Kate Beckinsale’s latest movie hit Blu-ray January 19th with the Warner Home Video release of Whiteout.
The movie is set in Antarctica, one of the coldest and most remote locations on the planet, and the cold, stormy environment is almost a character in the film.
I actually watched the movie just after returning from a ski trip where we faced some pretty rough weather ourselves, which made Continue reading »
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Amazon has added a number of new titles to their list of $7.99 Warner Home Video titles.
Most recently added are Wedding Crashers, Ocean’s Eleven and Alexander, Revisited – The Final Cut.
Certainly $8 is a great price for Blu-ray movies, and there are some nice titles here.
See a growing list of $7.99 after the break:
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Amazon has listed Music and Lyrics and The Lake House for only $7.99 today, an amazing saving of over 77% off retail!
This is a perfect opportunity to get some titles ‘for her’?
Regardless, it is nice to see such a great discount.
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My favourite new movie so far on Blu-ray this year is Moon, released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on January 12th, 2010.
It is hard to categorize this movie – perhaps it is a kind of science fiction mystery thriller.
Sam Bell is the sole inhabitant on the far side of the moon, running a mining operation that supplies clean energy back to Earth.
His only companion is the computer named GERTY, Continue reading »
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Blu-ray Cover Art Gallery for the week of the 24th of January 2010 shows a number of new releases including the sci-fi thriller Surrogates with Bruce Willis, horror in the form of Saw VI, Michael Jackson’s last performances in This Is It and Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut with Whip It.
If drama is more your style, Universal has both Atonement and Pride & Prejudice and the Criterion Continue reading »
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MGM kicked off the Blu-ray year with the remake of the movie Fame, released by MGM Home Entertainment on January 12th 2010.
The movie is a loose remake of the 1980 Alan Parker movie Fame film, following the four years of study at the Performing Arts High School in New York City.
The movie starts with the auditions for the school where just a couple of hundred students are chosen from the thousands Continue reading »
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Amazon started a new promotion for Sony titles along with the new This Is It release on Blu-ray Disc.
If you purchase This Is It on Blu-ray from Amazon, you can get an additional $5 off any Sony title included in the promotion.
There are 20 titles to choose from, some as low as $12.49.
This promotion runs until February 8th.
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In 2009 The Simpsons finally shifted to hidef production, which led to the January 12th Blu-ray Disc release of The Simpsons: The Complete Twentieth Season from Fox Home Entertainment.
The Simpsons is one of the longest running television shows, featuring a ‘typical’ dysfunctional family that hasn’t aged over the 20 years of episodes.
One of the reasons that the show has lasted so Continue reading »
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The Blu-ray market share was 12% with a revenue of $18.94M for the week ending January 17th, according to Home Media Magazine.
While this seems kind of where we were ‘last year’, due to changes in the way market share is calculated, it is actually up a couple of points.
Revenue is up almost 80% over last year, which is a nice year over year rise.
I was a little surprised to see that the Continue reading »
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More of the same, with Blu-ray market share at 14% and a revenue of $22.42M for the week ending January 10th, according to Home Media Magazine.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs was the new winner for the week, pushing The Hangover from Warner to 2nd place.
The Final Destination from Warner, District 9 from Sony Pictures and Inglourious Basterds from Universal Continue reading »
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