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| Updated June 22, 2006 DVD
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Big Momma's House 2 FoxVideo
Sesame Workshop has apparently been toying with the idea of releasing a DVD set featuring classic moments from Sesame Street. While nothing official has been announced just yet, Muppet News Flash has been talking with Sesame Workshop, and the company says a "Sesame Street Nostalgia Box Set" may be out by October of this year.
Release dates for new DVD releases this summer: June
6 -- Glory Road, Firewall, Running Scared, The Three Burials of
Melquiades Estrada, June 13 -- Dave Chappelle's Block Party, 16 Blocks, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The World's Fastest Indian, TV first seasons: "Walker, Texas Ranger," "Medium," "Dharma & Greg" June 20 -- 8 Below, Syriana, The Hills Have Eyes June
27 -- Annapolis, Cache, Failure To Launch, Madea's Family Reunion,
Why We Fight, July 4 -- The Libertine, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, TV first seasons: "Dr. Who" July 11 -- Basic Instinct 2, TV first seasons: "30 Days," "Perry Mason" July 18 -- She's the Man, Tsotsi, TV first seasons: "Amazing Stories," "The Incredible Hulk" July 25 -- Final Destination 3, Ask the Dust, TV first seasons: "JAG," "The Bill Cosby Show," "Rawhide" August 1 -- The Shaggy Dog, Mrs. Harris Aug. 8 -- V for Vendetta Aug. 15 -- Just My Luck, Thank You For Smoking, Scary Movie 4 Aug. 22 -- Lucky Number Slevin
TV Guide is giving away a free DVD of television clips to people on the East and West coasts who buy the magazine on the newsstand. The DVD features clips of 17 new and returning shows that editors recommend for summer viewing. The goal, TV Guide said, is to grab the attention of younger readers. While networks and magazines have teamed up on CD-ROM's and DVD's before, they have been promotional tools featuring single networks. Even though the networks provided the content free of charge, the overall cost of the project - estimated by one TV Guide executive at $300,000 - was too high to make it possible to give the DVD to magazine subscribers as well as newsstand buyers.
Police found tens of thousands of films, plus 40 DVD towers, nine DVD burners, eight DVD label printers and two industrial-size machines. The factory was capable of 24-hour production runs, with cramped and squalid living conditions on site. London police were called to make further investigations. This is the third major pirate operation that police have discovered in Greater London since February.
People who own pirate DVDs have been invited to watch their illegal copies being shredded - and receive the free genuine article in its place. Research shows 35% more people in the North-East of England have knowingly bought a pirate DVD than anywhere else in the UK. Retailers and suppliers are running a campaign to highlight the problem of pirate DVDs and trading standards groups will be on hand to remind consumers that it is not a victimless crime.
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