eOne deals in ICE: SEASON ONE (review)

Donald Sutherland, Jeremy Sisto, Cam Gigandet, and Ray Winstone star in the series ICE from Antoine Fuqua.  A respectable family-run diamond business falls in with smugglers, blood diamonds, and betrayal.

REVIEW LINK: eOne (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

ICE: SEASON ONE DVD specs:

• Ten episodes on three dual-layer DVDs
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• "Premise" featurette
• "Jeremy Sisto and Cam Gigandet" featurette
• Rachele Royale "Diamond Girl" Music Video

Entertainment One reads THE BOOK OF NEGROES (review)

In BET and CBC's epic six part miniseries adaptation of the Lawrence Hill novel THE BOOK OF NEGROES, young Aminata is stolen from Africa and enslaved in South Carolina.  As she escapes to New York and is caught up in the Revolutionary War, her intellect, compassion, and desire to return home influence the lives of others determined not to become slaves again on an exodus to Nova Scotia and then to Sierra Leone as they endeavor to live free.  Louis Gossett Jr., Cuba Gooding Jr., and Jane Alexander guest star.

REVIEW LINK: Entertainment One (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

THE BOOK OF NEGROES DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• English Closed Captioning
• Disc One:
• Episodes 1-3
• Featurettes: "Amistad" and "The Black Loyalists"
• Disc Two:
• Episodes 4-6
• Deleted Scenes (30 minutes)
• Disc Three:
• Interviews with the Cast and Crew (2 1/2 hours)
• Behind the Scenes
• Conversation with author Lawrence Hill
• Booklet by author Lawrence Hill

Entertainment One visits WOLF CREEK 2 (review)

Pig-shooter Mick Taylor is back hunting unwelcome tourists in the outback in WOLF CREEK 2.  Intense chases, explosions, and gut-wrenching gore are Mick's way to teaching his victims that "you don't get between a man and his meal".

REVIEW LINK: Entertainment One (UK) Region 2 DVD (DVDBeaver)

WOLF CREEK 2 DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English/German Dolby Digital 5.1
• Burnt-in English subtitles for the German language parts
• Making-of Featurette
• Deleted Scenes

Entertainment One gets chills from FROST (review)

At an arctic research center, a documentary filmmaker and his scientist girlfriend find themselves pitted against something malevolent and possibly alien when the rest of the research team mysteriously disappears and strange noises and lights emanate from a recently discovered abyss in this Icelandic found footage film.

REVIEW LINK: Entertainment One (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

FROST DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Icelandic Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Making-of

Entertainment One releases THE PACT (review)

Annie returns home for her abusive mother's funeral only to discover that her sister Nichole is missing, leaving her young daughter behind with a friend Liz.  When Annie discovers her sister's laptop and phone in her mother's house, she starts to suspect that her sister hasn't just flaked out and taken off for a few days.  When Liz spends the night at the house and also disappears, Annie realizes that there's something more lurking in the house than traumatic childhood memories. Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dean, and Agnes Bruckner star.

REVIEW LINK: Entertainment One (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE PACT DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• About the Cast
• About the Director
• About the Location
• THE PACT original short film (2011 Sundance Film Festival Selection)

Zombie wedding crashers in eOne's [REC] 3 (review)

It's Clara and Koldo's wedding day, and not even an outbreak of rabid, demonic zombies (including members of their own family) is going to keep the young lovers apart.  Brandishing chainsaws and swords, the two (and a handful of survivors) hack, saw, and slash their way through the possessed hordes EVIL DEAD-style in Paco Plaza's [REC] 3: GENESIS (Plaza's co-director on the first two films is helming the fourth installment as a prequel).

REVIEW LINK: Entertainment One (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

REC 3: GENESIS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles 
• "Preparing a Bloody Wedding" featurette
• Outtakes
• Deleted Scenes