Return of the King DVD Release Date Two-disc DVD on May 25, 2004 with special extended edition planned in time for the holidays

Movies

Black Hawk Down

Chicken Run

Chris Rock

Crouching Tiger

Galaxy Quest

Godfather

Mewtwo Returns

Monsters Inc

Morgan Freeman

Nurse Betty

Our Lips are Sealed

Princess Diaries

Renee Zellweger

Shrek

Snow White

Stuart Little

The Godfather

The Godfather DVD Collection Discount DVD - 5-disc Box Set. "The Godfather Family: A Look Inside" Making Of (73 min.) plus original 1971 featurette. Deleted Footage, including the additional scenes originally contained in the re-edited 1977. The Godfather Saga. Francis Coppola's Notebook. Production Stills and storyboards. Segments on Gordon Willis' cinematography, Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola's music, Francis Ford Coppola, Locations and Mario Puzo's screenplays. Rehearsal footage. Corleone family tree. Godfather timeline. Academy Award acceptance speeches.

The Mummy Returns

The Mummy Returns - Collector's Edition (Widescreen) Discount DVD - In-depth look into the astonishing special effects: stage-by-stage breakdown of key special effects scenes. Unlock the secrets of the Scorpion King! Exclusive DVD-ROM access to the production of next summer's blockbuster The Scorpion King, including a never-before-available interview with The Rock. Go behind the scenes with director Stephen Sommers and the cast. Outtakes. Live music video. Chamber of Doom: a virtual tour of Universal Studios' latest theme park attraction. Egyptology 201: a fun and educational look at ancient Egypt and Egyptian mythology.

Star Wars - The Phantom Menace

Star Wars - Episode I, The Phantom Menace Discount DVD - Commentary by George Lucas, Rick McCallum, Ben Burtt, Rob Coleman, John Knoll, Dennis Muren and Scott Squires. Exclusive Deleted Scenes Documentary features seven new sequences completed just for this DVD release. All-new hour-long documentary film culled from over 600 hours of footage, "The Beginning," including an insider's look at Lucasfilm and ILM during the production. Multi-angle storyboard to animatic to film segment featuring the Submarine and Podrace Lap 1 sequences. Five featurettes explore the storyline, design, costumes, visual effects and fight sequences. Award-winning twelve-part web documentary series that chronicles the production. Duel of the Fates music video featuring John Williams. Never-before-seen Production Photo Gallery with special caption feature. Theatrical posters and print campaign from around the world.

Shrek

Shrek Discount DVD - Behind-the-Scenes Featurette, The Tech of Shrek. Game Swamp (Over 15 Interactive Games and Activities). Shrek's Music Hall. SHREK'S RE-VOICE STUDIO (DVD-ROM). Favorite Scenes Selection. Donkey's Tale Read-Along. Production Notes. Character Interviews. Biographies. Sneek peek trailer. Hidden Fun Facts and Much More Including DVD-ROM Content. Filmmakers' Commentary. Storyboard Pitch of Deleted Scenes. Technical Goofs.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Discount DVD - Magic Mirror on the Wall: To guide the viewer through all the features, the Magic Mirror is summoned as the host, through all-new animation created especially for this release. . Guided Tour: Tour Guide Angela Lansbury takes you on a VIP tour sampling bonus features. Some Day My Prince Will Come: Barbra Streisand performs a newly recorded rendition of the song presented over an animated montage of highlights from the film.. "Still The Fairest of Them All: The Making Of Snow White:" A 40-minute documentary providing fascinating insight into the events leading up to the development of the film. "Heigh-Ho" Sing-Along: With an option to hear the vocals from the film or perform your own, karaoke style.. "Dopey's Wild Mine Ride" Game. "The Goddess of Spring:" Silly Symphony animated short, which served as a test for the character Snow White.. Audio commentary is gathered from dozens of hours of rare archival recordings of Walt Disney himself, hosted by film historian John Canemaker.. Disc Two: The Lands of Snow White. Snow White's Wishing Well (History And Development). Walt Disney biographical timeline. Highlights of Walt Disney's life and career. Snow White production timeline. The evolution of the production. Brothers Grimm original version of "Snow White". Storyboard to film comparisons. The Queen's Castle (Virtual Galleries & More). Visual Development Gallery including preliminary designs and deleted concepts, highlights the creation of the European storybook world. Layouts and Backgrounds Gallery including original designs and renderings . Camera And Filter Tests including excerpts from Disney TV shows "The Story Of The Silly Symphony, " and "Tricks of Our Trade" with Walt Disney focusing on the Multiplane Camera. Animation including a featurette on the original voices from the film. Live-Action Footage including rare, live-action test footage featuring dancer Marge (Belcher) Champion and vaudevillian Eddie Collins with Disney artists. Character Design Galleries. Still art galleries showcase the production designs. The Queen's Dungeon (Abandoned Concepts). Snow White Meets The Prince storyboard reconstruction of an alternate scene. Some Day My Prince Will Come (Fantasy Version) storyboard reconstruction. The Prince Is Captured storyboard reconstruction . A look at the restoration process for the DVD. The Dwarfs' Mine (Rare Treasures). Four partially animated (and one fully-animated) scenes that did not make the final film version plus the original RKO Opening and End Credits. Disney Through The Decades: an new overview of the Walt Disney Studios, looking at each decade from the 1930's to the present with Roy Disney, D.B. Sweeney, Angela Lansbury, Fess Parker, Robby Benson, Dean Jones, Jodi Benson and Ming-Na. The Dwarfs' Cottage (Wonder Of An Era Gone By). The Release: Rare newsreel footage of the Hollywood premiere at the Carthay Circle Theater, a large selection of still photographs of original merchandise, and trailers from the various theatrical re-releases.. Publicity: A retrospective of different theatrical poster designs used to promote "Snow White" over 65 years, press kits and the original 1937 Exhibitor's manual, stills from the premiere, the original press book, production photos, and posters.. Vintage Black & White Short Subjects including "A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios," (RKO exhibitors short), "How Disney Cartoons Are Made" (revised version of "A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios," shown publicly as the first trailer for "Snow White"). Supplemental Audio including Cecil B. DeMille talks with Walt Disney about his production and premiere for the Lux Radio Theater, radio broadcast from the premiere, Disney radio program celebrating "Snow White Day" (January 9, 1938), radio commercials, voice recording sessions and a deleted song: "You're Never Too Old To Be Young" (sung by the Dwarfs)

The Simpsons

The Simpsons - The Complete First Season Discount DVD - Bart the Genius: Original Script. Bart the General: Original Script. Moaning Lisa: Original Script. Commentaries on each episode. Some Enchanted: Original Script. Unaired Episode with Optional Commentary. Animatic: Bart the General w/Commentary, Albert Brooks. Outtakes. America's First Family BBC Special. Bart T-shirt Controversy ABC News. Tracy Ulman: Good Night Simpsons. Foreign Language Clips (7). Early Sketches (Still Gallery-100). 12 stills and magazine covers

Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers - The Complete Series Discount DVD - Basil Fawlty, as created and performed by John Cleese, is the rudest, most boorish, most hilariously obnoxious man on the face of the planet. What a natural for a TV sitcom! His screen wife, Sybil (Prunella Scales), put it best in the episode "The Psychiatrist": "You're either crawling all over them, licking their boots, or spitting poison at them like some Benzedrine puff adder." He mockingly replies, "Just trying to enjoy myself, dear." With his gangly frame and contortionist abilities, Cleese brilliantly punctuates Basil's outrageous faux pas with absurd gymnastics and turns Three Stooges-style pokes and kicks into a slapstick ballet. Scales's Sybil is the genial but obliviously chatty voice of reason and Andrew Sachs mangles the English language as the Spanish bellhop Manuel, whose struggles with simple directions results in comic lunacy reminiscent of Robert Benigni.

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane (Special Edition) Discount DVD - Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions, and can't be known easily. Welles plays newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane, taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. The result is that every well-meaning or tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event. Written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and photographed by Gregg Toland, the film is the sum of Welles's awesome ambitions as an artist in Hollywood. He pushes the limits of then-available technology to create a true magic show, a visual and aural feast that almost seems to be rising up from a viewer's subconsciousness.

Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary Discount DVD - Featuring a blousy, winningly inept size-12 heroine, Bridget Jones's Diary is a fetching adaptation of Helen Fielding's runaway bestseller, grittier than Ally McBeal but sweeter than Sex and the City. The normally sylphlike Renée Zellweger (Nurse Betty, Me, Myself and Irene) wolfed pasta to gain poundage to play "singleton" Bridget, a London-based publicist who divides her free time between binge eating in front of the TV, downing Chardonnay with her friends, and updating the diary in which she records her negligible weight fluctuations and romantic misadventures of the year. Things start off badly at Christmas when her mother tries to set her up with seemingly standoffish lawyer Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), whom Bridget accidentally overhears dissing her. Instead she embarks on a disastrous liaison with her raffish boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant, infinitely more likeable when he's playing a baddie instead of his patented tongue-tied fops). Eventually, Bridget comes to wonder if she's let her pride prejudice her against the surprisingly attractive Mr. Darcy.

Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy (Special Edition) Discount DVD - Earth is a desolate wasteland in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Humanity has been decimated by an invasion of Phantoms, insubstantial aliens that extract and devour the spirits of living things. The few remaining humans have retreated to a handful of cities that are protected by massive bio-energy shields. The beautiful Dr. Aki Ross (voiced by Ming-Na) and her mentor Dr. Sid (Donald Sutherland) have discovered that the energy signatures of eight key Earth spirits can cancel out and destroy the Phantoms. With the help of Captain Edwards (Alec Baldwin) and his band of marines, they must scour the globe for the last two remaining spirits before General Hein (James Woods) manipulates the refugee government into attacking the aliens with an orbital laser that may also destroy the Earth. Hironobu Sakaguchi's film is taken from the popular Final Fantasy video game.

Lara Croft - Tomb Raider

Lara Croft - Tomb Raider Discount DVD - Like the video game series it's based on, Tomb Raider is best enjoyed for its physical strategies, since even casual scrutiny of story details will induce a headache. It's more concerned with puzzles than plot, populated with characters that don't have personalities so much as attitudes. It's silly and somber at the same time, but as a franchise vehicle for Angelina Jolie in the title role of relic hunter Lara Croft, this is packaged entertainment at its most agreeable, ambitious in scope and scale, and filled with the kind of globe-trotting adventure that could make Jolie the best thing that's happened to action movies since Indiana Jones.

A Knight's Tale

A Knight's Tale Discount DVD - Helgeland (recovering from the sour experience of his directorial debut, Payback) casts none other than Geoffrey Chaucer (wonderfully played by Paul Bettany) as William's cohort and match announcer, along with William's pals Roland (Mark Addy) and Wat (Alan Tudyk), and feisty blacksmith Kate (Laura Fraser). Of course there must be a fair maiden, and she is Jocelyn (newcomer Shannyn Sossamon), with whom William falls in love while battling the nefarious Count Adhemar (Rufus Sewell) on the European jousting circuit. Add to this an inspiring father-son reunion, Ledger's undeniable charisma, a perfect supporting cast, and enough joyful energy to rejuvenate the film's formulaic plot, and A Knight's Tale becomes that most pleasant of movie surprises--an unlikely winner that rises up, like its hero, to exceed all expectations.

The Sopranos

The Sopranos - The Complete Second Season/ Discount DVD - In its second season, The Sopranos sustains the edgy intelligence and unpredictable, genre-warping narrative momentum that made this modern mob saga the most critically acclaimed series of the late 1990s. Creator-producer David Chase repeatedly defies formula to let the narrative turn as a direct consequence of the characters' behavior, letting everyone in this rogue's gallery of Mafiosi, friends, and family evolve and deepen.

The Terminator

The Terminator (Special Edition) Discount DVD - This is the film that cemented Schwarzenegger's spot in the action-brawn firmament, and it was well deserved. He's chilling as the futuristic cyborg who kills without fear, without love, without mercy. James Cameron's story and direction are pared to the bone and all the more creepy. But don't overlook the contributions of Linda Hamilton, who more than holds her own as the Terminator's would-be victim, Sarah Connor--thus creating, along with Sigourney Weaver in Alien, a new generation of rugged, clear-thinking female action stars.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Complete First Season Discount DVD - 12 Episodes on 3 discs. Interview with Joss Whedon and David Boreanaz. Original pilot episode script. Photo gallery

Notorious

Notorious - Criterion Collection Discount DVD - One of Alfred Hitchcock's classics, this romantic thriller features a cast to kill for: Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant, and Claude Rains. Bergman plays the daughter of a disgraced father who is recruited by American agents to infiltrate a post-World War II spy ring in Brazil. Her control agent is Grant, who treats her with disdain while developing a deep romantic bond with her. Her assignment: to marry the suspected head of the ring (Rains) and get the goods on everyone involved. Danger, deceit, betrayal--and, yes, romance--all come together in a nearly perfect blend as the film builds to a terrific (and surprising) climax.

Farscape

Farscape #7: The Flax/Jeremiah Crichton Discount DVD - After a wormhole in space sends American astronaut John Crichton to the other end of the universe, he joins a trio of escaped prisoners, Pa'u Aotah Zhaan, Ka D'Argo and Rygel XVI., who have taken control of their bio-mechanoid prison ship, Moya. A Peacekeeper officer, Aeryn Sun, joins them when her commander deems her irreversibly contaninated by the prisoners. The fugitives desperately search for their home worlds while trying to stay one step ahead of Commander Crais and the deadly Peacekeepers.

Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman In Concert Discount DVD - Sarah Brightman performs a selection of timeless classics with the English National Orchestra in a magnificent live performance taped at London's Royal Albert Hall in 1997. The concert includes a live performance of the international hit duet "Time to Say Goodbye" with Andrea Bocelli, and a guest appearance by Andrew Lloyd Webber on "Whistle Down the Wind." The concert also includes beautiful renditions from such classic musicals as Evita, Porgy and Bess, The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story, Evita, and more. Song list: Overture, Bailero (from Chants d'Auvergne), Chanson Espagnol (from Les Filles de Cadix), O Mio Babbino Caro (from Gianni Scicchi), Solveig's Song (from Peer Gynt), Summertime (from Porgy and Bess), Pie Jesu (from Requiem), Medley: Somewhere/I Feel Pretty/Tonight (from West Side Story), Tu Quieres Volver, Who Wants to Live Forever, Whistle Down the Wind (duet with Andrew Lloyd Webber), Overture/Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from The Phantom of the Opera), The Music of the Night (from The Phantom of the Opera), Time to Say Goodbye (Con te Partiro) (duet with Andrea Bocelli), Don't Cry for Me Argentina (from Evita).

Memento

Memento Discount DVD - Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential) and Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix) shine in this absolute stunner of a movie. Memento combines a bold, mind-bending script with compelling action and virtuoso performances. Pearce plays Leonard Shelby, hunting down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The problem is that "the incident" that robbed Leonard of his wife also stole his ability to make new memories. Unable to retain a location, a face, or a new clue on his own, Leonard continues his search with the help of notes, Polaroids, and even homemade tattoos for vital information.

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes Discount DVD - Tim Burton's extraordinary Planet of the Apes constantly borders on greatness, adhering to the spirit of Pierre Boulle's original novel while exploring fresh and inventive ideas and paying honorable tribute to the '68 sci-fi classic. Burton's gifts for eccentric inspiration and visual ingenuity make this a movie that's as entertaining as it is provocative, beginning with Rick Baker's best-ever ape makeup, and continuing through the surprisingly nuanced performances and breathtaking production design.

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Discount DVD - Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon--and Bay's re-creation of the bombing itself, a 30-minute sequence that's tightly choreographed and amazingly photographed, sets the action movie bar up quite a few notches. And in updating the classic war film, Bay and screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart) use that old plot standby, the love triangle--this time, it's between two pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) and a nurse (Kate Beckinsale) who find themselves stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during what they thought would be a nice, sunny tour of duty.

Swordfish

Swordfish Discount DVD - Halle Berry bares her breasts in this cyber-action thriller in a topless scene.

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park III Collector's Edition - Widescreen Discount DVD - Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated "Site B" where all hell broke loose in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan).

Farscape

Farscape #8: Durka Returns/A Human Reaction Discount DVD - "Durka Returns" and "A Human Reaction" are two excellent episodes. The first ep involves Moya accidently colliding with a Nebari transport. The transport is brought aboard, from which a Nebari male, Salis, a female Nebari prisoner named Chiana, and a Sebacean exit the pod. Much to Rygel's horror, the Sebacean is the dreaded PK Captain Durka - The one who tortured him for so many cycles during his captivity. Salis, the Nebari official, informs the crew of Moya that Durka has been 'cleansed' of all aggressive, violent behavior and that he consitutes no danger to anyone. Rygel and the others are skeptical; You can take the Sebacean out of the Peace Keepers, but can you take the Peace Keeper out of the Sebacean?