Posted below are a ton of new to semi-new Sony DVD announcements. While some of them come out pretty soon, I figure you would still like to see them. We actually just got in the first DVD below, Spidey 2.1, and I’ve been too f’ing busy to even crack the seal. I’ll probably end up seeing Spidey 3 before I see the missing eight minutes which doesn’t make me happy. At all. Anyway. There is a ton of great movies below and I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves. All info is provided by Sony.

 SPIDER-MAN 2.1: EXTENDED CUT DVD

TWO-DISC EXTENDED CUT DVD DEBUTS APRIL 17

The year of Spider-Man kicks off with the DVD debut on April 17 of Spider-Man 2.1: Extended Cut, introducing eight minutes of never-before-seen footage.   An  absolute must for all collectors,   the  release  comes  loaded  with  all-new  bonus  materials, including   an  introduction  by  producers  Grant  Curtis  and  Avi  Arad; commentary  by  producer  Laura  Ziskin  and  by  two-time  Oscar®  winning screenwriter  Alvin  Sargent  (Julia,  1978;  Ordinary  People,  1981); the featurette  Inside  2.1, highlighting new visual effects, editing and sound design; and a sneak peek of Spider-Man 3 (in theaters May 4).  The two-disc extended cut will be available for $19.94 SRP.

DVD Special Features Include:

• Introduction by Grant Curtis and Avi Arad
• Featurette: Inside 2.1
• Commentary by Laura Ziskin and Alvin Sargent
• Sneak Peak at Spider-Man 3
• Digitally Remastered Audio and Video

Donnie Brasco: Extended Cut DVD

Including 20 minutes added back into the film!

Street Date May 8^th

Synopsis

Posing as jewel broker Donnie Brasco, FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone (Johnny Depp) is granted entrance into the violent mob family of aging hit man Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino). When his personal and professional lives collide, Pistone jeopardizes his marriage, his job life and, ultimately, the gangster/mentor he has come to respect and admire. Donnie Brasco was written by Paul Attanasio and directed by Mike Newell. Cast includes Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo and Anne Heche.  Donnie Brasco: Extended Cut is unrated and has a run time of 147 minutes (original 1997 theatrical release was 127 minutes).

DVD Bonus Material

• Director Commentary
• Exclusive featurette: “Donnie Brasco: Out from the Shadows”

VOLVER DVD

Available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on April 3, 2007

SYNOPSIS:
From two-time Academy Award-winner Pedro Almodovar (2003, Best Original Screenplay, Talk to Her; 2000, Best Foreign Language Film, All About My Mother) comes VOLVER, a comedic and compassionate tribute to women and their resilience in the face of life’s most outrageous tribulations. A luminous Penalope Cruz leads an ensemble of gifted actresses, including Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Raimunda (Cruz) and her sister Sole lost their parents in a tragic fire years ago or did they? Superstitious villagers claim that the girls departed mother, Irene (Maura), has been seen wandering around their Aunt Paula’s home. When Irene appears to Sole, she explains that she has returned to set right her daughters troubled lives and reveal shocking secrets that will impact everyone! Raimunda has "female troubles" of her own, least of which is a corpse in the freezer! Winner of numerous film festival and critics awards, VOLVER is a hilarious tale of love, loss and forgiveness.

THE GUNS OF NAVARONE: COLLECTOR’S EDITION DVD

THE CAINE MUTINY: COLLECTOR’S EDITION DVD

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA and BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI on All-New Two-Disc Sets

Street Date May 8^th

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment proudly releases collector’s editions of the Academy Award®-winning films The Guns of Navarone and The Caine Mutiny; also available, special two-disc sets of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai.  Each of these films brilliantly portrays the heroics and bravery soldiers faced when tasked with impossible missions during war time.  The Guns of Navarone and The Caine Mutiny return with all-new special features including commentary and will each be available for an SRP of $24.96. Director David Lean’s spectacular classic war films, Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai will be available on two-discs set for an SRP of $24.96.  Fans of war drama won’t want to miss the opportunity to add these films to their collections when released on DVD May 8.   

The 1961 Academy Award-winning film for Best Special Effects, The Guns of Navarone, boasts a stellar cast including Gregory Peck (To Killing a Mocking Bird, Cape Fear), Anthony Quinn (A Walk in the Clouds, Lawrence of Arabia) and David Niven (Curse of the Pink Panther, Death on the Nile).  Director J. Lee Thompson (King Solomon’s Mines, Battle for the Planet of the Apes) brings Alistair MacLean’s best-selling novel about allies’ saboteurs who are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi fortress and destroy two enormous long-range field guns to life. This two-disc set includes all new special features including documentaries, featurettes and an all-new commentary.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny is the classic film of modern day mutiny aboard a naval vessel.  Nominated in 1954 for seven Academy Awards including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Film Editing, Music, Best Motion Picture, Sound Recording and Writing this film features an all-star cast including Fred MacMurray (The Absent Minded Professor, The Apartment), Humphrey Bogart (Sabrina, Casablanca), Robert Francis (The Long Gray Line), Tom Tully (Sea of Lost Ships) and Jose Ferrer (Lawrence of Arabia, Dune).  This two-disc set is digitally remastered and includes all-new special features.

The Guns of Navarone DVD

With the battle of Stalingrad turning the war against them, the Germans are attempting to bully neutral Turkey into joining the Axis; to this end they have trapped 2,000 British soldiers on Kiros, an island in the Aegean, with only one sea route for evacuation, a sea route commanded by two gigantic German antiship batteries deployed in a massive cliffside bunker on the island of Navarone.   Immune to air attack and too much for Allied battleships to suppress, the British muster Keith Mallory (Peck) a commando officer who has been working on occupied Crete for nearly two years and who is an expert mountaineer, to ferry a team of British commandos to the only area of Navarone that is not monitored by the Germans, a 400-foot cliff.  Greek resistance is to meet the team inland and guide them around German patrols to the area of the German guns.  However, the commanding officer of the British team suffers grave injury in the climb and Mallory must take control of the mission, despite clashes with explosives expert John Anthony Miller (Niven), who upon the arrival of the night of the raid finds his equipment has been sabotaged, thus exposing a traitor in the team’s ranks.   The Guns of Navarone has a run time of 157 minutes and is not rated. 

DVD Bonus Features

• Two part documentary
• Genre discussion of the film being the first caper-style WWII epic
• Carl Foreman and J. Lee Thompson discuss the general production history and style of the film, including the special effects and stunts.
• Two Featurettes
• Dimitri Tiomkin’s score for The Guns of Navarone
• UCLA Restoration of The Guns of Navarone
• New commentary with Historian Sir Christopher Frayling

The Caine Mutiny DVD

A privileged mama's boy, Ensign Keith (Francis) gets assigned to the Caine, a rusty old minesweeper with a haggard, undisciplined crew during the latter days of WWII.  Soon the paranoid, strawberry-loving Captain Queeg (Bogart) takes charge and tries to clean up the ship, arousing the hatred and suspicion of the other officers, especially a flippant lieutenant (MacMurray).  Eventually the men stage a mutiny, and a subsequent trial ensues, at which point a sharply intelligent military lawyer (Ferrer) takes up the matter.  At the trial, the Navy must decide: was the Caine Mutiny a criminal act or an act of courage to save a ship from destruction at the hands of her Captain?  The Caine Mutiny: Collector’s Edition has a run time of 123 minutes and is not rated. 

DVD Bonus Features

• Digitally remastered for the best possible picture and sound
• Retrospective featurette with archival footage 

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• "DVD-ROM Features: Archives of Arabia: Historic Photographs That Take You Behind-the-Scenes Part 1 & Part 2, Journey with Lawrence: Interactive Map of the Middle East" • "Four Original Featurettes: Maan, Jordan: The Camels are the Cast, In Search of Lawrence, Romance of Arabia, and Wind, Sand and Star: The Making of a Classic" • A Conversation with Steven Spielberg • Advertising Campaigns • Animated and Interactive Menus • Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video • Exclusive Documentary: The Making of Lawrence of Arabia • Original Newsreel Footage of the New York Premiere • Scene Selections with Motion Images • Talent Files • Theatrical Trailers

The Bridge on the River Kwai DVD

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• "Exclusive Documentary - Adaptation of Boulle's novel, casting, history of production, score, release, restoration and more" • Interactive and Animated Menus • Isolated Music Score • Maps and Military Strategy • Original Featurette: The Rise and Fall of a Jungle Giant • Photo Gallery • Scene Selections • Screensavers from Original Movie Art • Talent Files • Theatrical Trailers • Trivia Sabotage: "Experience Building the Bridge" • USC Short Film: Introduced by William Holden

KIDNAPPED: THE COMPLETE SERIES DVD

Street Date April 24

Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton (Best Supporting Actor, Ordinary People, 1981) heads a high voltage cast, including two-time Emmy Award® winner Dana Delaney (Best Actress, “China Beach,” 1989, 1992), Jeremy Sisto (TV’s “Six Feet Under”), Delroy Lindo (Get Shorty, The Cider House Rules), and Will Denton (Kinsey), in Kidnapped: The Complete Series which comes to DVD April 24 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.  The three-disc DVD features all 13 episodes so fans can follow the entire taut storyline from this limited run series about a group of people working to return an abducted boy to his family.  The bonus features include a behind-the-scenes featurette containing interviews with cast and crew.  The DVD will be available for $49.95 SRP. Created by Jason Smilovic (Luck Number Slevin), Kidnapped debuted on NBC September 20, 2006.  The series also stars Doug Hutchinson (The Green Mile, I Am Sam), Mykelti Williamson (Lucky Number Slevin), Linus Roache (Batman Begins), and Carmen Ejogo (TV’s “Sally Hemings: An American Scandal”).

SYNOPSIS:

When a teenage boy, Leo Cain (Denton), is kidnapped, his wealthy parents (Hutton, Delaney) hire a former FBI agent turned "retrieval specialist" (Sisto) to work outside the law while keeping the family’s secrets behind closed doors. Meanwhile, an FBI agent (Lindo) becomes embroiled in the case while investigating the disappearance of Leo’s driver, discovering a personal connection that ties the driver to the culprit suspected of orchestrating the crime. As the FBI and the investigator proceed with independent inquiries into Leo’s disappearance, they soon find themselves entangled in a dangerous game of manipulation and deceit where everyone is a suspect and no one is safe.