James Harvey
10-20-2001, 09:12 PM
This is from www.thedigitalbits.com and ALOT of it is factual, some rumors. What gets me? Aliens: FIVE STAR COLLECTION! WHy? The SE edition rocked! Maybe they'll branch in those deleted scenes. Here it is:
Okay... we've spoken to our studio contacts and other industry sources, and we're gonna give you a look at not only everything that's currently slated release for DVD from the major studios, but also everything we could find out about that they've got planned (or have in the works) for 2002 and beyond. Everything listed here that has a specific street date is officially scheduled. The rest, particularly information about upcoming titles, generally comes from studio sources (via chats, discussions and Studio Day), but should still be taken as tentative until officially announced.
20th Century Fox
Fox's slate of upcoming DVDs includes:
11/6
Guadalcanal Dairy
The Halls of Montezuma
A Wing and a Prayer and The Young Lions
11/13
The X-Files: The Complete Fourth Season
11/20
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series
11/27
Willow: Special Edition
War of the Roses
Moulin Rouge: Special Edition (both 12/18)
Object of My Affection
M*A*S*H: Five-Star Edition and M*A*S*H: TV Season One (all 1/8/02)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete First Season (1/15/02)
Kiss of the Dragon
The Five Heartbeats
Carmen Jones (all 1/22/02)
My Bodyguard
Breaking Away
The Sandlot
Rookie of the Year
Baby's Day Out
a trio of Shirley Temple classics including Dimples, Heidi and Bright Eyes (all 1/29/02).
Among the titles the studio is working on and has tentative plans to release in 2002 are
Speed: Five-Star Edition,
True Lies: Five-Star Edition,
Futurama: The Complete First Season,
Office Space: Special Edition,
Wizards,
Hoffa,
Hot Shots 1 & 2,
The Good Son,
Stealing Beauty,
The Man From Snowy River,
The Hustler: Special Edition,
Say Anything,
The Lodger,
Hangover Square,
Alien: Five-Star Edition,
Hello Dolly,
Cocoon,
Cocoon: The Return,
How to Steal a Million,
Valley of the Dolls,
The Verdict,
Silent Movie,
Robin Hood: Men in Tights,
To Be or Not to Be,
High Anxiety,
The Rose,
The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season,
The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season,
The X-Files: The Complete Fifth Season,
The X-Files: The Complete Sixth Season,
Millennium: The Complete First Season,
The Day the Earth Stood Still,
All That Jazz,
The Commitments,
Miller's Crossing,
Barton Fink,
Raising Arizona
One Million Years BC.
Note that while many of these titles are currently in production, others are still very early in the planning stages. Whether they make it out in 2002 or not remains to be seen. Additional M*A*S*H TV sets are also possible. And the just-released From Hell is an obvious day-and-date release for next year.
Other titles under consideration for DVD release in 2003 and beyond include
The Grapes of Wrath,
Vanishing Point,
Planet of the Apes: Five-Star Edition,
The Towering Inferno,
The Poseidon Adventure,
Strange Days: Five-Star Edition,
Johnny Dangerously,
all the rest of the Planet of the Apes series in anamorphic widescreen,
Peyton Place,
Howard the Duck,
Ghost & Mrs. Muir,
Romancing the Stone,
Jewel of the Nile,
The Fly: Special Edition,
El Norte,
Better off Dead,
Laura,
the Our Man Flynt films
and a possible Predator 2: Special Edition.
Paramount
Paramount's already slated titles for the rest of 2001 include Road Rage (10/30),
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition
and MTV's Inside Fear (both 11/6),
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and
Bride of the Wind (both 11/13),
Apocalypse Now Redux (11/20),
What's Eating Gilbert Grape,
Star Trek: The Original Series 37 & 38 and
Pootie Tang (all 11/27),
Soap Dish,
Frankie & Johnny
'Til There Was You
and MTV's The Real World You Never Saw: Back to New York (all 12/4),
The Score,
The Elephant Man,
Medium Cool and
Star Trek: The Original Series 39 & 40 (all 12/11)
and Seconds
and Prophecy (both 1/8/02).
Paramount is wrapping up Star Trek: The Original Series on DVD in December, so they'll begin releasing Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD (in complete season box sets) in the spring. Deep Space Nine and Voyager could follow later in the year, but this is still TBD. The studio is also going to start releasing new, dual-disc special editions of all the Star Trek films, beginning with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan mid-next year.
All three Beverly Hills Cop films will arrive on DVD in January, along with Harlem Nights and Vampire in Brooklyn.
Planned for some time in the first half of the year are
The Bad News Bears,
Lady Sings the Blues,
The Duellists,
Sunset Boulevard,
Top Secret,
Better Off Dead,
Serpico,
Sabrina,
Mahogany
and a Fatal Attraction: Special Edition.
Later in 2002, watch for
Looking for Mr. Goodbar,
Reds,
Footloose,
Flashdance,
Friday the 13th, Part VII,
Friday the 13th, Part VIII
and Once Upon a Time in the West.
Grease and Saturday Night Fever are still MIA due to music rights issues.
Sources are telling me that work has begun on a Raiders of the Lost Ark DVD, but there's no word on when it might see the light of day. Certainly, Lucasfilm will have a big hand in that decision.
Titles tentatively slated for 2003 include
Trading Places,
1492: Conquest of Paradise,
Hud,
Major League,
Pretty in Pink,
Popeye,
Brady Bunch: The Movie,
A Very Brady Sequel,
If...
and Some Kind of Wonderful.
The studio does have eventual plans to revisit all of its non-anamorphic releases, so you can eventually expect better versions of Titanic (pending director James Cameron's availability) and Top Gun. The studio may also revisit the Friday the 13th series and the Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan films as special editions (Hunt for Red October in 16x9 anyone?), although no firm plans exist as yet.
MGM
Currently on MGM's announced slate are
Broadway Danny Rose,
Choose Me,
Dominick and Eugene,
Gregory's Girl,
Hannah and Her Sisters,
Legally Blonde,
Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy,
Of Mice and Men,
Purple Rose of Cairo,
Radio Days
and Zelig (all 11/6),
Angry Red Planet,
At the Earth's Core,
Dogs of War,
Empire of the Ants,
An Eye for an Eye,
Gang Related,
I Bury the Living,
Invasion USA,
Lone Wolf McQuade,
Lord of the Flies,
Morons from Outer Space,
People that Time Forgot,
Strange Invaders
and War Gods of the Deep (all 11/20),
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure,
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey and
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Special Edition (all 12/4),
The Basket: Special Edition,
Defiant Ones,
Dodsworth,
Fritz the Cat,
Handmaid's Tale,
Indian Runner,
Inherit the Wind,
Look Back in Anger,
The Lover,
Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat,
Party,
Separate Tables,
Topkapi and
Witness for the Prosecution (all 12/11),
Amazing Grace,
Carrington,
China Moon,
Echo Park,
The Favor,
The Fires Within,
The Good Wife,
JD's Revenge,
Jack and Sarah,
Lonely Hearts,
Mannequin,
Maria's Lovers,
Romantic Comedy,
The Russia House,
Speechless,
Wuthering Heights (1970) and
Truly Madly Deeply: Special Edition (all 12/26),
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Special Edition and
Mad Max: Special Edition (both 1/4/02)
and Jeepers Creepers: Special Edition and
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (1/8/02).
Among the many titles MGM has in production for DVD in 2002 are special editions of
UHF,
Rain Man,
The Last Waltz,
The Sure Thing,
The Producers,
The Fog,
The Hunger,
Last Seduction,
Where Eagles Dare,
Dances with Wolves,
Bull Durham,
Raging Bull,
Fargo,
Thelma & Louise,
RoboCop and
The Usual Suspects.
A second season of Stargate SG-1 is also slated for the first half of the year. The forthcoming Windtalkers and Rollerball will also arrive in 2002.
Columbia TriStar
Columbia TriStar has a good slate of upcoming titles, including The Age of Innocence,
Anzio,
Baby Boy,
The Blue and the Grey,
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas,
Muppet Family Christmas,
The Prince of Tides,
Remains of the Day
and Subway (all 11/6),
America's Sweethearts,
Cheap Detective,
Diary of a Sex Addict,
The Point Men and
The Toy (all 11/13),
Arctic Blue,
The Bear in the Big Blue House: Potty Time,
The Bear in the Big Blue House: Visiting the Doctor,
The Breed: Special Edition and
St. Elmo's Fire (all 11/20),
Divided We Fall,
The Road Home,
The Owl and the Pussycat and Moscow on the Hudson (all 11/27), John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars,
Jerry Maguire: Special Edition,
Mixed Nuts,
Sheena,
Silent Rage,
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone,
Weekend at Bernie's 2 and
White Water Summer (all 12/4),
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Superbit,
Call Me Claus,
Casualties of War,
Druids,
The Following,
Gattaca: Superbit,
The Patriot: Superbit,
Sahara and
Waterdance (all 12/11),
Big Heat,
Jackpot,
Motorama,
Murder by Death,
Queen Bee,
The Secret of Green Papaya and
Vertical Ray of the Sun (all 12/18),
Two Can Play at That Game (12/26),
Glass House and
Greenfingers (both 1/2/02),
Zebra Lounge (1/8/02) and
Glitter and
Tortilla Soup (both 1/15/02).
Look for Columbia TriStar to greatly expand their anime and Hong Kong DVD lines in 2002 and beyond, starting with the animated Metropolis.
Look for the SuperBit line to be expanded as well. Among the special edition releases/re-releases you can expect in 2002 are Used Cars, Stripes, Starship Troopers, Philadelphia, The One, Spider-Man and 1776.
Strangely, a Starman: Special Edition the studio is creating will only be released overseas, due to poor sales of the movie-only version here in the States.
Other titles are currently in the planning stages, but Columbia appears to be getting cautious about releasing deep catalog titles, fearing poor sales. In addition, little TV product is in the offing for DVD from the studio.
Universal
Universal's upcoming slate is somewhat light, with only
Dr. Suess's How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Collector's Edition widescreen and full frame (both 11/20),
Beethoven's 4th and
The Land Before Time: The Big Freeze (both 12/4),
Jurassic Park III: Collector's Edition widescreen and full frame and The Jurassic Park Collection (all 12/11),
The Fast and the Furious and
The Man Who Cried (both 1/2/02) and
American Pie 2 (4 versions - Unrated and R-Rated in both full frame and widescreen) and
Pavilion of Women (all 1/15/02).
There has been much speculation that Universal's 2002 DVD output will be much increased over 2001, as a foreign distribution agreement with Columbia TriStar is set to expire at the end of this year. That means that a number of properties that Universal's been holding back should finally see the light of day on DVD in 2002. We do know that the long-awaited Legend: Ultimate Edition will arrive on the format early next year. The odds of a Back to the Future trilogy release on DVD are better than ever in 2002, although nothing firm is set. We have, however, been told that collector's editions of Duel, Schindler's List and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial are all but certain for next year, and you can expect special editions of The Andromeda Strain and several John Hughes films as well.
New Line
New Line only has a couple of titles currently slated for DVD release, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Rush Hour 2: Infinifilm (both 12/11).
New Line's forthcoming DVD offerings look to be pretty lean. Short Cuts and Kansas City are likely 2002 releases, as is Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. And the studio has long been preparing material for eventual DVD releases of the forthcoming Lord of the Rings films. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is almost certain to be released on DVD by mid-2002.
DreamWorks
DreamWorks also has only a few DVDs on their schedule, including Shrek (11/2), Almost Famous: The Bootleg Cut (12/4) and Evolution (12/26).
As far as 2002, look for AI: Artificial Intelligence, The Last Castle and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion early in the year. The upcoming, animated Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron is also in production for eventual DVD release.
Artisan
On the way from Artisan are
Along for the Ride and
Ticker (both 11/13),
Backyard Dogs,
Clifford: Saves the Day,
Gunmen,
The Item and
The Sicilian (all 11/20),
Made: Special Edition (11/27),
Twin Peaks: Episodes 1-7 (12/4) and
Denise Austin: Power Yoga Plus,
Hamlet (2000),
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird/Tribute Tour,
Mama Flora's Family and
Sleepless (all 12/18).
There's not a lot of word available on forthcoming Artisan product, but DVDs currently in production at the studio for 2002 include a Reservoir Dogs: Special Edition, more Twin Peaks TV product and a Frank Herbert's Dune: Special Edition.
Buena Vista
Coming from Buena Vista are
Mickey's Magic Christmas: Snowed in at the House of the Mouse,
Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street,
Santa Who? and
Sister Act (all 11/6),
Calle 54,
The Closet,
crazy/beautiful,
Everybody's Famous and
Jailbreakers (all 11/13),
Walt Disney Treasures: Davy Crockett,
Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland USA,
Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color,
Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies,
Pearl Harbor: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition and the Pearl Harbor: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition Gift Set (all 12/4),
Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story,
The Princess Dairies widescreen and full frame,
Princess of Thieves and
Scary Movie 2 (all 12/18),
Tombstone: Vista Series and
The Sixth Sense: Vista Series (both 1/8/02),
Newsies,
Tron: 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition,
Belle du Jour,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 40th Anniversary Edition (live action) and
Young Girls of Rochefort (all 1/15/02),
Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Collector's Edition (both 1/19/02),
Peter Pan: Special Edition and
Disney's American Legends (2/12/02),
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2/26/02),
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (3/19/02)
and the Pearl Harbor: Vista Series Director's Cut (5/15/02 - delayed from January).
The studio's Vista Series will continue to expand in 2002, with Ed Wood likely among others. Miramax also has a bunch of great DVD special editions on the way for next year. Some titles currently in production are The Others, The English Patient, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Heavenly Creatures, El Cid, Fall of the Roman Empire, Circus World, 55 Days from Peking and the Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, White and Red). Dick Tracy is reportedly being prepared for special edition release in 2002. Other possible live-action family titles include Swiss Family Robinson, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Love Bug, The Parent Trap, Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain.
As far as more animated product, look for the following titles in 2002:
Monsters, Inc. (fall 2002),
The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
The Great Mouse Detective,
Oliver & Company,
The Rescuers and
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (all TBD).
A new anamorphic widescreen version of Pocahontas is also possible, along with more Walt Disney Treasures releases that would feature additional Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck animated shorts (the plan is for the WDT line to eventually include ALL of the classic animated shorts). The studio has also revealed that its next animated platinum title will be Beauty and the Beast in November of 2002. Look for Aladdin to be the platinum title for 2003 and The Lion King for 2004.
Warner Bros.
Currently slated from Warner and its various properties (HBO, PBS, etc.) are
Empire of the Sun,
National Geographic: Pearl Harbor - Legacy of the Attack,
The Sopranos: The Complete Second Season,
Comedy Only in da Hood,
South Park: Timmy,
South Park: Winter Wonderland,
Trans Siberian Orchestra: Ghosts of Christmas Eve and The World at War 5-disc box set (all 11/6),
Art of Violin: Special Edition,
Green Day: International Supervideos,
World Series 2001,
Now Voyager,
Little Women,
Osmosis Jones and
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory widescreen version (all 11/13),
Dead Pool,
Dirty Harry: Special Edition,
The Enforcer,
The Best of Friends 3 & 4,
Magnum Force,
The Matrix Revisited and
Sudden Impact (all 11/20),
American Outlaws,
Pokemon: Mewtwo Returns,
Mists of Avalon and
Summer Catch (all 12/4),
4 Dogs Playing Poker (12/11),
Uprising (12/18),
Four for Texas,
Ocean's Eleven,
Robin and the Seven Hoods,
Ken Burns' Mark Twain,
Always Outnumbered,
Always Outgunned,
Miss Evers Boys and
Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind (all 1/8/02)
and Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (1/29/02).
Some 50 vintage titles are already slated for DVD release in the first half of 2002 by Warner. These will include
Every Which Way But Loose,
Any Which Way You Can,
Klute,
Designing Women,
Summer of '42,
The Bad and the Beautiful,
The Prince and the Showgirl,
The Harvey Girls,
Calamity Jane,
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,
The Women,
Bringing Up Baby,
Love in the Afternoon,
A Touch of Class,
National Lampoon's European Vacation,
McCabe and Mrs. Miller and more.
A number of great special editions are officially planned for 2002 and are in various stages of production, including
The Great Race,
Strange Brew and
Clash of the Titans (all summer),
The Iron Giant (late 2002),
Amadeus,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
Victor/Victoria,
Goodfellas,
Poltergeist,
Mean Streets
and of course, the long-awaited Blade Runner (all TBD).
Amblin is working on several more for next year, including
The Color Purple,
Gremlins and Gremlins 2.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
and the forthcoming remakes of The Time Machine and Ocean's 11 are certain to be big hits on DVD next year.
And I'd be stunned if The Sporanos: The Complete Third Season, Sex and the City: The Complete Third Season and Band of Brothers weren't released in 2002 from HBO via Warner.
Other possible titles to look for in 2002 from Warner include a Humphrey Bogart box set (featuring Treasure of the Sierra Madre),
Ken Burns' The Civil War,
King Kong,
Stephen King's It,
The Haunting (1963),
Dial M for Murder,
Mildred Pierce,
Swing Time,
Top Hat,
Nightbreed: Director's Cut,
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,
House of Wax,
Meet Me in St. Louis,
Unforgiven,
Poltergeist II: The Other Side,
Innerspace,
The Mission,
Kenneth Brannagh's Hamlet and a
Roots: 20th Anniversary box set.
If you loved the studio's V DVD, next summer you'll be able to purchase V: The Final Battle on DVD.
Batman,
Beetlejuice,
Mars Attacks and
Batman Returns are all being looked at for special edition treatment, pending the availability of the directors to participate (none are in production as yet).
Animated Batman is also on the way - the studio has revealed that Batman: Subzero, the original unedited Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Batman: The Animated Series and The Batman Superman Movie are all in their plans for next year. :)
Warner is also looking at the possibility of releasing TV product on DVD in season-at-a-time sets, although no plans have been firmly set. We do, however, know that if you love Babylon 5, and would love to see more of it on DVD, then you need to get out there and buy the first Babylon 5 disc when it's released on December 4th. The studios says that it will make future plans for the series on DVD based on the success of that release.
For late 2002 and beyond, the following titles are under consideration:
A Night in Casablanca,
The Loved One,
Brewster McCloud,
Soylent Green,
Twilight Zone: The Movie,
Best Friends and
special editions of Forbidden Planet,
Blazing Saddles,
Logan's Run,
Superman II and
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Once Upon a Time in America is currently planned for 2003, along with The Adventures of Robin Hood which is being restored for its 65th anniversary.
Finally, be aware that the studio is already at hard work on bringing its much-loved Looney Tunes shorts to DVD, but there's a lot of restoration work that needs to be done first, so don't look for them any time soon.
Image
Image has the biggest DVD slate of anyone through the rest of the year. The full list includes
All Star Tribute to Brian Wilson,
Andre Previn: The Kindness of Strangers,
Educational Archives #1: Sex and Drugs,
Educational Archives #2: Social Engineering,
Lima: Breaking the Silence
and Man of Flowers (all 11/6),
Andrew Dice Clay: Dice Rules,
Black Cat/Fat Black Cat,
Chopper: Special Edition,
ELO: Zoom Tour Live,
Jewel: An Uncommon Life,
Modern Love #3 and Secrets #4 (all 11/13),
Alice in Wonderland (Broadway version),
Antigone,
Berg/Debussey/Stravinsky: Pierre Boulez,
Cologne Music Triennale: Strauss/Rautavarra,
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Waldbuhne 2000 and
Sugar Ray: Music in High Places (all 11/20),
10 Violent Women,
8 Man After: Perfect Collection,
And Then There Were None,
Angel and the Badman,
Babel 2: Perfect Collection 5-8,
I Spy: The Robert Culp Collection 1-2,
Primitive Love/Mondo Balordo,
Regeneration/Young Romance and
Worm Eaters: Special Edition (all 11/27),
BB Mak: Music in High Places,
BET on Jazz: Brenda Russell,
BET on Jazz: Freddie Jackson,
Blind Beast,
Crawling Eye,
Tender is the Heart,
Voices from Beyond and
Lost Continent (all 12/4),
Bach/Vivaldi: Il Giardino Armonico,
Bach: Mass in B Minor - Georg Christoph Biller,
Beethoven: Symphony #9/Piano Concerto #2, Debussey/Boulez/DeFalla - Chicago Symphony,
Erotic Dreams #4,
Fantasies #4,
The Go-Gos: Live in Central Park,
Madam Butterfly: Puccini,
Satyagraha: Philip Glass,
Stephane Grapelli: In New Orleans,
Strong Cheese Incident: Evolution,
Swingin' Bach: Bobby McFerrin & Friends,
Toots Thielemans in New Orleans,
Tribute to George Gershwin and
Woody Herman Remembered (all 12/11), and
Ah, Wilderness!,
Beyond the Horizon,
Computer Animation Adventure,
Computer Animation Experience,
Doctor Chance,
For Sale,
God's Little Acre: Special Edition,
Of Freaks and Men,
Pigkeeper's Daughter/Sassy Sue and
Wrestling Women USA/Pin Down Girl (all 12/18).
As far as future DVD releases from Image, you can expect lots more music titles in 2002, along with more entries in Steve Oedekerk's "thumbation" series, including Thumbtanic, Bat Thumb, The Blair Thumb, Frankenthumb and The Godthumb. No kidding.
Anchor Bay
Currently slated from The Bay are Bad Taste,
Daleks' Invasion of Earth 2150 AD,
Doctor Who and the Daleks,
Learning Guitar for Dummies,
Sinister Saga of the Making of the Stunt Man and Stunt Man: Special Edition (all 11/20)
and The Amy Fisher Story,
Britannia Hospital,
Clockwise,
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde,
Lust for a Vampire,
Morgan and Percy (all 12/4).
Four of the Apocalypse is also expected in December, although it has yet to be announced.
2002 will see a new Evil Dead: Special Edition (February), Watcher in the Woods (Q1 2002),
a Highlander: Special Edition,
Soul Man,
Mad Monster Party,
The Jazz Singer,
Can't Stop the Music,
Violent City,
The Initiation,
The Man Who Haunted Himself,
The Final Terror,
Stage Fright,
Mad Mission (a.k.a. Aces Go Places),
The American Friend,
Trick of Light,
Nick's Film,
Nightmare City,
Curse of the Devil,
Sleepaway I & II,
Making Contact,
The Noah's Ark Principle,
The Werewolf's Shadow,
Society,
Spontaneous Combustion,
The Church,
Kind Hearts & Coronets,
The Lavender Hill Mob,
The Lady Killers,
The Man in the White Suit,
Captain's Paradise
and more Moonlighting TV episodes.
Dawn of the Dead is also a possibility for late next year. And DVD releases tentatively planned for 2003 include Are You Being Served and Emanuelle in America (along with other Emanuelle titles).
Criterion
Criterion has a number of good films already slated for the remainder of the year. These include
8 1Ú2,
Don Juan,
The Last Wave,
Rebecca,
Spirits of the Dead and
That Obscure Object of Desire (all 11/13).
Titles reported to be in production for December and into 2002 include
Wild Strawberries,
The Tales of Hoffmann,
Spellbound,
Solaris,
Shanghai Express,
Rules of the Game,
Rashomon,
Olympia,
Monterey Pop,
Loves of a Blonde,
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,
La Strada,
Knife in the Water,
Juliet of the Spirits,
Ivan's Childhood,
The Importance of Being Earnest,
Howards End,
The Horse's Mouth,
Hearts and Minds,
George Washington,
The Fireman's Ball,
Dodes' Ka-Den,
Cocktail Molotov,
Children of Paradise and Cousin,
Cousine (all TBD).
All I can say is..."whoa"...
Stay tunedÉ
Okay... we've spoken to our studio contacts and other industry sources, and we're gonna give you a look at not only everything that's currently slated release for DVD from the major studios, but also everything we could find out about that they've got planned (or have in the works) for 2002 and beyond. Everything listed here that has a specific street date is officially scheduled. The rest, particularly information about upcoming titles, generally comes from studio sources (via chats, discussions and Studio Day), but should still be taken as tentative until officially announced.
20th Century Fox
Fox's slate of upcoming DVDs includes:
11/6
Guadalcanal Dairy
The Halls of Montezuma
A Wing and a Prayer and The Young Lions
11/13
The X-Files: The Complete Fourth Season
11/20
Planet of the Apes (2001)
Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series
11/27
Willow: Special Edition
War of the Roses
Moulin Rouge: Special Edition (both 12/18)
Object of My Affection
M*A*S*H: Five-Star Edition and M*A*S*H: TV Season One (all 1/8/02)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete First Season (1/15/02)
Kiss of the Dragon
The Five Heartbeats
Carmen Jones (all 1/22/02)
My Bodyguard
Breaking Away
The Sandlot
Rookie of the Year
Baby's Day Out
a trio of Shirley Temple classics including Dimples, Heidi and Bright Eyes (all 1/29/02).
Among the titles the studio is working on and has tentative plans to release in 2002 are
Speed: Five-Star Edition,
True Lies: Five-Star Edition,
Futurama: The Complete First Season,
Office Space: Special Edition,
Wizards,
Hoffa,
Hot Shots 1 & 2,
The Good Son,
Stealing Beauty,
The Man From Snowy River,
The Hustler: Special Edition,
Say Anything,
The Lodger,
Hangover Square,
Alien: Five-Star Edition,
Hello Dolly,
Cocoon,
Cocoon: The Return,
How to Steal a Million,
Valley of the Dolls,
The Verdict,
Silent Movie,
Robin Hood: Men in Tights,
To Be or Not to Be,
High Anxiety,
The Rose,
The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season,
The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season,
The X-Files: The Complete Fifth Season,
The X-Files: The Complete Sixth Season,
Millennium: The Complete First Season,
The Day the Earth Stood Still,
All That Jazz,
The Commitments,
Miller's Crossing,
Barton Fink,
Raising Arizona
One Million Years BC.
Note that while many of these titles are currently in production, others are still very early in the planning stages. Whether they make it out in 2002 or not remains to be seen. Additional M*A*S*H TV sets are also possible. And the just-released From Hell is an obvious day-and-date release for next year.
Other titles under consideration for DVD release in 2003 and beyond include
The Grapes of Wrath,
Vanishing Point,
Planet of the Apes: Five-Star Edition,
The Towering Inferno,
The Poseidon Adventure,
Strange Days: Five-Star Edition,
Johnny Dangerously,
all the rest of the Planet of the Apes series in anamorphic widescreen,
Peyton Place,
Howard the Duck,
Ghost & Mrs. Muir,
Romancing the Stone,
Jewel of the Nile,
The Fly: Special Edition,
El Norte,
Better off Dead,
Laura,
the Our Man Flynt films
and a possible Predator 2: Special Edition.
Paramount
Paramount's already slated titles for the rest of 2001 include Road Rage (10/30),
Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition
and MTV's Inside Fear (both 11/6),
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and
Bride of the Wind (both 11/13),
Apocalypse Now Redux (11/20),
What's Eating Gilbert Grape,
Star Trek: The Original Series 37 & 38 and
Pootie Tang (all 11/27),
Soap Dish,
Frankie & Johnny
'Til There Was You
and MTV's The Real World You Never Saw: Back to New York (all 12/4),
The Score,
The Elephant Man,
Medium Cool and
Star Trek: The Original Series 39 & 40 (all 12/11)
and Seconds
and Prophecy (both 1/8/02).
Paramount is wrapping up Star Trek: The Original Series on DVD in December, so they'll begin releasing Star Trek: The Next Generation on DVD (in complete season box sets) in the spring. Deep Space Nine and Voyager could follow later in the year, but this is still TBD. The studio is also going to start releasing new, dual-disc special editions of all the Star Trek films, beginning with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan mid-next year.
All three Beverly Hills Cop films will arrive on DVD in January, along with Harlem Nights and Vampire in Brooklyn.
Planned for some time in the first half of the year are
The Bad News Bears,
Lady Sings the Blues,
The Duellists,
Sunset Boulevard,
Top Secret,
Better Off Dead,
Serpico,
Sabrina,
Mahogany
and a Fatal Attraction: Special Edition.
Later in 2002, watch for
Looking for Mr. Goodbar,
Reds,
Footloose,
Flashdance,
Friday the 13th, Part VII,
Friday the 13th, Part VIII
and Once Upon a Time in the West.
Grease and Saturday Night Fever are still MIA due to music rights issues.
Sources are telling me that work has begun on a Raiders of the Lost Ark DVD, but there's no word on when it might see the light of day. Certainly, Lucasfilm will have a big hand in that decision.
Titles tentatively slated for 2003 include
Trading Places,
1492: Conquest of Paradise,
Hud,
Major League,
Pretty in Pink,
Popeye,
Brady Bunch: The Movie,
A Very Brady Sequel,
If...
and Some Kind of Wonderful.
The studio does have eventual plans to revisit all of its non-anamorphic releases, so you can eventually expect better versions of Titanic (pending director James Cameron's availability) and Top Gun. The studio may also revisit the Friday the 13th series and the Tom Clancy/Jack Ryan films as special editions (Hunt for Red October in 16x9 anyone?), although no firm plans exist as yet.
MGM
Currently on MGM's announced slate are
Broadway Danny Rose,
Choose Me,
Dominick and Eugene,
Gregory's Girl,
Hannah and Her Sisters,
Legally Blonde,
Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy,
Of Mice and Men,
Purple Rose of Cairo,
Radio Days
and Zelig (all 11/6),
Angry Red Planet,
At the Earth's Core,
Dogs of War,
Empire of the Ants,
An Eye for an Eye,
Gang Related,
I Bury the Living,
Invasion USA,
Lone Wolf McQuade,
Lord of the Flies,
Morons from Outer Space,
People that Time Forgot,
Strange Invaders
and War Gods of the Deep (all 11/20),
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure,
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey and
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Special Edition (all 12/4),
The Basket: Special Edition,
Defiant Ones,
Dodsworth,
Fritz the Cat,
Handmaid's Tale,
Indian Runner,
Inherit the Wind,
Look Back in Anger,
The Lover,
Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat,
Party,
Separate Tables,
Topkapi and
Witness for the Prosecution (all 12/11),
Amazing Grace,
Carrington,
China Moon,
Echo Park,
The Favor,
The Fires Within,
The Good Wife,
JD's Revenge,
Jack and Sarah,
Lonely Hearts,
Mannequin,
Maria's Lovers,
Romantic Comedy,
The Russia House,
Speechless,
Wuthering Heights (1970) and
Truly Madly Deeply: Special Edition (all 12/26),
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Special Edition and
Mad Max: Special Edition (both 1/4/02)
and Jeepers Creepers: Special Edition and
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (1/8/02).
Among the many titles MGM has in production for DVD in 2002 are special editions of
UHF,
Rain Man,
The Last Waltz,
The Sure Thing,
The Producers,
The Fog,
The Hunger,
Last Seduction,
Where Eagles Dare,
Dances with Wolves,
Bull Durham,
Raging Bull,
Fargo,
Thelma & Louise,
RoboCop and
The Usual Suspects.
A second season of Stargate SG-1 is also slated for the first half of the year. The forthcoming Windtalkers and Rollerball will also arrive in 2002.
Columbia TriStar
Columbia TriStar has a good slate of upcoming titles, including The Age of Innocence,
Anzio,
Baby Boy,
The Blue and the Grey,
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas,
Muppet Family Christmas,
The Prince of Tides,
Remains of the Day
and Subway (all 11/6),
America's Sweethearts,
Cheap Detective,
Diary of a Sex Addict,
The Point Men and
The Toy (all 11/13),
Arctic Blue,
The Bear in the Big Blue House: Potty Time,
The Bear in the Big Blue House: Visiting the Doctor,
The Breed: Special Edition and
St. Elmo's Fire (all 11/20),
Divided We Fall,
The Road Home,
The Owl and the Pussycat and Moscow on the Hudson (all 11/27), John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars,
Jerry Maguire: Special Edition,
Mixed Nuts,
Sheena,
Silent Rage,
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone,
Weekend at Bernie's 2 and
White Water Summer (all 12/4),
Bram Stoker's Dracula: Superbit,
Call Me Claus,
Casualties of War,
Druids,
The Following,
Gattaca: Superbit,
The Patriot: Superbit,
Sahara and
Waterdance (all 12/11),
Big Heat,
Jackpot,
Motorama,
Murder by Death,
Queen Bee,
The Secret of Green Papaya and
Vertical Ray of the Sun (all 12/18),
Two Can Play at That Game (12/26),
Glass House and
Greenfingers (both 1/2/02),
Zebra Lounge (1/8/02) and
Glitter and
Tortilla Soup (both 1/15/02).
Look for Columbia TriStar to greatly expand their anime and Hong Kong DVD lines in 2002 and beyond, starting with the animated Metropolis.
Look for the SuperBit line to be expanded as well. Among the special edition releases/re-releases you can expect in 2002 are Used Cars, Stripes, Starship Troopers, Philadelphia, The One, Spider-Man and 1776.
Strangely, a Starman: Special Edition the studio is creating will only be released overseas, due to poor sales of the movie-only version here in the States.
Other titles are currently in the planning stages, but Columbia appears to be getting cautious about releasing deep catalog titles, fearing poor sales. In addition, little TV product is in the offing for DVD from the studio.
Universal
Universal's upcoming slate is somewhat light, with only
Dr. Suess's How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Collector's Edition widescreen and full frame (both 11/20),
Beethoven's 4th and
The Land Before Time: The Big Freeze (both 12/4),
Jurassic Park III: Collector's Edition widescreen and full frame and The Jurassic Park Collection (all 12/11),
The Fast and the Furious and
The Man Who Cried (both 1/2/02) and
American Pie 2 (4 versions - Unrated and R-Rated in both full frame and widescreen) and
Pavilion of Women (all 1/15/02).
There has been much speculation that Universal's 2002 DVD output will be much increased over 2001, as a foreign distribution agreement with Columbia TriStar is set to expire at the end of this year. That means that a number of properties that Universal's been holding back should finally see the light of day on DVD in 2002. We do know that the long-awaited Legend: Ultimate Edition will arrive on the format early next year. The odds of a Back to the Future trilogy release on DVD are better than ever in 2002, although nothing firm is set. We have, however, been told that collector's editions of Duel, Schindler's List and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial are all but certain for next year, and you can expect special editions of The Andromeda Strain and several John Hughes films as well.
New Line
New Line only has a couple of titles currently slated for DVD release, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Rush Hour 2: Infinifilm (both 12/11).
New Line's forthcoming DVD offerings look to be pretty lean. Short Cuts and Kansas City are likely 2002 releases, as is Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. And the studio has long been preparing material for eventual DVD releases of the forthcoming Lord of the Rings films. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is almost certain to be released on DVD by mid-2002.
DreamWorks
DreamWorks also has only a few DVDs on their schedule, including Shrek (11/2), Almost Famous: The Bootleg Cut (12/4) and Evolution (12/26).
As far as 2002, look for AI: Artificial Intelligence, The Last Castle and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion early in the year. The upcoming, animated Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron is also in production for eventual DVD release.
Artisan
On the way from Artisan are
Along for the Ride and
Ticker (both 11/13),
Backyard Dogs,
Clifford: Saves the Day,
Gunmen,
The Item and
The Sicilian (all 11/20),
Made: Special Edition (11/27),
Twin Peaks: Episodes 1-7 (12/4) and
Denise Austin: Power Yoga Plus,
Hamlet (2000),
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Freebird/Tribute Tour,
Mama Flora's Family and
Sleepless (all 12/18).
There's not a lot of word available on forthcoming Artisan product, but DVDs currently in production at the studio for 2002 include a Reservoir Dogs: Special Edition, more Twin Peaks TV product and a Frank Herbert's Dune: Special Edition.
Buena Vista
Coming from Buena Vista are
Mickey's Magic Christmas: Snowed in at the House of the Mouse,
Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street,
Santa Who? and
Sister Act (all 11/6),
Calle 54,
The Closet,
crazy/beautiful,
Everybody's Famous and
Jailbreakers (all 11/13),
Walt Disney Treasures: Davy Crockett,
Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland USA,
Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color,
Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies,
Pearl Harbor: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition and the Pearl Harbor: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition Gift Set (all 12/4),
Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story,
The Princess Dairies widescreen and full frame,
Princess of Thieves and
Scary Movie 2 (all 12/18),
Tombstone: Vista Series and
The Sixth Sense: Vista Series (both 1/8/02),
Newsies,
Tron: 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition,
Belle du Jour,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 40th Anniversary Edition (live action) and
Young Girls of Rochefort (all 1/15/02),
Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Collector's Edition (both 1/19/02),
Peter Pan: Special Edition and
Disney's American Legends (2/12/02),
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (2/26/02),
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (3/19/02)
and the Pearl Harbor: Vista Series Director's Cut (5/15/02 - delayed from January).
The studio's Vista Series will continue to expand in 2002, with Ed Wood likely among others. Miramax also has a bunch of great DVD special editions on the way for next year. Some titles currently in production are The Others, The English Patient, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Heavenly Creatures, El Cid, Fall of the Roman Empire, Circus World, 55 Days from Peking and the Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, White and Red). Dick Tracy is reportedly being prepared for special edition release in 2002. Other possible live-action family titles include Swiss Family Robinson, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Love Bug, The Parent Trap, Escape to Witch Mountain and Return from Witch Mountain.
As far as more animated product, look for the following titles in 2002:
Monsters, Inc. (fall 2002),
The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
The Great Mouse Detective,
Oliver & Company,
The Rescuers and
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (all TBD).
A new anamorphic widescreen version of Pocahontas is also possible, along with more Walt Disney Treasures releases that would feature additional Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck animated shorts (the plan is for the WDT line to eventually include ALL of the classic animated shorts). The studio has also revealed that its next animated platinum title will be Beauty and the Beast in November of 2002. Look for Aladdin to be the platinum title for 2003 and The Lion King for 2004.
Warner Bros.
Currently slated from Warner and its various properties (HBO, PBS, etc.) are
Empire of the Sun,
National Geographic: Pearl Harbor - Legacy of the Attack,
The Sopranos: The Complete Second Season,
Comedy Only in da Hood,
South Park: Timmy,
South Park: Winter Wonderland,
Trans Siberian Orchestra: Ghosts of Christmas Eve and The World at War 5-disc box set (all 11/6),
Art of Violin: Special Edition,
Green Day: International Supervideos,
World Series 2001,
Now Voyager,
Little Women,
Osmosis Jones and
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory widescreen version (all 11/13),
Dead Pool,
Dirty Harry: Special Edition,
The Enforcer,
The Best of Friends 3 & 4,
Magnum Force,
The Matrix Revisited and
Sudden Impact (all 11/20),
American Outlaws,
Pokemon: Mewtwo Returns,
Mists of Avalon and
Summer Catch (all 12/4),
4 Dogs Playing Poker (12/11),
Uprising (12/18),
Four for Texas,
Ocean's Eleven,
Robin and the Seven Hoods,
Ken Burns' Mark Twain,
Always Outnumbered,
Always Outgunned,
Miss Evers Boys and
Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind (all 1/8/02)
and Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (1/29/02).
Some 50 vintage titles are already slated for DVD release in the first half of 2002 by Warner. These will include
Every Which Way But Loose,
Any Which Way You Can,
Klute,
Designing Women,
Summer of '42,
The Bad and the Beautiful,
The Prince and the Showgirl,
The Harvey Girls,
Calamity Jane,
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,
The Women,
Bringing Up Baby,
Love in the Afternoon,
A Touch of Class,
National Lampoon's European Vacation,
McCabe and Mrs. Miller and more.
A number of great special editions are officially planned for 2002 and are in various stages of production, including
The Great Race,
Strange Brew and
Clash of the Titans (all summer),
The Iron Giant (late 2002),
Amadeus,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,
Victor/Victoria,
Goodfellas,
Poltergeist,
Mean Streets
and of course, the long-awaited Blade Runner (all TBD).
Amblin is working on several more for next year, including
The Color Purple,
Gremlins and Gremlins 2.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
and the forthcoming remakes of The Time Machine and Ocean's 11 are certain to be big hits on DVD next year.
And I'd be stunned if The Sporanos: The Complete Third Season, Sex and the City: The Complete Third Season and Band of Brothers weren't released in 2002 from HBO via Warner.
Other possible titles to look for in 2002 from Warner include a Humphrey Bogart box set (featuring Treasure of the Sierra Madre),
Ken Burns' The Civil War,
King Kong,
Stephen King's It,
The Haunting (1963),
Dial M for Murder,
Mildred Pierce,
Swing Time,
Top Hat,
Nightbreed: Director's Cut,
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,
House of Wax,
Meet Me in St. Louis,
Unforgiven,
Poltergeist II: The Other Side,
Innerspace,
The Mission,
Kenneth Brannagh's Hamlet and a
Roots: 20th Anniversary box set.
If you loved the studio's V DVD, next summer you'll be able to purchase V: The Final Battle on DVD.
Batman,
Beetlejuice,
Mars Attacks and
Batman Returns are all being looked at for special edition treatment, pending the availability of the directors to participate (none are in production as yet).
Animated Batman is also on the way - the studio has revealed that Batman: Subzero, the original unedited Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Batman: The Animated Series and The Batman Superman Movie are all in their plans for next year. :)
Warner is also looking at the possibility of releasing TV product on DVD in season-at-a-time sets, although no plans have been firmly set. We do, however, know that if you love Babylon 5, and would love to see more of it on DVD, then you need to get out there and buy the first Babylon 5 disc when it's released on December 4th. The studios says that it will make future plans for the series on DVD based on the success of that release.
For late 2002 and beyond, the following titles are under consideration:
A Night in Casablanca,
The Loved One,
Brewster McCloud,
Soylent Green,
Twilight Zone: The Movie,
Best Friends and
special editions of Forbidden Planet,
Blazing Saddles,
Logan's Run,
Superman II and
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Once Upon a Time in America is currently planned for 2003, along with The Adventures of Robin Hood which is being restored for its 65th anniversary.
Finally, be aware that the studio is already at hard work on bringing its much-loved Looney Tunes shorts to DVD, but there's a lot of restoration work that needs to be done first, so don't look for them any time soon.
Image
Image has the biggest DVD slate of anyone through the rest of the year. The full list includes
All Star Tribute to Brian Wilson,
Andre Previn: The Kindness of Strangers,
Educational Archives #1: Sex and Drugs,
Educational Archives #2: Social Engineering,
Lima: Breaking the Silence
and Man of Flowers (all 11/6),
Andrew Dice Clay: Dice Rules,
Black Cat/Fat Black Cat,
Chopper: Special Edition,
ELO: Zoom Tour Live,
Jewel: An Uncommon Life,
Modern Love #3 and Secrets #4 (all 11/13),
Alice in Wonderland (Broadway version),
Antigone,
Berg/Debussey/Stravinsky: Pierre Boulez,
Cologne Music Triennale: Strauss/Rautavarra,
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Live at the Royal Albert Hall, Waldbuhne 2000 and
Sugar Ray: Music in High Places (all 11/20),
10 Violent Women,
8 Man After: Perfect Collection,
And Then There Were None,
Angel and the Badman,
Babel 2: Perfect Collection 5-8,
I Spy: The Robert Culp Collection 1-2,
Primitive Love/Mondo Balordo,
Regeneration/Young Romance and
Worm Eaters: Special Edition (all 11/27),
BB Mak: Music in High Places,
BET on Jazz: Brenda Russell,
BET on Jazz: Freddie Jackson,
Blind Beast,
Crawling Eye,
Tender is the Heart,
Voices from Beyond and
Lost Continent (all 12/4),
Bach/Vivaldi: Il Giardino Armonico,
Bach: Mass in B Minor - Georg Christoph Biller,
Beethoven: Symphony #9/Piano Concerto #2, Debussey/Boulez/DeFalla - Chicago Symphony,
Erotic Dreams #4,
Fantasies #4,
The Go-Gos: Live in Central Park,
Madam Butterfly: Puccini,
Satyagraha: Philip Glass,
Stephane Grapelli: In New Orleans,
Strong Cheese Incident: Evolution,
Swingin' Bach: Bobby McFerrin & Friends,
Toots Thielemans in New Orleans,
Tribute to George Gershwin and
Woody Herman Remembered (all 12/11), and
Ah, Wilderness!,
Beyond the Horizon,
Computer Animation Adventure,
Computer Animation Experience,
Doctor Chance,
For Sale,
God's Little Acre: Special Edition,
Of Freaks and Men,
Pigkeeper's Daughter/Sassy Sue and
Wrestling Women USA/Pin Down Girl (all 12/18).
As far as future DVD releases from Image, you can expect lots more music titles in 2002, along with more entries in Steve Oedekerk's "thumbation" series, including Thumbtanic, Bat Thumb, The Blair Thumb, Frankenthumb and The Godthumb. No kidding.
Anchor Bay
Currently slated from The Bay are Bad Taste,
Daleks' Invasion of Earth 2150 AD,
Doctor Who and the Daleks,
Learning Guitar for Dummies,
Sinister Saga of the Making of the Stunt Man and Stunt Man: Special Edition (all 11/20)
and The Amy Fisher Story,
Britannia Hospital,
Clockwise,
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde,
Lust for a Vampire,
Morgan and Percy (all 12/4).
Four of the Apocalypse is also expected in December, although it has yet to be announced.
2002 will see a new Evil Dead: Special Edition (February), Watcher in the Woods (Q1 2002),
a Highlander: Special Edition,
Soul Man,
Mad Monster Party,
The Jazz Singer,
Can't Stop the Music,
Violent City,
The Initiation,
The Man Who Haunted Himself,
The Final Terror,
Stage Fright,
Mad Mission (a.k.a. Aces Go Places),
The American Friend,
Trick of Light,
Nick's Film,
Nightmare City,
Curse of the Devil,
Sleepaway I & II,
Making Contact,
The Noah's Ark Principle,
The Werewolf's Shadow,
Society,
Spontaneous Combustion,
The Church,
Kind Hearts & Coronets,
The Lavender Hill Mob,
The Lady Killers,
The Man in the White Suit,
Captain's Paradise
and more Moonlighting TV episodes.
Dawn of the Dead is also a possibility for late next year. And DVD releases tentatively planned for 2003 include Are You Being Served and Emanuelle in America (along with other Emanuelle titles).
Criterion
Criterion has a number of good films already slated for the remainder of the year. These include
8 1Ú2,
Don Juan,
The Last Wave,
Rebecca,
Spirits of the Dead and
That Obscure Object of Desire (all 11/13).
Titles reported to be in production for December and into 2002 include
Wild Strawberries,
The Tales of Hoffmann,
Spellbound,
Solaris,
Shanghai Express,
Rules of the Game,
Rashomon,
Olympia,
Monterey Pop,
Loves of a Blonde,
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,
La Strada,
Knife in the Water,
Juliet of the Spirits,
Ivan's Childhood,
The Importance of Being Earnest,
Howards End,
The Horse's Mouth,
Hearts and Minds,
George Washington,
The Fireman's Ball,
Dodes' Ka-Den,
Cocktail Molotov,
Children of Paradise and Cousin,
Cousine (all TBD).
All I can say is..."whoa"...
Stay tunedÉ