Entertainment > Movies / TV DVD Releases: Week of May 16th Posted by R. Flagg on May 16, 2006, 14:58

Notable Releases

The Producers (2005)

Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

• Commentary by director Susan Stroman

• Deleted Scenes with New Musical Numbers

• Outtakes featuring Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Will Ferrell and Uma Thurman

• Anatomy of a Scene: I Wanna Be A Producer

• Behind the Scenes Footage

The Ringer

Best Price: $15.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

• Commentary by director Barry W. Blaustein, screenwriter Ricky Blitt, producer Peter Farrelly and actors Johnny Knoxville, Edward Barbanell and John Taylor

• 16 deleted scenes

• Let the Games Begin: A Look at The Ringer

• A message from Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver

• Special Olympics featurette

Napoleon Dynamite (Like, The Best Special Edition Ever!)

Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

• Commentary by Director/Co-Writer Jared Hess, Actor Jon Heder and Producer Jeremy Coon

• All-New Cast Commentary by Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries and Tina Majorino

• Deleted Scenes with Commentary by Director/Co-Writer Jared Hess, Actor Jon Heder and Producer Jeremy Coon

• All-New Outtakes and Additional Extended/Alternate Scenes

• Sweet Jumps: Napoleon on the Bike Outtakes

• Chugger: Alternate Scenes of Chugging Sports Drink

• Raw Interstitial Tapes From Shoot/Outtakes

• The Wedding of the Century!: Making-of

• Behind-the-Scenes

• World Premiere: Jared Hess - A Nonlinear Look at the Director of Napoleon Dynamite

• On Location: Napoleon Dynamite - All-New Documentary

• Never-Before-Seen Audition Clips

• Still Gallery

• Trailer

• Peluca: Original Short Film w/optional Commentary by Director/Writer Jared Hess, Actor Jon Heder and Producer Jeremy Coon

• Lord of the Dance: Freestyle Dance of Napoleon Filmed During Peluca

• Napoleon & Pedro Sightings

• MTV On-Air Promos and Outtakes

• ESPN Clip: 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee Clip

• Clips from TRL

• Clips from MTV Movie Awards

• Opening of SNL with Jon Heder

• Cartoon Network - Napoleon Bonomite

• 2004 Teen Choice Awards - ND & Nicole Richie Play Tetherball

• 2005 Teen Choice Awards - Hissy Fit Award

Hill Street Blues: The Complete Second Season

Best Price: $26.99 @ Best Buy

The Features:

• Commentary by Actors Charles Haid, Bruce Weitz and Dennis Dugan on "The World According to Freedom"

• Commentary by Executive Story Consultant/ Writer Robert Crais on "Freedom's Last Stand"

• Gag Reel

• Gregory Hoblit: The Hill Street Blues Story

• Belker Unleashed

• Confessions of Captain Freedom

• A Cowboy on the Hill

Grounded For Life: The Complete Second Season

Best Price: $19.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

• Bloopers

• Season Two Highlights

• From Ashes To Ashton: An Interview with Ashton Kutcher

• He Ain't Eddie, He's My Brother: A Brand New Interview with Kevin Corrigan

• Sibling Revelry: Interviews with Jake Burbage (Henry) and Griffin Frazen (Jimmy)

That Girl: The Complete First Season

Best Price: $23.93 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

• Original That Girl pilot episode

• Commentary by Marlo Thomas and co-creator Bill Persky on 4 episodes

• That Show…That Woman…That Creation of That Girl

• That Girl In New York: outtakes, raw footage and other clips, narrated by Marlo Thomas and co-creator Bill Persky

• That Girl Promos

New Police Story

Synopsis:

Inspector Wing of the Hong Kong Police Force has become the victim of a gang, led by the evil Joe. When his entire team is killed, Wing becomes a hapless drunk, feeling guilty for the deaths of his team. It is up to a young rookie officer to get Wing back on his feet and begin an adventure to get revenge on the evil Joe and his Gang of Five, especially when it becomes personal.

Best Price: $16.72 @ DeepDiscountDVD.com

The Features:

• New Jackie Chan Introduction

• Select Scene Commentary with Jackie Chan

• I Hate English: Dubbing with Jackie Chan

• Making of New Police Story

• Trailers

The White Countess

Synopsis:

In this final collaboration between legendary producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, China provides the backdrop for this drama of exile, longing and love's triumph over adversity, written by the prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro.

The White Countess takes place in the glamorous, corrupt and boomtown atmosphere of 30s Shanghai that is soon to be swept away by advancing Japanese armies and civil war. At its center is the blind American diplomat Todd Jackson played by Ralph Fiennes and Sofia Belinskaya played by Natasha Richardson, a refuge Russian aristocrat making a living in a taxi dancehall and as an occasional prostitute. Jackson, aided by his mysterious Japanese friend, the spy Matsuda (Hiroyuki Sanada), opens a successful nightclub and installs the countess Sofia as its centerpiece.

In the spectacular mass exodus from the city which is the climax of the film, Sofia is abandoned by her in laws, played by the Redgrave sisters, Vanessa and Lynn, who secretly try to flee with Sofia's small daughter, Katya.

Best Price: $19.86 @ DVDPlanet.com

The Features:

• Commentary with Director James Ivory and Natasha Richardson

• Behind The Scenes of The White Countess

• Making of The White Countess

• A Tribute to Ismail Merchant

Other Releases

71 Fragments Of A Chronology Of Chance

American Soldiers

Arms And The Man

Bad Things Gone Worse

Beach Girls

Beer: The Movie

Best Of The Beat Club, Vol. 1

Best Of The Beat Club, Vol. 2

Beverly Kills

The Big Valley: The Complete First Season

Blondie: Live 1978

Chick Corea's Akoustic Band

Chick Corea's Origin

Cliff Richard: In The Beginning

Con Air (Unrated Extended Edition)

Crimson Tide (Unrated Extended Edition)

The Culture Club: Live in Sydney

The Devil's Disciple

Doogal

Duma

Enemy Of The State (Unrated Extended Edition)

Even Trade

Everytime We Say Goodbye

False Prophets

Franchesca Page

The George Bernard Shaw Collection

Grand Opening

Heartbreak House

Here Come the Brides: The Complete First Season

Home Movies: Season Four

Mike Oldfield: Live At Montreux 1981

The Millionairess

Monarch Of The Glen: Series Four

Mrs. Warren's Profession

My Mother's Smile

National Geographic: Is It Real? Da Vinci's Code

The Number One Girl

The Osmonds: Live

Pygmalion (1973)

Scott Of The Antarctic

The Seventh Continent

Shooting Livien

Side Effects

The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

The Six Wives Of Henry VIII/Elizabeth R

Something New

Stiff Little Fingers: Handheld And Rigidly Digital

Supernanny: Season 1

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Series 3, Vol. 7: Hun On The Run

These Girls

Thin Lizzy: Live And Dangerous

Tiger Heart

Treasure Of The Yankee Zephyr

Vanilla

Walt Disney's It's A Small World Of Fun, Vol. 1

Walt Disney's It's A Small World Of Fun, Vol. 2

Winter Passing

World War II: Why We Fight

Writer of O

Notable Horror & Sci-Fi Releases

When a Stranger Calls (2006)

Best Price: $14.99 @ Circuit City

The Features:

• Director and Cast Commentary

• Writer's Commentary

• Deleted Scenes

• The Making Of When A Stranger Calls

Other Horror & Sci-Fi Releases

Benny's Video

Career Bed/Sex By Advertisement

Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch

Frightmare (1975)

Funny Games

Love Ghost

Murder Rock

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 9 (Women of the Prehistoric Planet/Wild Rebels/The Sinister Urge/The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies)

One Missed Call 2

Slaughterhouse Phi: Death Sisters

Wrong Rut/Birthright

Anime Releases

Dragonball Z: Ultimate Sacrifice

Fafner: Next Evolution - Volume 6

Godannar: International Affairs - Volume 5

Kaleido Star New Wings: The Better Angels Of Our Nature - Volume 3

Ranma 1/2 Movie Box Set

Circuit City Weekly Deals

$5.99:

Belly (Special Edition)

Dune (Director's Cut Special Edition)

First Blood (Ultimate Edition)

King Of New York (Special Edition)

Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut)

Reservoir Dogs (Special Anniversary Edition)

Stephen King's Rose Red (2-Disc Deluxe Edition)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (2-Disc Extreme Edition)

Van Wilder (2-Disc Unrated)

Bluehill Avenue

Cabin Fever

The General's Daughter

Jet Li: The Legend

The Ninth Gate

State Property

SNL: Best Of Will Ferrell

$9.99:

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (Unrated Special Edition)

The Guns Of Navarone (Special Edition)

The Legend Of Zorro (Special Edition)

Legends Of The Fall (Deluxe Edition)

The Mask Of Zorro (Deluxe Edition)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)

Philadelphia (2-Disc Anniversary Edition)

A River Runs Through It (Deluxe Edition)

Stealth (2-Disc Special Edition)

The Caine Mutiny

The Silence Of The Lambs

Spider-Man/Spider-Man 2

Target Weekly Deals

$10:

Robin Hood: Price Of Thieves (2-Disc Special Extended Edition)

Stand By Me (Deluxe Edition)

True Romance (2-Disc Unrated Director's Cut)