Chariots of Fire Two Disc Special Edition Leads Warner Home Video's Best Picture Oscar 2005 Promotion; The Life of Emile Zola, The Broadway Melody Make DVD Debut Day & Date.BURBANK, Calif. -- 15 Other Best Picture Winners Complete the Promotion Including Three New Oscar Gift Sets The 77th Annual Academy Awards will be held in Los Angeles on February 27, 2005. On February 1, Warner Home Video Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980. will celebrate its 18 Oscar(R)-winning Best Pictures on 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. -- more than any other studio -- with DVD debuts of three Best Picture winners. WHV's 15 other Best Picture Oscar winners will also be available on DVD February 1. Leading the way will be a brand new Chariots of Fire Two Disc Special Edition. Highly anticipated since its September 2003 hiatus and now available for the first time in widescreen, Chariots of Fire features more than three-and-a-half hours of extras including commentary by director Hugh Hudson, new making-of and cast/crew documentaries, twenty minutes of additional scenes and actor screen tests. The DVD will be priced at $26.99 SRP SRP - A data link layer protocol. . Also included are two Oscar(R) Best Picture titles making their DVD debut: 1938's The Life of Emile Zola and 1930's The Broadway Melody -- with special features including radio productions, musical and dramatic shorts, cartoons, trailers and more. The Life of Emile Zola and The Broadway Melody will both be available for $19.97 SRP. And for the new DVD collector, WHV is offering special Best Picture collections at discounted pricing for essential collections. The Best Picture Oscar Drama pack includes Amadeus, Casablanca Two-Disc Special Edition, Driving Miss Daisy Driving Miss Daisy is a 1987 play by Alfred Uhry about the relationship of an elderly Southern Jewish lady shares with her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Colburn, over the span of several decades. , The Life of Emile Zola and Mrs. Miniver min·i·ver n. A white or light gray fur used as a trim on medieval robes and on ceremonial robes of state. [Middle English meniver, from Old French menu vair, small vair : . The Best Picture Oscar Musical pack includes My Fair Lady Two-Disc Special Edition, An American in Paris
An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin, composed in 1928. , The Broadway Melody, Gigi and The Great Ziegfeld. The Best Picture Oscar Adventure pack includes Ben-Hur, Around the World in 80 Days Two-Disc Special Edition, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mutiny on the Bounty Mutiny on the Bounty activities of mutineers, Captain Bligh, island wanderings (1789). [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty] See : Rebellion and Unforgiven. Each Oscar pack contains five Best Picture films and will sell for $64.98 SRP. Note to Editors: E-mail requests for materials to karenpenhale@cs-pr.com. Photo material downloadable at www.whvdirect.com. |
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