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Get ready for the first ever-downloadable interactive entertainment channel with Universal Pictures information service Cool Night In, a completely new and exciting initiative that will give you exclusive access to the latest movie trailers, music, games, competitions and the hottest Hollywood gossip.

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Say what you will about his slapstick and perfectly timed scatological jokes, but Mel Brooks has easily cemented his fate as the "Sultan of Spoofs." With a trophy case worthy of envy (he’s won Emmys, Tonys, Grammys and Oscars), Brooks has secured himself a place at an elite table alongside such greats as Marvin Hamlisch, Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg and Liza Minnelli as the select handful of artists to win an award for each of the media they’ve tried their hand at.

Now with MGM Home Entertainment Limited releasing the special edition DVD of Spaceballs : Spoof Edition read all about Mel Brooks here.


Production Notes

What Jake Vig doesn’t know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of his crew –Gordo, Miles and Big Al – and two corrupt LAPD officers – Lloyd Whitworth and Omar Manzano. But as Jake soon learns, Lionel wasn’t just any mark, he was an accountant for eccentric crime boss Winston King. 

With its A-list Hollywood cast that includes Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman, Ed Burns, Rachel Weisz and Andy Garcia, stylish and clever script and deft direction by James Foley, Confidence is released by Momentum Pictures.

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.

He is a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney who has everything. She is the devastatingly beautiful soon to be ex-wife of a philandering millionaire... and they can’t keep their hands off each other's assets. Intolerable Cruelty, is the latest film directed by the infamous Coen Brothers and stars an A-list cast including George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush and Billy Bob Thornton.

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.

In the nation of Libria, there is always peace among men. The rules of the Librian system are simple. If you are happy, you will be arrested. If you cry, the law will hunt you down. If you read a contraband book or so much as look at a smuggled painting, you’ve committed a criminal sin, skip your enforced medicine and your life will be over. This is the shocking futuristic world of Momentum Pictures' razor-sharp action-thriller Equilibrium set in a future where emotion has been banned as the very root of crime and war.

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.

Turn on the ignition key and rev up the engines for an adrenaline-pumping non-stop speed fest in the action packed 2 Fast 2 Furious from Universal Pictures Video UK. It begins with a jolt. A sudden jerk to the body, which constricts with the most primal reaction to what it senses as coming disaster. The rest of the senses quickly follow suit, springing to attention and kicking into overdrive.

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.

The Ring is the film that will make you think twice about any unmarked videotapes in your collection! Available to own on DVD and Video the critically acclaimed psychological thriller that kept cinema audiences on the edge of their seats is released by DreamWorks Home Entertainment.

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.
Don your glad rags and prepare to loose control when Jackie Chan gets behind the wheel in Dreamworks Home Entertainment action comedy The Tuxedo, making its bow on DVD and Video. This side-splitting film about a fast-driving chauffeur who unwittingly becomes a secret agent when he puts on a state-of-the-art tuxedo, showcases Chan doing the kind of moves that have delighted his fans for years.

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.

Catch Me If You CanAcademy award®-winning director Steven Spielberg teams up with Oscar® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio and two-time Academy award®-winner Tom Hanks in one of the year’s most acclaimed hits in DreamWorks’ Catch Me If You Can. Inspired by the outrageous-but-true life story of a brilliant young con artist and the FBI agent on this trail, DiCaprio and Hanks star in an intriguing game of cat-and-mouse, deception and impersonation.

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.

Blue CrushFrom the director of Crazy/Beautiful, John Stockwell, Blue Crush features some astonishing photography that actually takes you into the gigantic waves. The film also provides a showcase for a hugely talented cast including Kate Bosworth (Rules of Attraction, Remember The Titans, Wonderland), Michelle Rodriguez (Resident Evil, The Fast and the Furious, Girlfight) and Matthew Davis (Legally Blonde, Below, Tigerland), with surfing star Sanoe Lake making her feature film debut.

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.

The Bourne IdentityDaredevil stunts, eye-popping special effects and a generous share of thrilling action makes The Bourne Identity the ultimate spy thriller of the year. Based on Robert Ludlum’s hugely successful trio of conspiracy novels, director Doug Liman (Swingers, Go) delivers a superior spy thriller with a series of gripping espionage thrills including flashy fight scenes, the best Mini action since The Italian Job and an explosive love story to match.

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.

The GuruBollywood meets Hollywood in this pairing of comedic screen siren Heather Graham of Austin Powers II: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Jimi Mistry, who made his mark in the highly acclaimed East is East. 

From the producers of such hits as Four Weddings and A Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary and About A Boy, The Guru is a romantic comedy that spins the genre formula inside out. Although the story was initially conceived by executive producer Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth) and director Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl), it was the zany mastery of screenwriter Tracey Jackson who developed the script into an original, offbeat romp of mishap-laden love. 

Read the production notes here and read the DVD review here.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), the controversial cult horror movie about a cross-dressing, chainsaw-wielding serial killer and his sordid inbred cannibal family the Sawyers.

This Special Edition version of the cult horror classic marries brand new footage with the highly authoritative 72-minute documentary on TCM titled The Shocking Truth, which is the most definitive exploration of TCM to date. To accompany this fascinating documentary, director and cast interviews are included on the DVD, along with a 16-page collectors booklet and a free US original theatrical poster. Presented in premium packaging, this is the most comprehensive TCM offering ever made available to the UK public.

Read the background notes here and read the DVD review here.

TakenOver the past 50 years, a popular mythos has emerged about visitors from outer space abducting human beings. The subject has inspired books, magazines, movies, television shows, radio shows and internet websites, all devoted to the study and exploration of the experiences of those who say they have been taken.

None of these, however, has offered the epic scale and compelling narrative of Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, an unprecedented 10-night miniseries produced by DreamWorks for the Sci-Fi Channel. As it traces the lives of three families, each intimately connected with the alien abduction phenomenon over the course of more than 50 years, Taken combines a half-century of alien mythology with the stories of the ordinary - and extraordinary – people on the front lines of man's contact with other worlds.

Read the production notes here and read some conspiracy theories here.

Saved!These days, fans know everything about their favourite stars – nothing is sacred, it seems, not even something as personal as their religion. And celebrities wield such influence that they can give their individual beliefs – whatever that belief system might be – almost as much publicity as they receive themselves, especially if they are open about them.

Read about the celebrities and their religion, including Madonna, Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson here and read the Saved! DVD review here.

Saved!Get Shorty, now out on special edition DVD from MGM Home Entertainment, is the hilarious 1995 dark comedy starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito. Travolta’s lead character Chili Palmer is a mobster who treks from Miami to Hollywood to collect on an outstanding debt, and in the process, he switches gears and ends up fulfilling a life-long dream of being a bigwig movie producer.

In the spirit of Danny DeVito’s Get Shorty character Martin Weir, click here to read a not-so-all-inclusive list of superlative "shorts" in the entertainment industry, followed by a list of the best movies about movie making to ever grace the silver screen.


Interviews

From the mind of Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel comes the unique vision of the future, Serenity. This smart, action-packed adventure takes you on an edge-of-your-seat journey loaded with explosive battles, gripping special effects and fantastic new worlds! Serenity, a phenomenon hailed by critics as original and superb is available to own and rent on DVD and UMD from 27th February 2006, courtesy of Universal Pictures.

Read the interview with Joss Whedon here plus the interview with Joss Whedon and Nathan Fillion and Morena Baccarin here.

Acclaimed film maker Martin Scorsese’s stunning homage to his hometown, New York, New York, starring Academy Award winners Robert De Niro and Liza Minnelli, is now available to buy for the first time on Special Edition DVD from MGM Home Entertainment Limited.

This quintessential film about the New York jazz scene of the 1940’s, which features an unforgettable sound track and introduces the world-famous title song New York, New York written by John Kander and Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret), is available in its extended version on a two disc DVD with over 3 hours of bonus materials. Read the interview with cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs here.

Directed by Jay Roach, Meet the Fockers took £28m at the UK Box Office. It features an outstanding Hollywood cast including Ben Stiller (Dodgeball, There’s Something About Mary) and Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro (Sharktale, Casino, Godfather Part II), Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man, Wag the Dog, The Graduate) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl, The Prince of Tides). Blythe Danner and Teri Polo also reprise their Meet the Parents roles.

Read the interview director Jay Roach, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro and Blythe Danner here.

From the studio that brought you the Academy Award®-winning Shrek comes the $300 million worldwide smash hit Shark Tale from DreamWorks Home Entertainment.

Buoyed by the most incredible cast ever assembled for an animated movie and an unique hip-hop soundtrack, Shark Tale opened atop the U.K and Ireland box-office charts "reeling in" more than £7.5 million – placing the fish story’s opening weekend second only to the record-shattering Shrek 2 in DreamWorks’ record books and making it one of the year’s top 10 best debut weekends. Shark Tale swam on to retain the top spot of the charts for three weeks running and has taken a fantastic £22,800,000 to date.

Read the interview with Will Smith and Angelina Jolie here.

Why just fly when you can soar with soul? Announcing the arrival of the first airline with soul is the outrageously funny comedy, Soul Plane from MGM Home Entertainment Limited.

With a quality soundtrack and bursting with hysterical comedy performances from an array of stars such as Snoop Dogg, Tom Arnold, Kevin Hart, Method Man, Loni Love, Mo’nique And Sofi Vergara, Soul Plane is a must-see for any hip-hop movie fan.

Read the interview with Snoop Dogg here.

Delivering wall-to-wall, edge-of-your-seat excitement from the first scene to the last, Matt Damon is back as expert assassin Jason Bourne in the smart, action-packed hit The Bourne Supremacy, out to own and rent on DVD and VHS on 24th January 2005 from Universal Pictures UK

Read the interview with director Paul Greengrass and stars Matt Damon and Franka Potente here and read the DVD review here.

Read the interview with Richard Gere (Edward Sumner), Diane Lane (Connie Sumner) and director about Adrian Lyne the characters and filming Unfaithful.

Read the interview here and read the DVD review here.

They're back. They've grown up. They're even getting married. Get ready for one wedding celebration where it is not just the bride who will be blushing, with the long awaited Universal Pictures Video rental and retail release of American Pie - The Wedding. Featuring 25 minutes of never seen before footage of Jim's must-be-seen-to-be-believed outrageous bachelor party that was too raunchy to be shown in cinemas!

Read the cast Interviews here and read the DVD review here.

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