MY FAIR LADY: 50th Anniversary Edition |
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| Written by: CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution | Date: 22.09.2015 |
 MORE LOVERLY THAN EVER!HIGH DEFINITION UPGRADE OF ICONIC BELOVED MUSICAL MY FAIR LADY: 50th Anniversary Edition Academy Award Winning Classic Arrives October 27 On Blu-ray™+ DVD Combo Pack With Highest Quality Picture And Sound Ever Released HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (September 22, 2015) – Experience one of the greatest movie musicals in cinematic history like never before as the eight-time Oscar® winning film arrives in a newly restored, high-definition collection, MY FAIR LADY: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION, from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Media Distribution. The release arrives just in time for the holidays on October 27 as a Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack, and features a brand new 4k restoration from an 8K scan of the original negative, and other surviving 65mm elements, painstakingly restored by acclaimed film historian and preservationist Robert A. Harris. Adapted from the original Broadway hit and headlined by Hollywood legends Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison, MY FAIR LADY: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION arrives in collectible packaging with an entire Blu-ray disc dedicated to 90 minutes of special features including a variety of original trailers and featurettes that were used in theaters to promote the feature film, as well as footage from the film’s Los Angeles and British premieres in 1964. “MY FAIR LADY is one of the crown jewels in our library,” said Ken Ross, Executive Vice President and General Manager, CBS Home Entertainment. “And now this timeless masterpiece will be presented to a new generation of fans in a quality never before seen or heard.” Directed by George Cukor, MY FAIR LADY won a staggering eight* Academy Awards including Best Picture. Fifty years after its original release, audiences are still enchanted by the musical that follows elitist linguistic professor Henry Higgins (Harrison) as he makes a wager with his colleague that he can turn a sassy, cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Hepburn) into the toast of English society. Including timeless songs such as “The Rain In Spain,” “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “Get Me To The Church On Time,” MY FAIR LADY remains one of the most celebrated movie musicals in film history. MY FAIR LADY: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack comes in collectible packaging with an entire Blu-ray disc dedicated to 90 minutes of special features including a variety of original trailers and featurettes that were used in theaters to promote the feature film, as well as footage from the film’s Los Angeles and British premieres in 1964. The movie Blu-ray will be available in 1080p with English 7.1 96k Dolby TrueHD audio, French, Italian, German, Castilian Spanish and Japanese mono, along with English SDH, French, Italian, German, Castilian Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish subtitles. The special features on the Blu-ray will be available in various high definition or standard definition formats, English Stereo or Mono audio, and English SDH, French, Italian, German, Castilian Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Danish subtitles. The movie DVD will be available in standard definition, with English 5.1 Stereo Audio and English SDH. The collection is rated G and will be available for the suggested retail price of $42.99. The Blu-ray special features disc breakdown is as follows: • More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of My Fair Lady Then & Now • 1963 Production Kick-Off Dinner • Los Angeles Premiere 10/28/1964 • British Premiere • George Cukor Directs Baroness Bina Rothschild • Rex Harrison Radio Interview • Production Tests o Lighting o Wilfred Hyde White make-up o Rain/set o Covent Garden lighting test • Alt. Higgins/Pickering screen test • Alternate Audrey Hepburn Vocals o Show Me o Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? • Galleries o Cecil Beaton Sketches o Character o Costume o B&W Stills o Color Production Stills o Documents and Publicity • Comments On A Lady o Andrew Lloyd Webber o Martin Scorsese • Theatrical Featurettes • Story of a Lady • Design For A Lady • The Fairest Fair Lady • Trailers • Teaser Trailer with City Tags • With Pride Trailer • Awards Trailer • Theatrical Reissue: Poster Illustration • Theatrical Reissue: Poster Illustration Reserved Seats Trailer • Theatrical Reissue: Poster Illustration Awards • Theatrical Reissue • Awards o Rex Harrison BFI Honor o Rex Harrison Golden Globe® Acceptance Speech o Academy Awards ® Ceremony Highlights 4/5/65 CBS Home Entertainment manages the worldwide DVD and Blu-ray businesses for the CBS Corporation across all lines of content including current hits and classic series from the vast CBS library, as well as new releases from Showtime Video. CBS Home Entertainment products are released on the CBS DVD and CBS Blu-ray labels. Paramount Home Media Distribution (PHMD) is part of Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment. PPC is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television and digital entertainment brands. The PHMD division oversees PPC’s home entertainment, digital and television distribution activities worldwide. The division is responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment content on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, Insurge Pictures, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and CBS and for providing home entertainment fulfillment services for certain DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment titles. PHMD additionally manages global licensing of studio content and distribution across worldwide digital and television distribution platforms including online, mobile and portable devices and emerging technologies. For artwork, please visit https://arc.paramount.com MY FAIR LADY: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION BLU-RAY + DVD COMBO PACK Street Date: October 27, 2015 Suggest retail price: $42.99 U.S. Catalog #: 7915394 Runtime: Approx. 172 min U.S. Rating: G *1964: Best Picture; Best Actor In A Leading Role; Best Director; Best Sound; Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color; Best Cinematography, Color; Best Costume Design, Color; Best Music, Scoring Of Music, Adaptation Or Treatment |
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