The Dawn remake has been in the pipeline for quite a few years now. James Gunn has been trying to get the remake made for the past five years, if not more.

Strike Entertaiment hired Gunn to write the script.

Gunn has been screaming from the rooftops for years that he wanted to remake Dawn of the Dead. I remember reading sometime around 1999/2000 that he wanted to do the film (not only write, but also direct) and I guess he impressed Richard P. Rubinstein (the owner of the rights to Dawn of the Dead) enough to go on with the remake.

Then again, IIRC, Rubinstein would've went on with a remake if the script was crap or total gold.

They closed our K-Mart so I'll be waiting.

so what is it? stereo, mono?

according to dvdmaniacs.com its regular 5.1 DD & DTS

Along with a stereo track and the original mono.

If Anchor Bay just included the original mono, I'd be perfectly happy, but DD and DTS 5.1 is just extra gravy (too bad it couldn't be EX/ES encoded). :)

The disc is US Theatrical Version - just 127 minutes. A total of 15 minutes missing, which is on LD's "Director Cut" version.

Got it at K-Mart sunday..the flick looks like it was shot last week!

Yes, this looks to be the true theaterical cut. No extras scenes of the boat dock like the last release.

Before I read the review of this new disc I didn't know that the first U.S. Theatrical Cut dvd that Anchor Bay released really was a cross between the extended Director's Cut and the true Theatrical Cut. By the way, a new review is up at dvdfile, http://dvdfile.com/software/review/d...edead_se.html.

For anyone in NYC, theres a store called Entertainment Outlet down by 14th St. and they had tons of copies there today for $14.99. I gladly picked one up! :D

Got mine today at Kmart. Thanks to all for the heads up on them breaking the street date!

-HM

Anyone find this anywhere besides K-Mart at any other retail stores? I would love to get before the weekend. Like a Best Buy or something...

Your usual retail outlets, like Best Buy, aren't dumb enough to break street date. I'm surprised that Kmart did. Wal-Mart's been known to do things like this, since some of them put Ed Wood on the shelves a couple of weeks ago, even though it was recalled.

-HM

got mine at blockbuster yesterday for 19.99

I tried 2 Best Best Buys and nothing. Tried a local K-Mart and nothing. Today I went to a different K-Mart 20 minutes away and found it! They had 2 left and quickly found somebody to get it out of the glass case. They have 1 left at the K-Mart on Jumpers Hole Rd in Millersville/Glen Burnie MD if anybody's interested.

The K-Mart has it out now. I just picked it up for $15.

That's too funny. I literally came here to post that the Big K-Mart on Route 18 also has a ton of them. I should have checked here first, would have saved me a trip. They also had it for $15 but the thrill isn't there anymore, isn't the street date this Tues?

Stopped by K-Mart today and there was around 4 to 5 copies. I almost overlooked them because they were stocked at the very bottom shelf of the children's DVD's across from the new release section. This has to be the first time I ever recall them breaking street date on anything!

Thanks OP! :up:

I've seen it at several Walmarts in Canada for $19.88 Cdn.

Thanks so much for posting about this. I found one at my local Kmart. Apparently it was the last copy.

I'll double dip on this one when the SE comes out, but I'm thrilled to have my hands on the single-disc edition so early.

The comment about Best Buy not being stupid is incorrect, I got 'Day of the Dead' two weeks early at Best Buy.

K-Mart in Penn Station NYC has 'em.

I also got Day Of The Dead at Best Buy 1 week early.

Wow, I'm shocked Best Buy broke street. Why are so many stores doing this? Maybe they figure Anchor Bay won't do anything about it.

-HM

I don't think that breaking street date with a catalog title causes anywhere near the amount of concern than doing the same thing with a new release title would. Plus Anchor Bay doesn't really have much clout to penalize retailers like a major studio would.

they probably won't....

i mean c'mon, as long the sellers can sell AB stuff, they'll fine with it...

:)

Found mine at the local Super K in Amherst Ohio. The picture quality is excellent for this release. Im looking forward to the Deluxe Version in the fall.

some people have already found it at sam's club for only $11.83. i'll be on that like stink on.......something stinky.

Bought a copy yesterday at the Petaluma, California K-Mart for 14.99. They still have 3 copies left I believe if anyone wants to know. They are right across from the DVDs in the glass case, stocked with the VHS'.

I was just about to sell my anniversary edition until I saw in this thread that it's a different cut from any other release. Oh well.

Could anybody tell me if the disc is R1 or R0?

why does it matter if it is R1 or R0..don't they both play the same?..anyway, mine has a 1 on the center of a globe so i assume that means R1..hope that helps.

It says his location is Finland, so unless he has a dvd player that plays region 1, they aren't the same.

Any info on the rumored mega edition to be released later on? The one with 3 differnt versions and lots of extras included?

What? It matters because a lot of people live outside the USA and don't have multiregion players. (I'm not one of them but that's beside the point.)

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..anyway, mine has a 1 on the center of a globe so i assume that means R1..hope that helps.

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Thanks... A lot of Anchor Bay discs are R0, and also, the back cover information isn't always 100% trustworthy. Could somebody with the means to check the region code see if it really is R1?

Nope... we're all anxiously waiting to see the final specs. It should be a humdinger :)

Has anyone had any problems with this disk? So far i've only watched this with the commentary but it repeated a section of the movie somewhere around the middle. After it played that section it continued on without any problems. My player is a Pioneer if that matters.

Watched it last night on my Sony. No problem here.