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Ninjas, Dogs, Sponges and Monsters Hit Home
From an anime favorite to popular TV shows to a big-screen EFX chiller, there are plenty of animation titles to add to your collection in today’s batch of home video releases. We start off the list with Ninja Scroll 10th Anniversary Edition. This digitally remastered DVD release of Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s [...]
Pioneer Becomes Geneon
On Oct. 1, Tokyo-based advertising giant Dentsu will acquire a majority of the outstanding shares of anime distributor Pioneer Ent. (USA) and its sister company Pioneer LDC. Both companies will fall under the new name Geneon–derived from "generate" and "eon." Long Beach, California-based Pioneer Ent. has been the premier provider [...]
Disney Releases New Lion King Soundtrack
The Lion King Special Edition DVD doesn’t hit retail until Oct. 7, but fans can start singing along with a new song by Elton John next week as a new version of the soundtrack drops on Sept. 30. This diamond-certified platinum soundtrack has sold over 10 million copies and will [...]
Nelvana Home Entertainment Launched
Corus Ent. Inc. has created a new home entertainment division for its production, distribution and consumer products subsidiary, Nelvana Ltd. Nelvana is the animation company behind such popular properties as Beyblade, Babar and Franklin. The newly minted Nelvana Home Entertainment will tap Nelvana’s library of more than 2,400 titles to [...]
Solid Sales for Sleeping Beauty, Family Guy
Animation is not just tops at the box office this summer, it’s also eating up the home video sales charts as Disney’s 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty and Twentieth Century Fox Television’s Family Guy: Vol. 2 fly off shelves. Nielsen Videoscan has Sleeping Beauty Collector’s Edition on top of the DVD [...]
Yu-Gi-Oh!, Holy Grail Quest to Video Shelves
Today’s batch of home video releases offers another round of episodes from a popular anime TV series and a special collector’s edition of one of the most quoted comedies of all time. The younger set can revisit animated adventures with Yu-Gi-Oh!: Match of the Millennium Part 2, while Monty Python [...]
Grave of the Fireflies Makes Top 100 DVD List
The movie Roger Ebert raves “Belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made” has landed a spot in the top portion of another list. Central Park announced that the Collector’s Series edition of anime favorite Grave of the Fireflies came in at No. 5 on DVD Verdict’s [...]
Pow! New Stan Lee Book On Shelves
The new book Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book, co-written by Jordan Raphael and Tom Spurgeon, is now available at retailers. The book traces the life and career of the famed Marvel Comics writer and editor best known as the co-creator of Spider-Man, the [...]
Sleeping Beauty Reawakened on DVD
Two major animated releases hit video stores today, one a classic fairy tale feature and the other a TV cult favorite that was axed by Fox but is finding new life on DVD. First we’ll take a look at Disney’s restored Sleeping Beauty Special Edition, a release long-awaited by animation [...]
Family Guy Back for Round Two
The most dysfunctional family in Quahog, Rhode Island is back as Volume Two of the animated comedy series Family Guy comes home on DVD. The Family Guy fan base demonstrated its strength in April of this year when sales of the Volume One DVD release surpassed everyone’s expectations with more [...]
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