Archive for April, 2007

DVD NEW RELEASES - Tuesday, May 1 »

ALPHA DOG – WIDESCREEN EDITION

Special Features:

A Cautionary Tale:·The Making of Alpha Dog

Witness Timeline · Get detailed information on each witness as the shocking events unfold

SHOWGIRLS – 2 DISC SHOWSTOPPER EDITION (Widescreen)

Special Features:

12 Never-Before-Seen Extended Musical Numbers

Music Video “Listen” by Beyonce Knowles

Dreamgirls Soundtrack Promo

Go Behind the Scenes with the Full-Length Documentary Building The Dream

Original Auditions […]

BEHIND THE SCENES TV: 7 minute Spiderman 3 Preview »

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SHORT TAKES »

New Line is remaking All of Me, the 1984 movie starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin. Created as a vehicle for Queen Latifah for this new remake, the plot updates the body switcheroo gimmick with Latifah as an outspoken female politician trapped inside the body of a conservative.  
Flush from the box-office success of Wild […]

THE NAKED DVD: BABEL »

The Naked DVD is a new, regular column that spotlights DVDs that have been stripped of any or all special features. Most often this is the first issued DVD of a given movie that usually contain the bare bones supplements such as a trailer and nothing else. Hence the term naked. Our goal here at Behind The Scenes […]

INTERVIEW: ‘Hot Fuzz’ director Edgar Wright »

The team behind the quickly-gaining-cult-status film Shaun of the Dead follows up their success with a new film called Hot Fuzz. Just released in the US, it has already been doing robust business in the UK. The director, Edgar Wright, hails from a music video and British episodic TV background. According to Wright, the idea […]

Writer-Director David Goyer fades into the background with ‘The Invisible’ »

David Goyer is best known as the screenwriter of the Blade series of movies and Batman Begins. His initial foray into directing was ZigZag, an independent movie about an autistic teenager that went nowhere theatrically.  His freshman duties found him helming Blade: Trinity, the third movie in the Blade series. Now he returns to the director […]

Tony Scott develops movie project of ex-movie agent turned war documentarian »

 
 Pat Dollard (center)
A few months ago I read an article in Vanity Fair’s March Hollywood issue by Evan Wright. It chronicled the rise, fall and rebirth of a CAA movie agent named Pat Dollard. Before his meltdown in the high stakes racket that is celebrity mongering, Dollard represented Steve Soderbergh and orchestrated the deals that landed Soderbergh Traffic. Grappling […]

INTERVIEW: Writer-Director Jonathan Kasdan arrives with ‘In The Land of Women’ »

Director Jon Kasdan (left) with Adam Brody on the set of “In the Land of Women”.
Photo by Liane Hentscher and courtesy of Warner Bros.
Following on the heels of his father Lawrence Kasdan and brother Jake Kasdan, Jonathan Kasdan arrives with his feature directing debut called In The Land of Women. Shot on a US$10 million […]

BEHIND THE SCENES TV: A Day in the Life of Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki from the TV Series ‘Supernatural’ »

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DVD NEW RELEASES - Tuesday, April 24 »

CODE NAME: THE CLEANER
   
Special Features: 
“Moppin’ Up with the Cleaning Crew” Featurette 

DÉJÀ VU

Special Features:

The Surveillance Window - Go back in time and experience behind-the-scenes moments with the filmmakers

The Ferry Explosion

Stunts: Ferry

Filming in
New Orleans

Split-Time Car Chase

And Lots More

Deleted and Extended Scenes

HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS (SPECIAL EDITION)

Special Features:

Feature Commentary with Director William Dear

Deleted Scenes

Harry… […]