Home Entertainment Group will issue "The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition." With six times higher resolution than standard DVD, along with the sonic excellence of Dolby TruHD, the film will be at its pristine best, marking an historic benchmark in the Blu-ray format. And, to celebrate the film's first time in the Blu-ray format, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group will issue the digitally re-mastered "The Wizard of Oz" on Blu-ray, DVD, On Demand and Digital Download.
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at Central Park's Rumsey Playfield, the movie will be shown on a giant inflatable screen.Įarlier that day, Warner Bros. Following the concert, which kicks off at 7:30 p.m. The show is being directed by and will also feature The Roots' Grammy Award-winning drummer and record producer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson and a band assembled especially for the show. The concert will feature contemporary interpretations of classic songs from the "The Wizard of Oz" by the Academy Award(R)-winning actress and Grammy(R) Award-winning singer Jennifer Hudson and two-time American Country Music(R) Award and two-time "Dancing with the Stars" winner Julianne Hough.
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To celebrate the iconic film's return to the spotlight, Netflix also announced it will host a free live concert and movie screening on Tuesday, September 29 in New York's Central Park. Those devices include Netflix ready Blu-ray disc players and new Internet TVs from LG Electronics Blu-ray disc players from Samsung the Roku digital video player Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console and TiVo digital video recorders. Persistent rumors say that cherub-faced, 10-year-old box-office darling Shirley Temple was the expected first choice, but she either didn’t have the singing chops or the contract freedom to be in the movie.While anyone in America can instantly watch "The Wizard of Oz" online on a computer on October 3, Netflix members on an unlimited plan will be able to instantly watch "The Wizard of Oz" in hi-definition on their TVs via a range of Netflix ready devices. Garland, 16 at the time, wasn’t even meant to be the star of the film at first. She was on a very strict diet, dealt with sexual harassment on set and was even slapped by Fleming for catching a case of the giggles-even though reportedly, she didn’t mind much and spoke positively about him for the rest of her life. That was the first thing I did with Judy Garland.” It’s now widely known that Garland had an especially difficult time throughout filming. Producer Mervyn LeRoy said, “ I fixed all her teeth in front.She had big wide spaces. Garland was not yet the star she would become, even though she’d been in a few MGM films up to that point. Half of the time we were hanging from the ceiling, but it was a way of life for us.” “After four hours they’d wake us up and give us the pep pills again so we could work 72 hours in a row. “They’d take us to the studio hospital and knock us out with sleeping pills,” Judy Garland (Dorothy) once recalled later. The cast also had a grueling filming schedule.
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