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DVD/BLU-RAY NEWS: FUNimation’s October/November Anime Releases

FUNimation have announced their upcoming anime releases for both October and November.

The company will kick off October on the first with a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack of  Sankarea: Complete Series. While the limited edition version will be $69.98, a regular one will be $64.98.

The following week sees a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack of We Without Wings: Season One. Again, FUNimation are issuing two versions: a regular one for $59.98 and a limited editon for $64.98.

Then, on October 15, they’ll release a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack of Eureka Seven AO: Part 2 ($64.98) and a DVD of One Piece: Season 5: Voyage Three ($39.98).

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October 22 brings a a DVD/Blu-ray combo packs of the movies Blood-C: The Last Dark ($34.98) and Sakura Wars ($34.98), while the movie Tales Of Vesperia: First Strike ($24.98) will be released on a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack on October 29.

Moving to November, FUNimation kicks off the month on the 5th with Hetalia: World Series Complete Series on DVD ($44.98).

This will be followed on the 12th by the classic anime Akira ($34.98), which will include all three of the English soundtracks made since the film first came to the U.S. in 1989. It will be released on both DVD ($24.98) and in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($34.98).

That same day also sees the release of Maken-Ki: Complete Series as both a regular edition of the DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($64.98) and a limited edition version ($69.98), as well as the movie Wolf Children on DVD ($29.98) and in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($34.98).

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Finally, on October 19, FUNimation will relase Good Luck Girl!: Complete Series as both a regular edition of the DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($64.98) and a limited edition $69.98), as well as One Piece: Strong World on both DVD ($29.98) and in a DVD/Blu-ray combo pack ($34.98).

For more information on these or other anime from FUNimation, please visit their website.

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GAME NEWS: Star Wars Pinball: Balance Of The Force Announced

Zen Studios and LucasArts have announced that Star Wars Pinball: Balance Of The Force — the second collection of Star Wars pinball tables — will be available this fall.

The collection will consist of three tables, all of which are based on the original trilogy.

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DVD/BLU-RAY NEWS: Pacific Rim Announced

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 IIPan’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.

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MOVIE NEWS: New Gravity Trailer Released

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.

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DVD/BLU-RAY NEWS: The Jack Ryan Collection Announced

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 OctoberPatriot GamesClear 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.

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DVD/BLU-RAY NEWS: White House Down Announced

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.

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BLU-RAY NEWS: Special Edition Of Anchorman Announced

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.

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TOY NEWS: Retro Freddy And Jason Action Figures Announced

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.

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TOY NEWS: Funko & Super7 Announce Parnership & Alien Toys

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.

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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.