DVD re-issues — here we go again!

Two upcoming movies have prompted two new DVD re-issues.

Actually, one of them isn’t really new at all. If Amazon is to be trusted — and I’m not sure it is — apparently the 1980s BBC version of The Chronicles of Narnia won’t be coming out in the United States until next Tuesday, though it has been available in Canada for quite some time. True, DVD Empire — to pick just one other online vendor off the top of my head — does indicate the set has been available Stateside since August 2002; however, the cover looks slightly different (note the corporate logos). If this new set is a re-issue, then it is interesting that Amazon has no trace of the earlier version.

On the other hand, it looks like Wallace & Gromit in Three Amazing Adventures will be a brand new release, apart from the actual films of course, which were first released on DVD by Fox in 1999, then by Warner in 2001. Now it’s Dreamworks’ turn — that’s the studio behind the upcoming feature film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. I haven’t a clue whether the new set will include any of the extras available on the earlier discs, but I do believe a few W&G; shorts have been produced over the last few years, and I guess those might be included on the new disc.