According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dreamworks’ 2010 3D-animated film “Megamind” has become this year’s first film to top all three of the home video charts. The movie came in at No. 1 on the Nielsen Blu-Ray Disc and VideoScan First Alert charts as well as the “Home Media” Magazine’s rental chart for the week ending Feb. 27. This record-setting performance is even more exciting because a) the film, starring heavy hitters such as Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, had a “soft sell” at the box-office and was competently received by critics, receiving a 72% from Rotten Tomatoes, and b) the DVD was released on a Friday  [ Read More ]

Money, power and blood reign supreme when “Sons Of Anarchy” Season Two roars onto Blu-ray Disc and DVD August 31 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. From the creative mind of Kurt Sutter (“The Shield”), the adrenalized drama centers on a notorious outlaw motorcycle club intent on protecting their sheltered small town against encroaching drug dealers, corporate developers, and overzealous law officers. The club is equally determined to protect their ruthless and illegally thriving arms business. Charlie Hunnam stars as Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller, a man whose love for the brotherhood is tested by his growing apprehension for its lawlessness. Katey Sagal stars as Gemma Teller Morrow, Jax’s force-of-nature mother, who  [ Read More ]

In celebration of the DVD release of “An Education”, Sony Pictures Classics and Shockya.com are giving away a copy of the film to a lucky Shockya.com reader. All you have to do is click the ‘Retweet’ button and tweet this post and your automatically entered. Only U.S. visitors can enter. “An Education” by director Lone Scherfig stars Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper, Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson and Carey Mulligan. Synopsis: In the early 1960′s, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father’s wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford,  [ Read More ]

Summit Entertainment just released this new movie trailer for the documentary “Twilight in Forks” to be released with the New Moon DVD, March 20th. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” is based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer. New Moon stars Robert Pattinson (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, The Runaways), Nikki Reed (K-11), Ashley Greene (Skateland), Taylor Lautner, (My Own Worst Enemy), Jackson Rathbone (S. Darko) Dakota Fanning and Kellan Lutz. Click Here for more photos, news and videos from Twilight and New Moon. Movie Synopsis: After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with  [ Read More ]

Sony Pictures Animation’s smash hit Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs serves up a hilarious, mouth-watering food storm of epic portions on Blu-ray and DVD on January 25, 2010, from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Based on the beloved bestselling children’s book, the CG animated film features the all-star voice talents of Bill Hader (Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian), Anna Faris (House Bunny, Scary Movie franchise), James Caan (Get Smart, TV’s “Las Vegas”), Andy Samberg (TV’s “SNL”), Mr. T (Rocky 3, TV’s “The A-Team”), and Neil Patrick Harris (TV’s “How I Met Your Mother”) in the story of Flint, an outcast inventor who creates a machine that rains  [ Read More ]

Title: Gamer Starring: Michael C. Hall, Gerard Butler, Kyra Sedgewick It is somewhere in the near future…There is a game watched by the entire world…It’s captivating…It’s thrilling…This is the future…This…is American Ido….oh wait. It is just a remake of The Running Man. Gamer- starring Gerard Butler (Leonidas) Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Kyra Sedgewick (y’know Kevin Bacon’s wife), Alison Lohman (The chick that gets Dragged to Hell) and Ludacris (Skinny Black from Hustle & Flow) is an action based film that put wrongly convicted criminal Kable (Butler) in the hands of a teenage gamer. The objective in this game is to make it to your checkpoint. The thing is, you are  [ Read More ]

Check out the limited edition Japanese DVD box set for the film “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer. New Moon stars Robert Pattinson (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Kristen Stewart (Adventureland, The Runaways), Nikki Reed (K-11), Ashley Greene (Skateland), Taylor Lautner, (My Own Worst Enemy), Jackson Rathbone (S. Darko) Dakota Fanning and Kellan Lutz. Click Here for more photos, news and videos from Twilight and New Moon. Movie Synopsis: After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family. However, a minor accident during the festivities results in  [ Read More ]

Los Angeles, California, January 15, 2010 – One of the most talked about films of 2009, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, will be released on a Two-Disc Special Edition DVD and Special Edition Blu-ray on March 20, 2010 – a Saturday street date that will allow for fans across the nation to celebrate at retailer’s midnight release parties before taking home the film at 12:01 a.m. Already a worldwide literary phenomenon, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, a post modern Romeo and Juliet story filled with action, suspense and the supernatural, took in an estimated $300 million domestic at the theatrical box office and had the third largest opening weekend box  [ Read More ]

Check out this really cool fan made teaser poster for the upcoming film “Evil Dead IV” aka The Evil Dead, by director Sam Raimi (Drag Me to Hell, Spider-Man 3) and starring Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness). “Evil Dead IV” follows Ash, a a man of action -and idiocy. While in college he, his girlfriend Linda, his best friend Scott, Scott’s girlfriend Shelly and his sister Cheryl, head to a cabin in the woods of Tennessee for some good times. Only everything goes wrong. Stay tuned to Shockya.com for the latest movie news and more from “Evil Dead IV”. Hail to the king baby.

In celebration of the DVD release of “Paper Heart” starring Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Shockya.com are giving away a free copy of the film to one lucky Shockya.com facebook fan! Click Here to become a Shockya.com fan. Hurry, the contest ends December 15th, 2009. Synopsis: Charlyne Yi does not believe in love. Or so she says. Well, at the very least, she doesn’t believe in fairy-tale love or the Hollywood mythology of love, and her own experiences have turned her into yet another modern-day skeptic. Follow Charlyne across America as she and her good friend (and director) Nicholas Jasenovec search for answers and advice about  [ Read More ]

Amazing footage of Nirvana performing “School” at the 1992 Reading Festival was recently made available for fans. The video comes from the CD+DVD Nirvana Live At Reading which hits stores November 17th, with the CD only version arriving on November 3rd. Often heralded as one of the greatest Nirvana performances of all time, the gig featured front man Kurt Cobain rocking out in a hospital gown. Fans can now own a color-corrected video from the original film with audio sourced from the original multi-track masters. Nirvana Live At Reading DVD: 1. Breed 2. Drain You 3. Aneurysm 4. School 5. Sliver 6. In Bloom 7. Come As You Are 8.  [ Read More ]

Nirvana’s legendary never-before-released 1992 Reading concert set to debut in November. Below is the complete track list and details. Click Here to watch “School” exclusively on Amazon.com. “Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didn’t see it then it was something you pretended you saw.” –Kerrang (October 2003) “The staggering energy and intensity radiating from the stage never let up… Cobain’s ravaged pop songs coming off like some dream marriage of the Sex Pistols and the Beatles, borne on bracing waves of distorted guitar noise.” –Rolling Stone (October 29, 1992) Ranked #1 in Kerrang Magazine’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” and  [ Read More ]

Anchor Bay Entertainment sent us news on the upcoming Cameron Romero film “Staunton Hill” starring Kathy Lamkin, Cristen Coppen and Kiko Ellsworth (Dexter) coming to dvd on October 6th. Here’s the official press release and DVD box art. BEVERLY HILLS, CA – This Halloween, Anchor Bay Entertainment celebrates a legacy of fear with the release of Staunton Hill, a visceral and vicious thriller of merciless suspense and shock. Street date is October 6th. Pre-book is September 3rd, and SRP is $19.97. Directed by the son of legendary cult filmmaker George A. Romero, Cameron Romero is clearly following in his father’s fearful footsteps as a master of terror and suspense. When  [ Read More ]

San Francisco, CA, August 27, 2009 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, will release the Uncut DVD Box Set for the animated romantic rock and roll melodrama, NANA, on September 8th. The 3-disc set featuring 12 episodes will be rated ‘M’ for Mature Audiences and carry an MSRP of $59.90 U.S. / $85.99 CAN. The first box set will also include an exclusive NANA guitar pick. The NANA anime is based on the popular manga by Ai Yazawa, which has sold over 43 million copies in Japan and is published in North America by VIZ Media  [ Read More ]

Variety.com is reporting that “The Strangers 2″ movie, a sequel to the 2008 horror film starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman, is going to start filming this fall. The film will be produced by Ryan Kavanaugh from Relativity, Vertigo’s Roy Lee and Doug Davison, and Nathan Kahane from Mandate. Tucker Tooley from Relativity, Joe Drake from Mandate, Sonny Mahli from Vertigo and Trevor Macy and Marc Evans from Intrepid are all on-board to act as executive producers. Laurent Briet is tapped to direct. The film is going to be a follow-up to the first film, which shows a couple terrorized by three mysterious masked strangers at a remote cabin. Stay  [ Read More ]