ONE DAY AT A TIME: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

Street Date April 24

Though created by husband-and-wife writing duo Whitney Blake and Allan Manings, One Day at a Time indelibly displayed the imprint of its legendary producer Norman Lear.  The series depicted a divorced mother raising two headstrong teenage daughters while trying to maintain a career and, like other Lear comedies (All in the Family, Maude, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), was occasionally controversial, tackling topical family issues such as teen sexuality and money problems in a candid, straightforward manner. On April 24, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment debuts One Day at a Time: The Complete First Season on DVD featuring all 15 episodes in a two-disc set.  The series stars Emmy®-nominee Bonnie Franklin, three-time Golden Globe® nominee Valerie Bertinelli (who won twice), Mackenzie Phillips, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Pat Harrington, Jr., and Richard Masur.

The bonus materials include The One Day at a Time Reunion Special, which originally aired on CBS, in which Franklin, Bertinelli, Phillips and Harrington are reunited to reminiscence about the show nearly 30 years after it debuted.  The special, which incorporates additional footage not seen in its original airing, also features interviews with recurring cast members Masur, Shelley Fabares, Nanette Fabray, Michael Lembeck, and Glenn Scarpelli.  One Day at a Time: The Complete First Season will be available for $29.95 SRP. One Day at a Time debuted mid-season on December 16, 1975, and remained a Top 20 show in the Nielsen ratings for CBS during most of its run.  Over the course of nine seasons, the series aired 209 episodes and was nominated for three Emmy Awards (winning two) and nine Golden Globes (winning three).  Highlights from the first season include episodes where Julie (Phillips) debates going “all the way,” Barbara (Bertinelli) tries to get her parents back together, Julie flirts with her teacher to get a better grade, David (Masur) proposes to Ann (Franklin), Julie’s date develops a crush on Ann, and Ann’s ex-husband Ed (guest star Joseph Campanella) decides to remarry.

DVD Special Features Include:

• Digitally Remastered Audio and Video
• Full Screen Presentations
• The One Day at a Time Reunion Special
• Audio: English
• Bonus Previews
• Closed Captioned

One Day at a Time: The Complete First Season Episodes Include:

Ann's Decision

Chicago Rendezvous

Jealousy

How to Succeed Without Trying

David Loves Ann

Julie's Best Friend

Super Blues

All the Way

Fighting City Hall

David Plus Two

Julie's Job

The College Man

Father David

Dad Comes Back Part I

Dad Comes Back Part II

Broadcast Year:  1975 – 1976

The Marsh DVD

Street Date April 17

SYNOPSIS:  Claire Holloway (Anwar) is the author of a series of successful children’s books.  Her personal life, however, is far from a storybook tale.  Visions of violence and death haunt her and she is tortured by a darkness that seems to seep from the corners of her subconscious.  In hopes of clearing her mind, Claire takes her doctor’s advice to go on a sabbatical.  She decides to stay at the Rose Marsh Farmhouse, which looks suspiciously like the house she sees in her nightmares. Almost immediately upon arriving at the farmhouse, Claire is shaken by a series of escalating and unexplained events and plunged into a frightening world controlled by the ghost of a ten year old girl (Wilson) - the very girl that Claire has seen in her dreams many nights before.  In a frantic attempt to save her sanity, Claire enlists the help of Geoffrey Hunt (Whitaker), a paranormal consultant who helps her unravel the mysterious village’s dark secret - as well as her own.

DVD Special Features Include:

• Featurette: Behind the Scenes of The Marsh
• Audio: English, Japanese, Thai
• Subtitles: English, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Chinese

NOT JUST THE BEST OF THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW DVD

Street Date April 17

The DVD Set Also Includes 23 Classic Episodes of the Emmy Award-Winning TV Program, the Documentary – “The Making of The Larry Sanders Show” - and Features Guest Appearances by Jason Alexander, Warren Beatty, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Sean Penn, Vince Vaughn and More

Forget about the 23 featured episodes of the Emmy Award®-winning “The Larry Sanders Show” (it received a whopping 56 Emmy nominations during its run on HBO). NOT JUST THE BEST OF THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW contains more than eight hours of newly produced material that makes this not just your usual DVD – not even close! The four-disc DVD boxed set debuts on DVD on April 17 at the suggested retail price of $49.95. This innovative, provocative and hugely entertaining release includes personal, intimate, indulgent visits meant until now for only Garry Shandling to see – raw, real-life situations between Shandling and stars who appear in the featured episodes – including  Alec Baldwin, Tom Petty, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Sharon Stone and many others. These unrehearsed visits surpass even the Larry Sanders reality, as they once again explore the core ingredients of the ground-breaking program – unexpected human behavior, truth and humor.

The DVD includes the documentary, The Making of The Larry Sanders Show, which reveals an in-depth and surprising look at the process of turning a script into a show that was ahead of its time. The Los Angeles Times selected Garry Shandling’s series as one of ten TV programs that had ‘inarguable influence’ on the industry and this DVD is a celebration of the series’ unique place in entertainment lore. NOT JUST THE BEST OF THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW also features guest appearances on the featured episodes by a wide slate of stars which includes Jim Carrey, Vince Vaughn, Warren Beatty, Sean Penn, Ellen DeGeneres, Jason Alexander, Carol Burnett and Winona Ryder. The featurette “Rip Torn and Jeffrey Tambor Visit Garry Shandling in His Living Room” is a reunion of Shandling, Torn and Tambor discussing working together on the show. Also included are interview featurettes with cast members Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Scott Thompson, Janeane Garofalo, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Sarah Silverman, Jeremy Piven, Bob Odenkirk, and Linda Doucett.

The Larry Sanders Show debuted on HBO August 1, 1992, and was ahead of its time, becoming an immediate critical and audience hit for its satirical, tongue-in-cheek look at Hollywood. The series that combined documentary-like camerawork with a clever blend of fact and fiction set the standard of quality for HBO and influenced the development of shows like Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Office.Over the course of its six-year, 89-episode run, the series was nominated for 56 Emmy Awards [winning three: Outstanding Writing (Shandling & Peter Tolan); Outstanding Directing (Todd Holland); Outstanding Supporting Actor (Rip Torn)]. The show also won three Golden Globe® nominations, two Peabody Awards, and five CableACE Awards for Best Comedy Series.

Not Just the Best of The Larry Sanders Show episodes include:

What Have You Done for Me Lately?

The Spider Episode

The Hey Now Episode

The List

The Hankerciser 200

Life Behind Larry

The Mr. Sharon Stone Show

Hank’s Night in the Sun

Office Romance

Hank’s Divorce

Hank’s Sex Tape

I Was a Teenage Lesbian

Larry’s New Love

Everybody Loves Larry

My Name Is Asher Kingsley

Ellen, or Isn’t She?

Pilots and Pens Lost

Another List

The Beginning of the End

Adolph Hankler

The Interview

Putting the ‘Gay’ Back in Litigation

Flip (1-hour)

DVD Special Features Include:

• Documentary: The Making of The Larry Sanders Show
• Featurette: Trio
• Exclusive Interviews: Personal, Intimate, Indulgent Meetings With My Friends That Are Meant Only for Me to See – Interviews with:Alec Baldwin, Ellen DeGeneres, David Duchovny, Tom Petty, Jerry Seinfeld, Sharon Stone, Jon Stewart and Carol Burnett
• Featurette: Interview with Penny Johnson
• Featurette: Interview with Wallace Langham
• Featurette: Interview with Scott Thompson
• Featurette: Interview with Janeane Garofalo
• Featurette: Interview with Mary Lynn Rajskub
• Featurette: Interview with Sarah Silverman
• Featurette: Interview with Jeremy Piven
• Featurette: Interview with Bob Odenkirk
• Featurette: Interview with Linda Doucett
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
• Alternate Takes
• Audio Commentary and Documentary Introduction on What Have You Done for Me Lately with Garry Shandling and Peter Tolan
• Audio Commentary and Documentary Introduction on Hank’s Night in the Sun with Garry Shandling and Todd Holland
• Audio Commentary and Documentary Introduction on Putting the ‘Gay’ Back in Litigation with Garry Shandling and Judd Apatow
• Audio Commentary on Flip with Garry Shandling and Peter Tolan
• Digitally Remastered Audio and Video
• Full Screen Presentations
• Audio: English (Dolby Surround)
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Closed Captioned

NATIONAL LAMPOON’S PUCKED DVD

Street Date APRIL 17  

Making its DVD debut from Sony Picture Home Entertainment on April 17 is National Lampoon’s Pucked, another hilarious, sexy comedy from the folks who know how to make fans laugh.  Rock music icon Jon Bon Jovi (Pay It Forward, TV’s “Ally McBeal) finds himself on thin ice opposite Victoria’s Secret supermodel Estella Warren, David Faustino (TV’s “Married with Children”), Curtis Armstrong (Dodgeball, Revenge of the Nerds), Nora Dunn (TV’s “Saturday Night Live”) and Cary Elwes (Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights). National Lampoon’s Pucked also includes two new fun and sexy featurettes among its bonus materials, PooNanny and Dirty Old Man.  The DVD will be available for $24.96 SRP.

SYNOPSIS:

Former lawyer turned failed entrepreneur Frank Hopper (Bon Jovi) is living on the good graces of his sister (Dunn).  While out one day with his best friend Carl (Faustino), he fills out a survey claiming an income of one million dollars and is soon flooded with over 200 credit cards.  Using his newly-acquired plastic, Hopper funds a crazy scheme to launch the first all-woman ice hockey league (the Almighty Swans and Fearsome Foxes) and hiring a bevy of beauties.  After racking up $300,000 in credit debt in a very short period of time, Frank’s dream collapses when the credit card companies catch on to what’s happening and take him to court.  With the help of an old flame (Warren), Frank defends himself in the hopes of triumphing over the corporate machine. 

DVD Special Features Include:

• Featurette: PooNanny
• Featurette: Dirty Old Man
• Audio: English
• Subtitles: English, French

HALF PAST DEAD 2 DVD

Street Date May 15

Synopsis:

Former WWE & WCW World Champion Bill Goldberg and hip-hop group Tha Dogg Pound’s Ricardo “Kurupt” Brown push life to the limit in this fiery, suspense-filled sequel to the 2002 hit movie, Half Past Dead. Burk (Goldberg) and Twitch (Kurput), are two inmates serving time at Craton Prison, a notoriously tough and violent penitentiary ruled by rival gangs. When a riot breaks out and the prison goes into lockdown, the two must form an unlikely alliance to stay alive.  Together, they navigate the hostile gang territory under the watchful eye of unsympathetic prison guards, in order to learn the identity of the inmate responsible for the riot. Eventually Burk discovers that gang leader, Cortez, is behind the riot and find that he's taken two hostages: Cherise, Twitch's fiancée, and Ellie, Burk’s daughter.  Twitch and Burk find they must work together in order to save their loved ones and bring Cortez down. 

MOTIVES 2: RETRIBUTION DVD

Street Date May 1

Synopsis:

It’s been three years since Emery Simms was wrongfully imprisoned for a murder he didn’t commit. Emery’s best friend Brandon (Blakemore) and ex-wife Connie (Fox) are now married, running a successful restaurant and nightclub in Atlanta. Their lives change dramatically, however, when Simms is killed in prison and new evidence emerges as to Brandon’s role in the framing of his friend.  When Emery’s estranged brother Donovan (White) enters the picture, he becomes determined to unearth the explosive truth behind his brother’s downfall. New motives, deceptions and lies are revealed, but the closer Donovan gets, the deeper he’ll get himself into trouble and the possibility of lying in a grave, right next to his brother.

• DVD BONUS FEATURES
• Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
• Commentary with Cast & Crew

UNTIL DEATH DVD

Street Date April 24, 2007

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment brings Jean-Claude Van Damme (Second in Command, The Hard Corps) back into homes with the DVD release of Until Death, on April 24, 2007.  Written by Dan Harris (Superman Returns, X2) and James Portolese (Circadian Rhythm, Boxes), the film also stars Stephen Rea (V for Vendetta, Breakfast on Pluto), Rachel Grant (Die Another Day, Laura Croft: Tomb Raider) and Mark Dymond (Die Another Day, Attack Force).  The DVD will be available at an SLP of $24.96. Van Damme stars in this bone-chilling, action-packed thriller as Anthony Lowe, a down-and-out detective who is addicted to heroine and whose day always seems to go from bad to worse. Lowe is coming off of a drug deal in which two officers were killed and the primary villain, the drugs, the money and the surveillance tapes are still at large. He is also dealing with his wife, who has just informed him that she is pregnant - but the child is not his. After a gunfight, Lowe comes very close to death and falls into a coma.  While on the road to recovery, Lowe finds himself in a very personal battle to make amends with his kidnapped wife and to avenge his assailant once and for all!