Jackass number two Seven years

Jackass number two

Seven years later, 8, 773 competed in the same event with the winner taking home 12 million. So though Rounders was a theatrical bust, the poker boom made it a home video smash, grossing 70 million in profit for Miramax. The film was recently on a list of catalog titles Miramax was hoping to sequelize along with The Weinstein Company and this week Harvey Weinstein himself, a producer of the original movie and former head of the studio that released it, said he s still trying to get a sequel to Rounders made. Read More When DVD began permeating the culture a little over a decade ago, Steven Spielberg was famously one of the last filmmakers to embrace the format. He s shown a similar aversion to Blu-ray with only a handful of his films Saving Private Ryan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, War of the Worlds available on the high definition discs. Those tides seem to be turning though, as in a recent interview with Ain t It Cool News tied to the upcoming 36th anniversary of Jaws, Spielberg said they re currently working on a Blu-ray of that 1975 hit. Plus, the film credited with starting the modern summer blockbuster won t have any digital corrections. Read his quotes after the break. Read More Has anyone actually ordered a movie off DirecTV s controversial Premium Video On Demand service? Beginning in April, several studios teamed up with the cable provider to offer their movies only two months after they hit theaters for the price of 95, much to the dismay of theater owners and filmmakers alike. According to The Hollywood Reporter, there is persistent buzz that it has fallen flat among consumers. Still, major filmmakers are continuing to stand up against the service, probably because as the summer season wears on, the selections will get better than the currently, and soon to be, available Sucker Punch or Battle: Los Angeles. Previously, filmmakers like James Cameron, Michael Bay, Peter Jackson and more signed an open letter written by the National Association of Theater Owners vehemently attacking this service and now Christopher Nolan, Jon Favreau, Quentin Tarantino, M. Night Shyamalan, David Dobkin, Mark Boal and others have also signed the letter. We ve printed it in the past, but you can once again read it after the jump. Read More Everyone is still trying to figure out the magical formula for the home release of a movie. Studios like Sony, Universal, Warner Brothers and Fox are now releasing some of their movies On Demand two months after they premiere in theaters. Smaller companies like IFC release their films on demand before they open in theaters and the latest experiment comes from Summit Entertainment which will be releasing Duncan Jones sophomore effort Source Code on demand July 8, two weeks before it arrives on Blu-ray July What exactly do they expect that to accomplish? Find out after the break. Read More UPDATE : The Hollywood Reporter now says that The Lion King will be getting a full theatrical 3D re-release on September 16 leading up to the Blu-ray release October Read more about the update after the jump. Original article follows. When Disney released The Lion King in 1994, they were kicking on all cylinders. They d recently released The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin but after the quality of those films, a follow-up seemed impossible. However, The Lion King delivered big time and to this day remains one of Disney s most successful films of all time. Though it had a very solid DVD release in 2003, that disc is now out of print so Disney will officially re-release the film not only on Blu-ray, but on 3D Blu-ray later this fall. Yes, The Lion King is getting a 3D post-conversion. They re even re-releasing the film theatrically, in 3D, at at least one location, Disney s flagship theater, the El Capitan in Hollywood CA from September 2 through October Want to get even more excited? Check out the trailer for the 3D release after the break. Read More We re not even halfway through 2011, but it s safe to say that Zack Snyder s Sucker Punch has been one of the year s biggest disappointments. When Snyder premiered footage from the film at San Diego Comic Con 2010, many fans myself included ate it up, anticipating a mind-bending, genre-blending, roller coaster ride of geeky goodness and that anticipation built with each and every piece of material released. Then the film came out. And it was incoherent, boring and frankly tame. Maybe that ll change on June 28 when Warner Bros. releases an R-rated, extended cut of the film on the Blu-ray with an extra 18 minutes of footage. After the jump, read about one of the extended scenes and more. Read More For the better part of two decades, three letters defined home entertainment: VHS. The video format carved a very important niche in movie history and then, in what seemed like an instant, disappeared. Phrases like video stores, be kind rewind, tracking and late fees were simply removed from the film geek lexicon. Thanks DVD. As most of us threw jackass number two our VCR s in favor of the newer, cheaper, more reliable format, others were simply too attached and invested. They craved the days when buying a movie wasn t as cool as getting a blank tape and recording off HBO. As it stands now, VHS is a dying and therefore collectible format. Best known for their incredibly popular posters, Mondo has decided to bask in that 80s and 90s nostalgia and launch their very own VHS label called Mondo Video. Their first jackass number two comes out this week, the 1983 cult horror film Sledgehammer which was shot on tape. The VHS release coincides with not only the film s DVD release but a screening at the Drafthouse in Austin. Check out the box art, a clip from the movie and much more after the jump.