Details on Arrow Video’s new Blu-ray release of Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes
MVD Entertainment has revealed details of their exclusive U.S. release of Arrow Video’s new Blu-ray production of Wes Craven’s original horror cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes. I remember going to watch a double feature with this film and its sequel in 1984, when The Hills Have Eyes Part II was originally released. The two ….
Clips from Secret Cinema’s presentation of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Interviews at the Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market
Cult classic Phantasm and new sequel Phantasm: Ravager heading to theaters
Well Go USA Entertainment announced that the company has nabbed North American rights for Don Coscarelli’s iconic Phantasm series, including an all-new 4K restoration of the original 1979 cult classic Phantasm: Remastered, never-before-seen HD restorations of 1994’s Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead and 1998’s Phantasm IV: Oblivion, and the long-anticipated debut of the fifth ….
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
By: Jack Valenti
Context:
Jack Valenti, then head of the Motion Picture Association of America, famously warned against the use of VCRs at a congressional hearing in 1982. Hollywood was concerned about a machine that could record television programs without requiring any fees. History shows Valenti couldn’t have been more wrong, as consumers ended up spending billions to buy and rent copies of their favorite movies. By 1986, the $4.4 billion consumers spent buying and renting VHS tapes exceeded the $3.8 billion they spent going to the movies at the theater. On July 21, 2016, Japanese manufacturer Funai Electric, the last maker of VHS-compatible video cassette recorders, announced that they would cease producing the devices at the end of the month due to declining sales. Sony said it would cease production of video tapes in its Betamax format in 2015, 13 years after it stopped making compatible recorders.
New trailer and poster for Christophe Gans vision of Beauty and the Beast
Shout Factory has revealed a new poster and trailer for the Christophe Gans directed Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), which stars Vincent Cassel (Jason Bourne, Black Swan) and Léa Seydoux (Spectre, Blue Is the Warmest Color) with André Dussollier (A Very Long Engagement, Amélie). Beauty and the Beast will open theatrically ….
