Gnomeo & Juliet on DVD & Blu-ray May 24th!

This coming summer to the U.S., don’t miss the chance to bring home GNOMEO & JULIET - the hilarious twist on William Shakespeare’s legendary tale Romeo & Juliet as you’ve never seen it before, perfect for the whole family.  Enter the secret world of garden gnomes and meet two adorable gnomes from completely different worlds who fight the odds to be together.  From a director of Shrek 2, and featuring fun, all-new music by Sir Elton John, the out- of-the-ordinary animated comedy GNOMEO & JULIET releases on Blu-ray™, Blu-ray 3D™, DVD, 

Movie Download and On-Demand – May 24, 2011. 

Uniquely packaged with families’ top of mind, GNOMEO & JULIET will be made available for 

purchase by Walt Disney Studios as either a 3-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray 3D + 

DVD with Digital Copy), a 2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray 2D + DVD) and/or a 1-Disc DVD. 

Disney Blu-ray Combo Packs provide families with an enhanced entertainment experience – with the 

value and flexibility to enjoy your favorite movies on a variety of platforms of choice.  

And for those who enjoy to learn more about the making of the film, GNOMEO & JULIET  discs  

come enclosed with never-before-seen bonus features including “Elton Builds A Garden,” “Frog 

talk with Ashley Jensen,”, “Crocodile Rock Music Video featuring Elton John and Nelly Furtado.” 

And for those who purchase the Blu-ray Disc, it includes hours of extra exclusive bonus features 

including alternate endings, deleted scenes and more. 

“Makes you smile from start to finish.”  

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times 

GNOMEO & JULIET is brought to life by the extraordinary voices of Golden Globe nominee James 

McAvoy (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) as Gnomeo; Emily Blunt 

(The Devil Wears Prada) as Juliet; Academy Award winner Michael Caine (Inception) as Lord 

Redbrick; Jason Statham (The Trasnsporter franchise) as Tybalt; Ashley Jensen (TV’s Ugly Betty) 

as Nanette; Patrick Stewart (X-Men franchise) as William Shakespeare; Ozzy Osbourne (TV’s The 

Osbournes) as Fawn and Maggie Smith (Harry Potter  franchise) as Lady Blueberry.  

“It’s family-friendly fun.”  

     Ashley Muldoon, OK! Magazine 

Bonus Features: 

DVD & Movie Download: 

• Elton Builds a Garden 

• Frog Talk with Ashley Jensen 

• “Crocodile Rock” Music Video, featuring Elton John and Nelly Furtado  

Blu-ray: 

• DVD Bonus plus: 

• 2 Alternate Endings with Filmmaker Introductions  

• Deleted & Alternate Scenes with Filmmaker Introductions, including: 

o 1 Alternate Opening 

o 1 Alternate Scene 

o 6 Deleted Scenes  

• The Fawn of Darkness, featuring Ozzy Osbourne  

Film Synopsis:  

From a director of Shrek 2 comes your chance to step into the secret world of garden gnomes 

— Gnomeo & Juliet. Perfect for the whole family, this fresh and funny makeover of one of the 

world’s most timeless stories features music from Sir Elton John, and the voice talents of Emily 

Blunt, James McAvoy and Sir Michael Caine. Caught up in a feud between neighbors, Gnomeo 

and Juliet must overcome as many obstacles as their namesakes. But with flamboyant pink 

flamingos and epic lawnmower races, can this young couple find lasting happiness? Complete 

with hilarious never-before-seen bonus features, Gnomeo & Juliet is an out-of-the-ordinary 

animated comedy your entire family will love. We just gnome it! 

About The Walt Disney Studios: 

For more than 85 years, The Walt Disney Studios has been the foundation on which The Walt 

Disney Company (DIS: NYSE) was built. Today, the Studio brings quality movies, music and 

stage plays to consumers throughout the world. Feature films are released under four banners: 

Walt Disney Pictures, which includes Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation 

Studios, Disneynature, Touchstone Pictures and Marvel. Through the Home Entertainment 

division, innovative distribution methods provide access to creative content across multiple 

platforms. Original music and motion picture soundtracks are produced under Walt Disney 

Records and Hollywood Records, while Disney Theatrical Group produces and licenses live 

events, including Broadway theatrical productions, Disney on Ice and Disney LIVE!  For more 

information, please visit www.disney.com.

Gnomeo & Juliet

Gnome Intro-Film Clip




Balcony Scene-Film Clip




Doomed Love-Film Clip

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Focus Features' One Day Official Trailer & Updated Release Date

One Day release date of AUGUST 19th, 2011 nationwide.

Story: Twenty years…two people. Directed by Lone Scherfig (director of “An Education,” Academy Award-nominated for Best Picture), the motion picture “One Day” is adapted for the screen by David Nicholls from his beloved bestselling novel One Day. After one day together – July 15th, 1988, their college graduation – Emma Morley (Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess of “Across the Universe”) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives. Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along. As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love and life itself.

Director: Lone Scherfig (“An Education,” “Italian For Beginners”)

Writers: David Nicholls; Based on his novel

Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott, Romola Garai, Rafe Spall

MPAA Rating: PG-13

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The cars of movie stars and celebrities before 1980

Above, Miss America Teen Ager and the 1969 Dodge Charger

Found on http://www.flickr.com/photos/autohistorian/sets/72157622042954004/with/4055125292

My Cousin Vinny hysterical comedy bit, and the awesome positraction Tempest defense

Vinny Gambini: Maybe you didn't twist it hard enough.
Lisa: I twisted it just right.
Vinny Gambini: How could you be so sure?
Lisa: [sighs] If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model faucet requires a range of 10 to 16 foot-pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torquage.
Vinny Gambini: Well, how could you be sure you used 16 foot-pounds of torque?
Lisa: Because I used a Craftsman model 1019 Laboratory Edition Signature Series torque wrench. The kind used by Caltech high energy physicists. And NASA engineers.
Vinny Gambini: Well, in that case, how can you be sure THAT's accurate?
Lisa: Because a split second before the torque wrench was applied to the faucet handle, it had been calibrated by top members of the state AND federal Department of Weights and Measures... to be dead on balls accurate!
[She rips a page out of a magazine and hands it to him]
Lisa: Here's the certificate of validation.
Vinny Gambini: Dead on balls accurate?
Lisa: It's an industry term.
Vinny Gambini: [tosses paper away] I guess the fucking thing is broken.


Lisa: The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark!
Vinny Gambini: And why not? What is positraction?
Lisa: It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing.
[the jury members nod, with murmurs of "yes," "that's right," etc]
Vinny Gambini: Is that it?
Lisa: No, there's more! You see? When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, the '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60's, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.
Vinny Gambini: And because both cars were made by GM, were both cars available in metallic mint green paint?
Lisa: They were!

Chris has posted the ultimate list of the top 20 car chase scenes (but is still open to ammending his list)

http://chrisoncars.com/?p=2343 to see his top 20

You can email him your opinions or list of your favorites at raymondcj@aol.com or chris@chrisoncars.com

I haven't seen all of the movies that have these chases, but I have seen most and the variety of movies with a car chase is quite broad... from Sci Fi like the Matrix Reloaded, to old cop movies that were normal investigation style detectives like The French Connection... I can't remember any part of the story line of the French Connection, just Gene and that car chase scene, but Chris has the scoop on what was really going on with the chase scene, and I've never learned this stuff before, it's all news to me!

Bad Boys (Will Smith) had the best collection of muscle cars in a single scene, 70 Superbee, Firebird, Yenko Duece, 67? Chevelle, 76? Trans Am, and that was just until the gun fight.... the chase reconvened with the bad guys dropping cars off a transporter one at a time. Best scene is at the top of Chris' list

Watch the "Masters Touch" to see a 62 Savoy mistreated like no other