New Releases: Matchstick Men, music & anime: Updated complete downloadable R1 DVD DB & info lists

Warner Brothers will release Matchstick Men on February 24th. Typically,
there will be both a P&S (UPC 085392467624) and a widescreen (UPC
085392467723) version released. Both will feature Dolby 5.1 audio with the
widescreen sporting 2.35:1 anamorphic video. The extras were listed as;
Commentary with Director/Producer Ridley Scott, Writer Nicholas Griffin, and
Writer/Producer Ted Griffin. Both versions have a suggested retail price of
$27.95.

For basketball fans Warner Brothers has NBA Street Series: Ankle Breakers
and NBA Street Series: Dunks on February 10th with a list price of $19.95
each.

>From Columbia/TriStar there is some anime coming up. February 3rd will bring
the release of Cyborg 009 (Uncut), Cyborg 009: Battle Begins, Cyborg 009:
Good Vs. Evil and Cyborg 009: Battle Begins / Good Vs. Evil (2-Pack). All
are listed as having Dolby 5.1/DTS audio and anamorphic video.

Also on February 3rd is the cult classic and sequel Gods Must Be Crazy I &
II. They are listed as being presented in widescreen although anamorphic has
not been confirmed yet. The cost will be $29.95 for the pair.

Columbia has some old time television due out on February 3rd. Announced so
far are Good Times: The Complete 1st Season (2 discs $29.95), NewsRadio: 1st
And 2nd Season (3 discs $39.95), and What's Happening: 1st Season (3 discs
$29.95).

Rounding out Columbia's latest announcements for February 3rd are Sin and
Lucky Seven.

BBC will release Absolutely Fabulous: Series #5 on March 2nd for $29.98.

New Video has Mail Call: The Best Of Season 2 due out on January 27th with a
list price of $24.95.

Music Video Distributors has a number of new releases just announced.
December 16th will bring Doc Watson: Flatpicking With Doc, Greg Koch: Guitar
Gristle, Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Hold Onto Your Structure, Roxette:
Ballad & Pop Hits, Saxon: Live Innocence Video Anthology, Simple Minds and
Sinead O'connor: Live Year Of The Horse/Value Of Ignorance. Most have a
retail price of $29.95.

Coming on January 27th from Media Blasters are a few titles including; Birth
Of The Wizard (Eko Eko Azarak Movie 2), Faceless (Collector's Editon),
Figure 17 Vol. 3: Valiant Duet (Eps 6 & 7), Gunparade March: Operation
March, Gunparade March: Operation March (1-4), Majorettes, Strike Me Deadly
and Twelve Kingdoms Vol. 4: Reunion (Eps 15-18).

For those out there that are infatuated with trains Red Distribution has
World Class Trains: The Venice Simplon Orient Express, World Class Trains:
The Train Deluxe Rail Safari and World Class Trains: The South Orient
Express. All are due to be released on February 17th for a retail price of
$6.97.

The true story of the mob, Godfathers Collection: The True History Of The
Mafia, will be released by A&E on January 27th for $24.95.

Stop by for a complete downloadable information list of all region one DVDs
in several formats as well as daily changes. The official list now features
35,893 titles with 113 additions or changes and  232 Pre-Release
announcements. The All Titles list has 36,125 titles. Recent releases
include: Last Week 389, This Week  292 and Next Week 203 titles.

Preview Seabiscuit of Reviews of X2: X-Men United, Two Towers Extended,
Hulk, Indy Collection, Taken, Sopranos Season 4, Matrix Reloaded, Avril
Lavigne: My World, Scarface(1983), Scarface (1932), Smallville, In Cold
Blood, Kiss Symphony, Chicago and All That Jazz. Past film reviews include
Steve O Out on Bail, May, Bedford Incident, 12 Angry Men (1957), Them, Usual
Suspects and Gormenghast . Coming titles listed before all the specs are in
can be found in a new list, http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/pre-releases.htm

Updated lists for discontinued, cancelled, postponed and rescheduled titles
as well as lists for DTS, ES/EX and Superbit titles. UPC numbers and
original release dates now being added to the database. There is also a
greatly expanded list of titles that were rescheduled or reissued. Search
function for the database, (now including UPC search) complements of site
partner and friend, Michael's Movie Mayhem
(http://kazart.com/mec/DVDList2.html) and DVDLister.

Updates to the DVD database, including release specs usually made twice
daily.

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