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Saturday 30th	Described by Fangoria magazine as "a zom-edy 48 Hrs meets Dawn Of The Dead", Dead And Deader, released by Starz Home Entertainment on 2nd July 2007, stars Dean Cain (Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) and Colleen Camp (Factory Girl; Running With Scissors). More details here. Director Kwak Kyung-taek's "pulse-accelerating thriller set in the headlines of today's volatile politics" (Film Review), Typhoon comes to DVD from Premier Asia on 20th August 2007as a two disc Special Edition packed with extras including cast interviews and behind the scenes featurettes. More details here.
Friday 29th	Rev up the General Lee for the 6th August 2007 DVD release of The Dukes Of Hazzard: The Beginning from Warner Home Video. This fun and sexy comedy features a cast of up and coming actors and is the prequel to the hit 2005 theatrical release starring Johnny Knoxville and Jessica Simpson. More details here. Continuing the eminent Cinema Reserve range, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, on behalf of MGM, is proud to present the classic films Midnight Cowboy, Some Like It Hot and The Magnificent Seven each as two-disc Collector Editions. These Cinema Reserve DVDs boast outstanding extras, superior sound and vision plus they are all beautifully packaged in an eye-catching steel book case. More details here.
Thursday 28th	The darkest days of World War II set the backdrop for this epic story about the turbulent life and death of Benito Mussolini (Bob Hoskins), Italy's fascist dictator known as II Duce. Liberation Entertainment will release Alberto Negrin's lavishly produced drama Mussolini And I on DVD on 6th August 2007. More details here. Johnny Test chronicles the adventures of an intrepid 11 year old boy, his genetically engineered super dog Dukey and his 13 year old super genius scientist twin sisters, Susan and Mary, who use Johnny as their guinea pig for their out-of-this-world scientific experiments. Catch 13 super cool episodes from the No.2 rated show on Cartoon Network as Liberation Entertainment release the Complete Series One on 2 Disc DVD from Johnny Test on 6th August 2007. More details here.
Friday 22nd	Released by Paramount Pictures on 9th July 2007 with a host of extras, Norbit, features Eddie Murphy in an array of characters in this uplifting and uproarious tale showing that nice guys do sometimes finish first. Golden Globe® Winner Eddie Murphy stars as the wonderfully unlucky Norbit, a mild mannered, geeky orphan raised by Mr Wong manager of Golden Wonton Restaurant and Orphanage in Boiling Springs. More details here. The Number 23 stars the brilliant Jim Carrey as Walter Sparrow, a man whose life spirals out of control when the chilling murders in a mysterious novel begin to parallel his own life, leading him into a dark world of uncontrollable paranoia. Having taken nearly Ł4 million at the UK box office, this fascinating psychological thriller is to be released by Entertainment In Video on rental and retail DVD on 23rd July 2007. More details here.
Thursday 21st	The list of alumni from American TV institution Saturday Night Live reads like a veritable who’s who of comedy, music & television from the past 30 years. According to the New York Times, Saturday Night Live is "still the most pervasive influence on the art of comedy in contemporary culture." Now, for the first time ever, the first season of Saturday Night Live is set to make its debut on DVD courtesy of Playback on 16th July 2007. More details here. Yvette Fielding and Paranormal Investigator David Mills travel up and down Britain in search of lost souls, as Most Haunted Live! Series 5 debuts on DVD from Contender Home Entertainment on 25th June 2007. Packed with the best bits from the hugely successful Most Haunted Live events this 4 disc edition also includes the behind-the-scenes show Access All Areas. More details here.
Wednesday 20th	Finding new life on DVD, The Addams Family Volume Two, released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on 2nd July 2007, delivers even more irreverently morbid antics from the family that turned the established formula for situational comedy on its ear and became a monster success during its 64-episode run. More details here. Hilary Swank (Academy Award winner ®; Best Actress - Million Dollar Baby, Best Actress- Boys Don’t Cry) leads a phenomenal cast of first-time actors in the emotionally stirring film Freedom Writers, released on DVD from Paramount Home Entertainment from 9th July 2007. More details here.
Tuesday 19th	A mother’s love knows no boundaries in Because I Said So, an irresistible comedy about the complex bond between mothers and daughters, coming to DVD on courtesy of Entertainment In Video in the wake of its Ł1 million UK box office gross. More details here. Playback is delighted to announce the release of the rootin’ tootin’, rip roaring, gun slinging cult TV classic Alias Smith and Jones. The hugely popular series was originally screened in the 1970s and attracted a legion of avid viewers. More details here.
Monday 18th	Sharply scripted and brilliantly acted, I Want Candy is a sexy Brit flick that will keep boys and girls laughing this summer. Released by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, this year’s funniest British comedy, I Want Candy arrives on DVD from 20th August 2007 packed with laugh-out-loud gags, hilarious extras and a sizzlingly sexy plot. More details here. From revolutionary anime director Yoshiaki Kawajiri, writer David Abramowitz, animation supervisor Kevin Eastman (co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and Manga Entertainment comes Highlander: Search For Vengeance, a brand new feature-length anime addition to the ever-popular Highlander phenomenon, released on DVD (Ł16.99) on 9th July 2007. More details here.
Wednesday 13th	Was Diane Arbus a brilliant innovator whose photographs captured the beauty in the most desperate of subjects? Or did her voyeuristic approach demean her subjects? A fascinating romantic drama, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, arrives on rental DVD on 9th July 2007 courtesy of Entertainment In Video. It will be released to buy on 23rd July 2007. More details here. Imagine living next door to Michael Caine and Jack Nicholson or buying your milk and daily papers from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards’ corner shop… well you can do just that in Stella Street – the comedy series of impersonations that inspired a generation of copycat programmes. Written and directed by Peter Richardson the first series, featuring 10 episodes will be released as a DVD premier courtesy of Playback on 18th June 2007. More details here.
Tuesday 12th	Critically acclaimed and eagerly awaited Alpha Dog is released on DVD on the 20th August 2007 courtesy of Icon Home Entertainment. Inspired by true events, Alpha Dog follows three fateful days when the lives of a group of Southern Californian teens suddenly dead-ended. More details here. The winner of numerous international film awards, including Best Film and Best Director at the Milan International Film Festival, director Ari Taub's critically acclaimed World War II epic, The Fallen, released on DVD (Ł12.99) by Scanbox Entertainment on 30th July 2007, is a war film with a difference, one that has already been hailed by Time Out as "remarkable", by LA Weekly as "excellent" and by New York's The Reeler as "even better than Saving Private Ryan". More details here.
Monday 11th	The 9th July 2007 sees 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment release Outlaw, a provocative, contemporary thriller, which explores the roots of people's shattered lives and reveals what happens when victims of violent crime seek justice and take the law into their own hands. More details here. Loosely based on an original manga by Bang Hak-gi and set during Korea's late Chosun Dynasty era, acclaimed Korean filmmaker Lee Myung-Se's innovative and visually impressive reinvention of martial arts genre conventions, Duelist, is a ravishingly shot and brilliantly choreographed tale of intrigue and romance now coming to DVD, courtesy of Premier Asia on 2nd July 2007. More details here.
Friday 8th	As of 4th June 2007, Optimum Releasing released three Poptastic 60s Musical Classics; John Boorman’s Catch Us If You Can, the Sixties version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Gonks Go Beat and the long-lost pop gem Pop Gear. More details here. Entertainment In Video is delighted to announce a 16thJuly 2007 rental DVD release date for Premonition. Having taken nearly Ł4 million at the UK box office, the title will also be available to buy as from 16th July. More details here.
Thursday 7th	Smashing the conventions of the cop drama, The Shield plays out in the brutal, morally ambiguous world of an LA police precinct. Featuring 13 gritty episodes of the award-winning series, Season Four is available to buy on DVD from 2nd July 2007, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. More details here. The hip teen queen Raven is back, as you have never seen her before, for more hilarious supernatural summer adventures in Disguise the Limit on Disney DVD from 2nd July 2007. The Disney Channel’s number one show in 2006, That’s So Raven, which stars Raven Symoné in the title role, is also the second most popular kids live action show in the UK. More details here.
Monday 4th	From former 60 Minutes producer Harry Moses comes the hit documentary Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? Released on retail DVD by Entertainment in Video on 4th June 2007, this rollicking adventure story documents 73-year-old Teri Horton’s 15-year war with the art world, lifts the veil on how art is really bought and sold in America and introduces audiences to one of the funniest, most profane and thoroughly unforgettable real-life characters ever seen on screen. More details here. Starring former soap TV pin-ups Jack Ryder and Jodi Albert, alongside rising British star Luke De Woolfson, Popcorn, released on DVD by Spark Pictures on 9th July 2007, is a sexy and salaciously funny teen comedy about getting the girl, losing the plot and the perils of taking relationship advice from the cinema screen. More details here.
Sunday 3rd	From the award-winning writer of Erin Brokovich comes Catch and Release, a bittersweet romantic comedy available to own on DVD and Blu-ray and to rent on DVD from 23rd July 2007, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. More details here. Entertainment in Video is delighted to announce an 18th June 2007 rental DVD release date and a 25th June 2007 retail DVD release date for fantasy thriller Blood & Chocolate, the unforgettable story of a young girl caught between two worlds - a human world by day and the life of a werewolf by night. More details here.