The second Beatles film, 1965’s “Help!” will be released via a double DVD edition on October 30. The film has been off the market since 2000 due to rights issues. Audiophiles take note the DVD boasts a digitally restored version of the film plus a new 5.1 audio soundtrack, with songs like “You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away,” “Ticket To Ride,”and “You’re Going To Lose That Girl.” A second disc comes with a 30-minute making of the movie documentary and a tricked-out box set version will have the original script and a 60 page book with rare photos and whatnot. Ok, great and everything, but when the hell will “Let It Be” finally be released? [Billboard]
Medical marijuana enthusiast Method Man is going to star in “Hunting and Fishing” a films that parodies the uber-masculine and sweaty “300.” The Wu Tang Clan-er will apparently play a Persian emissary in the project being produced by Jason Friedberg and Alan Seltzer, the hacks behind the dreck spoof chains “Date Movie,” “Epic Movie.” Good luck with that one. [EURweb]
Sofia Coppola’s soundtracks right hand man Brian Reitzell (“Lost In Translation,” “Marie Antoinette”) has composed his first original score for the upcoming Josh Harnett horror film “30 Days of Night” (based off Steve Niles’ graphic novel). The film’s trailer features Muse’ “Apocalypse Please” (from Absolution) and Reitzell also doubled as his usual music supervisor position on the film as well.
Two-time Oscar winning composer Gustavo Santaolalla (“Babel,” “Brokeback Mountain”) along with Johan Söderqvist have composed the score for the mournful, yet feelgood, “your husband, my best friend, died and now I’m going to take care of your family and have tentative sex with you” film, “Things We Lost In The Fire,” starring Benicio Del Toro and Halle Berry. The godawful trailer features, the godawful songs, The Fray “Look After You” and Richard Butler’s “Good Days, Bad Days.”
Christopher Walken does karaoke of Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” in the awful looking “Balls of Fury” “comedy” with that shlub from Broadway. [EW]