreen and 'B' releases. Get it first, get it fast: Subscribe to our free e-mail news. More News: The 1937 classic "Lost Horizon," directed by Frank Capra and starring Ronald Coleman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, Sam Jaffe and H.B. Warner, and based on the James Hilton novel, has been brought to DVD by Columbia TriStar Home Video. In addition to the original theatrical trailer, the DVD features restoration audio commentary by experts Charles Champlin and Robert Gitt, a photo documentary with narration by historian Kendall Miller, three deleted "never-seen-before" scenes and an alternate ending. Available August 31 for $27.95.(Posted August 23) Universal Home Video has re-released the 1931 horror classic "Dracula" with a twist: a new musical score composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos Quartet. Because the film was originally released in that transitional period between silents and talkies, there was no official score for "Dracula"; rather there were brief musical intervals that included Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" (over the opening credits) and Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" overture (in one scene). In addition, director Tod Browning felt that Bela Lugosi's melodic voice was the only score needed. The new score will be showcased this fall in live concert performances featuring Glass and Kronos, scheduled for London, New York, Oakland and Los Angeles; Nonesuch Records will release the soundtrack in conjunction with the August 31 VHS ($14.98) release (a DVD version will be released later this year).(Posted August 23) New sell-through announcements: New Line's "Pleasantville," "Practical Magic" and "Soldier" will be available August 31 with $19.98 price tags. Adam Sandler's "The Waterboy" will arrive September 7 priced at $22.99, from Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Columbia TriStar will release "Stepmom" and "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" on September 28 for $19.95 and $14.95 respectively. Paramount will release "A Night at the Roxbury" for $14.95 on October 12. (Posted August 16) New Lines "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" will come to home video -- VHS and DVD -- on November 16.(Posted August 5) Still-in-theatres "The Blair Witch Project" has been set for an October 26 release date, from Artisan Entertainment. Also on that day Columbia TriStar will release "Muppets From Space." High school satire "Election," starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, from Paramount, will come home October 12. Also on that day Warner will release muddled thriller "Goodbye, Lover." On October 19 "Black Mask," starring Jet Li and TNT telefilm "Pirates of Silicon Valley" come to home video. And on November 16 Anthony Hopkins-Cuba Gooding Jr. thriller "Instinct" arrives from Buena Vista. (Posted August 5) Warner Home Video's giant hit "The Matrix" will come to home video on September 21 (not October 5 as originally announced) in VHS rental and DVD. Nine weeks later -- on November 23 -- the company will release a special VHS collectors edition for $14.98. (Posted July 30) Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" will come to sell-through November 2 at $24.99 with a pre-movie message and introduction by the director, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew. But there's still no word on a DVD version. (Posted July 30) Coming soon: DreamWorks' Ben Affleck-Sandra Bullock starrer "Forces of Nature" will come to to video September 14, as will USA Home Entertainment's "Cookie's Fortune." On September 21 virtual reality thriller "The Thirteen Floor," from Columbia TriStar, rauncy comedy "Foolish," from Artisan, Paramount's "The Out-of-Towners" remake and gruesome "Ravenous" from Fox, arrive on video. On October 5 Fox will debut John Cusack-Billy Bob Thornton starrer "Pushing Tin" and Warner Home Video will release David Spade comedy "Lost and Found." On October 12 Buena Vista releases teen comedy "10 Things I Hate About You" and Miramax springs "The Rage: Carrie 2." David Cronenberg's weird but exciting "eXistenZ" arrives on October 19 from Miramax. On October 26 pleasing Drew Barrymore comedy "Never Been Kissed" comes home from Fox. (Posted July 30) The folks at Home Vision Cinema, in conjunction with Janus Films and the Criterion Collection, have pushed the DVD envelope with their June 29 release of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil." The three-disc set contains more than seven hours of supplemental material and includes: Disc 1: the restored widescreen transfer of the 142-minute Terry Gilliam final cut (with Gilliam's shot-by-shot commentary); Disc 2: "What is Brazil," a 30-minute documentary; "The Battle of Brazil," an expose of the battle over the film's U.S. release; a special effects study; storyboards; drawings, publicity and production stills, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews; the theatrical trailer; and much much more; Disc 3: the 94- minute "Love Conquers All" happy ending version that Universal released after they pulled the original from screens in 1985. Price: $59.95, in a sweet blue-tinted clear plastic box. (Posted July 21) Warner Home Video will release the digitally remastered version of "The Wizard of Oz" -- with a behind-the-scenes special, studio outtakes and original theatrical trailer -- on October 19 in VHS ($16.95) and DVD ($24.98) editions. On October 26 Paramount is re-releasing the Indiana Jones trilogy in widescreen versions in a gift pack for $35.99; no word on DVD editions. (Posted July 14) MGM Home Entertainment has announced the re-release of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" (after an 11-year moratorium) on September 14; the movie will be available in VHS for $19.98 and DVD for $29.98 (with behind-the-scenes material, a music only track, interviews, a featurette and more). (Posted June 28) Boxed Sets Galore: The end of Summer will herald a flurry of boxed VHS and DVD sets, including a Hitchcock collection, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" package, a Bruce Lee package and an Arnold Schwarzenegger collection: Universal's VHS The Alfred Hitchcock Collection -- on the master's 100th birthday -- contains 13 remastered titles: "Topaz" (with 17 additional minutes), "The Birds," "Family Plot," "Frenzy," "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Marnie," "Psycho" (widescreen and pan-and-scan), "Rope," "Saboteur," "Shadow of a Doubt," "Torn Curtain," "The Trouble With Harry" and "Vertigo" (widescreen and pan-and-scan) at $14.98 each or in a special gift pack with a bonus cassette of four episodes from the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" TV series for $179.99. A DVD package -- of "Psycho Collector's Edition," "Vertigo Collector's Edition" and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" -- will be available for $74.98. All due August 3. New Line Cinema has put together all seven "A Nightmare on Elm Street" films in a Platinum Series DVD box set available September 21. Each film has been digitally remastered; the set includes a specially created disc, "The Nightmare Series Encyclopedia," two pairs of 3-D glasses for the 3-D sequence in "Freddy's Dead," a 36-page book, comprehensive CD-ROM features and other DVD goodies. The set goes for $129.98. A VHS set of just the seven films, housed in a keepsake box, will sell for $89.98 and will be available September 7. Fox Home Entertainment's "Bruce Lee: The Master Collection" includes four Lee films, "Game of Death," "Return of the Dragon," "Fists of Fury" and "The Chinese Connection," as well as a bonus video, "Bruce Lee, The Legend," available August 31 in VHS widescreen for $39.98 and $99.98 DVD. Artisan Home Entertainment and Fox have teamed up for "The Schwarzenegger Collection," a VHS five-tape gift set with "Total recall," "The Terminator," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Predator" and "True Lies," for $64.98, and a DVD four pack gift set of "Total Recall," "The Running Man," "Commando" and "Predator" for $94.98. "Terminator 2" features never-before-seen footage. Both sets are available August 31.(Posted June 28)

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