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5th November 2007 ZETA MINOR NEWS Many newly-announced titles have been added to our forthcoming releases database, Incoming, this week, including the first appearance of the Warner Home Video's eagerly-awaited Stanley Kubrick special edition discs. We've also added additional details for many titles, and many more etailer links. Please use the links to support Zeta Minor! Other especially-notable newly-listed titles includes Richard Linklater's Slacker, which will receive a long-overdue DVD re-release on Boxing Day (ignore what the etailers are saying - Boxing Day is the official release date). Metrodome also have the UK DVD debuts of Alex De La Iglesia's Accion Mutante, and 800 Bullets, both also due on Boxing Day. Optimum have announced provisional details for the acclaimed German film Eagle vs Shark. HD DVD AND BLU-RAY NEWS Details of three forthcoming HD releases from Optimum Home Entertainment have been added to Incoming. These are... Pan's Labyrinth HD DVD Blu-ray Until these titles were announced, Optimum had only released on HD DVD. They released the following statement as part of the press release for the new titles: From November 2007 Optimum are going to be stepping up their involvement in the expansion of the new high def formats, with the release of three key titles on both Blu Ray and HD DVD. The titles in question are the gritty, nerve-shredding Wolf Creek, comic-horror epic The Host, and the enchanting, Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth. Each will combine the crispest picture and sound, alongside a host of extras on each disc. To date we have published four key catalogue titles on HD-DVD - The Pianist, Mulholland Drive, La Haine and The Deer Hunter – courtesy of Studio Canal's collaboration with Toshiba. Optimum are taking an agnostic stance in terms of the relative values of each format, so we are now in a position to extend the line-up to include the afore-mentioned key titles on both formats for the Christmas period. Although we're remaining non-partisan about the result of the format war, we do recognize the need to support the evolution of DVD in the hope of restoring value to the market. Our release of these three titles is our response to the demand for a greater variety of product, which we are sure will increase considerably as the new wave of cheaper hardware appears this autumn. EVENT NEWS Kaleidoscope have announced details of their Christmas gathering... Kaleidoscope Christmas Event Saturday 1st December 2007, 12:00 - 7:00 pm Amblecote Room, Stourbridge Town Hall, Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK Free Admission EVENT SCHEDULE
12:00 Swap of the Pops - Noel Edmonds introduces
artists including
12:30 The Little Matchgirl - Hans Christian
Andersen's classic tale
13:00 Educating Marmalade - The Nativity Play.
Bad Girl Warning!
13:30 All Star Comedy Carnival - Doctor in Charge.
A festive
13:40 Tinsel and Trimmings - rareties and surprises galore
in this 13:45 Break
14:00 Kaleidoscope Grand Charity Auction 2007 - our annual
auction
15:00 Top of the Pops - a rare treat as we present
the surviving
15:15 Origami - Have your piece of paper at the
ready for this 15:30 Afternoon Tea
16:00 The Fairy on the Tree - a selection of
Christmas television
16:05 Metal Mickey - Pantomickey. The hugely
popular silver robot
16:30 Shine on Harvey Moon - A Christmas Truce.
Kenneth Cranham,
17:00 BBC Christmas Globes 1974-2006 - Christmas wouldn't
be
17:15 Swap of the Pops - the final sixty minutes of
the show from
18:15 Crossroads - Enjoy a Christmas at King's Oak
in this episode
18:40 Thames Television hands over to Carlton Television,
New Year's 19:00 Closedown
All material at Kaleidoscope events is screened with the
permission of
In 2007, Kaleidoscope is supporting the Royal National
Lifeboat
The latest details of this event and Kaleidoscope's other
activities can Last week's Zeta Minor News can be viewed here. Previous Zeta Minor News entries can viewed here. |
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