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TOON IN THIS FALL AS THE LOONEY TUNES JUMP BACK INTO ACTION ON DVD OCTOBER 28
DVD Debuts Include THE LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION, THE LOONEY TUNES PREMIERE COLLECTION, LOONEY TUNES REALITY CHECK!, LOONEY TUNES STRANGER THAN FICTION! and a Special Edition of SPACE JAM
BURBANK, CA (July 15, 2003) - On October 28, Warner Home Video (WHV) invites audiences of all ages to take part in the ultimate animated experience with an all-new collection of Looney Tunes classic cartoons, available on digitally re-mastered DVDs and packed with special features. From the crown jewel boxed set The Looney Tunes Golden Collection and the double-disc The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection, to short films with contemporary twists such as Looney Tunes Reality Check! and Looney Tunes Stranger than Fiction!, to a special edition of Space Jam, there is something for every Looney Tunes fan in this momentous home video event.
To celebrate the timeless appeal of the Looney Tunes characters, WHV offers the ultimate collector The Looney Tunes Golden Collection, a four-DVD boxed set containing 56 restored, remastered, uncut shorts. The Best of Bugs, The Best of Daffy and Porky and two discs of classic shorts feature an all-star collection of Looney Tunes treasured characters in some of their most memorable appearances. Loaded with "14-carrot" special features, including never-before-seen cartoons, commentaries by animation experts, documentaries and featurettes, the DVD boxed set is available for $64.92 SRP.
For the more nostalgic, light collector, WHV presents favorite characters Henery Hawk, Road Runner, Pepe Le Pew, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd and more in The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection, available for $26.99 SRP ($19.95 MAP) on DVD.
WHV provides fans with a look at the classic characters in pop culture situations with two all-new compilations that include recently produced shorts on: Looney Tunes Reality Check! and Looney Tunes Stranger Than Fiction!. Looney Tunes Reality Check! includes spoofs on hit reality shows such as Survivor, Judge Judy, Junkyard Wars, Fear Factor and Iron Chef. Looney Tunes Stranger Than Fiction! spoofs mysterious phenomena such as the Loch Ness Monster and the Bermuda Triangle, as well as movie classics like Planet of the Apes. Both releases are packed with special features including an exclusive Electronic Arts (EA) mini-game provided on DVD-ROM only, and are available for $19.98 SRP ($14.95 MAP) on DVD and $14.94 SRP ($9.95 MAP) on VHS.
In addition, fans will score big with a new widescreen DVD version of the $225 million box office hit Space Jam, entitled Space Jam: Special Edition. The two-disc DVD is loaded with special features, including an hour of new-to-DVD digitally re-mastered shorts, and is now available at a new low price of $26.99 SRP ($19.95 MAP).
"For more than 70 years, the Looney Tunes have entertained audiences of all ages," said Mike Saksa, WHV Senior Vice President, U.S. Marketing. "WHV specifically tailored this DVD collection to each type of collector by incorporating a range of special features, such as footage from the Warner Bros. vault, to give enthusiasts more depth into the iconic Looney Tunes characters and something extra for their collections."
LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION
In addition to the DVD debuts of the Looney Tunes releases, fans will have a wild and wacky fall when the highly anticipated live-action theatrical movie, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, releases in theaters November 14. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck team up with Brendan Fraser as "Bobby Delmont," Jenna Elfman as "Kate Houghton" and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang as they travel from Vegas to Hollywood to Africa in search of a mythical Blue Diamond.
"LOONEY" PROMOTIONAL OFFERS
Consumers will go "looney" over special promotional offers, including a Free Child's Movie Pass to see the Looney Tunes: Back in Action movie, a $6.50 value, available in all new Looney Tunes DVD and VHS titles, merchandisers, and advertising releasing this October. In addition, exclusive-to-WHV mini-games, inspired by the Looney Tunes: Back in Action video game, will be included on DVD-ROM as part of the Looney Tunes Reality Check! and Looney Tunes Stranger Than Fiction! DVDs. WHV and Coinstar will offer a $5 rebate by mail offer good towards the purchase of any Looney Tunes home video release when $5 in coins is exchanged at Coinstar booths nationally. All promotion details are subject to change.
SYNOPSES
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection
They're the clown princes of animation. They're the international ambassadors of cartoon comedy. They're the fabulously funny friends you grew up with! And now, 56 of the very best animated shorts starring the wackiest Warner Bros. cartoon characters have been rounded up on DVD for the first time ever in The Looney Tunes Golden Collection! Just barely contained in four special edition discs, each specially selected short has been brilliantly restored and re-mastered to its original, uncut, anvil-dropping laughter-inducing glory! Featuring ground-breaking on-screen appearances of many all-time Looney Tunes favorites, it's an unprecedented celebration for cartoon-lovers eager to re-live the heady, hilarious, golden age of Warner Bros. animation!
Sparkling with one unforgettable, landmark animated marvel after another, there's the wise-cracking comedy of Bugs Bunny in such carrot-crunching classics as Hair-Raising Hare and Rabbit of Seville. Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner racing the cartoon immortality in Fast and Furryous. And the permanently flustered Daffy Duck in such glorious spoofs as Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½ Century and The Scarlet Pumpernickel. Featuring a dazzling array of totally looney DVD bonus features, this is the ultimate animated experience for anyone who's ever thrilled to the timeless query: "Ehh...what's up, Doc?"
Hare-raising DVD special features include:
Introductions by animation experts and actors.
Commentaries by film historians, Michael Barrier and Jerry Beck, filmmaker Greg Ford and actor, Stan Freberg.
Music only programs.
Behind the Tunes - Featurettes paying tribute to the characters and the creators.
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of Looney Tunes.
From the Vaults - Never-before-seen recording sessions, pencil tests, bridging sequences and cartoons.
"How to draw your favorite Looney Tunes" featurette.
Trailer gallery.
Stills galleries.
The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection
And now, 28 of the very best animated shorts - pulled from The Looney Tunes Golden Collection - starring the very wackiest Warner Bros. cartoon characters have been rounded up on DVD for the first time ever in The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection! In these two special edition discs, each specially selected short has been brilliantly restored and re-mastered to its original anvil-dropping, laughter-inducing glory! Featuring ground-breaking on-screen appearances of many all-time Looney Tunes favorites with all-new special features, it's an unprecedented animation celebration for cartoon-lovers eager to re-live the heady, hilarious, golden age of Warner Bros. animation! Sparkling with one unforgettable, landmark cartoon classic after another, there's Bugs Bunny's monstrously merry encounter with the tennis-shoe clad creature of Hair-Raising Hare. Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner racing to cartoon immortality in Fast and Furryous. Oscar®-winning animated gems, scenery-chewing Tasmanian Devils and much more!
A dazzling array of totally "looney" DVD bonus features include:
Fully playable, multi-level Flash mini-game inspired by the Looney Tunes: Back in Action video game.
Behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Looney Tunes: Back in Action video game.
Looney Tunes: Back in Action sneak peak.
Looney Tunes Reality Check!
Hold on tight! Because all your favorite Looney Tunes characters are zooming into a head-on collision with the world's most popular reality TV shows! It's time for a Looney Tunes Reality Check! Overflowing with outrageous Warner-style comic mayhem, these All-New Toons spoof TV like it's never been spoofed before! Plus, you'll get a load of exclusive added gotta-have-'em DVD bonus features that are positively looney!
In this hilarity-jam-packed volume: Porky and Tweety give you the score and more in Sports Blab. Granny makes Sylvester, Daffy and Yosemite Sam cry uncle in Tear Factor. Then, Bugs, Porky, Daffy, Taz and the rest of the gang are outcast, outclassed and out-to-lunch in a kooky quest to become the lone survivor in the spectacular zany Toon Marooned! And there's more wackiness on the schedule with reality show send-ups from Aluminum Chef to Judge Granny!
Looney-licious DVD special features include:
Toon Marooned outtakes.
Toon Marooned interviews with Porky and Taz.
Spots such as Judge Granny and Toon Marooned.
Trailers from family favorites including Tom and Jerry Favorites, Mucha Lucha! and Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico.
"Commercials Done Looney" motion menus.
DVD-ROM special features include:
Exclusive Mini-Game - fully playable, multi-level Flash mini-game inspired by the Looney Tunes: Back in Action video game.
Behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Looney Tunes: Back in Action video game.
Looney Tunes Stranger Than Fiction!
It's spooky. It's wacky. It's Looney Tunes Stranger Than Fiction! Exploding with sheer cartoon craziness, these All-New Toons star your favorite Looney Tunes characters making big-time fun of everything from mysteriously goofy TV shows to sci-fi movie blockbusters! Plus, you'll also be treated to an irresistible assortment of must-see, new-and-improved-deluxe-extra-special Looney Tunes DVD bonus features!
In this eerily-entertaining volume: Porky and Yosemite Sam go creature-hunting and end up in a
Loch Ness Mess. Daffy hosts a preposterous paranormal TV show featuring everything from the fearsome "Mexican goat-sucker" to crazy crop circles and a Shakespeare-spouting Taz! Then, Porky and Daffy land on the very odd Planet of the Taz - and discover some even stranger sequel-planets! Plus, more looney spoofs and shorts full of weirdly wonderful Warner-riffic fun!
DVD special features include:
Toon Marooned outtakes.
Toon Marooned interviews with Porky and Taz.
Webisodes Spots including Mysterious Phenomena of the Unexplained, Twick or Tweety, Royal Mallard and Planet of the Taz.
Trailers from family favorites including Tom and Jerry Favorites, Mucha Lucha! and Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico.
"Commercials Done Looney" motion menus.
DVD-ROM special features include:
Exclusive Mini-Game - fully playable, multi-level Flash mini-game inspired by the Looney Tunes: Back in Action video game.
Behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Looney Tunes: Back in Action video game.
Space Jam Special Edition
His Airness and His Hareness - what a team! Michael Jordan slams, Bugs Bunny jams and a cavalcade of Looney Tunes and NBA stars hoop it up in the rim-rattlin', out-of-this-world, roundball romp: Space Jam.
Slam-dunk DVD special features include:
Featurette - Jammin' with Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan.
An hour of new-to-DVD shorts, including Another Froggy Evening, Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers, Night of the Living Duck, The Duxorcist and Bugs vs. Daffy Battle of the Music Video Stars!
Music videos including Seal's "Fly Like an Eagle" and Monstars' anthem "Hit 'Em High."
Looney Tunes: Back in Action sneak peak.
Trailer.
DVD-ROM special features include:
Fully playable, multi-level Flash mini-game inspired by the Looney Tunes: Back in Action video game.
Behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Looney Tunes: Back in Action video game.
LOONEY TUNES, characters, names and all related indicia are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Looney Tunes: Back In Action video game software © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
The Basics:
Street Date: October 28, 2003
The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD $64.92 SRP, 411 minutes
The Looney Tunes Premiere Collection DVD $26.99 SRP, 207 minutes
Looney Tunes Reality Check! DVD $19.98 SRP, 57 minutes
Looney Tunes Stranger Than Fiction! DVD $19.98 SRP, 55 minutes
Space Jam Special Edition DVD $26.99 SRP, 88 minutes
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