Paramount has released a bunch of new DVD cover art and I figured you all might want to see it. While they don’t do a great job of releasing what the extras are going to be, at this point does it even matter? Does anyone really base their decision on buying a DVD on what extras it comes with? I’m lucky if I even have the time to watch the movie, let alone the eighteen hours of extras that most DVDs come with.

Also most extras nowadays are so meaningless that you really don’t get anything of substance to watch. Unless it is a special edition DVD made by one of the great DVD producers, I just don’t care. I want to see the real behind the scenes footage, not the bullshit “everything was great” speeches that most studios put out.

Now that I’m done venting…. here is the recent Paramount Home Video stuff.

Flushed Away DVD
Street Date: February 20, 2007

Actors: Kate Winslet, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Bill Nighy, Jean Reno, Shane Richie, Andy Serkis

Synopsis:
Set on and beneath the streets of London, “Flushed Away” is the story of Roddy, an upper-crust “society mouse,” who is rather rudely evicted from his Kensington flat when he is flushed down into Ratropolis, the bustling sewer world found under London’s streets. There, he meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Together they must navigate their way through a busy city filled with dangers for any mouse, including terrifying rapids, treacherous whirlpools and, most of all, the villainous Toad and his hench-rats Spike and Whitey. Though completely out of his element at first, the privileged Roddy finds himself an unlikely hero when he learns that Ratropolis is in danger from the world above.

DVD Features:

Payback Straight Up: The Director's Cut DVD
Street Date: April 10, 2007

Actors: Mel Gibson, Maria Bello, William Devane, John Glover, Gregg Henry, Kris Kristofferson, Lucy Liu, David Paymer

Synopsis:
Mel Gibson portrays Porter, a career criminal bent on revenge after his partners in a street heist pump metal into him and take off with his $70,000 cut. Bad move, thugs. Because if you plan to double-cross Porter, you'd better make sure he's dead. Porter resurfaces, wading into a lurid urban underworld of syndicate kingpins, cops on the take, sniveling informants and deadly gangs. Porter wants his money back. And the way he sets out to get is assures that, from beginning to heartpounding end, Payback pays off big.

Twin Peaks: The Second Season DVD
Street Date: April 10, 2007

Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle, Kyle MacLachian, Michael Ontkean, Maedchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Richard Beymer, Sherilyn Fenn, Warren Frost, Piper Laurie, Peggy Lipton, James Marshall, Everett McGill, Jack Nance, Ray Wise

Synopsis:
Twin Peaks was created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The show was set in the fictional town of Twin Peaks in northeast Washington state and tells the story of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper and his investigation of the murder of a popular local teenage schoolgirl, Laura Palmer.

Flags of our Fathers DVD
Street Date: February 6, 2007

Actors: Adam Beach, Jesse Bradford, Barry Pepper, Ryan Phillippe, Paul Walker Director: Clint Eastwood

Synopsis:
February 1945. Even as victory in Europe was finally within reach, the war in the Pacific raged on. One of the most crucial and bloodiest battles of the war was the struggle for the island of Iwo Jima, which culminated with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The inspiring photo capturing that moment became a symbol of victory to a nation that had grown weary of war and made instant heroes of the six American soldiers at the base of the flag, some of whom would die soon after, never knowing that they had been immortalized. But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting and dying without fanfare or glory. ‘Flags of Our Fathers’ is based on the bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers, which chronicled the battle of Iwo Jima and the fates of the flag raisers and some of their brothers in Easy Company. Bradley’s father, John “Doc” Bradley, was one of the soldiers pictured raising the flag, although James never knew the full extent of his father’s experiences until after the elder Bradley’s death in 1994. The ensemble cast of “Flags of Our Fathers” includes Ryan Phillippe (“Crash”), Jesse Bradford (“Happy Endings”), Adam Beach (“Windtalkers”), Paul Walker (“Into the Blue”), Jamie Bell (“Billy Elliot”), Barry Pepper (“Saving Private Ryan”) and John Benjamin Hickey (“Flightplan”). Clint Eastwood directed “Flags of Our Fathers” from a screenplay adapted by William Broyles, Jr. (“Cast Away”) and Oscar winner Paul Haggis (“Million Dollar Baby,” “Crash”).

Love Story DVD
Street Date: April 13, 2007

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal

Synopsis:
Love means never having to say you're sorry... Love Story. Everyone loves Love Story! One of the most romantic movies ever made also remains one of the most enduringly popular. This heartfelt 1970 tale of the love of a lifetime-the most successful Paramount movie up to that time-received seven Academy Award. nominations (including Best Picture) and won one for Francis Lai's magnificent score. As filming was underway on Love Story, the filmmakers knew they had something special-so special that Erich Segal was simultaneously shaping his best-selling novel from his own screenplay. Stars Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw each received Academy Award. nominations and became overnight movie sensations for their poignant portrayals of a young couple who cross social barriers, marry and ultimately face the greatest crisis of all.

The Streets of San Francisco: The First Season, Volume One DVD
Street Date: April 3, 2007

Actors: Karl Malden, Michael Douglas

Synopsis:
Twenty year veteran Detective Lt. Mike Stone is partnered with young, college educated Inspector Steve Keller who has a lot to learn about being a police detective on the Streets of San Francisco.

The Untouchables Season One, Volume One DVD
Street Date: April 3, 2007

Actors: Robert Stack, Abel Fernandez, Anthony George, Nicholas Georgiade, Bruce Gordon, Paul Picerni

Synopsis:
The Untouchables chronicles the campaign of Eliot Ness (Robert Stack), the young U.S. Prohibition Bureau agent, to smash the beer and booze empire of Al Capone in 1920s Chicago.

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