Topic: Blu-ray Release Schedule

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NOV. 03
It's a Wonderful Life (US)
Paramount Pictures | 1946 | 130 mins | Not rated |




George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrficed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.

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NOV. 17
Chasing Amy (US)
Disney / Buena Vista | 1997 | 113 mins | Rated R |




Best friends Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards are enjoying success as the creators of the cult comic book 'Bluntman and Chronic.' When they meet fellow comic book artist Alyssa Jones, Holden's desire for the beautiful charmer is immediate. Alyssa, however, has set her romantic sights elsewhere but decides, nevertheless, to pursue a friendship with Holden. This presents Holden with a dilemma: feeling the way he does, can he merely be friends with this woman? Banky, who knows Holden best, doesn't think so. As the friendship deepens, so do Holden's affections for Alyssa. And cautiously, yet effortlessly, so do Alyssa's for him. With their relationship strugging to define itself, Banky grows more and more frustrated at the notion of losing his best friend to emotional adulthood.

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NOV. 03
Rocky: The Undisputed Collection (US)
Rocky / Rocky II / Rocky III / Rocky IV / Rocky V / Rocky Balboa
20th Century Fox | Not rated |

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OCT. 13
Rick Wakeman: The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Live at Hampton Court Palace (US)
Eagle Rock Entertainment | 2009 | 125 mins | Not rated |

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OCT. 13
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (US)
Universal Studios | 2000 | 104 mins | Rated PG |




The curmudgeonly recluse Grinch, who hates Christmas, becomes annoyed with the out-of- control Christmas festivities in Whoville, the town lying below his cave dwelling on Mt. Crumpit. But after the Grinch conspires to deprive the Who's of their favorite holiday by sneaking into town on Christmas eve to steal everything associated with the holiday, he learns that the spirit of Christmas goes much deeper than tinsel and toys.

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SEPT. 29
Facing the Giants (US)
Sony Pictures | 2006 | 111 mins | Rated PG |




In his six years of coaching, Grant Taylor has never had a winning season. Even the hope of a new season is squelched when the best player on his Shiloh Eagles decides to transfer schools. After losing their first three games of the season, the coach discovers a group of fathers are plotting to have him fired. Combined with pressures at home, Coach Taylor has lost hope in his battle against fear and failure. However, an unexpected challenge finds a purpose bigger than just victories. Daring to trust God to do the impossible, Coach Taylor and the Eagles discover how faith plays out on the field--and off. With God, all things are possible.

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NOV. 03
Elvis Costello: Spectacle Season 1 (US)
Video Service Corp. | 2009 | 650 mins | Not rated |

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SEPT. 29
HD Moods: Trains (US)
PBS Topics Entertainment | 60 mins | Not rated |

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OCT. 20
The Secret of the Nutcracker (US)
2007 | 87 mins | Not rated |

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OCT. 20
Love N'Dancing (US)
Screen Media | 2009 | 98 mins | Rated PG-13 |




When a bored-with-life English teacher meets a former West Coast Swing dance champion, they have an instant connection. Both feel that the other can fulfill what was missing in their lives. But Jessica's got a workaholic fiancee who loves her and provides for her, and Jake's got his former partner in crime Corinne, who just won't let Jake away from the dangling carrot of a rekindled relationship. Jake and Jessica must try to elude all obstacles, romantic or otherwise, to stay focused on the goal: winning the world title and winning each other. Will they give in to the pressure or come out like champs?

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NOV. 10
The Echo (US)
Image Entertainment | 2008 | 96 mins | Not rated |




A young ex-con moves into an old apartment building only to learn his neighbor is an abusive police officer who savagely beats his wife and daughter. When the ex-con tries to intervene, he becomes trapped in a curse.

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NOV. 24
Angels & Demons (US)
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 138 mins | Rated PG-13 |




Tom Hanks reprises his role from the 2006 film 'The Da Vinci Code' as Harvard symbologist and religious expert Robert Langdon, who works alongside Vittoria (Ayelet Zurer), the beautiful daughter of a murdered Italian physicist, to unravel the clues behind her father's murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican by resurgents of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati, the most powerful underground organisation in history.

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NOV. 03
Mummies: Secret of the Pharaohs (US)
IMAX
Image Entertainment | 2007 | 39 mins | Not rated |





In mind-blowing IMAX detail, unravel the enshrouded human time capsules that have become the most fascinating mystery of our time - Egypt's mummies. Probe ancient tombs to uncover these carefully hidden phenomena, and experience the dramatic adventure of their excavations. Follow top scientists as they embark on a modern-day forensic investigation of the mummies, extracting clues from our past that could have an enormous impact on medical science in our future.

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NOV. 03
The Narrows (US)
Image Entertainment | 2008 | 106 mins | Rated R |




Mike Manadoro, a 19 year old from Brooklyn, will do almost anything to get out of his neighborhood and to study photography at a Manhattan university. The problem is Mike's father Vinny, a retired sanitation worker, does not have the financial means to support his son's dream. So when local mob boss Tony offers Mike a high paying job, he takes it. Mike enters college at the same time as he begins delivering mysterious packages for Tony. Juggling new friendships, old loyalties, a new romance and the world of small-time crime, Mike's choices begin to result in dangerous and potentially fatal consequences for himself and everyone around him.

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OCT. 13
Nickelback: Live at Sturgis (US)
Koch Entertainment | 2007 | 95 mins | Not rated |

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OCT. 27
Whatever Works (US)
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 92 mins | Rated PG-13 |




After the failure of his career, his marriage, and his suicide attempt, world-class grouch Boris Yellnikoff, spends his days insulting the small children unfortunate enough to study chess with him and irritating his still-loyal friends with his never-ending tirades about the worthlessness of absolutely everything. A former Columbia Professor and self-proclaimed genius who came close to winning a Nobel Prize for Quantum Mechanics, Boris fancies himself the only one who fully comprehends the meaningless of all human aspirations, and the pitch-black chaos of the universe. As he readily admits, Boris is not a "feel-good person".

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NOV. 03
It's a Wonderful Life (US)
Paramount Pictures | 1946 | 130 mins | Not rated |




George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrficed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.

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SEPT. 22
Clive Barker's Book of Blood (US)
Lionsgate Films | 2008 | 100 mins | Rated R |




A pair of creepy Clive Barker stories--"Book of Blood" and "On Jerusalem Street"--provide the spine for this chilling horror film. In 'Book of Blood', a woman studying paranormal phenomena and a college student with a gift for talking to the dead team up with unexpectedly erotic and unsurprisingly horrific results.

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NOV. 17
Fight Club (US)
20th Century Fox | 1999 | 139 mins | Rated R |





The mundane existence of a product liability evaluator and insomniac, who is addicted to self- help groups, is turned upside down when he meets a sado-masochistic anarchist who is secretly plotting to overthrow civilization. As their friendship grows, they become increasingly involved in a secret society of "fight clubs" where men act out their aggressions and violently beat one another to a pulp. In the meantime, the evaluator falls in love with a woman who is also addicted to self-help groups, but is unable to act on his desire for her.

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OCT. 27
El Sistema: Music to Change Life (US)
Featuring the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra, Caracas Children's Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel
EUROARTS | 100 mins | Rated G |

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JAN. 05, 2010
The Green Berets (US)
Warner Bros. | 1968 | 141 mins | Rated G |

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OCT. 06
Trick 'r Treat (US)
Warner Bros. | 2008 | Rated R |




The doorbell rings, the cry goes out: Trick ’R Treat! But, wait. What’s actually going on during this ghostly All Hallows Eve? Something eerie and unexpected. Something splattered and spooky. Something that brings ghouls, vampires and werewolves into the night.

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SEPT. 29
Gala Concert: 300 Years of St. Petersburg (US)
EUROARTS | 2003 | 112 mins | Not rated |

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NOV. 24
Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (US)
Kôkaku kidôtai
Manga Home Entertainment | 1995 | Not rated |




Set in the year 2029 and following World Wars III and IV, a Japanese-led Asian block dominates world affairs. The alliance maintains its international supremacy through its elite security force whose cybernetically enhanced operatives tackle an array of hi-tech terrorists and other threats to international security. These augmented agents can "ghost hack" (i.e., download their consciousness) via the now omnipresent internet into other machines and human/machine cross breeds. Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cybernetically augmented female agent, has been tracking a virtual entity known as the Puppet Master with her crack squad of security agents. The shape-shifting Puppet Master, a rogue creation of a rival agency of the security apparatus, has concluded that it is a life form in its own right, "born in sea of information," and requested political asylum and true physical existence in defiance of its creators.

Kôkaku kidôtai receives a major visual and sound update. The 2.0 edition of the movie features new CG/SFX for a number of scenes and also a 6.1 surround sound recording. The original soundtrack has been overseen by Academy Award-winning sound enginner Randy Thom.

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NOV. 24
Four Christmases (US)
New Line Cinema | 2008 | 88 mins | Rated PG-13 |




Then upscale, happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation--and unable to escape--they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities, increasingly mortified to find childhood fears raised, adolescent wounds reopened... and their very future together uncertain. As Brad counts the hours to when he can get away from their parents, step-parents, siblings and an assortment of nieces and nephews, Kate is starting to hear the ticking of a different kind of clock. And by the end of the day, she is beginning to wonder if their crazy families' choices are not so crazy after all

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DEC. 01
Ben 10: Alien Swarm (US)
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 90 mins | Not rated |




In this thrilling, live-action adventure, Ben breaks rank with Gwen, Kevin and Max to help a mysterious young woman uncover an alien threat to our world. But it will take all the super powers they have to battle this unstoppable alien technology. The stakes are high and the action is intense as Ben fights to protect our planet from the Alien Swarm.

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OCT. 27
Steve Vai: Where the Wild Things Are (US)
Favored Nations | 160 mins | Not rated |




The show was recorded and filmed at the State Theatre in Minneapolis, MN before a sold-out audience as part of Vai’s successful Sound Theories world tour. Vai chose the State Theater to film because of its large, lush acoustics and the historical theatre’s gorgeous interior. The 2 hour and 40 minute set contains several new tracks and re-orchestrated pieces culled from his rich catalog. His guitar-wielding extravaganza in “The Murder” is an artistic performance piece that must be seen to be believed.

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OCT. 27
The Orphan (US)
Warner Bros. | 2009 | 123 mins | Rated R |




The tragic loss of their unborn child has devastated Kate and John, taking a toll on both their marriage and Kate's fragile psyche as she is plagued by nightmares and haunted by demons from her past. Struggling to regain some semblance of normalcy in their lives, the couple decides to adopt another child. At the local orphanage, both John and Kate find themselves strangely drawn to a young girl named Esther. Almost as soon as they welcome Esther into their home, however, an alarming series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther--this seemingly angelic little girl is not what she appears to be. Concerned for the safety of her family, Kate tries to get John and others to see past Esther's sweet facade. But her warnings go unheeded until it may be too late-for everyone.

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NOV. 10
Mamma Mia! The Movie - Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie! More Blu-ray Gift Set with Book (US)
Universal Studios | 2008 | 109 mins | Not rated |




An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna (Streep) is about to let go of Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), the spirited daughter she's raised alone. For Sophie's wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends—practical and no-nonsense Rosie (Julie Walters) and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya (Christine Baranski)—from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna's past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities. Inspired by the storytelling magic of ABBA's songs from "Dancing Queen" and "S.O.S." to "Money, Money, Money" and "Take a Chance on Me," Mamma Mia! is a celebration of mothers and daughters, old friends and new family found.

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SEPT. 22
Highlander: Season 1 (US)

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With over 220 minutes of bonus material.

   1. The Gathering
   2. Family Tree
   3. The Road Not Taken
   4. Innocent Man
   5. Free Fall
   6. Bad Day in Building "A"
   7. Mountain Men
   8. Deadly Medicine
   9. The Sea Witch
  10. Revenge is Sweet
  11. See No Evil
  12. Eyewitness
  13. Band of Brothers
  14. For Evil's Sake
  15. For Tomorrow We Die
  16. The Beast Below
  17. Saving Grace
  18. The Lady and the Tiger
  19. Eye of the Beholder
  20. Avenging Angel
  21. Nowhere to Run
  22. The Hunters