Almost Famous will be shown on August 14th as part of Seattle’s “Movies on the Pedestal”. Here’s the description:
Movie viewing under the starry nights and in the heart of downtown Seattle. Rainier Tower’s unique pedestal doubles as a 50′ movie screen. Movie starts 30 minutes after sunset on Thursdays. FREE!
Jerry Maguire will be presented in widescreen 1.85:1 1080p video and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio in English, French and Portuguese.
Supplemental features mirror the 2 DVD special edition with no Blu-ray exclusives. The video commentary will not be included via Picture in Picture (PIP).
Jerry Maguire on Blu-ray will carry an SRP of $28.95 when it’s released on September 9, 2008.
Sony has announced that Jerry Maguire will hit Blu-Ray on September 9th (a tie in with the start of Football season?). No details have been released yet, but expect all the extras from the standard DVD. I will keep you posted…
“From 10-minute, three-guitar jams, to heartbreaking acoustic ballads, April shines with the most evocative music of Kozelek’s career.”- Jonathan Cohen, Billboard
“Mark Kozelek returns with an album of rare warmth and immediacy, where intensely personal lyrics hang on hazily magnificent melodies.”- Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle
“April”, the new album from Sun Kil Moon, is Mark Kozelek’s first original record since the acclaimed 2003 Sun Kil Moon debut “Ghosts Of The Great Highway”.
11 songs at almost 74 minutes, “April” is a collection of songs recorded between March and August 2007 in San Francisco (Hyde Street Studios) and Seattle (Well Recording). In the spirit of Sun Kil Moon’s “Ghosts” and “Tiny Cities”, Mark was joined by the same players as before,including drummer Anthony Koutsos (Red House Painters), bassist Geoff Stanfield (Black Lab), violist Michi Aceret, and percussionist David Revelli. “April” also finds Mark in the company of guest vocalists Bonnie Prince Billy, Ben Gibbard, and Eric Pollard (Retribution Gospel Choir).
Limited Edition vinyl of 2000 copies:
From time to time, I’d like to feature an audio interview or podcast that you might have missed. This week’s audio is a good one from December 1996. Cameron sits down with Elvis Mitchell as they discuss Jerry Maguire.
I was very excited to see the UK release (Sony Pictures) of Almost Famous arrive in my mailbox today! I thought I would provide a report as I know many of you are interested.
The BD is all regions. So it will play on all U.S. machines. This is the “Untitled” version. The picture quality is stunning. It’s a certainly a significant step up from standard DVD. Your HDTV will be smiling!!!
Audio quality is also great. The BD includes True HD 5.1
Extras are slim, but this may be a rights issue overseas. The BD includes the Lester Bangs interview and B-sides (now titled “Love Comes and Goes”) from the Bootleg Cut DVD. No other extras are included (except for trailers from Across the Universe and Close Encounters of the Third Kind).
Now that the format war is all but over (Best Buy, Netflix and WalMart all announced they would only support Blu-ray in the coming months), I’m hopeful will see more of Cameron’s films on Blu-ray soon….but this will definitely hold me over until then!!!!!!
Bill Hader and Seth Rogen in Sony Pictures new film, Superbad.
A story I missed from awhile back..Seth Rogen talked with PopMatters during the press for Superbad. He had this to say:
What were your favorite high school movies?
Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the best high school movie ever, but the opening party scene in Say Anything was the most realistic high school party scene ever depicted in the movies.
If you previously visited “The Uncool”, you know how much I love the various international posters and DVD covers. Today we’ll take a peek at a collection of German DVD covers that I recently stumbled across and thought I’d share…
