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Matt Damon Comes to Blu-Ray in We Bought A Zoo

We Bought A ZooTwentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will be releasing its inspiring true story of one man who brought a zoo back to life and family back together in WE BOUGHT A ZOO, arriving on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download April 3. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) and starring Matt Damon (Contagion, True Grit), Scarlett Johansson (Iron Man 2, Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Thomas Haden Church (Easy A, Sideways), WE BOUGHT A ZOO is family entertainment at its best.

Benjamin Mee (Damon) is a Los Angeles newspaper columnist and adventure writer who, as a single father, faces the challenges of raising his two young children.  Hoping that a fresh start and a new life will restore their family spirit, Mee quits his job and buys an old rural house outside the city with a unique bonus feature: a zoo named the Rosemoor Animal Park, where dozens of animals reside under the care of head zookeeper Kelly Foster (Johansson) and her dedicated team.  With no experience, limited time and a shoestring budget, Mee sets out with the support of his family and the local community to reopen the zoo.  Now, Benjamin is no longer reporting an adventure story; he’s living it in his own backyard.

WE BOUGHT A ZOO Blu-ray is loaded with over 2½ hours of special features including 20 deleted and extended scenes, a gag reel, four behind-the-scenes featurettes, commentary with Director Cameron Crowe, star J.B. Smoove (The Sitter, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”) and Editor 
Mark Livolsi, and more. The film also features an English Family Friendly Audio Track that earned the Dove Seal of Approval.  The Blu-ray and DVD will be available for an average retail price of $24.99 and $19.99 respectively. 
 
WE BOUGHT A ZOO Blu-ray Combo Pack Special Features
  • Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Copy including theatrical film
  • Deleted & Extended Scenes
  • Elevator Empathy
  • A Gift From Ronnie
  • Life is Elemental
  • Thank You, Rhonda
  • Rosie Names Her Peacocks
  • Quick Learner
  • Just Can’t Get a Handle On It
  • So Much Bloodshed
  • Buster is Loose
  • Utterly Free / Nobody Died
  • I Make My Own Hours
  • The Stuff is Alive
  • We’re Living The Story
  • Disaffected Youth
  • It’s Their Zoo, Too
  • Goodnight Big Mac
  • Such a Cliché
  • Sorry About the Rain
  • Benjamin’s Big Speech
  • Opening Day
  • Gag Reel
  • “The Real Mee”
  • “We Shot a Zoo”
  • “Their Happy is Too Loud”
  • Audio Commentary with Director Cameron Crowe, Star J.B. Smoove and Editor Mark Livolsi

Last Updated on May 03, 2012

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1953 Titanic Movie Gets Blu-Ray Release For 100th Anniversary

Titanic 1953Coinciding with the 100th Anniversary of the sinking of the famous passenger liner, TITANIC, the 1953 Academy Award Winner for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay, bursts onto Blu-ray for the first time April 3rd from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.  The influential film features a stellar cast including Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Clifton Webb (Stars and Stripes Forever), Academy Award and Emmy winner Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity) and Audrey Dalton (Separate Tables).  Showcasing a fully re-mastered version of the film, as well as incredible special features including commentary from the cast and crew, TITANIC on Blu-ray is a must-have for any classic film enthusiast and history buff.

Determined to leave the superficial, high-society world in which her husband Richard (Clifton Webb) is engrossed, Julia Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck) boards the R.M.S. Titanic in England to travel to America, along with her two children. Hoping to reconcile with his family, Richard purchases a steerage ticket aboard the ship, unaware of the fateful events that loom ahead.

TITANIC Blu-ray Special Features:
  • Commentary by Film Critic Richard Schickel
  • Commentary by Cinematographer Michael D. Lonzo, Actors Audrey Dalton and Robert Wagner, and Historian Sylvia Stoddard
  • MovieTone News
  • “Titanic” Premiere Thrills South
  • CinemaScope and “The Robe” Win Oscars
  • Titanic Aftermath: Audio Essay by Silvia Stoddard
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Still Gallery

Last Updated on May 03, 2012

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Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah's Joyful Noise Coming To Video

Joyful NoiseJoyful Noise arrives onto Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital Download on May 1 from Warner Home Entertainment Group. This funny and inspirational story of music, hope, love and renewal stars Oscar nominees Queen Latifah (“Chicago,” “Hairspray”) and Dolly Parton (“Transamerica,” “Steel Magnolias,” “Nine to Five”).

The small town of Pacashau, Georgia, has fallen on hard times, but the people are counting on the Divinity Church Choir to lift their spirits by winning the National Joyful Noise Competition. The choir has always known how to sing in harmony, but the discord between its two leading ladies now threatens to tear them apart. Their newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), stubbornly wants to stick with their tried-and-true traditional style, while the fiery G.G. Sparrow (Parton) thinks tried-and-true translates to tired-and-old. 
 
Shaking things up even more is the arrival of G.G.’s rebellious grandson, Randy (Jordan). Randy has an ear for music, but he also has an eye for Vi Rose’s beautiful and talented daughter, Olivia (Palmer), and the sparks between the two teenagers are causing even more friction between G.G. and Vi Rose. If these two strong-willed women can put aside their differences for the good of the people in their town, they – and their choir – may make the most joyful noise of all.
 
Joyful Noise brings together a talented cast of performers, including Keke Palmer (“Akeelah and the Bee”), Courtney B. Vance (“Extraordinary Measures”), Jeremy Jordan (Broadway’s “Bonnie and Clyde”), and Kris Kristofferson (“Dolphin Tale”). Rounding out the main cast are Dexter Darden, Angela Grovey, Paul Woolfolk and Jesse L. Martin.
 
The musically driven story also brings together the sounds of gospel, pop, country, rock and R & B with memorable songs, performed by the cast, from a wide range of artists, including Michael Jackson, Usher, Chris Brown, Paul McCartney, Sly & the Family Stone and Stevie Wonder. Dolly Parton also wrote original songs for the film, including “Not Enough” and “From Here to the Moon and Back.”
 
Joyful Noise will be available on Blu-ray Combo Pack, featuring a hi-definition, a standard definition and a digital copy of the film, for $39.99 and on single disc DVD for $31.98. 
 
Blu-ray Combo Pack contains the following special features:
  • Make Some Noise
  • Leading Ladies
  • Spotlight on a Song: Dolly Parton’s “From Here to the Moon”
  • Inspiration of “Joyful Noise”
  • “He’s Everything” Live
  • 4 extended songs
  • Deleted scenes
DVD contains the following special features: 
  • Make Some Noise
  • Leading Ladies

Last Updated on May 03, 2012

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