Pinapple Express is coming to Blu-ray, January 6, 2009. It’s going to be full featured disk with an unrated version, deleted scenes, fifteen behind-the-scenes featurettes and a bonus Digital Copy of the movie for playback on PC, PSP™ and iTunes. Also coming with BD Live functionality. Which at this point I could care less about, has there ever been an implimentation of BD Live that wasn’t craptastic? What I want to know is why doesn’t any of the studios support the picture in picture stuff? This why I always thought HD-DVD was a better format, there were actually standards, you always knew what you were getting.  Anyhoo, on paper this seems like it’ll be a pretty nice package. The full press release is after the jumpity jump. 

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment invites you to ride the PINEAPPLE EXPRESS when the hit action comedy blazes onto unrated Blu-ray™ High-Def and 2-Disc unrated DVD, and on 1-Disc theatrical and unrated DVD & PSP™, this January 6, 2009. Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad) and James Franco (Spider-Man™ 1-3) star in this hilarious box office smash as a process server and a pot dealer, respectively, who are forced to go on the lam after one witnesses a drug-related murder. Together, these two guys with nothing in common except a fondness for a certain leafy, smokeable substance, must work together to avoid taking the wrong kind of hit from a drug dealer bent on killing them. What follows is an uproarious updating of the buddy action comedy from the outrageous minds behind last summer’s smash hit Superbad.

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS comes fully loaded with special features viewers will love, including extended and alternate scenes, a gag reel, “The Making-of Pineapple Express” featurette and cast and filmmaker commentary featuring Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen.
The special unrated Blu-ray and 2-Disc unrated DVD include both theatrical and extended film versions, with scenes not shown in theaters. Additional bonus features on these editions include deleted scenes, fifteen behind-the-scenes featurettes and a bonus Digital Copy of the movie for playback on PC, PSP™ and iTunes.

Exclusive to the Blu-ray Disc™ is the special “Ride the Express Game.” Play as Dale or Saul and scale the ladders and levels to retrieve your personal property!  Avoid Ted and the killer pineapples as you try to score as many points as you can!
Sony Pictures Blu-ray Club members can register their Blu-ray Discs via BD-Live to earn points toward Sony products and merchandise. For more information, visit www.sonyrewards.com/bluray ..

Featuring a perfect blend of explosive action and gut-busting humor, comedy fans won’t want to miss the PINEAPPLE EXPRESS when it pulls up on home video this January 6, available at an SRP of $34.95 (2-Disc DVD), $39.95 (Blu-ray™), $28.96 (1-Disc Theatrical or Unrated DVD) and $24.94 (PSP™).

Synopsis
A new comedy from the creative genius of Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Talladega Nights) follows a pair of druggie losers as they reach the top of the hit-list when one witnesses a mob murder and drags his buddy into a crazy flight from mobsters bent on silencing both of them permanently. The film stars new sensation Seth Rogen (Knocked Up, Superbad, 40 Year Old Virgin) and James Franco (Spider-Man™ 1-3) and it co-stars Rosie Perez (Do The Right Thing) and Gary Cole (The Brady Bunch Movie). Movie is directed by David Gordon Green.
This film has been rated R for pervasive language, drug use, sexual references and violence with a run time of approximately 112 minutes for the theatrical version and 117 minutes for the unrated version and.  

1-Disc Theatrical and Unrated* DVD Special Features:

• Extended and Alternate Scenes
• Gag Reel
• “The Making-of Pineapple Express” Featurette
• Commentary with Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen and more!

* Unrated 1-Disc DVD includes both the Theatrical and Extended film versions

Unrated Blu-ray™  & 2-Disc Unrated DVD Special Features:

• Digital Copy of the Film for PC, PSP™ and iTunes
• Both Theatrical and Extended Film Versions
• Deleted Scenes
• Extended and Alternate Scenes
• Commentary with Filmmakers and Cast, including Director David Gordon Green, Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Ed Begley Jr., and Rosie Perez
• The Making-of Pineapple Express
  • Cast and crew making-of featurette
• The Action of Pineapple Express
  • Seth Rogen, James Franco & Director David Gordon Green discuss adding the element of hard-core action into the comedy genre, including a behind-the-scenes look at several stunts.
• Phone Booth
  • Before the role of Angie was cast, Judd Apatow played the part off camera.  This piece shows the phone booth scenes that made the movie, and the voice that was really behind those phone calls.
• Line-O-Rama
  • Back-to-back shots of the actors’ different delivery of certain lines from the film, featuring Seth Rogen, James Franco and Craig Robinson. 
• Direct-O-Rama
  • A Blooper reel featuring David Gordon Green directing and taunting the cast from behind the camera featuring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez and Craig Robinson
• Item 9 Experiments
  • Alternate Footage featuring smoking experiments on various characters and their reactions to smoking the top secret government "Item 9" weed.  
• Saul’s Apartment
  • Random characters from the film meet up and share hilarious moments in Saul’s (James Franco) apartment and get stoned.
• Raw Footage
  • Unedited raw footage for the following scenes: Cross Joint, My Cat’s Birthday, Tit Butter and Dinner’s gonna be cold tonight.
• Begley’s Best
  • Ed Begley Jr. discusses his endorsement of non-toxic cleaning products called “Begley’s Best” and shows us how he fulfills customer orders.
• Red and Jessica’s Guide to Marriage
  • Red & his wife Jessica give special tips on how to make a marriage work.
• Injury Report
  • The cast discuss the many injuries they have sustained during the shoot. Includes behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Seth Rogen and James Franco and compete for who got hurt the most.
• Stuntmaster Ken
  • Ken Jeong gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the stunts from the film.
• Rehearsal Footage
  • Footage of James Franco and Seth Rogen rehearsing scenes for the movie.
• First Table Read
  • Footage from the very first table read of Pineapple Express before filming begins.
• Comic-Con Panel
  • Excerpts from the Comic-Con panel.  Filmmakers and Cast answer questions from “random” audience members.  Questions are really being asked by staged comedians. 
• Red-band theatrical trailer

Blu-ray™ High Def Exclusive Bonus Material

• “Ride The Express” Game

BD Live provides access to content via an Internet-connected Blu-ray Player.  Get Connected and Go Beyond the Disc.  Download exclusive content and Play Games with People all over the world

The Sony Pictures Blu-ray Club Provides Loyalty Rewards for Sony Blu-ray Movie Fans via BD-Live™ Rewards consumers in the U.S. for purchasing and registering BD-Live enabled Sony Blu-ray movies.  By accumulating points, consumers become eligible to win cool Sony products.  Visit www.sonyrewards.com/bluray for more details.

One of the great classics is getting the loving special edition DVD Treatment. Next week, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, 50th Anniversary Edition hits the streets October 7th (next week).  This colorful adventure is the screen version of one of the classic tales from “1001 Arabian Nights.” It tells the story of Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) and Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant).  When they unexpectedly stop on the island of Colossa on their way to Baghdad, they find themselves battling all types of dangers, such as evil magicians, a man-eating Cyclops, a fire-breathing dragon, and a sword-wielding skeleton. Directed by Nathan Juran (20 Million Miles to Earth, First Men ‘In’ the Moon), the newly remastered film stars Kerwin Mathews (The 3 Worlds of Gulliver), Kathryn Grant (Anatomy of a Murder), Richard Eyer (The Invisible Boy), and Torin Thatcher (Witness for the Prosecution). The DVD contains an audio commentary by Ray Harryhausen, visual effects experts Phil Tippett and Randall William Cook, author Steven Smith and producer Arnold Kunert; six featurettes: Remembering The 7th Voyage of Sinbad in which Ray Harryhausen reflects back on the 50th anniversary with a look at the film, drawings, artwork, models, etc., The Harryhausen Legacy; The Music of Bernard Herrmann with Herrmann biographer Steven Smith; A Look Behind the Voyage with interview footage; This is Dynamation; and Ray Harryhausen Interview by Director John Landis, plus the music video Sinbad May Have Been Bad, But He’s Been Good To Me. 

I adore this movie. The DVD includes -

Audio Commentary with Ray Harryhausen, visual effects experts Phil Tippett and Randall William Cook, author Steven Smith and producer Arnold Kunert
Music Video: Sinbad May Have Been Bad, But He’s Been Good To Me Photo Gallery

Featurettes:

- Remembering The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
- The Harryhausen Legacy
- The Music of Bernard Herrmann
- A Look Behind the Voyage (includes interview footage)
- This is Dynamation (Special Effects)
- Ray Harryhausen Interview by Director John Landis

Start revisiting memory lane by watching these clips, after the break. 

Film Clip - Magic Barrier
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Film Clip - A Great Magician
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Film Clip - Inside The Lamp
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Remembering 7th Voyage - The Shrinking of Katheryne Grant
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Advertising Song
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"Joel, sometimes you gotta stop being a Pussy and just say ‘What the Fuck.’"  Remember where you were when you first saw the classic Risky Business? This was the film that changed a generation and launched Tom Cruise into the stratosphere. Risky Business was that perfect storm of timing, edge, story, and one of the best movie Soundtracks - ever. In celebration of it’s 25th Anniversary the folks at Warner Home Video are tripple dipping and bring us a brand new DVD Deluxe edition set and a Blu-ray edition. Check out the full press release.

RISKY BUSINESS 25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION

Tom Cruise’s Breakout Classic Debuts September 16

On DVD and Blu-ray™ Hi-Def

Bonus Features Include All-New Commentary with Tom Cruise, Screen Tests, Director’s Cut of the Final Scene and New Documentary

The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business

Also Includes Two Bonus Features Exclusive to the Blu-ray™ Hi-Def Edition

Burbank, Calif. June 30, 2008 – On September 16, in celebration of the 25^th Anniversary of Risky Business, Tom Cruise again grabs his air guitar, cranks up Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” and dances his way back into the hearts of millions in the film that launched him into superstardom. Warner Home Video will be releasing two sexy new versions of the Risky Business 25^th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Packaged in a new o-sleeve, the standard definition will sell for $19.97 SRP and the Two-Disc Blu-ray™ Hi-Def for $28.99 SRP. Order due date is August 12.

Both versions of the Risky Business 25^th Anniversary Deluxe Edition have been restored and remastered with 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio and boast special bonus content including an all-new 25^th anniversary retrospective documentary The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business in both standard and high definition formats as well as screen tests and the director’s cut of the final scene. An in-depth audio commentary with Tom Cruise, Paul Brickman and Jon Avnet is available on the DVD only. Also available exclusive to the Blu-ray™ Hi-Def Edition is a video commentary with Tom Cruise, Paul Brickman and Jon Avnet and a digital copy of the film compatible with iTunes® and Windows Media devices™ which allows consumers a single non-transferable download of the full-length feature to their PC or iPod.

Risky Business started it all for Cruise who has since been nominated for three Academy Awards^® and six Golden Globes^®, winning three of the latter (Best Performance by an Actor for Born on the Fourth of July and Jerry Maguire plus Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Magnolia). His other memorable starring roles include All the Right Moves, Top Gun, Rain Man, Days of Thunder, A Few Good Men, Interview with the Vampire, the Mission Impossible series, Collateral and War of the Worlds.

Said Jeff Baker, Warner Home Video Executive Vice President and General Manager, Theatrical Catalog, “In his 25 years in the business, Tom Cruise has become the epitome of a true Hollywood star. We are very proud to be releasing this timeless classic and the film that became his breakthrough role.”

Synopsis

Joel Goodsen (Cruise) is a high school senior who is tired of being Mr. All American, facing ‘traumatic’ decisions such as which Ivy League college to attend. His life takes a totally unexpected turn when he meets a sexy call girl (Rebecca De Mornay) who transforms his house into a brothel while his parents are away, and at the same time transforms his entire perspective.

RISKY BUSINESS 25th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION

• Restored and remastered feature with all new 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio
• The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business (All new 25^th anniversary retrospective documentary on the making of Risky Business featuring interviews with Tom Cruise and cast)
• Audio commentary with Tom Cruise, director Paul Brickman and producer Jon Avnet
• Director’s cut of the final scene from Risky Business (with introduction by Paul Brickman)
• Original screen tests with Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay
• Theatrical trailer

RISKY BUSINESS 25^TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DISC

BLU-RAY™ HI-DEF DELUXE EDITION

• Restored and remastered feature with all new 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio
• The Dream is Always the Same: The Story of Risky Business (All new 25^th anniversary retrospective documentary on the making of Risky Business featuring interviews with Tom Cruise and cast (in Hi-Def format)
• Director’s cut of the final scene from Risky Business (with introduction by Paul Brickman)
• Original screen tests with Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay
• Theatrical trailer

Blu-Ray™ Hi-Def Exclusive Content

· Video commentary with Tom Cruise, director Paul Brickman, and producer Jon Avnet (in Hi-Def format)

· Digital copy of the feature film

RISKY BUSINESS 25^TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS

Street Date: September 16, 2008

Order Date: August 12, 2008

Pre-Sell Date: May 20, 2008

RISKY BUSINESS DELUXE EDITION

Catalog # 1000035705

$19.97 SRP

RISKY BUSINESS TWO-DISC BLU-RAY™ HI-DEF DELUXE EDITION

Catalog # 1000037925

$28.99 SRP

Feature Running Time: 99:06 minutes — Rated: R

16×9 Widescreen, Color

English 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio

Hey, that kid from 90210 is in a Direct to Video movie. The only thing that Kelly Reyes (Melissa Keller) has ever thought about was playing beach volleyball.  Then one day when a mysterious reporter named Holden (Brian Austin Green) comes into her life, strange events start to happen to her, as well as to the people around her.  As Kelly becomes skeptical of Holden, she still must maintain focus and prepare for the biggest match of her life.  Is she being paranoid, or is there something darker to this mystery man? Check out the clippage and the full press release.

Impact Point Trailer
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Film Clip - Practice
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Film Clip - Retrieval
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Film Clip - Beat Down
http://www.sonypictures.com/sphe/impactpoint/beatdown_high.wmv
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SPECIAL FEATURES:

Bonus Digital Copy of the Film
"Serve It Up: Training for IMPACT POINT" Featurette
AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour Preview

RATING: R for Violence, Language, Some Sexuality and Nudity

CAST:
Brian Austin Green
Melissa Keller
Kayla Ewell
Linden Ashby

PRODUCED BY:
Marc Bienstock

WRITTEN BY:
Brett Merryman

DIRECTED BY:
Hayley Cloake

Buy IMPACT POINT on DVD with Bonus Digital Copy:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018CWW46

The fifth and final magical season of I DREAM OF JEANNIE is here July 8.  In the show’s final season, watch as Jeannie (Barbara Eden) and her master, Tony (Larry Hagman), finally say "I Do" in one of television’s most memorable weddings.  This time watch as Jeannie is crowned Queen of her own country, Dr. and Mrs. Bellows meet Jeannie as Major Nelson’s fiancee, and Tony’s house gets a ‘mad’ makeover!  Making her final appearance, Jeannie’s wicked twin sister tries to wreck the newlyweds’ marriage, while Dr. Bellows’ nephew discovers Jeannie’s secret and Tony becomes the spokesperson for his own canned chili.  Plus Dr. Bellows finally catches Major Nelson, an astronaut with a genie!  With 26 hilarious episodes featuring such guest stars as Farrah Fawcett, Jim Backus, Dick Wilson, Jackie Coogan and Dick Van Patten, the complete fifth and final season will have fans forever dreaming of Jeannie.  Take a look at some clippage after the break.

TV Clip - Jeannie At The Piano
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TV Clip - Djinn Djinn Pied Piper
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TV Clip - Guess Whos Going To Be a Bride (Part 1)
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TV Clip - Jeannie’s Beauty Cream
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TV Clip - Jeannie’s Bachelor Party
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TV Clip - The Blood of Jeannie
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Twentieth Century Fox and Apple(R) today announced Digital Copy for iTunes(R), which provides customers who purchase a DVD with an additional Digital Copy of the movie. Just like movies purchased from the iTunes Store, an iTunes Digital Copy can effortlessly be transferred to iTunes and then viewed on a PC or Mac(R), iPod(R) with video, iPhone(TM) or on Apple TV(R). The first DVD to make its debut with iTunes Digital Copy is the Special Edition DVD premiere of the Family Guy “Star Wars” parody, “Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest,” which is being released in stores today. Fox and Apple are planning to deliver many more DVDs with iTunes Digital Copy this year.

“One of the most requested features DVD buyers have been asking for is the ability to get the movies they bought into their iTunes library,” said Jim Gianopulos, chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment. “We’re thrilled to offer such an incredibly simple way for our customers to get even more out of their DVD purchase, and we look forward to releasing many more DVDs this year with iTunes Digital Copy.”

“Now movie fans can easily transfer a free copy of the movie they purchase on DVD into iTunes,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “DVDs containing an iTunes Digital Copy allow movie fans to get a copy of their movie which can be viewed on a computer, iPod, iPhone or on Apple TV.”

The new iTunes Digital Copy provides a consumer friendly way to transfer a DVD purchase to a user’s iTunes library. Once a customer buys the DVD, they insert it into their computer, enter a unique code into iTunes and iTunes automatically copies the movie to their iTunes library within minutes. Customers own the iTunes Digital Copy of the movie and it has all of the same great viewing options as other iTunes Store video content, including the ability to be viewed on a computer, iPod with video, iPhone and Apple TV. Each DVD will only transfer its iTunes Digital Copy to one iTunes library.

One of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox Filmed Entertainment produces, acquires and distributes motion pictures throughout the world. These motion pictures are produced or acquired by the following units of FFE: Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Atomic, and Twentieth Century Fox Animation. FFE also includes Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc (BD) and Digital Copy as well as acquisitions and original productions.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) today confirmed the imminent arrival of its first Profile 1.1 Blu-ray Disc, SUNSHINE, available January 8, 2008, day-and-date with DVD.  The most technologically advanced Blu-ray Disc release to debut from Fox to date, SUNSHINE features dual-stream picture-in-picture commentary, enhanced viewing mode, and the first-ever “surround sound mixing” feature, as well as deleted scenes, web production diaries and two short films. Helmed by visionary director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later, The Beach), SUNSHINE follows a daring crew of eight astronauts as they boldly fight for their lives and the future of the planet on a mission to deliver a device that will reignite the dying sun.  The film features an all-star cast including Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins, Red Eye), Chris Evans (Fantastic Four), Michelle Yeoh (Babylon A.D., Memoirs Of A Geisha) and Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later, Troy).  Presented in widescreen format with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound and English, Spanish and French subtitles, SUNSHINE will be available to own on Blu-ray Disc for $39.98. U.S./$49.98 CAN. 

SUNSHINE Blu-ray Disc Special Features

§ A Brilliant Vision: Enhanced Viewing Mode with the Filmmakers of Sunshine

o Icarus Kitchen

o Designing Icarus / Kaneda´s Room

o Zero Gravity Rehearsal

o Oxygen Garden Fire

o Stunt Jump Through Space

o Cast Preparing for Film

o Pinbacker´s Makeup

o Mace Fixes Mainframe

o Space Suits

o Payload Showdown

§ Journey Into Sound: Surround Sound Enhancement

o Searle in Observation Room

o Capa Speaks with Icarus

o Capa Discovers Pinbacker

o Capa Battles Pinbacker

§ Deleted Scenes With Commentary By Danny Boyle:

o Playing Chess

o It Really Takes It Out Of You

o Washing Carrots In The Oxygen Garden

o Coolant Redirection

o Cooking

o Wake-up

o Demolished Oxygen Garden

o Searle Meets Capa

o In Deeper Space Than We Are

o Prepping For Docking

o Rough Docking Procedure

o Fight And Then We Die

o Alternate Ending

§ Web Production Diaries

o Danny Boyle Introduction

o Zero G Flight

o Cillian Murphy

o Pre Viz

o Science Of The Sun

o Hiroyuki

o Troy Garity Harvey Introduction

o Voice Of Icarus

o Michelle And O2 Garden

o Anita Screens

o Alwin Kuchler

o Cliff Curtis

o Bumps And Stunts

o Benny

o The Science Of Space Travel Physiology

o Space Suit

o Rose Byrne Intro

o Love Letters

o Chris Evans

o VFX

o Big Bangs

o The Science Of Sun Death

§ Short films

o Dad’s Dead Directed by Chris Shepherd

o Mole Hills Directed by Dan Arnold

§ Fox on Blu-ray Trailers

o 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Alien Vs. Predator, X-Men: The Last Stand