Movies - "Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair" Hits DVD

"There are certain movies out there that make us wonder how they would look when they hit DVD, and would we get a different version than the one shown at the theaters. When Christopher Nolan's "Memento" was released, I was hoping that the DVD would also include a version which is played in chronological order. "Grindhouse" is now being released separately on DVD, which is different from its theatrical showing. And what about "Kill Bill"? Will we ever get a special edition DVD which would merge both Volume 1 and Volume 2 into one film, like Quentin Tarantino originally intended?

According to Amazon, via Slashfilm, The Weinstein Company along with Genius Products are doing just that and will release "Kill Bill - The Whole Bloody Affair" DVD set on November 6th. The set will consist of four discs for a total runtime of 247 minutes and will be rated NC-17.

In the "Kill Bill" films, the Bride (Uma Thurman) wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of."

Two words: Fuck Yes. I had posted about the rumor that it might be finally coming out a little while back; looks like the rumor was mostly true, the release date would be the only difference. I'm extremely excited for this personally. I have been waiting for this DVD since the movies first came out. Kill Bill, for whatever reason, is one of my favorite films. November 6th can't come soon enough.

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Movies - Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair released in September?

"Two of my favourite DVD’s are the Japanese uncut versions of Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 that I own.

I watch them all the time, I’m addicted to the film. My girlfriend’s the same. I think we have decided to watch both films around four times in the last 18 months and I dread to think how many times I’ve watched it on my own.

The Japanese addition of the DVD has a couple of more scenes that were cut out of the Western release of the film, including the “colour” fight scene at the House of Blue Leaves that were black and white in other versions.

There’s also a couple of extra’s and such.

Anyway, for a long time we have heard about director Quentin Tarantino releasing a special 4 Disc Special Edition of the movie that would re-cut them together as one film, 100% uncut and contain a shit load of extra’s. Finally it looks like it could be happening.

An article at TCM found through Everything Tarantino, has this set listed for a 18th September release but no other websites across the web have this info.

However, the only thing that will make me double dip here is if Quentin does a commentary which I’m really hoping he will. I loved his track on Tony Scott’s movie True Romance which he wrote, they are so entertaining but he just doesn’t bother doing them for his own movies.

In an update on yesterday’s news, Amazon are now listing the Death Proof DVD on their site, with Everything Tarantino speculating it will be a 2 Disc release containing both the theatrical cut and the longer version that was screened at Cannes.

That is also said to have an 18th September release, which really does add fuel to the fire that the Kill Bill set would be released on the same day."

Taken from Obsessed With Film, I saw this article the other day and was waiting to see if any other movie blogs would post about it, but none of the ones I visit did, so I guess you can file this under 'rumor'. The Kill Bill movies are 2 of my personal absolute favorite movies. I own both the bare-bones U.S. DVD versions of the films and have been waiting and waiting for Tarantino to release the 'holy shit edition' of the movies. So when I saw this article it put a smile on my face and I really hope this rumor is true. If it indeed is released on September 18th, that would make that day pretty epic, with the Death Proof DVD supposedly coming out on that same day as well.

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Movies - "Grindhouse" Split on DVD

Via: FilmWad

"Lets be honest, Grindhouse just didn't get treated the way it should have. It did poorly it's opening weekend, and the Weinsteins freaked, pulled out their Freddy Kruger gloves and started cutting the hell out of anything that got in their way. What we ended up with was the two films split from their original context, robbing them of their intended purpose (the, ahem, GRINDHOUSE experience) and making the experience of viewing the films less enjoyable.

Many thought the Weinsteins would fix this problem on DVD, but alas, 'twill not be the case. Reports are coming out that The Weinstein Co. and Genius Entertainment will distribute the films separately starting with Tarantino's Death Proof on September 18th. Surely this'll be the bloated extended cut of the film, which isn't entirely a bad thing. No word on Rodriguez's Planet Terror, but expect it to drop within the following month.

Also to expect? The fact that both these DVDs will have one featurette and a trailer and will cost over twenty dollars. Three months after the release of Planet Terror Weinstein will release a statement about pleasing the fans and then release the inevitable stacked DVD with both films in their original formats. God. Damn. Double. Dips. "

Fucking WOW. This really sucks for the people who missed the film as the full "double feature" in theaters, and it still sucks for people who were planning on buying Grindhouse on DVD, expecting it to be both movies. Now I wasn't getting my hopes up for a 'holy shit' edition DVD for the first release, but I was atleast hoping for it to be both movies played back-to-back with the trailers included. It's nice that they're probably going to be decking out the individual DVD releases with extras as well as the extended, and maybe "restored", versions of the film atleast (*crosses fingers*), which means I'll probably end up buying them even if I have to double-dip later on for a better 'definitive' DVD. If it's nearly bare-bones, without the extended and restored versions of the films, there's really no reason at all to purchase it, but surely Rodriguez and Tarantino won't disappoint.

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Movies - Aronofsky Upset Over "The Fountain" DVD

Director Darren Aronofsky updated his blog, with a few comments about the stripped-down "The Fountain" DVD, which didn't even contain a commentary track. Here is what he had to say.

"As many of you can tell, it is light on extras as compared to my previous DVD releases. Everything at the studio was a struggle," explains Aronofsky. "For instance, they didn't want to do a commentary track cause they felt it wouldn't help sales. I didn't have it in me to fight anymore. Whatever."

But he's not giving up. "Niko, my friend who did the doc on the DVD came up with a novel idea. We recorded a commentary track ourselves. We're gonna post it on a site soon, http coming soon. You can play it and watch the flick and hopefully you'll enjoy it."

Feeling that the DVD wasn't everything that it could have been, he added: "I do hope to do a big special edition at some point, but for that to happen the DVD is gonna have to sell."

Aronofsky also added on his blog: "I got a lot of extras in my bag so who know maybe if you all write to criterion they’ll get interested (suggest the fountain as a title: mulvaney@criterion.com). They’ve been into pi and requiem but because the first run of dvd’s had so many extras they didn’t know what else they could add. but the fountain…"

Aronofsky's previous DVDs for Pi and Requiem for a Dream were extremely heavy on extras, yet The Fountain has very few special features to speak of – not even a director's commentary, which would have been really damn useful for a film so heavily reliant on symbolism and allegory. I think it would be awesome if Criterion decided to add The Fountain to their collection and distribute the DVD that way. It really is a shame the studio is such a bunch of dumb-asses not to add a simple commentary track when the friggin director was pushing for it to be in the release. I absolutely loved the film and I can't wait for the internet commentary track and hopefully a new release of the film on DVD.

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Movies - "300" DVD Cover and Specs

More DVD news today. DVD Times have got the scoop on the artwork and features for the Region 1 release of one of this year’s biggest movies so far… 300.

The cover is pretty pathetic, I mean that flick had some of the best posters for any movie this year but they resort to this crap?

Anyway, here are the set of special features you can look forward to with this 2 disc set…

Disc 1: Main Feature

• English, French and Spanish DD5.1 Surround
• English, French and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary with director Zack Snyder, writer Kurt Johnstad and director of photography Larry Fong

Disc 2: Extra Features (Special Edition only)

• Deleted Scenes with Introduction by Zack Snyder
• 300 Spartans - Fact or Fiction? (24:31mins) - Historians, authors and filmmakers reveal how much of the film was based on fact.
• Who Were The Spartans: The Warriors of 300 (4:24mins) - Touches on the customs and ways of life of the Spartan that weren’t explicitly shown in 300 but were used by the actors and filmmakers to help build their characters.
• Frank Miller Tapes (13:00mins) - We'll show how the outspoken Miller continued to push his limits to realize his epic graphic novel in the world of film
• Webisodes: Behind the scenes peeks on the set of 300 (20:00mins)
• Photo gallery (3:39mins) - Rapid fire stills from the first day of production to the last.

"300" will hit DVD, Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD on July 31st. The DVD will be available as a single disc edition (both Widescreen and Full Screen) as well as a Widescreen two-disc Special Edition.

Click here to check out the DVD cover thanks to WorstPreviews.

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Movies - "Serenity" Special Edition Specs and Cover Art

"Not too long ago, a 2-disc special edition of Joss Whedon's "Serenity" was announced, and now Universal gave the DVDs a date, which is August 21st. In addition, the studio released a cover, which you can check out by clicking on the link below.

Thanks to DVDActive.com and Cinematical.com, here are all the bonus material you can expect on the 2-disc special edition. Italicized items were not part of the single-disc release."

* Audio commentary with writer/director Joss Whedon
* Audio commentary with Whedon and actors Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin, Summer Glau and Ron Glass
* Joss Whedon introduction
* Deleted scenes with optional Whedon words
* Extended scenes
* Outtakes
* Featurettes:
* "Take a Walk on Serenity"
* "Green Clan"
* "We'll Have a Fruity Oaty Good Time!"
* "A Filmmaker's Journey"
* "Future History: The Story of Earth That Was"
* "Re-lighting the Firefly"
* "What's in a Firefly?"
* "Session 416"

I never picked up the original Serenity DVD release, but it looks like I'll definitely being picking this version up. Serenity was such a fantastic film and I would strongly recommend it along with the series Firefly.

Click here to check out the DVD cover

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Movies - Blade Runner 5 Disc Special Edition DVD

"The full specs of the new Blade Runner DVD have been revealed. Film Ick have got the scoop, and I have to say this DVD is an absolute MUST HAVE.

We already know that Ridley Scott has been re-shooting scenes with Joanna Cassidy for this ultimate and definitive version of this movie. Let’s just hope he hasn’t given George Lucas any ideas about his Star Wars trilogy.

It comes packaged in a briefcase…

Disc 1 - The Final Cut (2007):
Ridley Scott’s definitive new version. Deleted and extended scenes edited into the film, extra dialogue, better - and sometimes just plain new -special effects.

Disc 2 - Three Complete Versions of the film:
The 1982 US Theatrical version
The 1982 International Theatrical version
The1992 “Director’s Cut”

Disc 3 - Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

A newly minted documentary. Described as “mainstream-friendly yet meaningful”. Will cover everything from the birth of Dick’s original book to the legacy (that is, rip-offs) of the feature film.

Disc 4 – Bonus Material:
Divided into the categories Inception, Pre-production, Production, Post-production, Release and Legacy.

Disc 5 - Work Print Version & More Bonus Material:
This may include Channel 4’s Edge of Bladerunner doc.

Also in the box? A little lenticular image, a model spinner an origami unicorn, some photgraphic prints, a letter from Ridley Scott. Yep - that’s right. A letter from Ridley Scott. Not personally to you, but very possibly signed.

The DVD will probably released sometime around Christmas. The pic come from Ezy DVD who are an Australian site taking pre-orders on the set."

Thanks to Obsessed With Film for the scoop, I'm really excited for this DVD. For all the details on it, head on over to Ezy DVD.

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