It’s been a long time coming and it’s finally done. Posted below is part one of my Warner Bros. home video update – it covers the movies that Warner Bros. has announced since my last cover art article.
In a few minutes I’ll be posting part two and that will cover all the new TV shows as well as all the animated titles that have been announced.
Fracture DVD
Street Date:8/14/07
MSRP:$28.98
Synopsis:
Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins and Academy Award® nominee Ryan Gosling are brilliant in this "exceptionally suspenseful nail-biter" (Rex Reed) that's so smart it "doesn't let go, even after the final twist" (Gene Shalit, "Today"). Ted Crawford (
Astronaut Farmer DVD
Street Date:7/10/07
MSRP:$27.95
Synopsis:
All systems are "Go" for Charles Farmer. He's faced bank foreclosure, neighborhood naysayers and a government alarmed by his huge purchase of high-grade fuel, but now he's ready to blast into space inside the homemade rocket he built in his barn. Just be home in time for dinner, Charlie. Billy Bob Thornton portrays Charlie in this charmer about chasing dreams...and about what it means to be a family. 10,000 pounds of rocket fuel alone can't lift Charlie into the heavens. He needs a launch/recovery crew, and he has one of the best: his wife (Virginia Madsen) and children, dreamers all. They have liftoff. Our spirits have uplift. Gravity cannot hold down our dreams. The Astronaut Farmer is that kind of movie.
Starter for 10 DVD
Street Date:7/31/07
MSRP:$27.95
Synopsis:
From the producers of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, comes a rollicking bittersweet comedy about British university life in the '80s. James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland) stars as Brian, a working class student from Essex navigating his first year at
We are Marshall DVD
Street Date:9/18/07
MSRP:$28.98
Synopsis:
Based on true events, "We Are Marshall" tells the inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying
Unaccompanied Minors DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$28.98
Synopsis:
It's Christmas Eve and a huge blizzard has just shut down the airport, threatening to ruin holiday plans for all stranded travelers. Snowed in en route to their father's house, two "Unaccompanied Minors"--dubbed UMs--Spencer (Dyllan Christopher) and his little sister, Katherine (Dominique Saldana), are ushered to the airport's Unaccompanied Minors Room, a holding cell for dozens of stranded, parent-free kids from all over the country. Caught in the crossfire of projectile cupcakes and juice boxes and desperate to escape, Spencer makes a run for freedom along with four other UMs, who couldn't be more different if they tried: spoiled rich girl Grace (Gina Mantegna), trailer-park tomboy Donna (Quinn Shephard), academic overachiever Charlie (Tyler James Williams) and comic-book geek Timothy Wellington a.k.a. "Beef" (Brett Kelly). With the airport's peevish Passenger Relations Manager Oliver Porter (Lewis Black), his lackey assistant Zach Van Bourke (Wilmer Valderrama) and every airport security guard hot on their trails, this group of UMs from cliques that don't mix learn to ditch their differences and help each other flee the clutches of airport authority. Meanwhile, Katherine and the other UMs have been herded to a nearby hotel to wait out the storm. Determined to reunite with his little sister and fulfill her unspoiled vision of Santa Claus arriving on Christmas morning, Spencer enlists the help of his UM posse. Working together as an unlikely family of their own, they outwit and outrun Oliver and his crew. Plummeting through baggage chutes, rummaging around unclaimed luggage and canoeing down a snow-covered hill, they turn Christmas at the airport into holiday pandemonium and, along the way, prove that the holidays aren't about where you are, but who you're with.
The Last Mimzy DVD
Street Date:7/10/07
MSRP:$28.98
Synopsis:
When Noah and Emma Wilder discover a special box on the beach, they open it and unlock an exciting adventure beyond imagination. Inside they find Mimzy, a magical stuffed rabbit along with other mystical toys, which give the children exceptional powers of their own. Able to move objects with their minds and to solve complex equations, these new wonder kids begin to attract the attention of their parents, teachers... and even the FBI. Surrounding the phenomenon of Mimzy is an awesome secret ¿ one that holds the key to saving the future of all mankind.
Hamlet (1996): Special Edition DVD
Street Date:8/14/07
MSRP:$26.99
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) DVD
Street Date:8/14/07
MSRP:$19.97
Synopsis:
Love is blind, fickle and true. And under the sway of capricious fairies it becomes blinder ( a queen romances as donkey), more fickle (best friends swoon over each other's beau) and truest of all (lovers repledge their devotion). "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" in Shakespeare's bewitching comedy!
Othello (1965) DVD
Street Date:8/14/07
MSRP:$19.97
Romeo & Juliet (1936) DVD
Street Date:8/14/07
MSRP:$19.97
Synopsis:
Shakespeare's classic tale of love and youth ruined by a family feud. The Montagues and the Capulets, two powerful families of
Shakespeare Collection DVD
Street Date:8/14/07
MSRP:$59.92
Elvis: That's the Way It is: Special Edition DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$20.97
Elvis: The
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$49.92
Charro
Girl Happy
Kissin' Cousins
Live a Little, Love a Little
Stay Away, Joe
Tickle Me
It Happened at the World's Fair DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$12.97
Synopsis:
Fun, music and Elvis all happen in this romp boasting one of the best backdrops of any Elvis Presley movie: the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, with its showpiece Space Needle, monorail and more. The King plays pilot-for-hire Mike, whose hope of starting his own flying business is grounded by the gambling of his co-pilot Danny (Gary Lockwood). The pair hitch to
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$12.97
Synopsis:
Stock car racer with generous impulses and a wastrel manager finds himself owing the Internal Revenue Service $145,000 in back taxes.
Viva Las Vegas DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$19.97
Spinout DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$19.97
Synopsis:
Three beauties vie for a bandleader's attentions. One is the daughter of a race car owner who wants the young man to drive his car in an upcoming rally.
Charro DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$12.97
Synopsis:
Jess Wade is innocently accused of having stolen a cannon from the Mexican revolutionary forces. He tries to find the real culprits, a gang of criminals.
Double Trouble DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$12.97
Synopsis:
A case of mistaken identity has Elvis and a beautiful girl enmeshed in a smuggler's plot and an attempted murder in
Stay Away, Joe DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$12.97
Synopsis:
A half-Native American rodeo champ returns to the reservation to help his people prove they can be responsible cattlemen and finds that the bull sent to them for breeding has been slaughtered to celebrate his homecoming. Based on a novel by Dan Cushman.
Live a Little, Love a Little DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$12.97
Synopsis:
Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer. Based on Dan Greenbert's novel "Kiss My Firm But Pliant Lips."
Jailhouse Rock: Deluxe Edition DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$19.97
The Film Noir Classics Collection: Volume 4 DVD
Street Date:7/31/07
MSRP:$59.92
Act of Violence/
Crime Wave/ Decoy
Illegal/ The Big Steal
They Live By Night/ Side Street
Where Danger Lives/ Tension
Words And Music DVD
Street Date:7/24/07
MSRP:$19.97
Synopsis:
Bio-pic of songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
The Nancy Drew: Original Mystery Movie Collection
Street Date:6/12/07
MSRP:$24.98
Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$49.92
Double Wedding
Evelyn Prentice
I Love You Again
Love Crazy
Dare To Dream DVD
Street Date:9/18/07
MSRP:$19.97
Synopsis:
From their meager beginning in the 1980s as "the red headed stepchild" of sports through four World Cups and three Olympic games, Dare to Dream examines how Mia Hamm broke through as a media phenomenon, why Brandi Chastain's celebratory moment stirred so much controversy, and how Julie Foudy, Michelle Akers, and Joy Fawcett overcame daunting obstacles to help the team step into history, and in the process lift the aspirations of all young women.
Full of It DVD
Street Date:9/25/07
MSRP:$19.97
Synopsis:
17 year-old Sam (Pinkston) may be the new kid at school, but he's got a sure-fire scheme to fast-track his popularity. Claiming to drive a Porsche, date a movie star and have a rock-star for a dad, Sam soon finds himself BMOC. But when Sam's outlandish fictions mysteriously turn into outrageous facts - he begins to discover that having all your dreams come true... can be a total nightmare!
And Then Came Love DVD
Street Date:8/14/07
MSRP:$19.98
Synopsis:Julie (Vanessa Williams - "Soul Food," TV's "Ugly Betty") is a successful magazine columnist who has it all - a great job, a rent controlled apartment, an adoring boyfriend and best of all, an adorable six-year-old son named Jake. Her perfect world, however, is rocked when she opens Pandora's Box and seeks out the anonymous sperm donor who fathered her young son. Also starring Kevin Daniels ("Ladder 49"), Ben Verren ("Idlewild," "All That Jazz"), Michael Boatman (TV's "Arli$$," "
Street Date:7/17/07
MSRP:$19.97
Synopsis:
Masters of the Arctic Ice DVD
Street Date:9/4/07
MSRP:$19.98
The List DVD
Street Date:7/31/07
MSRP:$19.98
Synopsis:
Ever been dumped in front of millions on live television? Lewis Bond (Emmy winner Wayne Brady), a dashing young publishing executive, has. So he decides to get serious about love and create a list that his "perfect mate" must match. And just when he thinks he has found his one and only (Sydney T. Poitier) she turns out not to be as perfect as he thought.
Gold Digger Killer DVD
Street Date:7/24/07
MSRP:$19.97
Synopsis:
When Imani is fired from a job that provides for her and her man, her life gets turned upside down. She abandons a boyfriend that can't provide as a college student for the only kind of man that is willing give her everything she needs, A PLAYA! Not ready for the contained life of a cared for woman, she becomes the ultimate victim. When it comes time to seek revenge, Imani comes for the whole misogynistic system.
All Creatures Great & Small Complete Collection DVD
Street Date:8/14/07
MSRP:$399.92
Synopsis:
Experience the phenomenally successful series, All Creatures Great and Small, based on the best-selling books by James Herriot. Set in the fictional Yorkshire Dales town of
Song of the Thin Man DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$14.98
Synopsis:
At a charity gambling benefit aboard the S.S. Fortune, the tables are hot, the jazz is hotter and before you know it, a bandleader's body is growing cold. They're playing your song, Nick and Nora Charles! William Powell and Myrna Loy return as the married sleuths, rousting suspects out of bed for 4 AM interrogations while trying to fathom the bebop argot of '40s jazz jive. Speaking of their renowned screen chemistry, Loy once said: "It wasn't a conscious thing. If you heard us talking in a room, you'd hear the same thing. He'd tease me, and there was a sort of blending which seemed to please people." Decades later, people are still pleased. The melody of Song of the Thin Man and the entire beloved series lingers on.
The Thin Man Goes Home DVD
Street Date:8/7/07
MSRP:$14.98
Synopsis:
Outlaws come and go in Nick and Nora's lives. Now it's time to meet the in-laws. The debonair sleuths leave little Nicky Jr. at boarding school, grab Asta and head to Nick's boyhood home of Sycamore Springs. Of course, wherever they go, murder has a way of showing up on the doorstep - a point proven in this fifth Thin Man. Nick can show off his gumshoe talents for his parents (Harry Davenport and Lucile Watson) when an artist is killed. And he'll do it without customary liquid inspirations because Nick (William Powell) is on the wagon. He's also on his game. As is Nora (Myrna Loy), wrestling a folding lawn chair, tailing a presumed suspect through town, igniting a pool-hall rumble and cracking wise as good as she gets. Make yourself at home, whodunit fans.
Uncle P DVD
Street Date:6/26/07
MSRP:$19.97
Synopsis:
When Romeo's mother is in need of a babysitter, she calls on her estranged brother (Master P) to step in and take care of the children. When he arrives, Romeo and his sisters are shocked to find out that their uncle is the one and only, Percy Miller, a huge hip-hop star and fashion industry mogul! Percy temporarily becomes the guardian of his sister's three children and with Uncle P in the house, family just got a lot more fun!
Street Date:8/21/07
MSRP:$19.98
The Last Stand DVD
Street Date:7/10/07
MSRP:$24.98
Synopsis:
Four young people from different walks of life, struggling to become successful comedian-actors in