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[TV] Best TV Series Releases of 2009
8 December 2009 12:48 PM, PST
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Every year numerous beloved television series come to a close and the "Complete Series" DVD or Blu-ray release becomes a must-have item for the long-time fans. We here at JustPressPlay are no different - we love complete series releases. The awesome packaging, the nifty extras (both physical and disc-based) and the convenience of a one-stop-shop for all our Futurama, Battlestar Galactica or The Shield viewing. While some series purchases are no-brainers (Sopranos), there are plenty of overlooked series who pass under the radar. So here it is, the best of the best and the coolest overlooked Complete Series releases for 2009.
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Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (DVD or Blu-ray)
Hailed as one of the best and most unique series in a long time, Battlestar Galactica's resurgence got noticed. A crew of humans attempts to survive during the purging oppression of the Cylons and encounter danger at every turn. For
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- Lex Walker
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Best TV Series Releases of 2009
8 December 2009 12:48 PM, PST
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Every year numerous beloved television series come to a close and the "Complete Series" DVD or Blu-ray release becomes a must-have item for the long-time fans. We here at JustPressPlay are no different - we love complete series releases. The awesome packaging, the nifty extras (both physical and disc-based) and the convenience of a one-stop-shop for all our Futurama, Battlestar Galactica or The Shield viewing. While some series purchases are no-brainers (Sopranos), there are plenty of overlooked series who pass under the radar. So here it is, the best of the best and the coolest overlooked Complete Series releases for 2009.
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series (DVD or Blu-ray)
Hailed as one of the best and most unique series in a long time, Battlestar Galactica's resurgence got noticed. A crew of humans attempts to survive during the purging oppression of the Cylons and encounter danger at every turn. For
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- Lex Walker
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Annie Awards 2010
1 December 2009 11:58 PM, PST
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2010 Annie Awards
International Animated Film Society’s 2010 Annie Award nominations: Dec. 1, 2009
2010 Annie Award winners: UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2010
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Up by Pete Docter
Production Categories
Best Animated Feature
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs — Sony Pictures Animation
Coraline — Laika
Fantastic Mr. Fox — 20th Century Fox
The Princess and the Frog — Walt Disney Animation Studios
The Secret of Kells — Cartoon Saloon
Up — Pixar Animation Studios
Best Home Entertainment Production
Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas — Universal Animation Studios
Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder — The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century [...]
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- Anna Robinson
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"Up," "Coraline" Top 2009 Annie Award Nominees
1 December 2009 3:51 PM, PST
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The International Animated Film Society has announced the 2009 Annie Award nominations! "Up" and "Coraline" led the pack in the film categories.
Award recipients will claim their trophies at the 37th Annual Annie Awards scheduled for Saturday, February 6, 2010 at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California.
Here's the list of nominees of the 37th Annual Annie Awards:
Production Categories
Best Animated Feature
* Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs . Sony Pictures Animation
* Coraline . Laika
* Fantastic Mr. Fox . 20th Century Fox
* The Princess and the Frog . Walt Disney Animation Studios
* The Secret of Kells . Cartoon Saloon
* Up . Pixar Animation Studios
Best Home Entertainment Production
* Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas . Universal Animation Studios
* Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder . The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
* Green Latern: First Flight . Warner Bros. Animation
* Open Season 2 . Sony Pictures Animation
* SpongeBob vs. The Big One . Nickelodeon
Best Animated Short Subject
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MovieWeb's 2009 DVD Holiday Gift Guide
24 November 2009 5:51 AM, PST
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Black Friday is approaching, fellow readers. No, I'm not talking about some sort of economic free-fall or any apocalyptic event that we might see in 2012. I'm talking about the shopper's paradise/nightmare that is the day after Thanksgiving, where all the hot holiday items are paraded about with slashed prices galore. While this day does wonders for your pocketbook, it takes a toll on your sanity with malls full of shoppers packed in like sardines, scurrying to complete their lists. We all know how trying these times are, so we here at MovieWeb are trying to make it a little easier on our readers. No, we won't be selling Blu-ray players for under $100, but we are compiling a tidy little list of our own complete with our top DVD buys of the season. Below you'll find a comprehensive guide to all of the hot titles that will be on the shelves this season,
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Collider Holliday Giveaway - Don’t Buy Presents! Win Free DVDs, Video Games and Books From Us!
15 November 2009 3:32 PM, PST
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With the holiday’s fast approaching and everyone struggling to find enough money to buy presents, we’ve come up with a novel way to save money…get free stuff from us! Thanks to a bunch of PR films, I’ve got a huge box filled with DVDs, video games, and books and I’m going to give everything away to our readers. So if you’d like to know what you could win and how to enter, just hit the jump for all the info:
Here’s what you need to know:
If you want to win any of the items, you’ll need to do two things. The first is email thecollidermailbox@gmail.com with your name and address and say Holiday Giveaway in the headline. The second thing you’ll need to do is become a fan of Collider on Facebook (the Collider Facebook widget is at
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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What's On Tonight: Daytime Emmys, Futurama, True Blood, Design Star
30 August 2009 2:00 PM, PDT
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A 7, NBC has a new Dateline, then Pre-Season Football, the Bears vs. the Broncos.
At 8, CBS has a new Big Brother, followed by a new There Goes The Neighborhood.
The CW has the Daytime Emmy Awards at 8.
Food Network has a new Challenge at 8, followed by a new Iron Chef America.
At 9, ABC has a new Shark Tank, then a new Defying Gravity.
PBS has a new Masterpiece Mystery! at 9.
Comedy Central has Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder at 9.
There's a new Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime at 8, then a new Army Wives.
National Geographic Channel has the series premiere of The Human Family Tree at 9.
HBO has a new True Blood at 9, followed by new episodes of Hung and Entourage.
Also at 9: Syfy has the movie High Plains Invaders.
At 10, AMC has a new Mad Men.
Hgtv has a new Design Star at 10.
History Channel has two
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- Bob Sassone
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Futurama: The Complete Collection Hits The Shelves on DVD October 13th
26 August 2009 7:34 AM, PDT
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Fans of a popular sci-fi animated series can get the entire legacy of the series in one hefty set this October. Futurama: The Complete Collection will be released on DVD on October 13. This massive 19-disc set contains all 72 episodes of the original series plus all four DVD films - Futurama: Bender's Big Score, Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, Futurama: Bender's Game and Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder. The complete set is priced at $169.98 Srp and you can take a look at the cover art and special features below.
Looking to get your Futurama fix in great, big, hilarious, planet-sized chunks? Then this is your lucky light year! Now, in one shiny collection, you'll find all seventy-two original TV episodes and four epically amusing, feature-length adventures starring your favorite spaced-out space crew, plus enough extras to fill a moon base, if you're into that sort of thing.
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'Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder' (Blu-ray)
10 June 2009 4:04 PM, PDT
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To coincide with the good news from Fox that new episodes of Futurama are coming, we review the Blu-ray release of what once looked like the series finale, Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder.
In some respects Futurama could be considered the poor cousin of The Simpsons. Both shows were created by Matt Groening and both share the same style of animation and satirical humour. Yet, Futurama has not enjoyed the same widespread popularity as its Fox stablemate. Whereas The Simpsons (no relation) has been running for 20 seasons on that network, Futurama lasted only four (a fifth aired but was comprised of episodes that had not been shown in previous years).
Despite that relatively short run, Futurama attracted a dedicated following. This prompted the Cartoon Network, and later Comedy Central, to pick up the show for syndication. The viewing figures convinced the latter to commit to sixteen new episodes that
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[DVD Review] Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder
2 March 2009 10:29 PM, PST
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Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder brings the Futurama series back from the lesser performances of the second and third direct to DVD releases. When I slid the Blu-ray into my PS3 about five different thoughts flitted through my head: please be great, please be really great, please be great, please be funny, please be great. I wasn't being all that creative at the time as my mind's obsession with a suitable ending(?) to the Futurama series had been plaguing my thoughts since the third Futurama movie failed to impress. Bender's Game took stale jokes and put them into the Futurama universe. I recognized the necessity to pay lip service to a genre of nerdery that had been neglected thus far in the Futurama movies - but it had gone too far on too little material. Into the Wild Green Yonder makes no such mistake.
The first ten minutes alone
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- Lex Walker
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Blu-Ray Round Up, Feb. 26, 2009: ‘Futurama,’ ‘Ronin,’ ‘Vanishing Point’
26 February 2009 1:55 PM, PST
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Chicago – Still trying to get over an Oscar hangover? There’s no better way to deflate the pomposity of awards season than with a wicked car chase. Of course, one of the best of all time hit Blu-Ray this week in the controversial Blu-Ray release of “The French Connection,” but the same studio also released another pair of movies dedicated to automobile aficionados and an animated sci-fi comedy when all the metal destruction gets too much to take.
Two of the best car movies of all time - 1971’s “Vanishing Point” and 1998’s “Ronin” - hit Blu-Ray for the first time this week and the final “Futurama” movie, “Into the Wild Green Yonder” also hit the format. All three of these titles were released on February 24th, 2009.
“Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder”
Photo credit: Fox
I was as excited about the “Futurama” movies as much as anyone, but now
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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DVD: Review: Futurama: Into The Wild Green Yonder
24 February 2009 10:00 PM, PST
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Expectations were perhaps unrealistically high when Fox resurrected the beloved geek favorite Futurama for the home-video market, but they’ve shrunk with each successive direct-to-dvd effort. The movies are far from embarrassing—the best of the lot, The Beast With A Billion Backs,is terrific—but after the series rose from the dead, “good” just isn’t good enough for diehard cultists. As the last of four proposed Futurama movies, Into The Wild Green Yonder could very well mark the end of the series’ animated life, so those same fans probably expect more from it than a few laughs and
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Rt on DVD: Final Futurama Flick, Pirates II, and Akira on Blu-ray
23 February 2009 9:04 AM, PST
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This week we recommend the fourth and final Futurama movie (Into the Wild Green Yonder), but only for diehard Planet Express devotees; otherwise, your new release options are rotten (Sex Drive, The Haunting of Molly Hartley). Horror fans, however, have something new to cheer about (Wes Craven's original Last House on the Left Collector's Edition, Dario Argento's Four Flies on Grey Velvet), as do those with more esoteric tastes (Noah Wyle as The Librarian in Curse of the Judas Chalice and Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge). Blu-ray viewers have the best choices of the week, with new remasterings to devour (Akira,
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