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19th October 2009 INCOMING Lots of titles have been added to the database this week, and lots of press release info has been added to existing entries. New titles (or titles with newly-added details) include... ...recent theatrical releases Dorian Gray (on Blu-ray and DVD), Fame (on Blu-ray and DVD), Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 (aka H2 - on DVD and Blu-ray), GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra (on DVD and Blu-ray), Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (on Blu-ray, DVD, and a special limited edition Blu-ray), Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs (on Blu-ray and DVD), and The Time Traveller's Wife (on DVD and Blu-ray). We've also added seasonal favourite It's A Wonderful Life on Blu-ray and DVD; Shameless Season 7; a twenty-disc Travels with Palin box set; In The Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes (with Patrick Macnee); a Jacques Tati box set, from the BFI; full details of the Supernatural - Season 4 box set (on DVD and Blu-ray); the second series of BBC sitcom Outnumbered; information about the DVD release of Collision, a new, five-part Channel 4 drama series created by Foyle's War's Anthony Horowitz, which is about a group of people whose lives intersect when they're involved in a road collision; Isaac Julien's groundbreaking Young Soul Rebels; a Blu-ray release of the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers (which has been restored, and looks stunning); the eagerly-awaited second series of Star Trek (the classic series) on Blu-ray; the DVD / Blu-ray release of Disney's timeless Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Robert Rodriguez's new kid's fantasy movie Shorts (Blu-ray and DVD); and a special limited edition DVD release for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which comes packaged with a Death Eater Mask (exclusive to Amazon). Doctor Who Several Doctor Who titles have been from our speculative In The Pipeline section, to the regular listings, since they've now appeared at some etailers. Clearly, though, there's some confusion about the dates, which should be sorted out soon. They are: Kamelion Tales (aka The Kamelion Collection - Planet of Fire and The Kings' Demons), Peladon Tales (The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon), Myths and Legends box set (The Horns of Nimon, Underworld and The Time Monster), The Masque of Mandragora, and Time and the Rani. It looks like Play.com might have underestimated the price of the Peladon box set, and have it listed for what might be a bargain pre-order price: £17.99 It also looks like 2 Entertain will be re-releasing the Key to Time box set, which went out of print some time ago, leaving many fans without a copy for their collection. Play.com have it listed for release on November the 16th. 12th October 2009 EVENTS NEWS
Here's the book's press release: International bestselling crime writer and recipient of an OBE for his services to literature, acclaimed Scottish author Ian Rankin makes his comics debut with the tense and twisting tale, Dark Entries [Titan Books, 2 October 2009, £14.99]. Finding the perfect protagonist for his dark and gritty style, Rankin takes on comics’ grim antihero of the hugely popular Hellblazer series, occult detective John Constantine. Constantine has seen his share of strange things in his career, but nothing could prepare him for the horrors of…reality television. “Haunted Mansion” is currently the hottest show on TV, but when the macabre house actually starts attacking the contestants, Constantine is hired to be the ultimate mole. Locked inside with a cast of wannabe-celebrities, his every move being monitored by a deadly figure from his past, Constantine must figure out who (or what) is pulling the strings before he gets cancelled – permanently. Illustrated by Werther Dell’Edera, whose work Publishers Weekly calls “as stylized and chiaroscuro-laden as a vintage noir movie,” Rankin takes a classic “locked room” scenario and gives it a bloody nose and a cigarette, keeping readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page. 6th October 2009 INCOMING Details of several Sony releases for November have been added to Incoming, including some important theatrical titles: Moon, Year One and Terminator: Salvation. There are, it seems, three different DVD editions and four different Blu-ray editions of Terminator: Salvation, which must be something of a record. They are: Steelbook DVD edition, exclusive to Play.com Special packaging DVD edition, exclusive to HMV Steelbook Blu-ray edition, exclusive to Play.com Special packaging Blu-ray edition, exclusive to HMV Collector's Edition Skull Blu-ray version There's also a DVD box set featuring all four films. (There's no equivalent Blu-ray version!) I've also added details for the 1998 version of Godzilla on Blu-ray. 5th October 2009 INCOMING Recent additions to our forthcoming releases database, Incoming, include the new Harry Potter film on DVD and Blu-ray, as well as box sets encompassing all six movies to date, again on DVD and Blu-ray; the acclaimed indie science-fiction movie District 9 on DVD and Blu-ray; the Will Farrell big-screen adaptation of prehistoric adventure Land of the Lost, on DVD and Blu-ray; a Blu-ray version of Neil Marshall's excellent subterranean horror movie The Descent; and the first sniff of the David Tennant / Patrick Stewart version of Hamlet, which is probably one of the BBC's Christmas highlights. Rather annoyingly, this is another high profile title shot in HD which 2 Entertain don't seem to be willing to release on Blu-ray. Also newly-listed is the 1974 British horror film Ghost Story, which marks the very welcome return of Marc Morris' specialist label Nucleus Films. As usual, it looks like they've gone the extra mile - and then some - to create a very attractive product indeed. I've added full details of HBO's release of the first season of vampires-among-us series True Blood, which is something of a guilty pleasure. The series is being released on Blu-ray and DVD on October the 26th, and looks like it will be up to HBO's usual high standards. The series starts on Channel 4 on Wednesday, at 10pm. I've also added details of the whopping thirty-five disc Columbo - The Complete TV Series DVD box set, which features all ten seasons (by which I think they mean all nine seasons, plus the run of TV movies from 1990-2003). None of the etailers I looked at had a shot of the set opened up, so here it is...
AUDIOBOOK NEWS BBC Audio has released the cover images for discs four and five in the Doctor Who - Hornet's Nest series, A Sting in the Tail and Hive of Horror...
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To
mark the launch of Titan Books' graphic novel Dark Entries, author
Ian Rankin will be giving a Q&A at the Edinburgh West End branch of
Waterstones at 6pm on Thursday October the 15th. 
