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Anthology galore
September 15, 2006
What is it with anthologies this week? MGM is putting together the Rocky Anthology for Dec. 5 release (prebook Nov. 8), packaging all five movies--including the new two-disc Rocky: Collector's Edition of the first movie--into a thinpack, to ease our already stressed shelves. All that for $49.98. The new edition of Rocky, which also will be available separately for $26.98, packs punches with a new audio commentary by Sylvester Stallone (think he'll mention the upcoming Rocky IV theatrical release?), another new audio commentary by Boxing Legends trainer Lou Duva and commentator Bert Sugar. There's also a whopping six featurettes: "Three Rounds With Legendary Trainer Lou Duva," "Interview With a Legend: Bert Sugar," "The Opponents," "In the Ring: Making of Documentary," "Steadicam: Then & Now" (the expose we've all been waiting for), "Make Up!: The Art & Form With Michael Westmore" (phew, got to catch my breath...), "Staccato: A Composer's Notebook With Bill Conti" and--finally--"The Ring of Truth." But wait! There's more! Deleted scenes.
Scaring us into buyingIn time for Halloween,
Warner is delivering
The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology on Oct. 10 (prebook Sept. 5), priced at $42.92. Now you might be thinking this is an obvious, and it is, except for one thing--This really is the COMPLETE collection. And by that I mean that it has the usual
The Exorcist,
Exorcist II: The Heretic and
The Exorcist III, and even
The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen, but it also has Renny Harlin's
Exorcist: The Beginning and the black sheep of the family, Paul Schrader's
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist.
For those of you not in the know, Schrader was close to the end of production on
Dominion when the plug was pulled and Harlin was hired to redo the entire film. Harlin's version got the theatrical push, pulling in $41.8 million. But word was out and fans were clammoring to see what they were missing. So Schrader's
Dominion got a limited theatrical run and later DVD release. Schrader's version had a $30 million budget, and Harlin's $50 million, and they share Stellan Skarsgard as Father Merrin. Now the whole family is together and fans can decide for themselves. Let me know what you think.
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