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Horror DVD/Blu-Ray News of the Week! 4/11/12

11 April 2012 8:24 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

Man oh man, are we late on updating the news or what?! So rather than make with the excuses, why don’t we just get right down to it, huh? This particular post is to focus on upcoming DVD and Blu-Ray releases with clips, images, etc. So here’s the week in horror in terms of home entertainment!

The biggest news this week is the Blu-Ray release of Steven Spielberg’s classic blockbuster film Jaws which arrives August 14th! Universal Studios has unveiled the cover art (above) along with both a teaser trailer for the Blu-Ray release, as well as a great 8 minute video showing the restoration process for this particular release. Most note worthy however is that the fan-made documentary The Shark Is Still Working will finally be released as a bonus feature on this Blu-Ray. For those that have been following that project, it’s been a labor »

- Rob Galluzzo

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Did The MPAA Lie About Losing $58 Billion Due To Piracy? (Update)

29 March 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »

In December, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issued a press release that claimed it had lost $58 billion and 373,00 jobs due to online piracy. However, a few weeks ago, Ted Blog questioned those numbers, stating they were off by a whopping $50 billion. "These numbers originated at a think tank called the 'Institute for Policy Innovation' – an organization that Businessweek once profiled in an article called 'Op-Eds for Sale.' In it, an Ipi analyst freely admitted to taking payoffs from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in exchange for writing 'op-ed pieces boosting the lobbyist's clients.' The Ipi's president supported this behavior, saying it was neither wrong nor unethical, and dismissing those who apply 'a naïve purity standard' to the business of writing op-eds. This doesn't necessarily mean that MPAA lobbyists paid the Ipi to conjure up these numbers. But whatever their genesis, they're not easy figures to support." In the video above, »

- Jessie Heyman

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This week's new DVD & Blu-ray

10 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Warrior

The plot and characters of Warrior are so corny and shopworn that the film should really come with a health warning that it's way past its sell-by date.

The direction isn't much better: there's a C-plot involving students that should have you shouting for the editor's blood every time it appears, and even the required sports training montage is badly fumbled. So why is this being feted as one of 2011's best films when it should be counted among the worst? It's the acting. Across the board, the performances here are superb. With fast-rising stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton playing the punchy estranged siblings competing in a mixed martial arts tournament, you get two actors committed to delivering the physicality the roles demand as well as being more than capable at making the stale drama seem fresh. Best of all is Nick Nolte as their drunk disappointment of a dad. »

- Phelim O'Neill

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