The Winning Season
Sam Rockwell (Iron Man 2) stars as an adult misfit who is brought in to coach the local girls’ high school basketball team in the funny and uplifting sports drama The Winning Season. Supported by an all-star cast including Emma Roberts (Valentine’s Day), Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine) and Rooney Mara (The Social Network, upcoming The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), this Sundance Film Festival selection is a touching blend of drama and comedy that brings “Bad News Bears into the world of high school girls’ basketball” (Screen International) and will leave audiences laughing and cheering.
Ex-high school basketball star Bill (Rockwell) has been down on his luck for quite some time, living on his former glory. But when Bill runs out of options, his only choice to make ends meet is by coaching the local high school girls’ basketball team – and he soon discovers he has a lot more to learn from a group of girls than he could have ever expected.
Pricing: DVD $27.98
Care Bears: The Giving Festival Movie
Everybody’s favorite cuddly friends are back for the 2010 holiday season as Lionsgate Home Entertainment releases Care Bears: The Giving Festival Movie to DVD. Starring the world’s most beloved bears in their first CGI movie in more than two years, Care Bears: The Giving Festival Movie promotes the themes of sharing, respect and etiquette that have helped kids develop into caring adults for almost three decades. In the latest adventure, the Care Power Team must band together to rescue the Princess Starglo from mysterious weather that threatens to ruin the peaceful Giving Festival
The Care Bears brand currently enjoys 98% awareness among moms of girls ages 2-5 (Fall 2007 Q Scores Report) and boasts over four million unique monthly visitors to CareBears.com. Beloved since the 1980s, Care Bears continues to be one of the most recognizable and top preschool properties today (according to Lieberman Consumer Research January 2007) and has sold over $2.6 billion in retail since 2002.
Care Power On! Join Funshine, Share, Cheer and the whole Care Power Team as they organize the annual Giving Festival in this adorable tale! The bears can’t wait for the arrival of Princess Starglo, but their fabulous festival is soon threatened by a powerful wind blowing through Care-A-Lot. And when the Princess is late, the Bears set out on a mission to find out what – or who – could be responsible! Get ready for a wonderful adventure full of giving goodness with the Care Bears!
Pricing: DVD $14.98
LeapFrog Learning DVD + CD Set, Volume 2
Lionsgate Home Entertainment and top educational toy maker LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc., have joined together to make learning fun, with the release of the LeapFrog Learning DVD + CD Set, Volume 2! Featuring three popular LeapFrog DVDs and a full-length Music CD-that alone is worth $12.98 – the set will reunite young kids with Tad and Lily as they expand their knowledge of early reading and math skills. A follow-up to last year’s popular gift set, which has sold more than 100,000 copies to date, Volume 2 features the incredibly successful Math Adventure To The Moon DVD, along with Word Caper and Math Circus. In addition, the CD contains 13 songs that help kids learn the ABCs, days of the week, counting and more. The LeapFrog Learning DVD + CD Set, Volume 2 will be available just in time for the holiday season.
The most recommended children’s DVDs after Sesame Street*, LeapFrog DVDs remain perennial favorites, years after year. LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc., is a leading designer, developer and marketer of innovative, technology-based educational products that make learning fun. With more than 120 million educational platforms, books and games in homes worldwide, and multisensory technology in more than 100,000 US classrooms, the LeapFrog learning brand is trusted by parents, valued by teachers and loved by children.
*Source moms of boys 2-5, Nielsen research 2008.
Math Adventure to the Moon (ages 3-6):
Tad and Lily need the perfect collection of things to take to school for their math assignment. When they finally decide on moon rocks, there’s just one problem – how will they get them? With some magical help from their firefly friend, Edison, they board a rocket ship to start their quest. Soon the twins learn that math is everywhere, even in outer space! Watch as they use their skills in counting, sorting, skip counting and recognizing patterns to overcome obstacles, find new friends and make the trip back to Earth!Word Caper (ages 3-6):
A wild word-building adventure! When Mr. Websley is accidentally silenced by the Silent E Machine, Leap, Lily and Tad must journey through the Complex Word Complex to build the code words needed to return his voice. Guided only by the “Absent Professor Device,” the kids learn how to build the complex words needed to solve the code and save the day. Humorous songs add to the fun and help teach the rules for advanced word-building. This title was previously released as Talking Words Factory 2: Code Word Caper.Math Circus (ages 3-6):
Step right up to the Math Circus! Watch the Quidget Family and the Subtractobats perform high-flying feats of mathematics! In this astounding story, Leap, Lily, Tad, and wacky Professor Quigley train numbers to count, add and subtract in a series of amazing circus acts. Numbers and Quidgets fly from trampolines, trapezes and cannons as they teach early mathematical concepts. In addition, humorous songs add to the fun and help reinforce educational concepts in an amusing and memorable way.Learning Songs and Music CD (ages 2-6):
Sing, dance and learn with these 13 delightful songs from the LeapFrog DVDs available for the first time on one music CD! Track listing includes 30 minutes of songs: “The Learning Path,” “ABC,” “Days of the Week,'” “Count to 20!,'” “Animal Families,” “The Sorting Game,” “Math is Everywhere,'” “Skip Counting,'” “Tell Me the Number,” “The Shark Tooth Song,” “Crab Counting,” “Let’s Rhyme!,” and “Big Letters, Small Letters.”
Pricing: DVD $29.98
Let’s Spend The Night Together
Few bands continue to top the charts year after year – let alone for nearly half a century. In 1981, 20 years into their rock career, The Rolling Stones gave Academy Award
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winning filmmaker Hal Ashby (Best Film Editing, In the Heat of the Night, 1968) a backstage pass to make the epic rockumentary Let’s Spend the Night Together. This November, Lionsgate will debut the Grammy
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-nominated (Best Video Album, 1984) concert film for the first time on DVD.
Shot with 20 cameras on the record-breaking arena tour, Let’s Spend the Night Together gives Stones’ fans the excitement and action of the legendary rockers on and off stage over two performances – in Tempe, Arizona and East Rutherford, New Jersey. The film features some the biggest songs from The Rolling Stones’ catalog, including “Under My Thumb,” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” “Start Me Up” and more. Under Ashby’s direction, the film “effectively convey[s] why this band is one of the most enduring and popular of all rock bands” (Turner Classic Movies) and is a must-have for fans of The Rolling Stones and classic rock.
The Rolling Stones are a force that has spanned nearly 50 years of a constantly evolving musical landscape. Many of the group’s albums, from their 1964 self-titled record to Exile on Main Street, are essential not simply to an understanding of rock ‘n’ roll history, but to understanding the Rolling Stones experience itself. The Rolling Stones connected the white American audience to blues and R&B, sounds that were virtually unknown in pop music before they landed on the scene. But live performances are truly what have set the band apart from their contemporaries. When it was in fashion for other popular musicians to skip multiple-city tours, The Stones’ set records with lengthy cross-country engagements and to this day still sell out concert venues around the world. One of the longest performing bands of all time, the Rolling Stones concert has become a multi-generational event. With their millions of fans (and growing) , the Rolling Stones musical experience is unlike any other — epitomized, of course, by Jagger’s erotic choreography and their wall-to-wall, explosive sound.
Pricing: DVD $14.98Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage
Eight-time Academy Award
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nominee* Peter O’Toole stars with Academy Award
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winner Marcia Gay Harden (Actress in a Supporting Role, Pollock, 2000; Into The Wild) and Jared Padalecki (TV’s “Supernatural”) in Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Cottage, coming to Blu-ray for the first time this holiday season. Featuring a 1080P High Definition version of the film with 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, the Blu-ray Disc also contains audio commentary with director Michael Campus and Thomas Kinkade, deleted scenes, an “on the set” piece and three featurettes.
Returning home from college one Christmas, young artist Thomas Kinkade (Padalecki) is dismayed to learn that attempts to promote local tourism have failed and his mother (Harden) is dangerously close to losing the family cottage to foreclosure. Inspired by his mentor, Glen (O’Toole), a famous artist who lives next door, Thom accepts a job painting a mural of his small, idyllic hometown. With Glen’s help, Thom not only discovers his calling as the Painter of Light
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but also helps the town rediscover the true spirit of Christmas in this nostalgic, humorous and heartwarming true story destined to become a holiday classic.
Pricing: Blu-ray Disc $19.99*Lawrence of Arabia (Actor, 1962), Becket (Actor, 1964), The Lion in Winter (Actor, 1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Actor, 1969), The Ruling Class (Actor, 1972), The Stunt Man (Actor in a Leading Role, 1980), My Favorite Year (Actor in a Leading Role, 1982), Venus (Actor in a Leading Role, 2006)
Highlander and Highlander 2
Experience the action of an immortal’s journey through time and space like never before with Highlander and Highlander 2, each coming to individual 1080P High Definition Blu-ray Disc for the first time ever! The explosive beginning to one of the most popular film franchises of all time blasts onto Blu-ray packed with special features including deleted scenes from each film. The Highlander Blu-ray features the director’s cut of the film and audio commentary with director Russell Mulcahy and producers Peter S. Davis and William N. Panzer, while the Highlander 2 disc adds enhanced and re-imagined visual effects, four featurettes, an alternate ending and more!Highlander:
One of the most beloved sci-fi action-adventure series in film and TV history, Highlander is an epic tale of immortality starring Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery. When Scottish clansmen Connor MacLeod (Lambert) discovers his true identity as part of a legion of immortals, his journey spans the world and centuries before finally landing him in modern day New York. MacLeod is unfortunately set to face other immortals in a showdown where only one can survive. Featuring music by the legendary band Queen, Highlander is a modern classic and “A truly heroic stomp through time and space” (BBC).Highlander 2:
It’s 2024 and MacLeod and Ramirez are back to save planet Earth. Ozone depletion, time travel and corporate greed are at the core of all the thrilling twists and turns in this stylish action sequel.
Pricing: Blu-ray Discs $19.99 each
