Shout! Factory Adding Rom-Com Classic To Its Shout! Select Series

Courtesy: Castle Rock Entertainment/Shout! Factory

Castle Rock Entertainment’s classic 1989 rom-com When Harry Met Sally is getting the Blu-ray re-issue treatment.

Shout! Factory will re-issue the modern classic as part of its ongoing Shout! Select series on Jan. 8. in a special 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition release with 4K scan and bonus material. Those bonuses include a new interview with Director Rob Reiner (Misery, Stand By Me) and lead star Billy Crystal (Monsters Inc., Monsters University, City Slickers) as well as two separate feature-length audio commentaries, deleted scenes, “making of” documentary and more.

The full listing of the movie’s bonus material is noted below.

Special Features:

• NEW transfer restored from a 4K scan of the original camera negative
• NEW Scenes from a Friendship – interview with Rob Reiner and Billy Crystal
• Audio Commentary with Rob Reiner, Nora Ephron, And Billy Crystal
• Audio Commentary with Rob Reiner
• How Harry Met Sally Documentary
• Vintage Featurettes
• Deleted Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Music Video by Harry Connick Jr.

When Harry Met Sally centers on the love story between Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan — Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, City of Angels) as the pair’s paths cross time and again following their graduation from The University of Chicago. Eventually, the pair reunites and is forced to come to terms with their situation and determine if a man and woman can just be friends, or if there is more to their friendship than they are admitting to themselves and one another.

When Harry Met Sally also co-stars the late, great Carrie Fisher (Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi) and Bruno Kirby (City Clickers, Good Morning, Vietnam, Sleepers). Pre-orders are open now.

More information on this and other titles from Shout! Factory are available online now at:

 

Website: http://www.shoutfactory.com

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Shout! Factory To Re-Issue ‘City Slickers’ This Fall

Courtesy: Shout! Factory

Castle Rock Entertainment’s classic 1991 buddy comedy City Slickers is getting the re-issue treatment again.

The classic comedy will be re-issued on Blu-ray October 16 via Shout! Factory as part of the company’s ongoing Shout! Select series.  The latest re-issue of the movie is presented in a never-before-released 4K HD scan and also includes a handful of bonus materials. Pre-orders are open now.

The bonus material includes retrospective Back in the Saddle: City Slickers Revisited, Bringing in the Script: Writing City Slickers, A Star is Born: An Ode To Norman and The Real City Slickers.  A handful of deleted scenes are also included as extra bonus material.

The movie’s story follows Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal — Parental Guidance, Monsters Inc., Monsters University) as he heads out west on a mid-life crisis of sorts.  He doesn’t go alone though.  Also along for the ride, which turns into a heartfelt but funny journey of self discovery, are Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern — Home Alone 1 & 2, Bushwacked) and Ed (Bruno Kirby — When Harry Met Sally, Sleepers, Good Morning, Vietnam). The late great Jack Palance (Sudden Fear, Batman, Shane) leads the way on the journey.

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Mushroomhead Debuts ‘Devils Be Damned’ Video

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Mushroomhead is giving audiences another preview of its upcoming DVD.

The veteran Cleveland, Ohio-based band debuted the video for its song ‘Devils Be Damned‘ today. Filmed inside the infamous Ohio State Reformatory, which doubled as the infamous Shawshank Prison (yes, that Shawshank Prison), from Castle Rock Entertainment’s 1994 drama The Shawshank Redemption.  The video features the band performing its new single at various locations inside the prison as a young girl makes her way through its halls before finally finding a place of comfort inside the otherwise imposing structure.

Band founder and drummer Steve “Skinny” Felton offered his own interesting insight into the video in a recent interview with Ultimate Guitar, saying that the same tunnel used by Tim Robbins’ character Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption was also used in this video.

“There’s a scene [in the video] where the little girl is crawling through the tunnel — that’s the same tunnel that Tim Robbins crawled through at the end of the movie — you know, the whole ‘Andy Dufresne – who crawled through a river of s*** and came out clean on the other side’ line — that’s the same tunnel she crawled through.”

The video’s debut comes a little more than a month after the debut of the video for ‘We Are The Truth.’  That video is themed after Renaissance Pictures’ famed 1981 horror movie Evil Dead.  Specifically, the video debuted July 8.

Both songs are included in the Mushroomhead’s most recent full-length studio recording, 2014’s The Righteous and the Butterfly.  The videos will both be included as part of the presentation for Volume III.

Volume III is scheduled to be released August 17. The band will launch a tour in support of the DVD the same day. The nearly month-long tour includes stops in Virginia Beach, Virginia; Seattle, Washington; Salt Lake City, Utah and a handful of other cities. The tour’s current schedule is noted below.

The Summer of Screams tour line-up:
MUSHROOMHEAD
Powerman 5000 (9-2 to 9-15)
The Browning
Psychostick (8-17 to 8-31)
Kissing Candice
Unsaid Fate
Voodoo Terror Tribe (8-17 to 8-30)/Earth Caller (8-31 to 9-15)

The Summer of Screams tour dates:
8/17 – Indianapolis, IN @ Emerson Theater

8/18 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theater

8/19 – Toronto, ON @ Rockpile West

8/21 – Manchester, NH @ Bungalow

8/22 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance

8/23 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Shaka’s

8/24 – Spartanburg, SC @ Groundzero

8/25 – Huntsville, AL @ Sidetracks Music Hall

8/26 – New Orleans, LA @ Southport Music Hall

8/28 – Houston, TX @ Houston Underground

8/29 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live

8/30 – Laredo, TX @ Ethos Live

8/31 – Fort Worth, TX @ The Rail Club

9/2 – Los Angeles, CA @ 1720

9/4 – Orangevale, CA@ The Boardwalk

9/5 – Portland, OR @ Dante’s

9/6 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon

9/7 – Billings, MT @ Pub Station

9/8 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex

9/9 – Denver, CO @ Roxy Theater

9/11 – Merriam, KS @ Aftershock

9/12 – Waterloo, IA @ Spicoli’s

9/13 – Minneapolis, MN – Skyway Theatre

9/14 – Ringle, WI @ Q & Z Expo Center

9/15 – Chicago, IL @ Patio Theater

Along with its live dates, the band has also announced a handful of signing dates, which align with the band’s tour.  Those dates are noted below.

MUSHROOMHEAD Signing Dates: 
8/22 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ Darkside (611 Dutchess Turnpike) – Begins 6:00 PM
8/28 – Houston, TX @ Cactus (2110 Portsmouth St) – Begins 6:00 PM
8/29 – Austin, TX @ Waterloo (600 N Lamar Blvd) – Begins 5:00 PM
9/5 – Portland, OR @ Music Millennium (3158 E Burnside St) – Begins 6:00 PM (tentative, check local listing)
9/6 – Seattle, WA @ Silver Platters (2930 1st Ave S) – Begins 6:00 PM (tentative, check local listing)
9/7 – Billings, MT @ Ernie November (1825 Grand Ave) – Begins 6:00 PM

Volume III comes 10 years after the release of the band’s second DVD, aptly titled Volume II (2008) and 13 years after the release of its debut DVD, Volume I (2005). A trailer for the DVD is streaming online now here.

More information on Mushroomhead’s new DVD is available online now at:

 

Website: http://www.mushroomhead.com

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/mushroomhead

 

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