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'The Double Hour' on iTunes & DVD: A Twisting, Noirish Italian Delight
Italian thriller "The Double Hour" from first time director Giuseppe Capotondi lands on iTunes and DVD Tuesday. The film debuted at Venice in 2009, where the film's star Ksenia Rappoport won the Best Actress prize. The film went on to earn a warm reception on the global fest circuit by its limited t...
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BET Founder Robert L. Johnson to Buy Image Entertainment and Acorn Media to Form RLJ Entertainment
Black Entertainment Television founder Robert L. Johnson, chairman of RLJ Companies, has agreed to acquire home video distributor Image Entertainment and Brit DVD/streaming company Acorn Media Group. The new company will be called RLJ Entertainment, Inc; Johnson will serve as its Executive Chairman.
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For Titanic Disaster's 100th Anniversary, 'A Night to Remember' Comes to Criterion Blu-ray: Docudrama meets Pinewood Studios
With James Cameron grabbing headlines for his deep ocean plunges and "Titanic" 3-D re-release, the doomed oceanliner is back in headlines. Another terrific Titanic flick, "A Night to Remember," has come to the Criterion Collection in a new digital restoration, commemorating the 100th anniversary of ...
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Anglophile Acorn Media is 28 and Profitable, Growing and Getting Into Production
From little acorns massive oaks grow might apply to Acorn Media, which was started in its chairman’s spare bedroom in 1984. This week, Peter Edwards, the chairman, told the New York Times that Acorn believes it is the second largest distributor of British programming on DVD in North America, bested...
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Ranking Best and Worst NC-17-Rated Films; 'Shame' On Blu-ray April 17 (Video)
Fox Searchlight has been trying to embrace NC-17 by raising public consciousness on the rating, which they adopted for both 2003's "The Dreamers," from Bernardo Bertolucci, as well as recent "Shame," which is finally coming out in a Blu-ray combo pack on April 17. Here's a ranking of NC-17 films, fr...
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'The Harry Potter Wizard's Collection' Is A Nineteen Pound Bundle of Joy for Franchise Fans
"Harry Potter" fans, take note: Warner Home Video is releasing a limited and numbered collection of 31 discs, including all previously released content (eight films in Blu-ray, DVD and UltraViolet digital copy), an additional five hours of never-before-seen exclusive material and collectible memorab...
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'Dragon Tattoo' DVD Release Maintains Anti-Establishment Attitude with Pirated Disc
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" DVD release has, according to TheWrap, "created the sort of mystery that even Lisbeth Salander might have trouble solving." It looks like a blank, pirated disc with the title seemingly hand-scrawled across it...
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'Casablanca' Is Back: Turner Classic Movies Presents 70th Anniversary Event
World War II has been over for nearly seven decades, but “Casablanca” is still with us. With its story of love renounced for the good of the world, the Oscar winning Best Picture of 1943 has more than once been voted the most romantic American movie.
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DVD Review: Sink Your Teeth Into Universal's 100th Anniversary Monsters Collection
As part of its 100th anniversary celebration, Universal has released a box set spotlighting four classic titles from the studio's heyday of creature features: "Dracula," "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "Creature from the Black Lagoon." (Sadly, no "Wolf Man.")
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Watch Almodovar Direct a Scene from 'The Skin I Live In'; Blu-ray Release March 6
Watch an exclusive clip of Pedro Almodovar directing a scene in "The Skin I Live In," below. The Spanish auteur's kinky Cannes entry starring Antonio Banderas you've never seen him before comes out on Blu-ray March 6. (Here's our interview with Banderas.)
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