Home Entertainment
June 20, 2014
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Announces Blu-ray Anniversary Titles to Be Released as the First New Diamond Luxe Editions September 30
(June 20, 2014 – Burbank, CA) – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced details of five new Blu-ray anniversary titles, the first to be released as the studio’s distinctive new sleek Diamond Luxe Editions: “The Green Mile 15th Anniversary Edition,” “Natural Born Killers 20th Anniversary Edition,” “Forrest Gump 20th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition,” “Gremlins: 30th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition” and “Ben-Hur: Two-Disc Blu-ray with Bonus Special Features Disc.”
The five titles ($24.98 SRP each) will have new and/or several vintage bonus features as outlined below.
“The Green Mile 15th Anniversary Edition” Blu-ray
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Frank Darabont’s “The Green Mile” was adapted from Stephen King’s 1996 best-seller. The two-disc set will include vintage bonus features plus a new high-def documentary feature, “Walking the Mile” (Extended Version) with star Tom Hanks, Darabont, Stephen King and Mr. Jingles the mouse. This exclusive first-person making-of documentary feature was shot on location in Tennessee, North Carolina and Los Angeles. Special Features:
This 1994 Venice Film Festival winner captures Oliver’s Stone’s hallucinogenic ride through the minds and exploits of two cold-blooded lovers (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), and is a powerful, gut-grabbing look at how violence and crime are sensationalized and glamorized in the media. This anniversary edition will contain two versions of the film (Theatrical version and Director’s Cut), and a new high-def featurette “Natural Born Killers: Method in the Madness,” a rare glimpse provided by director Stone, editor Hank Corwin and technical advisor Dale Dye into the creative process that gave birth to this provocative, unapologetically violent piece of American cinema. Special Features:
“Forrest Gump” is the movie triumph that became a phenomenon. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest, an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation. The winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis) and Best Actor (Tom Hanks). Special Features:
“Gremlins,” written by Chris Columbus and directed by Joe Dante, is a wildly original roller-coaster about supposedly gentle furballs who create their own rules about their care and feeding. Michael Finnell produced and Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Steven Spielberg executive produced. Special Features:
William Wyler’s unforgettable epic spectacle, full of visual splendor, thundering action and towering drama, won a record-setting 11 Academy Awards (1959) including Best Motion Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Charlton Heston, in his Best Actor Oscar-winning role, is Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ. Truly an enduring and spellbinding spectacular. Special Features:###
Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, Frank Darabont’s “The Green Mile” was adapted from Stephen King’s 1996 best-seller. The two-disc set will include vintage bonus features plus a new high-def documentary feature, “Walking the Mile” (Extended Version) with star Tom Hanks, Darabont, Stephen King and Mr. Jingles the mouse. This exclusive first-person making-of documentary feature was shot on location in Tennessee, North Carolina and Los Angeles. Special Features:
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• “Walking the Mile” (Extended Version) NEW! High-def documentary feature starring Tom Hanks, Frank Darabont, Stephen King, and Mr. Jingles, the mouse
• Commentary by Frank Darabont
• The Teaser Trailer: A Case Study
• “Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile”
• “Miracles and Mystery: Creating the Green Mile- Stephen King: Storyteller”
• “Miracles and Mystery: Creating the Green Mile- The Art of Adaptation”
• “Miracles and Mystery: Creating the Green Mile- Acting on the Mile”
• “Miracles and Mystery: Creating the Green Mile- Designing the Mile”
• “Miracles and Mystery: Creating the Green Mile- The Magic of the Mile”
• “Miracles and Mystery: Creating the Green Mile- The Tail of Mr. Jingles”
• Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Frank Darabont
• Michael Clarke Duncan's Screen Test
• Tom Hank's Makeup Test
• Teaser
• Trailer
This 1994 Venice Film Festival winner captures Oliver’s Stone’s hallucinogenic ride through the minds and exploits of two cold-blooded lovers (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), and is a powerful, gut-grabbing look at how violence and crime are sensationalized and glamorized in the media. This anniversary edition will contain two versions of the film (Theatrical version and Director’s Cut), and a new high-def featurette “Natural Born Killers: Method in the Madness,” a rare glimpse provided by director Stone, editor Hank Corwin and technical advisor Dale Dye into the creative process that gave birth to this provocative, unapologetically violent piece of American cinema. Special Features:
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• “Natural Born Killers: Method in the Madness” NEW! High-def featurette with Oliver Stone, editor Hank Corwin and technical advisor Dale Dye
• Commentaries by Oliver Stone (Theatrical version and Director’s Cut)
• Introduction by Oliver Stone (2009)
• “Natural Born Killers Evolution: How Would It All Go Down Now?”
• “Chaos Rising: The Storm Around Natural Born Killers”
• "The Charlie Rose Show"
• Alternate Ending with Optional Commentary by Oliver Stone
• Alternate Ending
• Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Oliver Stone.
• Trailer
“Forrest Gump” is the movie triumph that became a phenomenon. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest, an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation. The winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis) and Best Actor (Tom Hanks). Special Features:
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• “Greenbow Diary” (HD)
• “The Art of Screenplay Adaptation” (HD)
• “Little Forrest” (HD)
• “An Evening with Forrest Gump” (HD)
• “Easter Egg: Groom on Gump” (HD)
• “The Make-up of Forrest Gump”
• “Through the Ears of Forrest Gump – Sound Design”
• “Building The World of Forrest Gump”
• “Seeing is Believing – The Visual Effects of Forrest Gump”
• Screen Tests
• Theatrical Trailer (HD)
• Remember Trailer (HD)
“Gremlins,” written by Chris Columbus and directed by Joe Dante, is a wildly original roller-coaster about supposedly gentle furballs who create their own rules about their care and feeding. Michael Finnell produced and Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Steven Spielberg executive produced. Special Features:
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• “From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures” (NEW!) Special effects wizard Chris Walas plus the filmmakers and cast guide us through the art of creating Gremlins Gizmo and Stripe, how the puppets worked (or didn’t!) and how their voices came to be.
• “Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins” (NEW!) Steven Spielberg tells how he found the screenplay for “Gremlins” and why it was perfect for his then-new company Amblin Entertainment. Dante, Marshall and Finnell also participate.
• Motion Comic of the 1984 Book "Gremlins: The Gift of the Mogwai" (NEW!)
• Motion Comic of the 1984 Book "The Last Gremlin" (NEW!)
• “Hangin' With Hoyt on the Set of Gremlins” (NEW!)
William Wyler’s unforgettable epic spectacle, full of visual splendor, thundering action and towering drama, won a record-setting 11 Academy Awards (1959) including Best Motion Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. Charlton Heston, in his Best Actor Oscar-winning role, is Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, vengeance against his tormentors during a furious arena chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ. Truly an enduring and spellbinding spectacular. Special Features:
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• Commentary by film historian T. Gene Hatcher and Charlton Heston
• Feature Length Documentary: “Charlton Heston & Ben-Hur: A Personal Journey” - Retrospective on the “Ben-Hur” star, written and directed by his son Fraser C. Heston, featuring never-before-available images and footage from the Heston family archives
• The 1925 Silent Version – Thames Television
• Restoration with Stereophonic Orchestral Score by Carl Davis
• Vintage Documentaries “Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema” and “Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic”
• “Ben-Hur: A Journey Through Pictures” – Audiovisual Recreation Via Stills, Storyboards, Sketches, Music and Dialogue
• Screen Tests
• Highlights from the 1960 Academy Awards Telecast
• Newsreels