Fox has a number of TV and movie titles in store for fall. Later this month, the studio will release Boston Legal: Season Four on September 23, 2008. All 20 episodes of the fast paced and darkly comic series will be spread across five discs. The only special feature included is a featurette (The New Kids on the Courtroom Floor).
Fox will also release Space Chimps and Meet Dave on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 11/25 (SRP $29.98 and $39.99 respectively). For the Chimps release, DVD extras will include the Fox Movie Channel Presents: Casting Session featurette, a still gallery and TV spots, along with both full frame and anamorphic widescreen video (the release is a flipper disc). The Blu-ray will be widescreen only, but will add the BD-exclusive Trivia Blast Off track featuring on-screen facts about outer space, space travel and the Space Program.
As for Meet Dave, its extras will include a gag reel and the Crew Confessions featurette. The Blu-ray Disc will add an alternate ending, 4 deleted scenes and 4 more featurettes (The Making of Meet Dave, Life After Film School with Director Brian Robbins, Making a Scene and World Premiere).
MGM has two expansive box sets in the pipeline. The first is Pink Panther: Ultimate Collection (SRP $199.98), an 18-disc box set that combines the Inspector Clouseau films and the cartoon classics. It arrives on 11/25. Included is a new collector’s edition of The Pink Panther starring Peter Sellers, with over 60 minutes of all new special features, and all other PP films – A Shot in the Dark, Inspector Clouseau, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Trail of the Pink Panther, Curse of the Pink Panther, Son of the Pink Panther, and The Pink Panther (2006). In addition to this is all 9 Pink Panther: Cartoon Collection volumes and a new book (Pink Panther, The Ultimate Guide to the Coolest Cat in Town! written by Jerry Beck. All of this will be contained in a pink, furry box. Take a look.
The other box set is joint collaboration between Fox Home Entertainment and MGM: Hollywood Musicals Collection (SRP $499.98). Arriving November 11, 50 musicals are to be included, with a total of 61 Discs overall. The packaging is a marquee collectible set, which also includes 50 exclusive postcard reproductions of the original theatrical one-sheets. The musicals included are as followed:
• The King and I 50th Anniversary Edition –Two Disc • The Rocky Horror Picture Show 25th Anniversary Edition – Two Disc • There’s No Business Like Show Business • West Side Story Special Edition Two Disc • Whoopee • Wild In The Country • With A Song In My Heart • Love Me Tender Special Edition • The Fiddler On The Roof • Moulin Rouge – Two Disc • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Special Edition – Two Disc
Switching gears back to the TV realm, a trio of prime-time programs for Fox will also see releases this fall. The Simpsons‘ 11th season (SRP $49.98) arrives on 10/07, loaded with 22 episodes and special features. Like previous seasons, this release will be contained in a “theme box” with one of the characters. For the 11th season that character is Krusty the Clown. Extras will include commentaries with each episode, an introduction with Matt Groening, deleted scenes (on each disc), original sketches, animation showcase, and three featurettes (The Many Faces of Krusty, A Star on Hollywood Boulevard, and And Then There Were Menus).
The third season of Bones (SRP $59.98) arrives on 11/18. In what I believe is a first, all 15 episodes from the strike-shortened season will be included, as will four bonus episodes from Season Four – thus making it a 19-episode set spread across five discs. Extras include three extended episodes, a gag reel, and extended kiss scene and director’s takes.
Finally on 11/25 is 24: Redemption (SRP $26.98) the tele-film that bridges the cap between the sixth and seventh seasons of 24 starring Kiefer Sutherland. Included is an extended cut featuring ten minutes of never-before-seen footage, an audio commentary, three featurettes (Making-Of, Children of War, and 24 Season 6 in Four Minutes) and a sneak peak of season 7 – the first 16 minutes of the premiere.
Other odds and ends (and release dates)…
Sony will release Hancock on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 11/25. Available will be a single-disc theatrical DVD (SRP $28.96), a single-disc unrated DVD (SRP $28.96), a 2-disc Special Edition DVD (SRP $34.95) and a 2-disc Blu-ray edition (SRP $39.95). The single-disc DVD editions will each include 5 featurettes (Superhumans: The Making of Hancock, Seeing the Future, Building a Better Hero, Bumps and Bruises and Mere Mortals: Behind the Scenes with Dirty Pete). The 2-disc DVD will include both the theatrical and unrated versions of the film, and the single-disc DVD features, plus will add 2 more featurettes (Home Life and Suiting Up) as well as a Digital Copy version of the film. The 2-disc Blu-ray will also include both the theatrical and unrated versions of the film, along with all of the 2-disc DVD features, and will add BD-Live enhancement, the On-Set Visual Diary BonusView Picture-In-Picture viewing option (including “a longer version of the Picture-In-Picture on the Unrated version of the film”) as well as a Digital Copy version of the film.
Universal has announced more catalog DVD-only re-releases, including a Waterworld: Extended Edition (SRP $19.98) and a 3-disc The Bourne Trilogy box set on 11/4 (SRP $34.98), as well as a The Ron Howard Spotlight Collection on 11/25 (SRP $39.98 – includes Backdraft, Apollo 13, Cinderella Man and A Beautiful Mind, each with its own bonus disc). Finally, look for Law & Order: The Sixth Year on 12/2 (SRP $59.98).
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