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Black Moon Rises (Criterion Collection) is headed home on both formats (DVD and Blu-ray) on June 28, 2011. DVD and Blu-ray release will contain the following bonus materials and extra features, and the DVD will be available for the MSRP of $29.95, while the Blu-ray will run at the MSRP of $39.95.

- New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)

- Archival interview with director Louis Malle

- Gallery of behind-the-scenes photos

- Alternate French-dubbed soundtrack

- Original theatrical trailer

- New and improved English subtitle translation

- A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau

Ron Howard’s action film Eat My Dust is set to hit shelves (DVD) on May 24, 2011. It will contain bonus materials and extra features. The DVD will be available for the MSRP of $19.93.

HBO Home Entertainment is set for release Rome (Season 1 and 2) on Blu-ray on June 7, 2011. The Rome (Season 1 and 2) Blu-ray release will contain the following bonus materials and extra features. The Blu-rays will be available for the of $69.98 each.

The First Season on Blu-ray will contain these special features:

- Eight audio commentaries

- "Bloodlines" – An interactive on-screen guide

- "All Roads Lead to Rome" - An interactive onscreen guide

- "Shot x Shot: Gladiator" - A closer look at the thrilling Episode 11 fight sequence.

- "Shot x Shot: Caesar's Triumph" - Detailing the production of the epic Episode 10 triumph scene.

- "The Rise of Rome" - Behind-the-scenes featurette

- "When In Rome" - Featurette on the culture of ancient Rome.

- "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" - Introduction to the characters of Rome.

The Second Season's Blu-ray will feature the following bonus materials:

- Five audio commentaries

- "Bloodlines" – An interactive on-screen guide

- "All Roads Lead to Rome" - An interactive onscreen guide

- "A Tale of Two Romes" - Explores the contrasts evident in Roman society and prevalent in Season 2.

- "Antony & Cleopatra" - Mark Antony and Cleopatra shared one of the most famous love affairs of all time. This feature sheds light on their relationship from the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide.

- "The Rise of Octavian: Rome's First Emperor" - Chronicles how Augustus Caesar came to power

- "The Making of Rome, Season II" - An extensive feature highlighting new additions to the sets, and new production challenges faced in creating Season 2. A look at the building of Egypt and it's hieroglyphic wall, the Jewish Quarter and the making of Atia's dinner party, and the epic battle of Philippi.

Blue Crush 2 is headed to both formats DVD and Blu-ray on June 7, 2011. The film is written by Randall McCormick and directed by Mike Elliott and stars Sharni Vinson, Gideon Emery, Elizabeth Mathis, Patrick Lyster, Ben Milliken, Sasha Jackson, Joe Vaz, Rodger Halston, Matthew Dylan Roberts, Isa Rahman and Benny Ou.

Plot summery: Haunted by the memory of her deceased mother, Dana leaves Malibu behind and heads to South Africa to fulfill her mother's dream of surfing Jefferys Bay.

Stand by Me 25th Anniversary Edition is set to release on Blu-ray from Sony Pictures on March 22, 2011. It is a 1986 adventure drama film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on the novel “THE BODY” by Stephen King, the film takes its title from the song of the same name by Ben E. King.

The film follows four young friends set out on an adventure. Geordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern go looking for the missing body of a local teenager - found by a gang of older boys. A story of boys hangin' out and growin' up

Blu-ray releases will feature the following bonus items:

- A video reunion with Director Rob Reiner and Actors Wil Wheaton & Corey for the first time in 25 years.

- 25 Years Later: A video Commentary Retrospective with Rob Reiner and Actors Wil Wheaton and Corey Feldman

- Audio Commentary with Rob Reiner

- Stand By Me music video featuring River Phoenix and Wil Wheaton

- Documentary Featurette

The Cat O'Nine Tails (Il gatto a nove code) is a 1971 crime horror film. The Blu-ray will be available on May 31, 2011. The film is directed and written by Dario Argento and stars James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Pier Paolo Capponi, Horst Frank, Rada Rassimov, Aldo Reggiani, Carlo Alighiero, Vittorio Congia, Ugo Fangareggi, Tom Felleghy, Emilio Marchesini, Fulvio Mingozzi, Corrado Olmi and Pino Patti.

Plot summery: Franco Arno is a blind man that lives with his young niece and makes a living writing crossword puzzles. One night, while walking on the street, he overhears a weird conversation between two man sitting in a car parked in front of a medical institute where genetic experiments are performed. The same night someone breaks in the institute and kills a guard. Arno decides to investigate with the help of reporter Carlo Giordani.

The Cat O'Nine Tails Blu-ray will feature the following bonus materials:

- Tales Of The Cat – Interviews with Writer/Director Dario Argento, Co-Writer Dardano Sacchetti, and Composer Ennio Morricone

- Theatrical Trailers

- TV Spots

- Radio Spots

- Radio Interviews with Stars James Franciscus and Karl Malden

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 drama fantasy film, Blu-ray (The Criterion Collection) is set for release on April 26, 2011. It will contain bonus materials and extra features, and the Blu-ray will be available for the MSRP of $39.95.

Blu-ray will feature the following bonus materials:

- Digital transfer, approved by director Terry Gilliam (with a DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack and an optional 5.1 mix)

- Three audio commentaries: one with Gilliam, one with stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro and producer Laila Nabulsi, and one with author Hunter S. Thompson

- Deleted scenes, with optional commentary by Gilliam

- Selection of Thompson correspondence, read on camera by Depp

- Hunter Goes to Hollywood, a short documentary by filmmaker Wayne Ewing

Profondo Rosso is a 1975 horror film, dvd and Blu-ray are set for release on April 26, 2011. The film is directed and written by Dario Argento and stars: David Hemmings as Marcus Daly, Daria Nicolodi as Gianna Brezzi, Gabriele Lavia as Carlo, Macha Méril as Helga Ulmann, Eros Pagni as Supt. Calcabrini, Giuliana Calandra as Amanda Righetti, Piero Mazzinghi as Bardi, Glauco Mauri as Prof. Giordani, Clara Calamai as Martha, Aldo Bonamano as Carlo's father, Liana Del Balzo as Elvira, Vittorio Fanfoni as Cop taking notes, Dante Fioretti as Police photographer, Geraldine Hooper as Massimo Ricci, Jacopo Mariani as Young Carlo (as Iacopo Mariani) and Nicoletta Elmi as Olga.

Plot: Profondo Rosso follows music teacher Marcus Daly (Hemmings) as he investigates the violent murder of psychic medium Helga Ulmann (Macha Meril), which he witnesses in an apartment building. Other major characters are introduced early, including Daly’s gay friend Carlo (Gabriele Lavia), Ulmann’s associate Dr. Giordani (Glauco Mauri) and reporter Gianna Brezzi (Daria Nicolodi), with whom Daly begins an affair.

After his attempt to rescue the medium fails, Daly realises he could have seen the killer’s face among a group of portraits on the wall of the victim’s apartment but is unable to find or recognize it when the police arrive. Later in the film, he also initially overlooks another clue that causes him to discover a mouldering corpse walled up in a derelict house. In typical Argento fashion, one murder leads to a series of others as Daly’s obsession with this vital clue that he fails to understand endangers his life and that of everyone with whom he comes into contact.

The killing of Helga Ulmann is prefaced by a child’s doggerel tune, the same music that accompanies the film’s opening sequence in which two shadowy figures struggle until one of them is stabbed to death. The music serves as the murderer’s calling card. When Daly hears it in his own apartment soon after becoming involved in the case he is able to foil his attacker. Later, he plays the tune to Giordani, a psychiatrist, who theorizes that the music is important because it probably played an integral part in a traumatic event in the killer's past. The doctor’s theory is of course correct, as the identity of the killer is finally revealed as Carlo’s insane mother Martha (Clara Calamai). When Carlo was still a child, he watched as she murdered her husband when he tried to have her committed to a mental hospital, then entomb his body in a room of their house. Daly’s discovery of the corpse is one of the film’s most dramatic moments.

In the climax, Martha confronts Marcus and tries to kill him. Wielding a butchering knife, Martha chases him around the complex and into a room with an elevator. Marcus is stabbed in the shoulder by the knife, and kicks Martha toward the elevator shaft. A long necklace she wears catches in the bars of the shaft, and she is decapitated when Daly summons the lift. The film ends with Daly staring into the resultant pool of blood.

Bonus materials:

•Interviews with Co-Writer/Director Dario Argento, Co-Writer Bernardino Zapponi and Goblin (Claudio Simonetti, Massimo Morante, Fabio Pignatelli & Agostino Marangolo)

•U.S. Trailer

•Italian Trailer

•Goblin Music Video – "Profondo Rosso" (2010)

•Daemonia Music Video – "Profondo Rosso" (Directed by Sergio Stivaletti)

The Cable Guy is a 1996 comedy film directed by Ben Stiller and stars Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George Segal,Owen Wilson, Janeane Garofalo, Diane Baker and Ben Stiller. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is prepping the flick for a Blu-ray release on March 1, 2011.

The Cable Guy movie synopsis: A TV-obsessed cable installer, who gives his name as Ernie "Chip" Douglas (Jim Carrey), installs Steven Kovacs' (Matthew Broderick) cable television service after Steven moves out of the apartment he shared with his girlfriend Robin (Leslie Mann). After he illegally gives Steven free pay channels, Chip believes he and Steven have struck up a friendship. Chip takes Steven to a satellite dish and gives him advice about how to win back Robin. Chip tells Steven to invite Robin to his house to watch a movie with him. Steven does so and successfully invites Robin to his house. Chip begins to bombard Steven with calls but Steven does not respond to them. When Robin goes to Steven's house to watch the movie they find the cable has gone out. Chip reveals that he turned off the cable because Steven wasn't answering him. Chip turns on Steven's cable in exchange for him and Steven to hang out the next night.

Chip takes Steven to a Medieval Times restaurant and show where he arranges a fight between him and Steven. Chip appears to fight much more brutally than Steven. Steven however wins and the friendship between them strengthens. When they return home Steven finds that Chip has installed a full entertainment system into his house. Chip arranges a Karaoke party at Stevens' house. During the party Steven has sex with a woman named Heather whom he believes is one of Chip's customers; however, he finds out the next morning that the woman is actually a prostitute that Chip hired. Angered, Steven expels Chip from his life. Chip tries to make it up to Steven by getting Robin back with him. Chip beats up Robin's date (Owen Wilson) and is able to convince her to return to Steven. Chip tells Steven of what he has done but Steven tells Chip that he has no room in his life for another friend causing the latter man to snap. Chip resorts to stalking Steven and Robin to get the attention he feels he deserves.

First, Chip has the police arrest Steven at work for having possession of the stolen entertainment system, but Steven gets out on bail. The aftermath of this incident prompts Steven's close friend Rick Legatos (Jack Black), who has had a deep suspicion of Chip from the beginning, to look into Chip's background. Chip later threatens to blackmail Steven by showing Robin a picture he took of Steven with the prostitute while having dinner at Steven's parents house, but fails after Steven punches Chip in the face in front of everyone else in the house after Chip hints quietly in Steven's ear via playing a game called "Porno Password" that he has slept with Robin while he actually hasn't. The next day, Chip leaks a video of Steven with Robin with him insulting his boss to all of the computers at his office. Steven ends up getting fired as a result. After returning home, Rick calls Steven and tells him he found evidence of Chip's past. Rick says that Chip uses aliases from TV shows such as Bewitched to conceal his identity and has been previously fired from the cable company for stalking his customers. Rick insists that Steven should lock himself up in his house to avoid Chip at all costs. That night, Steven gets another phone call from Chip, who says he is going 'out' with Robin, but does not mention where.

Chip takes Robin up to the massive TV satellite transmitter where he often "hangs out," taking her hostage with a staple gun. Steven hears about Chip's whereabouts from Robin's neighbor. He drives up to the satellite and brawls with Chip, with Chip eventually getting the better of him. Chip then becomes remorseful, lamenting his inability to be a good friend to Steven. Chip then reveals that he was neglected by his mother as a child and that he was "raised" by television. While the much-publicized trial of an accused murderer and former child star (played by director Ben Stiller) is about to come to a conclusion, Chip ends up diving off of a part of the satellite's massive antenna and lands heavily on a smaller spire which is responsible for sending the signal to the nation's television sets, causing everybody's TV to blackout just before the trial's verdict is announced. Chip survives his fall, possibly damaging and injuring his back, and he calms down, separated from Steven and Robin. Soon after, Chip is carried away to a medical helicopter; before he boards, Chip apologizes to Steven for all that he has done to him. Steven forgives him and asks him what his real name is, to which Chip jokingly responds "Ricky Ricardo". As he is air-lifted to a hospital, a paramedic comforts him; Chip sees the paramedic as his new friend, and as the credits are about to roll, he flashes the camera a devious smile. This entire last scene is a parody of a very similar scene in the 1991 film Ricochet.

The 1999 British flick “Topsy-Turvy” heading home on both DVD and Blu-ray on March 29, 2011. The film is written and directed by Mike Leigh.

Full cast: Dorothy Atkinson as Jessie Bond, who plays Pitti-Sing, Brid Brennan as a mad beggar, Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert, Ron Cook as Richard D'Oyly Carte, owner of the Savoy Theater, Allan Corduner as Arthur Sullivan, Eleanor David as Fanny Ronalds, Sullivan's mistress, Dexter Fletcher as Louis, Sullivan's butler, Vincent Franklin as Rutland Barrington, who plays Pooh-Bah, Louise Gold as Rosina Brandram, who plays Katisha, Shirley Henderson as Leonora Braham, who plays Yum-Yum, Lesley Manville as Lucy "Kitty" Gilbert, Gilbert's wife, Kevin McKidd as Durward Lely, who plays Nanki-Poo, Naoko Mori as Miss "Sixpence Please", Wendy Nottingham as Helen Lenoir, Carte's indispensable assistant, Cathy Sara as Sybil Grey, who plays Peep-Bo, Martin Savage as George Grossmith, who plays Ko-Ko, Andy Serkis as John D'Auban, choreographer, Michael Simkins as Frederick Bovill, who plays Pish-Tush, Sukie Smith as Clothilde, Sullivan's maid and Timothy Spall as Richard Temple, who plays the Mikado.

Topsy-Turvy movie synopsis: On the opening night of Princess Ida at the Savoy Theatre in January 1884, composer Arthur Sullivan (Allan Corduner), who is ill from kidney disease, is barely able to make it to the theatre to conduct. He goes on a holiday to Continental Europe hoping that the rest will improve his health. While he is away, ticket sales and audiences at the Savoy Theatre wilt in the hot summer weather. Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte (Ron Cook) has called on the playwright, W. S. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent), and Sullivan to create a new piece for the Savoy, but it is not ready before Ida closes. Until a new piece can be prepared, Carte revives an earlier Gilbert and Sullivan work, The Sorcerer.

Gilbert's idea for their next opera features a transformative magic lozenge, which Sullivan feels is repetitive, since it is similar to the story of The Sorcerer, and mechanical, due to its reliance on a supernatural device. Sullivan, under pressure to write more serious music, says he longs for something that is "probable" and involves "human interest", and not dependent on magic. Gilbert sees nothing wrong with his libretto and refuses to write a new one, which results in a stand-off. The impasse is resolved after Gilbert and his wife visit a popular exhibition of Japanese arts and crafts in Knightsbridge, London. When the katana sword that he purchased there falls noisily off the wall of his study, he is inspired to write a libretto set in exotic Japan. Sullivan likes the idea and agrees to compose the music for it.

Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte work to make The Mikado a success, and many glimpses of rehearsals and stressful backstage preparations for the show follow: Cast members lunch together before negotiating their salaries. Gilbert brings in Japanese girls from the exhibition to teach the ladies' chorus how to walk and use fans in the Japanese manner. The principal cast react to the fittings of their costumes designed by the famous costumier C. Wilhelm. The entire cast object to the proposed cut of the title character's Act Two solo, "A more humane Mikado". The actors face first-night jitters in their dressing rooms. Finally The Mikado is ready to open. As usual, Gilbert is too nervous to watch the opening performance and paces the streets of London. Returning to the theatre, however, he finds that the new opera is a resounding success.