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NEWS ARCHIVE - 26th DECEMBER 2005 to 1st JANUARY 2006 |
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31st December 2005
ZETA MINOR Eagle-eyed visitors will have noticed that I've added an RSS feed to the News page. If you copy the link into your RSS reader, you'll receive a potted summary each time the News page is updated. (Well, that's the theory, anyway!) You can read more about RSS and how to receive the updates here. If you have any comments on this - is it working? - email me!
The set features twenty-two episodes, including experimental episode My Butterfly (which shows how a tiny event can have far-reaching consequences), and "supersized" longer episodes. Guest stars in these episodes include Michael J. Fox, Tara Reid, and, in the Emmy Award-winning episode My Screw Up, George of the Jungle's Brendan Fraser. Bonus features include a look at the series' stunts, titled Don't Try This At Home; Twist & Shoot (interviews with three directors); a featurette on the guest stars, Long Term Residents; What's Up Dawg?, which looks at the dogs that the cast and crew keep around the set; Scrubs Factor, a look at the games of dare between cast and crew members; and Robert Keeps Talking, the third of the series of extended cast interviews.
The film, which stars Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston, will be supplemented by bloopers; deleted scenes; an alternate opening; a music video; Welcome To Sky High; storyboards; Breaking Down The Walls: The Stunts of Sky High; and Filming the Guinea Pig. No technical spec's were announced (the American disc is presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen format, with 5.1 audio). RRP is believed to be £19.99. Sleeve image courtesy of Play.com. Some more details about Optimum's Wolf Creek disc are available (it was originally announced here, on the 2nd of November). The second disc in the set contains a fifty-minute Making of... documentary; three deleted scenes (Nathan at Store - "G'Day", Kestie in Bed With Nathan, and Cass Down The Well, totalling 6m); a teaser trailer; Meet Mick Taylor - An Interview With John Jarratt (21m); an Exclusive Clip from Wolf Creek (this seems to be an especially-shot teaser trailer, featuring school children creating an archetypal serial killer urban legend); and trailers for Dead Man's Shoes and Switchblade Romance.
Porco Rosso is offered in anamorphic 1.76:1 ratio, with a choice of English 2.0 (224kbps) and Japanese 2.0 (224kbps) soundtracks (with optional English subtitles). English HoH subtitles are also offered. The disc features an option to view the film's storyboards (you can toggle between the storyboards and the finished animation using your remote's Angle button; a short interview with Producer Toshio Suzuki (3m) and trailers for the film (8m), and other Studio Ghibli movies (10m).
Pom Poko is presented in anamorphic
1.83:1 format Pom Poko also has an alternate-angle presentation of the film's storyboards; Pom Poko trailers (8m); and the same Studio Ghibli trailer reel that's on Porco Rosso. Menu screens for the new Porco Rosso and Pom Poko discs can be seen here. Last week's Zeta Minor News can be viewed here. Previous Zeta Minor News entries can viewed here. |
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details pertaining to the Spike Milligan documentary, 
The
third series of Scrubs will be released by Buena Vista Home
Entertainment on February the 13th, three months before it's released in
the US. (Funny how press releases only mention that when the UK edition is
released first, isn't it!) 
Disney's
well-liked superheroes-in-training movie Sky High will make its UK
DVD debut on the 6th of February. 
