The photos from Charlize Theron’s photoshoot for CMcD are just well done and quite beautiful.  Desert-like setting and sexy.  Click on the image for a higher resolution.  Thanks Terminator.  Images courtesy of celebutopia.net.

In this short clip on youtube, Will Smith and Charlize Theron were recently in Japan to promote “Hancock” and they were the guests for SMAPxSMAP’s cooking segment “Bistro Smap”.

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Will Smith Soars in the Coolest Action Blockbuster of the Year

HANCOCK

Also Starring Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman

Two-Disc Unrated Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray™ High-Def Features Theatrical and Unrated Editions of the Film
and is Loaded with Bonus Material, Including Digital Copy and Seven Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes

Debuting on DVD, Blu-ray High-Def and PSP™ November 25

CULVER CITY, CALIF. (August 28, 2008) – Two-time Academy Award® nominee Will Smith (Best Actor: Ali, 2002; The Pursuit of Happyness, 2007) is not your average superhero in the summer blockbuster Hancock, debuting on DVD, Blu-ray™ High-Def and PSP™ November 25 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).  The more than $560 million worldwide grossing film also stars Oscar® winner Charlize Theron (Best Actress, Monster, 2004) and Jason Bateman (Juno, TV’s “Arrested Development”) in the action-packed comedy about an edgy, sarcastic and hard-living superhero (Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public.  The must-have gift for the holiday season, Hancock is priced at $28.96 for the single disc Theatrical or Unrated Edition DVD, $34.95 for the Two-Disc Unrated Special Edition DVD, $39.95 for the Blu-ray High-Def with Digital Copy and $24.94 for PSP.

The single disc DVD will be available in theatrical and unrated editions.  Both versions contain extensive bonus materials including five featurettes, which take viewers “backstage” on Hancock.  Included are the behind-the-scenes documentary Superhumans: The Making of Hancock; Seeing the Future takes eight scenes from the actual film footage or B-roll footage and shows side by side comparisons of the conception during the pre-visualization creation; the special effects are highlighted in Building a Better Hero; Bumps and Bruises is a breakdown of action sequences in the film; and director Peter Berg is interviewed for Mere Mortals: Behind the Scenes with “Dirty Pete.”

The Two-Disc Unrated Special Edition DVD features both the theatrical and unrated editions of the film and all the bonus materials from the single disc versions, plus a bonus digital copy of the film, which allows consumers to download a digital copy of the film to play on their PC or PSP (PlayStation® Portable) System, and two additional featurettes.  The added featurettes are Home Life, which shows via time lapse photography the building of the homes and buildings used in the film; and  Suiting Up, a featurette on the film’s costume design.

The bonus features for the Blu-ray High-Def edition includes all the material from the single and Two-Disc DVDs, plus BD-Live functionality and the Blu-ray exclusive On-Set Visual Diary, a BonusView picture-in-picture track with behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast, filmmakers and crew.  The second DVD disc contains a digital copy of the film which consumers can download to play on their PC or PSP (PlayStation Portable) System.

Synopsis:

Academy Award® nominee Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness) stars in this action-packed comedy as Hancock, a sarcastic hard-living and misunderstood superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public.  When Hancock grudgingly agrees to an extreme makeover from idealistic publicist Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman, Juno), his life and reputation rise from the ashes and all seems right again – until he meets a woman (2003 Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron, Actress in a Leading Role, Monster) with similar powers to his and the key to his secret past.

Hancock was directed by Peter Berg and written by Vy Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan.  The film was executive produced by Ian Bryce, Jonathan Mostow and Richard Saperstein; produced by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Mann, Will Smith, and James Lassiter.

1-Disc Theatrical Edition and Unrated Edition DVD Bonus Features Include:

·        Featurette: Superhumans: The Making of Hancock

·        Featurette: Seeing the Future

·        Featurette: Building a Better Hero

·        Featurette: Bumps and Bruises

·        Featurette: Mere Mortals: Behind the Scenes with ‘Dirty Pete’

2-Disc Unrated Special Edition DVD Bonus Features Include:

·        Theatrical and Unrated Versions of Hancock

·        Featurette: Superhumans: The Making of Hancock

·        Featurette: Home Life

·        Featurette: Seeing the Future

·        Featurette: Suiting Up

·        Featurette: Building a Better Hero

·        Featurette: Bumps and Bruises

·        Featurette: Mere Mortals: Behind the Scenes with ‘Dirty Pete’

·        Bonus Digital Copy of the Film

2-Disc Blu-ray High-Def Bonus Features Include:

·        Disc 1 Blu-ray

* Theatrical and Unrated Versions of Hancock
* BD-Live
* Featurette: Superhumans: The Making of Hancock
* Featurette: Home Life
* Featurette: Seeing the Future
* Featurette: Suiting Up
* Featurette: Building a Better Hero
* Featurette: Bumps and Bruises
* Featurette: Mere Mortals: Behind the Scenes with ‘Dirty Pete’
* Blu-ray Exclusive Feature: “On-Set Visual Diary” BonusView Picture-In-Picture, including a longer version of the Picture-In-Picture on the Unrated version of the film

·        Disc 2 DVD
* Bonus Digital Copy of the Film

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MOVIE COMPANY: MIRAMAX
CAST:  Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, Delroy Lindo, Heavy D and more.
DIRECTED BY Lasse Halstrom
RATING: PG-13
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0124315
DURATION: 125 minutes

Homer is an orphan in remote St. Cloud, Maine. Never adopted, he becomes the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch, who imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. When Wally and pregnant Candy visit the orphanage Dr. Larch provides medically safe, albeit illegal, abortions Homer leaves with them to work on Wally’s family apple farm. Wally goes off to war, leaving Homer and Candy alone together. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him? (Martin Lewison, IMDB)

DVD EXTRAS:

• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, Collector’s Edition
• Audio Commentary
• Deleted Footage
• Making Of “Cider House Rules”
• Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats

KNOWN DVD SECRET(S):  (none that I know of)

DVD REVIEW:

I felt that “The Cider House Rules” was a pretty good movie and I enjoyed watching the settings and the adaptation of the popular Irving novel.

I didn’t think this was the best movie of the year as some critics may feel.  I felt it was a good movie and that was it.

The video quality is beautiful especially the different scenery involved in this film.  You really see the colors stand out.  As for the audio, this is a dialogue movie, so no major use of your rear audio speakers.  As for the DVD extra’s, you get the making of the movie and deleted footage which I felt some should of been left in the movie but I’m guessing due to the pace of the movie, the director felt the need to omit it.  I really wish there was a director’s commentary though.

All in all a good movie.  Very beautiful and interesting storyline.

THE MOVIE: B+
THE DVD EXTRAS: B
THE DVD OVERALL: B+