DVD Cool News #189

August 3rd 2007, 12:00am

The Latest
Announcements

The Whole Bloody Affair – December 25

THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR will be used to describe a scene in SUPERBAD when it comes out. Trust me on this. I suppose we knew this was coming but it’s been so long since we heard rumors I completely forgot about it. Nothing as far as extras and shit have been discussed but the below pic is from Amazon.com and apparently it was taken at the San Diego Comic Con. If you guys have any details, please update me.

Hostel II/Hostel (DC) – October 23

These both might be worth getting for the Tarantino commentaries alone. I don’t know, HOSTEL was fine with me, the second, not so much. I’m personally over the torture angle but if people are buying it, why not keep cranking them out? Saying that, these both are pretty stacked DVDs. Cover art to come soon.

Hostel II specs:

4 Featurettes
- “Hostel Part II: The Next Level” Behind the Scenes
- “The Art of KNB Effects”
- Set Design
- International Television Special
Blood and Guts Montage
Deleted Scenes
Director’s Commentary with Eli Roth
Director and Producers’ Commentary with Gabriel Roth and Quentin Tarantino
Cast and Crew Commentary with Eli Roth, Lauren German, Richard Burgi and Vera Jordanova
Elvis Mitchell of “The Treatment” Interview with Eli Roth
Factory Torture Cams*

Hostel Director’s Cut specs:

Director and Executive Producers’ Commentary with Roth, Tarantino, Boaz Yakin and Scott Spiegel
Director and Guests’ Commentary with Roth, actors Barbara Nedeljakova and Eythor Gudjonsson, editor George Folsey, Jr. and journalist Harry Knowles
Director and Producers’ Commentary with Roth, producer Chris Biggs and documentarian Gabriel Roth
Director’s Commentary with Roth
Five new featurettes:
- Music and Sound – Composer Nathan Barr takes us inside his studio and shows viewers his different instruments and how they were used for the film
- Set Design – A tour of conceptual drawings and sets used to create the film’s unsettling backdrop
- KNB Effects – The KNB EFX Group discusses the films horrific visual effects
- An Icelandic Meal with Actor Eythor Gudjonsson – Gudjonsson (Hostel) shares a bit of the Icelandic culture while enjoying one of the nation’s peculiar delicacies
- Takashi Miike Interview – An interview with noted film director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Audition) who makes an appearance in the film
“Hostel Dismembered” – International TV special
“The Treatment” – KCRW radio interview with Roth by Elvis Mitchell
“Kill The Car” multi-angle featurette
“Hostel Dissected” – A three part behind-the-scenes featurette
Ten deleted scenes
Four photo galleries hand-picked by Roth
Option to choose between the theatrical or Director’s Cut endings

“Tell me if this tickles.”

Bram Stoker’s Dracula – October 2

I love this cover. It reminds me of the first time I saw my parents making my little brother; complete with a creepy guy in a mask behind me and all. If you’ve listened to any of THE GODFATHER Coppola commentaries, the man gives out detail to every last detail. He also likes to put his family in his movies, so I wonder how many of them are running around in here.

Includes:

Francis Ford Coppola Video Intro
Director’s Audio Commentary
The Blood is the Life – The Making of Dracula
The Costumes Are the Sets – The Design of Eiko Ishioka
In-Camera – The Naïve Visual Effects of Dracula
Method and Madness – Visualizing Dracula
Deleted Scenes
Trailer for Francis Ford Coppola’s new theatrical film Youth Without Youth

Blade Runner: The Final Cut – December 18

Jim Law caught a lot of cool shit at the BLADE RUNNER panel (read his coverage HERE), with the man himself Ridley Scott in attendance. Bitchin’. If I listed all the extras on each disc, you’d be able to print this page out and use it for toilet paper. Wouldn’t surprise me if some of you are already doing that. Our friends at DVDTimes have broken it down nicely by each disc (read that HERE). For now, enjoy the goodness of the artwork.

Got a DVD scoop? DVD Cover Art? Are you a DVD industry insider with inside information from the…..er, inside?

Send me an email at [email protected] to get the word

out.

CLICK
HERE FOR OUR LIST OF UPCOMING DVD RELEASE DATES AND
COVERS