Warner Home Video have announced that Pacific Rim will be released on DVD, Blu-ray, and 3D Blu-ray on October 15.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro (Blade II, Pan’s Labyrinth), and based on a script by del Toro and Travis Beacham, the sci-fi movie stars Charlie Hunnam (Sons Of Anarchy) and Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) as co-pilots of a giant mech who must fight similarly large monsters from another dimension. Which basically makes it Transformers vs. Godzilla.
Warner Brothers Pictures have released a new trailer for the upcoming movie Gravity.
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Children Of Men), who co-wrote the film with his son Jonás, the space thriller stars Sandra Bullock as an doctor on her first shuttle mission, and George Clooney as a veteran astronaut commanding a shuttle mission for the first time. But when debris from a destroy satelite destroys the shuttle, the two are stranded with limited air and have to figure out a way to survive.
Paramount Home Video have announced that they’ll release The Jack Ryan Collection — a boxed set that will include the movies The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games, Clear And Present Danger, and The Sum Of All Fears — on December 3.
Besides the four films, all of which feature the titular character from the Tom Clancy novels, both the DVD and Blu-ray versions of this boxed set will include the original trailers, as well as some film-specific extras.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced that White House Down will be released on DVD and in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack on November 5.
Directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day), this action flick stars Channing Tatum as a Washington D.C. cop who has to save the President, played by Jamie Foxx, when a paramility group storms the White House.
Paramount Home Video have announced that — in anticipation of the sequel, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, coming to theaters on December 20 — a two-disc special edition of Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy will be released on Blu-ray on December 3.
Freddy and Jason are teaming up again, but no, not in another movie.
NECA have announced that they’ll release a pair of retro-style action figures for Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare On Elm Street movies and Jason Voorhees from the Friday The 13th flicks.
Both the Freddy and Jason figures will be 8-inches tall, and will have clothing that’s actually made of fabric, just like similar toys were back in the 1970s.
Toy makers Funko and Super7 have announced that they will collaborate on a series of toys dubbed ReAction Figures, which they’ll launch in late November with a series of retro-style Alien action figures.
Originally revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, these 3 ¾-inch tall Alien toys are supposedly based on designs for ones that were originally designed when the movie came out in 1979, but were never manufactured, and will even come in vintage-looking packaging.
The series includes the titular star, who has a removable transparent dome, a glow-in-the-dark head, and extendable jaws; Ripley and Dallas, both of whom come with flame throwers; Ash, who has the motion detector; and Kane, who’s in his space suit, which has a removable helmet.
All of the Alien figures will have 4 points of articulation. Or maybe 5. It’s hard to tell from the pictures if their heads move.
According to the press release, Alien figures are just the first of “several licenses to be announced soon.”
No pricing has been announced yet, and the figures aren’t yet available for preordering on Amazon, Funko’s website, or Super7’s, but we’d assume they’ll cost more in November of 2013 than they would’ve in November 1979.
Scream Factory have announced that the undead British comedy Cockneys Vs. Zombies will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 3.
Written by James Moran (Torchwood) and directed by Matthias Hoene (Beyond The Rave), Cockneys Vs. Zombies — which has a bunch of retirees joining with some damn kids to save their homes from both developers and the living-impaired — stars Michelle Ryan (Bionic Woman), Honor Blackman (Goldfinger), and Alan Ford (Snatch).
Warner Home Video have announced that an extended version of Argo will be released on December 3.
The longer version of the film will include nine additional minutes that, according to the announcement, “delve deeper into CIA specialist Tony Mendezs personal relationships with his wife and son.”
In addition, the Argo: Extended Edition will also include some previously unavailable extras.