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DVD Releases: Oct. 20, 2009: Stay 100 Feet Away from The Whistler or You'll Take a Wrong Turn

19 October 2009 1:34 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

It looks like a week of just a few hits and mostly misses when it comes to DVD and Blu-ray releases, but as always, it's our job to keep you guys in the loop on what's coming, so head on in and see what you might want to add to your collection.

First on the list is The William Castle Film Collection, a must-have for all ages. And it includes the stellar Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (review here) documentary, so it's definitely a win-win. Finally, the long-awaited 100 Feet hits the home market, and while I must admit I was a bit disappointed in the ending, it was a fun ride while it lasted, and Famke Janssen gives her all. Another fun ride (again, up until the predicable ending) is Blood: The Last Vampire; if you're planning on picking it up and have the tech, be sure to grab the Blu-ray. »

- The Woman In Black

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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 10/20/2009

17 October 2009 10:03 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, October 20, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List.

Among the highlights this week are the William Castle Film Collection (pictured left), Wrong Turn 3: Left For Dead, and Palisades Tartan's re-issue of P.

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Blood: The Last Vampire

The deadliest assassin to stand the test of time. From a Producer of Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon comes Blood: The Last Vampire, based on the cult hit anime series. Demons have infested Earth. And only one warrior stands between the dark and the light: Saya, a half-human, half-vampire samurai who preys on those who feast on human blood. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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New On DVD This Week

6 October 2009 3:30 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.

Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows like Trick ‘r Treat (pictured above with Anna Paquin), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Chinatown, Bones Season 4 and the complete Stargate: Atlantis series.

Check them out.

Movies

Anvil: The Story of Anvil ~ Robb Reiner  (DVD)

Assassination of a High School President ~ Kathryn Morris, Michael Rapaport, Bruce Willis (DVD and Blu-ray)

Chinatown ~ Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston (DVD)

Contact ~ Jodie Foster (Blu-ray)

Dance Flick ~ Damon Wayans (DVD and Blu-ray)

The Gate ~ Christa Denton, Stephen Dorff (DVD and Blu-ray)

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ~ Helena Bonham Carter (Blu-ray »

- Joe Gillis

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New TV on DVD releases this week

5 October 2009 4:00 PM, PDT | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.

Not only is The Lola Falana Show on DVD now, I didn't even know there was a Lola Falana Show. I knew that there was a Lola Falana (that's a fun name to say: Lola Falana Lola Falana Lola Falana). She was a dancer and actress who was pretty well known back in the 70s, but her TV show escaped my radar. This set includes guest stars Dick Van Dyke, Bill Cosby, Sonny and Cher, and Muhammad Ali.

There's also a Heeere's Johnny: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson "Holiday Set." It looks like the same set that I've owned for a couple of years (several DVDs split up into different categories: Timeless Moments, Standup Comedians, Carson Country, and the original Ultimate Collection disc), but with a special Christmas disc thrown in, with three classic episodes.

Ally McBeal - Season 1 and »

- Bob Sassone

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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 10/06/2009

3 October 2009 11:06 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, October 6, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. It's a Big week, with Trick 'R Treat finally hitting the home market, along with re-issues of The Gate, Audition, and a whole lot more!

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Audition (Bd)

New 1080P High-Definition Transfer From The Negative!

Deceptively innocent at first, Takashi Miikes Audition finds Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi, Suicide Club, The Grudge), a middle-aged widower of many years, urged by his teenage son and his film producer friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura, Ichi The Killer) to get out and start dating again. To help Aoyama meet women, Yoshikawa devises a plan to »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Win a 'Blood Ties' Season 2 DVD set!

3 October 2009 9:54 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »

Wouldn't you like to win season 2 of Lifetime’s Scintillating Vampire Series Blood Ties on a 3Dvd set? (an indescribably awesome and unbelievable $26.99 value!!!) Of Course you would! We're running a contest and 3 lucky winners will get Season 2 sent to them in the comfort of their own home.

Based on the book series written by Tanya Huff, which is in its 17th printing, Blood Ties is a captivating crime drama dripping with mystery, suspense, horror, and romance. To enter, simply answer the following question in the form of a comment below...

There is only one right answer. The first three people to answer correctly will win a DVD.

I would rather watch "Blood Ties" than:

a) Twilight: New Moon

b) Vampire Diaries

c) True Blood

The set features nine full episodes, plus a bonus photo gallery and Season 1 trailer. In season two, private eye Vicki Nelson and her vampire cohort »

- Superheidi

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'Battlestar Galactica' Alumni Link Up in 'The Green Chain'

21 August 2009 11:23 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

If you are a fan of Syfy's Battlestar Galactica, you probably know that some scenes of the series were filmed in and around the extensive forests of western British Columbia. What you may not realise, however, is that two of the show's stars - Tricia Helfer (Number Six) and Tahmoh Penikett ('Helo') - have lent their talents to a new indie docu-drama that is intended to raise awareness of issues associated with cutting down some of these forests.

The film, called The Green Chain, was written, directed and co-produced by Vancouver-born Mark Leiren-Young. His previous credits include scripts for episodes of the series The Collector, Blood Ties and Psi Factor. He has also written a book, 'Never Shoot a Stampede Queen', articles for 'Time Magazine', 'Maclean's' and 'The Utne Reader', and stage plays.

True to his roots, Leiren-Young focuses The Green Chain on the debate in British Columbia, but it »

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Interview with Christina Cox

29 July 2009 9:49 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Christina Cox has more than 40 roles to her credit but some love her best as Kim in Better than Chocolate, for her turn as the bisexual private detective Vicki in Blood Ties, and one half of the lesbian crime fighting couple in Nikki & Nora. Christina's newest sci-fi series, Defying Gravity doesn't have her playing a lesbian or bisexual, but she does get to wear form-fitting space suits and rattle off scientific jargon as a mission biologist. What's better than a hot nerd in space? Nothing, that's what.

Christina talked to AfterEllen.com recently about her new show,which is described by a production executive as a "sci-fi premise, told in a female-friendly way." She also gave us some dish on Ladycops, the show-within-a-show from the web series, 3Way, and shared her thoughts about this year's Hot 100 List.

AfterEllen.com: We're going to talk about many things, but first of all, »

- daranai

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Christina Cox and Liz Vassey star in "Ladycops" episode "Brotherly Love"

17 July 2009 3:13 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Nancylee Myatt, Maeve Quinlan, and the rest of 3Way folks recently released a full episode of the fake show-within-a-show Ladycops, starring Liz Vassey (CSI) and Christina Cox (Blood Ties, Defying Gravity), that they first introduced in episode six of 3Way.

Cox and Vassey play straight actresses (Lara Lancaster and Mikki Majors) who hate each other, playing lesbian detectives (Sienna and Jo) secretly in love with each other on the crime show Ladycops — which is itself a reference to the lesbian detectives Cox and Vassey played in the pilot for a real show called Nikki & Nora, which was almost picked up for broadcast TV in 2004.

Confused yet? But in a good way, right?

Basically, Ladycops: Brotherly Love is a send-up of police procedurals — complete with cheesy music, forensics banter laced with sexual tension, and the requisite chasing-a-suspect sequence — with a lesbian twist. It also makes fun of how some actors who »

- sarahwarn

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First look at "Defying Gravity," a "'Grey's Anatomy' in space"

10 July 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

I've been a fan of women in space movies ever since I watched Kate Capshaw and Lea Thompson in Space Camp as a kid. Although I've never gotten into the Star Trek or Star Wars franchises too much, because they rarely give women leadership roles — except for Star Trek: Voyager, which I've seen all seven seasons of — and I've only watched some of the Battlestar Galactica episodes, I enjoyed Jodie Foster's Contact (at least the first half), and Lori and I both loved the 2002 Showtime series Odyssey Five.

So I was excited to hear about the new space drama coming to America (and Canada, Germany, and the U.K.).

Last week, ABC purchased 13 episodes of the new Canadian sci-fi drama Defying Gravity, which has this description, "In the near future, eight astronauts from five countries (four women and four men) undertake a mysterious six-year international space mission covering thirteen billion kilometers. »

- sarahwarn

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DVD news: Twilight’s Pattinson gets Haunted, Bleeding vampires, etc.

8 July 2009 6:28 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

E1 Entertainment sent along info a bunch of genre titles for October release, and one will warm the hearts of those who can’t wait for the Twilight sequel New Moon to get their Robert Pattinson fix. The Haunted Airman (pictured), a British TV movie the actor made in 2006, will receive its U.S. DVDebut from the company.

Streeting Oct. 13, Haunted Airman was written and directed by Chris Durlacher, based on Dennis Wheatley’s novel The Haunting Of Toby Jugg. Pattinson stars as Jugg, an Raf pilot who’s wounded, winds up in a wheelchair and is sent to a remote hospital in Wales to recover. There, he begins suffering strange visions and dreams that lead him to question his sanity. Warlock’s Julian Sands co-stars; the movie will be presented in anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital audio, and no special features announced. Retail price is $24.98. Pre-Order yours here ($17.49 as of this writing).

More vampires, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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ABC is ‘Defying Gravity’ With New Summer Series

2 July 2009 10:12 AM, PDT | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »

Get ready sci-fi fans, ABC has a special little treat for us, and its coming before the end of the summer!  ABC has just purchased 13 episodes of a new sci-fi drama called Defying Gravity that stars Ron Livingston (Office Space), Laura Harris (Dead Like Me), Christina Cox (The Chronicles of Riddick, Blood Ties), Malik Yoba (New York Undercover) and Florentine Lahme (ABC miniseries Impact).  All 13 episodes have already been shot, and will also air on Canada’s CTV, Germany’s ProSieben and the BBC.  So what’s this new sci-fi drama about?  According to The Hollywood Reporter:

Gravity,  is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.

The FtvS-produced series, slated to air on ABC this summer, is a co-venture with Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.

“Since »

- AstroJones

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Trailer for Blood Ties

24 June 2009 6:24 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

It’s been somewhat quiet on the Singapore front, but here’s something that should interest you Twitch folks!

Some years ago a group of friends and I dabbled with short film making, plunging ourselves headlong into an insane 48 hour competition. That same competition had yielded Nicholas Chee and Randy Ang’s short film which clinched top honours, and they had gone on to make the feature film Becoming Royston. Chai Yee-wei was one of the participants in that very same contest, and a few award winning shorts later, look where he is today as well, with a feature film under his belt too, waiting for a 3rd quarter release this year. As for my friends and I, well, erm, that’s another story for another day…

I’ve followed Yee-wei’s shorts film in recent years, having seen them either online at competition websites, or at local film festivals. »

- Stefan

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New to DVD - June 2nd - June 9th

3 June 2009 7:37 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

It's been a really bad month for DVD releases. Luckily for us we usually choose the films we review. Unfortunately the only movie on the list we have previously reviewed is Revolutionary Road. If you missed the very controversial episode than click on the link below to have you re-directed. Revolutionary Road (DVD, Blu-ray) [1] He’s Just Not That Into You (DVD, Blu-ray) Defiance (DVD, Blu-ray) Spring Breakdown (DVD, Blu-ray) Anacondas: Trail of Blood Eddie Murphy: Delirious: 25th Anniversary Edition Elsewhere (DVD, Blu-ray) Home (DVD, Blu-ray) Razortooth Retardead Silent Venom Prison Break: Season 4, The Final Season Reaper: Season Two Weeds: Season Four (DVD, Blu-ray) Blood Ties: Season One Army Wives: The Complete Second Season The Hunger: The Complete First Season The Jetsons: Season 2, Volume 1 Raising the Bar: The Complete First Season Air Force One (Blu-ray) Anaconda (Blu-ray) Bruce Almighty (Blu-ray) Dark Blue (Blu-ray) Dragon’s »

- Ricky

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This Week on DVD: Revolutionary Road, Defiance, Spring Breakdown

2 June 2009 10:08 AM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »

Yawn... another ho-hum DVD release week. Sam Mendes's Revolutionary Road hits stores today, so you can finally decide for yourself if he got snubbed at the Oscars (I don't think he did), and you can also catch up with Valentine's Day hit He's Just Not That Into You and Defiance starring Daniel Craig. Amy Poehler/Parker Posey/Rachel Dratch comedy Spring Breakdown is also out this week, along with a 25th Anniversary Edition of Eddie Murphy: Delirious and the latest seasons of Prison Break, Weeds and Reaper. Plus... Road House on Blu-ray! That pretty much sums it up... are you picking anything up? Revolutionary Road [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2]) He's Just Not That Into You [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4]) Defiance [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6]) Spring Breakdown [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8]) Anacondas: Trail of Blood [9] Eddie Murphy: Delirious: 25th Anniversary Edition [10] Elsewhere [11] (DVD, Blu-ray [12]) Home [13] (DVD, Blu-ray [14]) Razortooth [15] Retardead [16] Silent Venom [17] Prison Break: Season »

- Sean

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"Blood Ties," The Canadian Vampire TV Series, Is Coming To DVD

26 March 2009 1:52 PM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »

"Blood Ties," the popular Canadian TV series about vampires, will be out on DVD June 2. The first 22 episodes of the show are on four DVDs.

The show, which stars Christina Cox, Kyle Schmid, Dylan Neal and Gina Holden, is similar to HBO's "True Blood" and the book-turned-movie"Twilight." "Blood Ties" is based on the "Blood Books" by Tanya Huff.

"Blood Ties" stars Christina Cox as Vicki Nelson, a former Toronto cop who left the force to become a private investigator after she started to lose her eyesight. Through her work, she met and teamed up with 480-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy.

There is a mutual attraction between Vicki and Henry, played by Kyle Schmid, but that is further complicated by Vicki's relationship with her former partner and lover, Mike Celluci, played by Dylan Neal. In the beginning, Celluci doesn't believe in vampires and personally thinks that Vicki is not only losing her eyesight, »

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Ask AfterEllen.com (March 17, 2009)

17 March 2009 4:39 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Want to know the status of a particular movie, TV show, or band? Wondering what a certain actress is up to these days? Send your entertainment-related questions to askafterellen@gmail.com — with your first name, city and country — and we'll try to answer as many as we can.

Question: When is the 3Way DVD coming out?

— Diana, Ames, Iowa

Question: What is the status of 3way season two? Is it being filmed or planned? I loved that show and can't wait to see more of it!

— Arielle

Answer: We've received a lot of questions on these two topics over the last few months, and we finally have an answer! To one of them, at least.

The first season of 3Way will be released on DVD on Dinah Shore weekend (i.e. the first weekend in April), according to the 3Way producers. They plan to post more details on 3WayTV.tv soon, »

- sarahwarn

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Ask AfterEllen.com (Jan. 20, 2009)

20 January 2009 1:28 AM, PST | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Want to know the status of a particular movie, TV show, or band? Wondering what a certain actress is up to these days? Send your entertainment-related questions to askafterellen@gmail.com — with your first name, city and country — and we'll try to answer as many as we can.

Question: I recently watched the pilot of Nikki & Nora, and I can't believe it wasn't picked up for a full season. Is there any chance of it being picked up at a later date, possibly by a network that was not originally approached? Or is it lost forever?

— mustang_sally, Utah

Answer: I forwarded your question to Nikki & Nora creator Nancylee Myatt, and she confirmed that the pilot starring Liz Vassey (CSI) and Christina Cox (Blood Ties) as lesbian detectives in New Orleans is indeed dead. Warner Bros. Studios and Laura Zisken Productions (who produces all the Spiderman movies) produced/own the rights to the pilot, »

- sarahwarn

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2009 | 2008

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