Artisan Home Entertainment Joins Revolution Against Bad, Over-Budgeted Hollywood Movies With Release of John Waters' `Cecil B. Demented' Starring Melanie Griffith and Stephen Dorff.Entertainment Editors SANTA MONICA Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Dec. 20, 2000 The Revolution Has Begun! Available on Rental VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. Sell Through on Jan. 23, 2001 John Water's "Cecil B. Demented," the irreverent and critically acclaimed new comedy starring Melanie Griffith and Stephen Dorff Stephen Dorff (born July 29, 1973) is an American actor, best known for portraying Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat and for his roles in Blade and Cecil B. DeMented. Acting Born in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. , is available on VHS for rental and sell through on DVD on Jan. 23, 2001. The "Cecil B. Demented" DVD edition is packed with special features, including 16:9 widescreen, 5.1 Dolby Digital A digital audio encoding system from Dolby used in movie and home theaters. First used in 1995, Dolby Digital employs Dolby's AC-3 (Audio Coding-3) coding and compression technology and is the standard for DVD-Video and HDTV. 5. Audio, a hilarious audio commentary by director John Waters, Comedy Central's Special "Canned Ham: Cecil B. Demented" (a 30-minute program), theatrical trailers, cast and crew information, and production notes. "Cecil B. Demented" is John Waters' ("Pink Flamingos," "Serial Mom," "Polyester") insane action-comedy about a young lunatic director (Stephen Dorff) and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists who kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess (Melanie Griffith) and force her to star in their radical underground movie. Vowing to punish the crass sins of commercial cinema, fueled by revolutionary zeal and their self-imposed sexual frustration, Cecil B. Demented and his guerilla production crew invade the streets of Baltimore to shoot their no-budget epic. When Cecil B. Demented says "Action," he means action, and nothing is going to stand in his way. Artisan Entertainment Inc. is a leading independent entertainment company that produces and distributes motion pictures and other programming in the home entertainment, theatrical, broadcast and pay television and Internet markets. The company has an extensive library of more than 6,700 titles for which it predominately has U.S. and Canadian home entertainment distribution rights. Artisan's library includes home entertainment rights for event movies such as "Terminator," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," "Dirty Dancing," "The Blair Witch Project," "Buena Vista Social Club The Buena Vista Social Club was a members club in Havana, Cuba that held dances and musical activities, becoming a popular location for musicians to meet and play during the 1940s. " and the "Rambo" series, as well as classic movies such as "It's a Wonderful Life" and Academy Award winners such as "On Golden Pond On Golden Pond is a play by Ernest Thompson. It focuses on aging couple Ethel and Norman Thayer, who spend each summer at their home on Golden Pond. This year they are visited by daughter Chelsea with her fiancé and his son in tow. ," "The Last Emperor" and "The Piano." Artisan Entertainment also has a joint venture with Marvel Enterprises to develop, produce and distribute character-based programming across multimedia outlets. Artisan Home Entertainment distributes video product directly to more than 12,000 retail stores in the United States from popular brands such as Discovery, Hallmark and its own Family Home Entertainment brand which has released such titles as "Merlin," "Alice in Wonderland," and "Clifford The Big Red Dog" and award-winning product from The Baby Einstein Company. For more information, call Jenny Bendel at mPRm Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most at 323/933-3399, or visit www.artisanent.com. |
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