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By John Delia

KUNG FU PANDA
Paramount Home Entertainment, Film Rated PG
Available: November 9, 2008

The movie involves Po, a huge and clumsy panda who wants to become a member of the Furious Five defenders of the realm. Po accidentally gets chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy and gets thrown in with his idols. His training is rigorous but after some heavy lumps he survives. When the treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung gets loose from the prison in which he has been held, Po gets the challenge of his life.

Special BONUS Features: Filmmakers' Commentary, Meet the Cast, Pushing the Boundaries, Sound Design, "Kung Fu Fighting" Music Video by Cee-Lo, Mr. Ping's Noodle House, How To Use Chopsticks, Conservation International: Help Save Wild Pandas, Dragon Warrior Training Academy, Printables & Weblinks, and DreamWorks Animation Video JukeBox. Blu-ray Disc includes different and additional extras and BD-Live.

SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO
First Look Home Entertainment, Film Rated R
Available: November 11, 2008

The film involves two clans of oriental warriors, the white and the red, who battle for treasure in a mountainside town. When a stranger with powerful fighting abilities comes to the town, the two clans try to get him on their side. The clans clash in an explosive ending.

Special Bonus Features: Making of Featurette and Deleted Scenes


WALL-E
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Film Rated G
Available: November 18, 2008

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth- Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races
back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen. Joining WALL•E on his fantastic journey across a universe of never-before-imagined visions of the future is a hilarious cast of characters including a pet cockroach, and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.

Special BONUS Features: Single Disc DVD includes; Presto, Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from The Sound Up, Audio Commentary by WALL-E, Deleted Scenes, and Easter Eggs. Three Disc DVD includes all that are on the Single Disc DVD plus; “DisneyFile” Digital Copy for Computers. Blu-ray DVD includes everything on the standard DVD plus; Cine-Explore, Geek Track, The Axiom Arcade, 3D Set Fly-Throughs, Disney BD-Live Network, Movie Chat, Movie Mail, Movie Challenge, and Disney Movie Rewards Live.

THE HANNA MONTANA DVD GAME
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Available: November 18, 2008

Find out what it really feels like to live the rock star life with eleven new interactive games sure to provide fun for the entire family. Guaranteed to get the festivities rolling, the Hannah Montana DVD Game allows fans to play as their favorite Hannah characters as they take center stage at a virtual Hannah Montana concert with “Pop Star, audition for Hannah’s band in the “Band Audition” drum game, learn the hottest new dance moves in “Dance Off” and re-live all the most memorable moments from the series with clips, pictures, trivia games and puzzles. BFFs will want to take the friendship quiz to find out if they are True Friends, or use the Party Play option to tackle team games like charades, as well as drawing and describing puzzles. Plus, it’s easy to play and requires no special equipment—just a DVD player and a remote control for hours of great family entertainment! . The game is qually enjoyable for single players, one to four multiple players, or two teams of two or more.

Disc Includes: Hanna Montana Trivia Challenge, Pop Star, Dance Off, Personality Quiz, Seeing Stars Memory Game, Say Whaat?!, Art Class, Helloo Drama!, True Friend, Keep the Beat and Band Audition.

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, Film Rated PG-13
Available: November 18, 2008

In this episode of Hellboy, the world has come under siege by a ruthless leader who has an unstoppable army clad in gold. Hellboy bans with his girlfriend Liz, aquatic Abe, and Johann a protoplasmic mystic in a fight to save the earth.

Special BONUS Features: Commentary with Director Guillermo del Toro, Commentary with Cast Members Jeffrey Tambor, Selma Blair and Luke Goss, Set Visits, Troll Market Tour with Guillermo del Toro, Animated Zinco Epilogue Comic, Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary by Director Guillermo del Toro. Blu-ray Disc includes different and additional extras, plus U-Control and BD-Live.

TROPIC THUNDER
Paramount Home Entertainment, Film Rated R
Available: November 18, 2008

Tugg Speedman, gets the lead in the biggest war epic of all time. But, expenses are running high, so the producer in order to cut the budger, decides to take the advice of the war scene advisor Tayback who feels they can shoot the film for less in South East Asia. When a renegade drug dealer’s army encounters the uniformed actors, they think their drugs are in jeopardy and start a battle. The cast retaliates until they find out it’s a real war.

Also available in the TROPIC THUNDER (2 DISC DIRECTORS CUT)
Version that is Unrated. (Same Storyline)

Special BONUS Features are in the Director’s Cut only: Audio commentary with Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., "Blowing Shit Up" featurette, "The Hot LZ" featurette, "7 Cast of Tropic Thunder" featurettes, Make-up test with Tom Cruise with optional intro by Ben Stiller and editor Greg Hayden, Full Mags (with Optional Intro by Ben Stiller and Greg Hayden), MTV Movie Awards - Tropic Thunder, Rain of Mandess trailer, and DreamWorks Public Service Announcement

SPACE CHIMPS
Fox Home Entertainment, Film Rated G
Available: November 25, 2008

The story surrounds Ham III, grandson of the first astronaut chimp that blasted into space leading the way to manned space flight. Ham III has lived in his grandfather’s shadow and has used the relationship to further his career as a stunt chimp in the circus. In an attempt to land a probe on a far distant planet, the U.S. Space Administration’s spaceship enters a wormhole and lands on a planet but looses its signal. If this project fails, space exploration will suffer a major setback. Not wanting to risk human astronauts that will have to traverse the wormhole in order to get to the probe and get it working, they decide to use chimps. When they hear that Ham III is working with a circus, they recruit the reluctant slacker chimp for the space adventure. But, retrieving the space probe is harder than they expected, especially since the evil dictator Zartog (Daniels) on the planet is using it as his way to control the population and loving it.

Special BONUS Features: Fox Movie Channel Presents Casting Session featurette, Still Gallery, TV Spots. Blu-ray Disc includes additional special feature; Trivia Blast Off" trivia track featuring on-screen facts about outer space, space travel and the Space Program.

HANCOCK
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Film Rated PG-13
Available: November 25, 2008

There are heroes… there are superheroes… and then there’s Hancock (Smith). With great power comes great responsibility – everyone knows that – everyone, that is, but Hancock. Edgy, conflicted, sarcastic, and misunderstood, Hancock’s well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. The public has finally had enough – as grateful as they are to have their local hero, the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn’t the kind of man who cares what other people think – until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey (Bateman), and the sardonic superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Facing that will be Hancock’s greatest challenge yet – and a task that may prove impossible as Ray’s wife, Mary (Theron), insists that he’s a lost cause.


Special Bonus Features: "Superhumans: The Making of Hancock" featurette, "Seeing the Future" featurette, "Building a Better Hero" featurette, "Bumps and Bruises" featurette, And "Mere Mortals: Behind the Scenes with 'Dirty Pete'" featurette. Blu-ray Disc includes Theatrical and Unrated Versions of Hancock, BD-Live, "Home Life" featurette, "Suiting Up" featurette and "On-Set Visual Diary" BonusView Picture-In-Picture, including a longer version of the Picture-In-Picture on the Unrated version of the film; plus a Bonus Digital Copy of the Film.

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