4th
March
2008
Ponderings For 2008-03-04
posted in Ponderings |- OK, video release screw-up of the month goes to 20th Century Fox for their Blu-Ray release of Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium. For what possible reason did they leave off every single special feature of this disc, as they previously announced? I mean, this format provides for 50gb of storage space. The movie is 94 minutes. What *POSSIBLE* reason did they have to not include the features? I mean, they certainly had enough room to toss a handful of trailers for their other films in the mix. So, I guess I’ll have to hunt down a pirate copy of the standard definition DVD online somewhere to get content they originally promised. Fox continues to go out of their way to torture early adopters, from their use of the awful, anti-consumer BD+ component on the format to their typically overpriced releases, to their constant feature-anemic releases. For a studio which has for years been my favorite theatrical release studio, their home video department has gone completely off the rails. And I used to have such great respect for 20th Century Home Entertainment. What the heck happened, Peter Staddon? Boo! Hiss! Incidentally, the score for Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium may easily grow into one of my favorites in recent years. Alexandre Desplat & Aaron Zigman did a phenomenal job with this score.
- Perhaps Jericho has a fighting chance after all
- The CW has announced a number of pick-ups for next season. Great to see Supernatural get the good news. You know, I wouldn’t have guessed that Smallville would last this long when it started oh so many years ago. Don’t get me wrong, I like the show, it just didn’t strike me as a likely candidate to last more than the 5 year magic point.
- Proof that some people actually get what’s coming.
- And, not to file this away as the last entry in a post, but here’s yet another piece of news on a possible Tron sequel, this time in 3D. Once the thing goes into production, then I’ll begin to get excited.
