Close Encounters of the Third Kind courtesy Sony Pictures
For the first time, Steven Spielberg (On the Lot) is packaging all three versions of Close Encounters of the Third Kind — the 1977 theatrical cut, the '80 special edition and the '98 director's cut — for home video, delivering the triple play on both DVD and hi-def Blu-ray disc Nov. 13, just days before the film's 30th anniversary.... Sandra Bullock's Premonition topped last week's DVD sales and rental charts.... House: Season 3 arrives on DVD Aug. 21, while 30 Rock's freshman foray streets Sept. 4.
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Perhaps proving once and for all that an online petition protesting historical inaccuracies can't take down a box-office behemoth, 300 came in at No. 1 for a second straight weekend, adding $31.2 million to its total haul ($127.5 mil).Rounding out the top five were Wild Hogs ($18.8 million, now at $104 mil total), Sandra Bullock's poorly reviewed Premonition (opening with $18 mil), the not-screened-for-critics Dead Silence ($7.8 mil) and Chris Rock's I Think I Love My Wife (debuting with $5.7 mil).
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