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07-07-2008, 04:03 PM
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Ronald Epstein
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WHV Press Release: A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition (DVD/Blu-ray)
A 25th Anniversary Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas...
A CHRISTMAS STORY
ULTIMATE COLLECTOR’S EDITION
ON DVD & BLU-RAY™ HI- DEF NOVEMBER 4
Retro Tin Packaging Includes Great Goodies Perfect for Gift-Giving Season
Burbank, Calif., July 7, 2008 – On November 4, Warner Home Video serves up an old-fashioned holiday treat with DVD and Blu-ray™ Hi-Def Ultimate Collector’s Editions of celebrated humorist Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story to commemorate the film’s 25th Anniversary. Ingredients in the Two-Disc DVD version ($39.99 SRP) include five collectible cookie cutters in iconic Christmas Story shapes; a 48-page cook book filled with recipes inspired by the film; photos and quotes and a custom-designed chef’s apron.
All will be festively packaged in a collectible retro holiday cookie tin. Also in a nostalgic tin, A Christmas Story UCE Blu-ray™ Hi-Def ($49.99 SRP) will include a Leg Lamp light strand.
The stand alone, previously released single versions of the film are also available. The previously released Two-Disc Special Edition ($26.99 SRP) will be available in new Amaray packing. A Christmas Story Blu-ray™ Hi-Def will sell for $28.99 SRP.
About A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story, a nostalgic view of Christmastime in Indiana during the 1940s, stars Peter Billingsley as Ralphie, a nine-year-old who has only one thing on his Christmas list: a Red Ryder Carbine-Action 200-Shot Air Rifle. With his parents unwilling to buy him the gun because he might “shoot his eye out,” Ralphie decides to mount a full-scale, hint-dropping, Santa-begging campaign. He also endures a slew of calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit. The New York Times calls A Christmas Story, “maybe the best Christmas movie ever.”
Special Features:
Disc 1
· Feature film (Widescreen)
Disc 2
· Commentary with Peter Billingsley and director/ co-writer Bob Clark
· Original readings by Jean Shepard, author and voice narrator of A Christmas Story
· Documentary: Another Christmas Story
· Featurette: Get a Leg Up
· Featurette: A History of the Daisy Red Ryder
· Triple Dog Dare Interactive Trivia
· Decoder Match Challenge
· Hidden “Presents”
· Original theatrical trailer
The Blu-ray™ Hi-Def edition will include the same special features all on one disc.
A Christmas Story Ultimate Collector’s Edition
Street Date: November 4, 2008
$39.99 SRP
Blu-ray™ Hi-Def Catalog
$49.99 SRP
A Christmas Story Two-Disc Special Edition
$26.99 SRP
A Christmas Story Blu-ray™ Hi-Def
$28.99 SRP
Feature Running Time: 93 minutes -- Rated: PG
16x9 Widescreen
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
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07-07-2008, 05:22 PM
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Re: WHV Press Release: A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition (DVD/Blu-ray)
Sold!
Why is the commentary on Disc 2?
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07-07-2008, 10:28 PM
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Re: WHV Press Release: A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition (DVD/Blu-ray)
What a waste of time. Sounds like it's the exact same disc that came out a couple of years ago, all those extras were on the prior release.
Last edited by Mike_Richardson : 07-07-2008 at 10:32 PM.
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07-08-2008, 06:13 AM
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John Steffens
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Re: WHV Press Release: A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition (DVD/Blu-ray)
It's Blu-ray.
SOLD!
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07-08-2008, 10:24 AM
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Kelly
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Re: WHV Press Release: A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition (DVD/Blu-ray)
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Also in a nostalgic tin, A Christmas Story UCE Blu-ray™ Hi-Def ($49.99 SRP) will include a Leg Lamp light strand.
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Not fair I want a Leg Lamp light stand!
Oh well since I never got around to getting the 2-Disc DVD last Christmas I will ask for this and put it on my Christmas list for this year!
Most Wanted on DVD: Little Nellie Kelly (1940), Bachelor Mother (1939), Waterloo Bridge (1940), Tin Pan Alley (1940), Mother Wore Tights (1947), Easy to Love (1953), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), Penelope (1966), The Opposite Sex (1956), Lovely to Look At (1952), Naughty Marietta (1935), Maytime (1936), I Married a Witch (1942), I Married an Angel (1942), Mrs. Parkington (1944), Rosalie (1937), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), Million Dollar Mermaid (1952), Show Boat (1936), Woman's World (1954), Remember the Night (1940), The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949), Springtime in the Rockies (1942), Holiday in Mexico (1946), Reckless (1935), Song of the Islands (1942), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), The Enchanted Cottage (1945), A Stolen Life (1946), Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938), Too Young to Kiss (1951), Jupiter's Darling (1955), If You Could Only Cook (1935), Show People (1928), Their Own Desire (1929), George Washington Slept Here (1942), Four Daughters (1938)
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07-08-2008, 11:18 AM
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Re: WHV Press Release: A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition (DVD/Blu-ray)
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It's Blu-ray.
SOLD!
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It's already ON Blu-Ray.
You're excited about the apron then? |
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07-08-2008, 05:57 PM
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Re: WHV Press Release: A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition (DVD/Blu-ray)
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What a waste of time. Sounds like it's the exact same disc that came out a couple of years ago, all those extras were on the prior release.
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I didn't even know that! I always thought the current releases were bare bones. I do live in R2 land however, so it could have slipped me by quite easily. |
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07-09-2008, 07:09 AM
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James Perry
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Re: WHV Press Release: A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition (DVD/Blu-ray)
Wow. I was going to pick up the standard this year but I'll wait and grab this when I finally buy a BR player. Cool!
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