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Netflix Unveils Final Trailer for 'The Do-Over' Starring Adam Sandler, Premiere Set for May 27[teaser]A new trailer for the Adam Sandler comedy has been released. [/teaser] Netflix has revealed one last trailer for 'The Do-Over' in anticipation for its May 27 streaming premiere. The film stars Adam Sandler and will be the second movie released as part of a four picture deal between Netflix and Happy Madison Productions. Two down-on-their-luck guys decide to fake their own deaths and start over with new identities, only to find the people they're pretending to be are in even deeper trouble. The cast includes Adam Sandler, Paula Patton, and David Spade. The comedy is directed by Steven Brill and is written by Kevin Barnett and Chris Pappas. Check out the final trailer below. 'The Do-Over' will join the previously released 'Ridiculous 6,' which was also part of the same four picture deal between Netflix and Happy Madison. 'The Ridiculous 6' is available to stream now and stars Adam Sandler, Nick Nolte, Whitney Cummings, Danny Trejo, Taylor Lautner, Blake Shelton, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, Dan Aykroyd, Will Forte, Nick Swardson, Terry Crews, Jon Lovitz, Luke Wilson, Steve Zahn, Chris Parnell, Lavell Crawford and Vanilla Ice. The films focuses on an orphan, Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn, who was raised by Native Americans. When his outlaw dad is kidnapped, Tommy sets off across the West on a rescue mission with five brothers he never knew he had. Other upcoming Netflix premieres include season two of 'Chef's Table' on May 27, 'Bloodline' season two on May 27, 'Voltron: Legendary Defender' on June 10, season four of 'Orange is the New Black' on June 17, 'The Fundamentals of Caring' on June 24, 'Marco Polo' season two on July 1, the documentary 'Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru' on July 15, 'Project Mc2' season two on August 12, and 'The Crown' on November 4. Likewise, the streaming platform is also prepping a new sci-fi series called 'Travelers' from writer Brad Wight. A current Netflix subscription starts at $10 for HD streaming and $12 for Ultra HD streaming. Source: NetflixPosted Mon May 23, 2016 at 01:15 PM PDT by: -
Criterion's August 2016 Blu-ray Titles Now Available for Pre-Order![teaser]The distributor has revealed its upcoming slate of August releases, including Robert Altman's 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller' and Orson Welles' 'Chimes at Midnight.' [/teaser] In an early announcement to retailers, Criterion is preparing 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller, 'Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words,' 'A Taste of Honey,' 'Woman in the Dunes,' 'The Immortal Story,' and 'Chimes at Midnight' for Blu-ray throughout the month of August. 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller' (August 9) - This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema that transformed Hollywood in the early 1970s. It stars Warren Beatty and Julie Christie as an enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, who join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with interests of its own, however, threatens to be the undoing of their plans. With its fascinating flawed characters, evocative cinematography by the great Vilmos Zsigmond, and soundtrack that innovatively interweaves overlapping dialogue and haunting Leonard Cohen songs, McCabe & Mrs. Miller brilliantly deglamorized and revitalized the most American of genres. The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, an uncompressed English mono soundtrack, and supplements will include: Audio commentary from 2002 featuring director Robert Altman and producer David Foster; New documentary on the making of the film, featuring actors René Auberjonois, Keith Carradine, and Michael Murphy; casting director Graeme Clifford; and script supervisor Joan Tewkesbury; New conversation about the film and Altman’s career between film historians Cari Beauchamp and Rick Jewell; Featurette from the film’s production, shot on location in 1970; Q&A from 1999 with production designer Leon Ericksen, hosted by the Art Directors Guild Film Society; Archival footage from interviews with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, in which he discusses his work on the film; Gallery of stills from the set by photographer Steve Schapiro; Excerpts from two 1971 episodes of The Dick Cavett Show featuring Altman and film critic Pauline Kael; Trailer; PLUS: An essay by novelist and critic Nathaniel Rich. Order the Blu-ray 'Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words' (August 16) - Whether headlining films in Sweden, Italy, or Hollywood, Ingrid Bergman always pierced the screen with a singular soulfulness. With this new documentary, made on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of Bergman’s birth, director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to her world, culling from the most personal of archival materials—letters, diary entries, photographs, and 8 mm and 16 mm footage Bergman herself shot—and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an undiminished legend. The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, a Swedish DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack, and supplements will include: New interview with Björkman; Selection of 8 mm home movies shot by Bergman in the 1930s; Two deleted scenes, showing Bergman’s daughters reading an essay she wrote at age seventeen and an interview with film historian and Bergman scholar Rosario Tronnolone; Extended versions of scenes featuring interviews with actors Sigourney Weaver and Liv Ullmann and Bergman’s daughter Isabella Rossellini and with the three Rossellini siblings; Clip from the 1932 film Landskamp, featuring Bergman in her first screen role; Outtakes from Bergman’s 1936 film On the Sunny Side; Music video for Eva Dahlgren’s song “The Movie About Us,” which is included on the film’s soundtrack; Trailer; PLUS: An essay by film scholar Jeanine Basinger. Order the Blu-ray 'A Taste of Honey' (August 23) - The revolutionary British New Wave films of the early 1960s were celebrated for their uncompromising depictions of working-class lives and relations between the sexes. Directed by Tony Richardson, a leading light of that movement, and based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey stars Rita Tushingham, in a star-making debut role, as a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, Richardson’s classic is a still startling benchmark work of realism. The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, an uncompressed English mono soundtrack, and supplements will include: New interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin; Audio interview with director and coscreenwriter Tony Richardson, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival; New interview with Kate Dorney, curator of modern and contemporary theater at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, about A Taste of Honey’s onstage origins; Excerpt from a 1960 television interview with A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney; Momma Don’t Allow (1956), Richardson’s first theatrical film; PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe. Order the Blu-ray 'Woman in the Dunes' (August 23) - One of the 1960s’ great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara. Eiji Okada plays an amateur entomologist who has left Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in a vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow (Kyoko Kishida) in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema’s most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean struggle of everyday life—an achievement that garnered Teshigahara an Academy Award nomination for best director. The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, an uncompressed Japanese mono soundtrack, and supplements will include: Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt; Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965); Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter John Nathan; Trailer; PLUS: An essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara. Order the Blu-ray 'The Immortal Story' (August 30) - Orson Welles's first color film and final completed fictional feature, The Immortal Story is a moving and wistful adaptation of a tale by Isak Dinesen. Welles stars as a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Macao, who becomes obsessed with bringing to life an oft-related anecdote about a rich man who gives a poor sailor a small sum of money to impregnate his wife. Also starring an ethereal Jeanne Moreau, this jewel-like film, dreamily shot by Willy Kurant and suffused with the music of Erik Satie, is a brooding, evocative distillation of Welles’s artistic interests—a story about the nature of storytelling and the fine line between illusion and reality. The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, an uncompressed English mono soundtrack and alternate French version, and supplements will include: Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin; Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif; New interview with actor Norman Eshley; Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant; New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas; PLUS: An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. Order the Blu-ray 'Chimes at Midnight' (August 30) - The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career, Chimes at Midnight was the culmination of the filmmaker’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff—the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal—here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Welles created a gritty and unorthodox Shakespeare film, one that he intended, he said, as "a lament . . . for the death of Merrie England." Poetic, philosophical, and visceral—with a kinetic centerpiece battle sequence that rivals anything else in the director's body of work—Chimes at Midnight is as monumental as the figure at its heart. The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, an uncompressed English mono soundtrack, and supplements will include: Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles; New interview with actor Keith Baxter; New interview with director Orson Welles’s daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age seven; New interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow; New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?; Interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show; and Trailer. Order the Blu-ray Suggested list price for each Blu-ray is $39.95. You can find the latest specs for all of the titles listed above linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where they're indexed throughout August.Posted Mon May 23, 2016 at 12:00 PM PDT by: -
'Person of Interest: The Complete Fifth and Final Season' Blu-ray Announced[teaser]The final season of the CBS series will hit Blu-ray in July. [/teaser] In an early announcement to retailers, Warner Bros. is preparing 'Person of Interest: The Complete Fifth and Final Season' for Blu-ray on July 19. For years, the Person of Interest team of tech genius Harold Finch, ex-agent John Reese, NYPD Detective Lionel Fusco, cyber-hacker Root and missing-in-action operative Sameen Shaw have been protected by The Machine, but as worlds collided and a rival AI known as Samaritan finally cornered The Machine inside the nation’s power grid, it was the POI team’s turn to protect Finch’s creation. In season five, the cold war is over. The world around us might look the same, but something has drastically changed. Samaritan’s lethal “correction” has initiated its control. Finch’s Machine is essentially dead. Shaw is still missing. And the team is once again hiding in plain sight. But with Samaritan’s invisible grip tightening everywhere, will Finch be able to rebuild and resurrect The Machine? And if he does, will it be the same Machine when it comes back online? The Blu-ray/Digital HD combo pack will feature 1080p video, a DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack, and supplements will include: 2015 Comic-Con Panel; "Finale for the Fans" Featurette; and Revelations of Person of Interest featurette. Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $44.98. You can find the latest specs for 'Person of Interest: The Complete Fifth and Final Season' linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where it's indexed under July 19. Order the Blu-rayPosted Mon May 23, 2016 at 10:00 AM PDT by: -
Sharp Releases AQUOS N7000 Series 4K Ultra HD TVs, Prices Start at $500[teaser]The company's first 2016 4K Ultra HD TVs are now available. [/teaser] Sharp has announced the launch of its newest 4K display lineup. The AQUOS N7000 series is available in sizes ranging from 43 inches to 65 inches. The displays all feature Sharp's classic design with a metal bezel and inverted trapezoid at the base of each TV. In addition, each screen offers a resolution of 3840 x 2160 with the company's AquoMotion and AquoDimming technologies, providing superior motion enhancement and contrast with darker blacks and whiter whites. Likewise, the AQUOS N7000 series uses a proprietary smart TV platform with 4K streaming support for apps like Netflix, YouTube, and VUDU. Finally, the displays are also HDR enabled, allowing them to accept HDR content through USB or HDMI 2.0. Here's a full rundown of key features and pricing: - HDR Enabled - Built-In Apps - AquoMotion™ - AquoDimming™ - Revelation™ Upscaler - dbx-tv® Award Winning Sound - App Store & Web Browser - 4K Media Player & Receiver - 2x2 Dual-Band Wi-Fi 802.11ac - MSRP 43” Class LC-43N7000U: $499.99 - MSRP 50” Class LC-50N7000U: $699.99 - MSRP 55” Class LC-55N7000U: $799.99 - MSRP 60” Class LC-60N7000U: $1,199.99 - MSRP 65” Class LC-65N7000U: $1,499.99 Beyond the N7000 series, Sharp is also readying the new N6000 series, N8000 series, and N9000 series, including the 65-inch N9000U curved screen 3D Ultra HD TV ($3,000). The N9000U will feature full array local dimming with 192 zones and SPECTROS quantum dot technology to achieve 91 percent of the Rec.2020 color space. In addition, the TV includes support for the Open HDR standard, an octa-core processor, and VP9 and HEVC encoding. Source: SharpPosted Mon May 23, 2016 at 09:30 AM PDT by: -
John Ford's 'They Were Expendable' Bound for Blu-ray[teaser]The 1945 war drama will be headed to Blu-ray later this year. [/teaser] In an early announcement to retailers, Warner Archive will be releasing 'They Were Expendable' on Blu-ray later this year. Supplies are dwindling. Troops are hopelessly outnumbered. But even in defeat there is victory. The defenders of the Philippines – including PT-boat skippers John Brickley (Robert Montgomery) and Rusty Ryan (John Wayne) – will give the U.S. war effort time to regroup after the devastation of Pearl Harbor. Director John Ford's World War II tale knows its battle-scarred topic firsthand. Montgomery was himself a Pacific PT-boat commander and a valorous Bronze Star recipient. Ford filmed the Academy Award-winning documentary The Battle of Midway. And Wayne creates a portrait of patriotic resolve as only he can. They Were Expendable salutes all who expended themselves during some of the war's bleakest hours. Specs have yet to be revealed, but the release will include the original trailer. You can find the latest specs for 'They Were Expendable' linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where it's indexed under PENDING.Posted Mon May 23, 2016 at 08:00 AM PDT by: -
'A Certain Magical Index II: Season Two' Bound for Blu-ray[teaser]The anime series is heading to Blu-ray in July. [/teaser] In an early announcement to retailers, FUNimation Entertainment is preparing 'A Certain Magical Index II: Season Two' for Blu-ray on July 19. When science and sorcery clash, the result is explosive in this sequel to A Certain Magical Index from the studio that brought you Shakugan no Shana! The Book of the Law—an encoded grimoire containing catastrophic magic—has been stolen, so naturally Kamijo, Index, and a few familiar faces join in the crusade to protect the one nun who can decipher the powerful text. But as the group battles church sects and holy assassins, they realize that discovering who their true enemy is may be more difficult than saving the sister. Meanwhile, an organization known as the Science Society resurrects an esper-producing program, a school festival brings out the competition—and drama—in the student population, and a mysterious figure negotiates the purchase of a sacred relic that could threaten the future of Academy City. The Blu-ray/DVD combo pack will feature 1080p video, a Dolby TureHD 5.1 soundtrack, and supplements will include: Commentaries; No Buts!; See visionS, Magic world; Memories Last; U.S. Trailer; Textless Songs; and Trailers. Suggested list price for the Blu-ray is $49.98. You can find the latest specs for 'A Certain Magical Index II: Season Two' linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where it's indexed under July 19. Order the Blu-rayPosted Mon May 23, 2016 at 06:00 AM PDT by: -
WatchESPN Streaming Support Heads to Android TV Devices[teaser]Android TV users can now access the WatchESPN streaming service. [/teaser] Disney and ESPN have announced the launch of WatchESPN support for Android TV. Access to WatchESPN is now available through the ESPN app in the Play Store on any Android TV. Likewise, support will be included in all new Nexus Players. "This agreement with Google enhances the value of being a video subscriber to our networks," said Sean Breen, senior vice president, affiliate sales for Disney and ESPN Media Networks. "Delivering our content seamlessly within this app-like user interface on Android TV embraces a growing trend in consumer behavior and consumption habits. We will continue to work with both traditional providers and new entrants to distribute Disney/ABC and ESPN networks in new and unique ways." With WatchESPN, authenticated users with an affiliated television provider can stream live ESPN content on supported smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, connected devices, and computers. Likewise, the app also offers users access to short form video clips and ESPN Classic on demand content. Currently supported Android TV products include Sony 4K HDR Ultra HD TVs, Sharp Aquos Android TVs, Google Nexus Players, the Nvidia Shield, and the Razer Forge TV. In addition, WatchESPN access will also be available on select Phillips and RCA models in the future. Beyond WatchESPN, Disney is also readying additional Disney/ABC Television Group apps for the Android TV platform. And outside of Disney, STARZ recently launched it own subscription streaming service on Android TV, with current support for devices like the Chromecast, Google Nexus Player, Sony Android TVs, and most Android phones, tablets and TVs . The STARZ service costs $9 per month for users without an authenticated TV provider. Source: ESPNPosted Fri May 20, 2016 at 05:00 PM PDT by: -
Hisense Launches H8 Series 4K Ultra HD TVs with HDR Processing, Prices Start at $600[teaser]The company's latest 4K Ultra HD TVs are now shipping. [/teaser] Hisense has announced the launch of its H8 Series entry level Ultra HD TV line. The collection includes the 50-inch 50H8C ($600) and the 55-inch 55H8C ($700). The H8 Series Ultra HD TVs feature HDR processing, allowing the displays to remap luminance and color information to the specific capabilities of their panels. The TVs support playback of HDR10 content through USB and HDMI 2.0a. In addition, the H8 Series also incorporates Full Array Local Dimming for superior contrast, and the company's proprietary smart TV platform with access to numerous 4K UHD streaming apps. Here's a full rundown of key features and specs: - HDR Processing - Multi-zone Local Dimming - Built-in Apps - Ultra Smooth Motion™ - UHD Upscaler - dbx-tv® Award Winning Sound - App Store & Web Browser - 4K Media Player & Receiver ·- 2x2 Dual-Band Wi-Fi | 802.11ac - Industry-Leading 4-year Customer Warranty (2-years as shipped + 2-years when registered within 90-days of purchase) Outside of 4K offerings, Hisense has also launched their Updated H5 Smart TV Series, Upgraded Roku H4 Series, and FHD H3 Series. Hisense H5 Series - FHD/HD Smart TV Full Specs: - Built-in Apps- Ultra Smooth Motion™ (43”, 50” and 55” models)- dbx-tv® Award Winning Sound- App Store | Web Browser- Media Player & Receiver- 1x2 Wi-Fi Built-In | Ethernet- $499.99 | 55H5C- $399.99 | 50H5C- $329.99 | 43H5C- $279.99 | 40H5B- $199.99 | 32H5B Hisense H4 Series - FHD/HD Roku TV Full Specs: - 3,000+ Streaming Channels - Over 3000,000 movies & TV episodes- Universal Search™- Voice Search via Roku Mobile App for iOS and Android- $429.99 | 50H4C- $399.99 | 48H4C- $299.99 | 40H4C1- $199.99 | 32H4C Hisense H3 Series - FHD/HD Feature TV Full Specs: - Audio Return Channel- USB Media Player- $249.99 | 40H3B - $179.99 | 32H3FC - $149.99 | 32H3B1 - $ 99.99 | 20H3C Source: HisensePosted Fri May 20, 2016 at 01:00 PM PDT by: -
CBS All Access Announces 'The Good Wife' Spinoff Series, Streaming Premiere Set for Spring 2017[teaser]Another exclusive show has been announced for the subscription streaming service. [/teaser] CBS has revealed plans to launch a spinoff of 'The Good Wife' on its CBS All Access streaming platform. The currently untitled spinoff is now the second original CBS All Access series to be unveiled, joining the previously announced 'Star Trek' show. "Our original programming strategy for CBS All Access is data-driven and focused on exclusive, premium content that will continue to expand the value of our service to subscribers," said Marc DeBevoise, Executive Vice President and General Manager, CBS Digital Media. "'The Good Wife' is consistently one of our most-watched series across digital platforms, and this new series, with the incredible storytellers and marquee talent that have signed on, is a perfect addition to CBS All Access's premium original programming slate." The spinoff will pick up one year after the events of the final episode of 'The Good Wife,' and will star Christine Baranski as the beloved "Diane Lockhart," the role which earned her six Emmy Award nominations. Baranski will be joined by Cush Jumbo as "Lucca Quinn," along with several new characters as the story evolves. Robert & Michelle King are on board as co-creators and executive producers along with Phil Alden Robinson ('Field of Dreams'). In addition, Ridley Scott, David Zucker, Liz Glotzer and Brooke Kennedy will also serve as executive producers. The show will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Scott Free Productions and King Size Productions. "The quality of 'The Good Wife' has always rivaled anything on television and we’re excited to tell more stories with some of the brilliant characters Robert and Michelle King created," said David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios. An exact premiere date have not been announced yet, but 'The Good Wife' spinoff will launch in the spring of 2017 in the US exclusively through CBS All Access. A CBS All Access subscription currently costs $6 per month. Source: CBSPosted Fri May 20, 2016 at 12:15 PM PDT by: -
'Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete First Season' Dated and Blu-ray Pre-Orders Up[teaser]The first season of the hit series starring Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless is bound for Blu-ray this August. [/teaser] In an early announcement to retailers, Starz/Anchor Bay says 'Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete First Season' will be summoned to Blu-ray on August 23. Ash has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope. No other details have been revealed at this time. You can find the latest specs for 'Ash vs Evil Dead: The Complete First Season' linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where it is indexed under August 23. Order the Blu-rayPosted Fri May 20, 2016 at 12:00 PM PDT by:
