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   Saturday         Finding Nemo | TVNZ 2, 7.00 Gangster Squad | TVNZ 2, 9.00 This Is 40 | Three, 10.30 American History X | TVNZ 2, 11.20   Sunday        Finding Dory | TVNZ 2, 7.00 Knight and Day | Three, 8.30 The Godfather | Maori TV, 8.30 The Finest Hours | TVNZ 2, 8.45    […]

Maori TV will use the NZ HD premiere of 1952 Oscar-winner High Noon to launch a season of Paramount Pictures classics in 1080i. Director Fred Zinnemann’s western won three Oscars, including best actor for Gary Cooper, and was nominated for best picture (it lost to what’s widely regarded as “the worst best picture winner ever”). […]

Sky Movies Greats will precede live coverage of this year’s Oscars on Sky Movies with a run of Academy Award winners/nominees. As part of the build-up to the ceremony on February 25, SMG will screen for the first time in HD Blood Diamond, My Cousin Vinny, The Prestige,  A Beautiful Mind, The Departed and The Godfather trilogy. Ironically, February highlights […]

On the eve of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, a slew of Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures award-winners will be discounted on Blu-ray. The February 9-March 16 $20 promotion includes An American Werewolf in London, The Deer Hunter, Dreamgirls, Ghost, the Godfather movies, King Kong, No Country for Old Men, Saturday Night Fever, Saving Private […]

Blasts from the past abound this week on Blu-ray, with the highlights being Saving Private Ryan and your first chance to buy each of The Godfather movies in a separate volume. Also making their HD debuts on disc are two other gangster dramas – Carlito’s Way and Collateral – and two sci-fi favourites – Total […]

Next month Universal Pictures Video will cut the price of select back-catalogue Blu-ray movies to under $15. The August 4-September 15 promotion will include 12 Monkeys, Shaun of the Dead, Cliffhanger, Twister, Children of Men, The Hulk, The Unborn, Untraceable, Land of the Dead, 8 Mile, Doom, Basic Instinct and Raw Deal. Over the same period, […]

A re-priced Gladiator heads a slate of Blu-ray period classics to be released next month by Universal Pictures Videos. The 2001 Oscar-winner is being discounted to $35 from May 5-June 16, which coincides with Universal releasing for the first time on Blu-ray Apollo 13, Pride & Prejudice, the two Elizabeth movies and Atonement for $30 […]