From community.livejournal, Death Proof is in stores September 18th, and Planet Terror is in stores October 16th.
EDIT: Special features!
Quentin Tarantino's serial-killer homage to the old school car chase film, Death Proof will hit shelves with over 30 minutes of additional, never-before-seen footage including the maddening "missing reel" (containing the excised lapdance sequence) as well as a black and white segment in the film's second act. The DVD will hit on September 18, 2007 for a price of $29.95. Features will include:
-Finding Quentin's Gals
-The Guys of Death Proof
-Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike
-Introducing Zoe Bell
-Quentin's Greatest Collaborator: Editor Sally Menke
-Double Dare trailer
-International Poster Gallery
Meanwhile, the Robert Rodriguez zombie entry, Planet Terror, will attack with more footage, deleted scenes, a full commentary and the infamous missing reel. That disc will drop on October 16, 2007 for a price of $29.95 and its features will include:
-Audio Commentary with Writer/Director Robert Rodriguez
-International trailer
-Deleted Scenes
-Cooking School
-10-Minute Film School
-The Stunts
-The Make-up and Effects
-The Badass Babes
-The Renegade Guys
-The Costumes
-The Production Design
15 comments:
I don't want to see the "missing footage" that was part of the film's charm!
Don't knock till you see it mister. I can't wait for these! Just in time for October...
They're always coming up with some irritating gimmick...just put out Grindhouse as a DVD!
I don't want to own Death Proof and Planet Terror; that SUCKS! I want to own Grindhouse because the unified holistic experience was so great. I want to see the big red melting GRINDHOUSE logo move across the screen with the bad music splice, and the trailers in the right places. I don't want to have to screw around with a remote and switching discs just to replicate that.
Other things just like this that have bothered me over the years:
1) Universal finally put out a boxed set of the Back to the Future VHS trilogy in 1992. I was totally going to buy it, until I went and looked and saw that the vinyl-covered boxed set held FOUR tapes: the three movies and a "bonus" tape called The Secrets of the Back to the Future Movies! So I didn't buy it. I don't need that shit. (These days it's better because they can just slip a bonus disc in there.) "Just put the movies in a box and sell them," I raged at the time. "Is that so hard?"
2) Lawrence of Arabia (like many 1950s and 1960s movies) begins with an overture -- a whole bunch of Maurice Jarre music over a black screen -- and then you get the Universal logo and the excellent opening title sequence (all one shot from above as T. E. Lawrence prepares his motorcycle for the mid-day jaunt that will kill him). The first chapter break of the DVD is AFTER the title sequence, so if you put in the DVD you only have two choices: Watch the overture (four minutes of black screen) or step forward one chapter AND MISS THE OPENING TITLES. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
3) The Blair Witch Project was shot on 16mm and Video8, in the 3x4 academy ratio, just like The Shining and Citizen Kane and hundreds of others. But for some reason they decided that we needed to see the movie reduced to 80% of its size with a black bar ALL THE WAY AROUND ALL FOUR SIDES of the image. Stupid, stupid, stupid...
On the other hand New Line made up for nearly all of this by putting out each of the Extended Versions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in their beautiful red/green/blue boxes...putting out a boxed set of all three, later...and then selling the box seperately for people like me who had bought them one by one and wished they had the box. Smart!
I missed Grindhouse but can still appreciate a good Jordan rant. I got that LOTR box as well. I don't know why but I remember feeling a little too much excitement about receiving an empty box in the mail.
I don't get the Back to the Future set though? Who cares if it had a bonus disc if it didn't cost any more? You could have quietly tossed it out and no one would be the wiser.
No, it had a bonus TAPE. A big box of FOUR tapes, 33% wider than a box of just the movies would have been, with the spines on your bookshelf linking up with the three movies followed by a garish "SECRETS OF THE TRILOGY!" white box.
LINING up
Ok, point well taken. But now I can't help but wonder what kind of secrets they divulged about the trilogy. I suppose I could look it up.
(seconds later) Well I didn't learn anything about the content other than that it was geared towards children (surprise, surprise) and it was hosted by Kirk "Intelligent Design Makes Perfect Sense to Me" Cameron.
(minutes later) And I found this: "This shows some hidden scenes like the mysterious hairdryer that Marty has on his belt when hes scaring his father. And what happens after old Biff exits the DeLorean in 2015 after returning from the past. Interesting notes on how they did the train scenes and just some over all interseting shots of the differnet DeLoreans from the 3 movies and secrets on how they did the Hoverboards."
Yeah, see what I mean? Who needs that shit? Am I supposed to buy the box set, throw that out, and then use the empty space to store my handkerchiefs or something?
I'm with you, Jordan! I especially hate over-sized DVD boxes. I want the new Blade Runner set but I really don't need the HUGE suitcase it comes in - how the hell am I supposed to put that on my shelves?
I'm with you, Jordan! I especially hate over-sized DVD boxes. I want the new Blade Runner set but I really don't need the HUGE suitcase it comes in - how the hell am I supposed to put that on my shelves?
BONUS COMMENT
SECRETS OF JPX'S DOUBLE POST
Who can forget the two times JPX wrote:
"I'm with you, Jordan! I especially hate over-sized DVD boxes. I want the new Blade Runner set but I really don't need the HUGE suitcase it comes in - how the hell am I supposed to put that on my shelves?"
NOW YOU CAN FIND OUT THESE "SECRETS"
1) WHY DID HE POST TWICE? hint: it was a mistake
2) THE "BLOOPERS" He actually typed "JORDAB" but changed it to "JORDAN" at the last minute. Scary!
3) THE "OUTTAKES" He was also going to write something about the MATRIX box set but he CHANGED HIS MIND at the last second!
All of this superfluous information is taking up lots of space here on this thread for your reading pleasure!
Ah but if you look at the time stamp you will see they were both posted at 12:04 so it's a blog error not a JPX error. I noticed Johnny posted the same thing twice on another post. I think the blog is cranky at times!
Jordan's on fire today!
I assumed JPX posted that twice to stress the fact that he REALLY hates those over-sized boxes.
What if they made a Back to the Future IV and it was great? Would you then regret not picking up the set? Surely the extra space could have been used to accomodate the 4th tape.
Oh that's right... they don't make VHS tapes anymore.
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