William Shatner Launches DVD
Club
Brooklyn,
While many of the films distributed
by the William Shatner DVD Club have names that the casual fan may not
recognize, those few fans who have seen these movies agree that they are
underground hits. For example, in IMDB (the popular movie feedback website
owned by Amazon.com), the following three recent movies received the same
rating: Vanilla Sky, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and
Ginger Snaps. Terminator 3 grossed $418mm at the box
office. Vanilla Sky topped
over $200mm during an impressive theater run. And Ginger Snaps? Ginger Snaps (a North American production)
grossed a whopping 146,125 Spanish Pesatas in a brief European engagement before
becoming an afterthought in a crowded sci-fi market. And most American
movie fans missed out on one of the best sci-fi films of the last five
years.
Ginger
Snaps was the first movie William Shatner included in the
club, but it is not the only great movie with an unfamiliar name available to
members. Close Your Eyes, a
sci-fi thriller, won three awards at the Paris Film Festival in 2004, and took
home top honors from the Swedish Fantastic Film Festival in 2002. Richard
Roeper (of Ebert & Roeper) raves about Close Your Eyes, ?"One of the best thrillers I've
seen probably since The Ring." Immortal (Ad Vitam), a
film which was never released in U.S. movie theaters, has been called ?jaw
dropping, highly detailed, and smoothly executed? (Movie-vault.com) and
?strangely and almost hypnotically engaging? (Moviepie.com). More
information about the movies included in the club is available on the official
website (http://www.shatnerdvdclub.com/).
One of the benefits of featuring less
well known content is that the movies are available at very reasonable
prices. In fact, subscribers to the William Shatner DVD Club will own a
new film every month for about the cost of a rental. At the very reasonable
price of less than $4 per DVD (including shipping) William Shatner hopes to make
his club available to all sci-fi fans. Right now, the William Shatner DVD
Club is offering anyone with an e-mail address a free Ginger Snaps DVD. To take advantage
of this offer, go to http://www.shatnerdvdclub.com/.
Adam Schwartz, one of the very first
people to join the club, had this to say, ?I had never heard of Ginger Snaps but it was a great
movie. And they gave me a bonus disc with it, so I actually got two movies
for free. I?ve always liked William Shatner as an actor, but I think I
like him even more as a film critic.?
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