Verdaderos Monstruos: The MEL BROOKS Collection en Blu-Ray

Mel Brooks Collection (US BD) in December

Fox Home Entertainment have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of The Mel Brooks Collection on 15th December 2009 priced at $139.99 SRP. Best known as a creator of broad film farces and uproarious parodies, jack-of-all-trades Mel Brooks has been entertaining audiences for years with his wacky and absurdist humour. Presenting several of his films in high definition, this set includes Blazing Saddles, High Anxiety, History Of The World Part I, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Silent Movie, Spaceballs, To Be Or Not To Be, The Twelve Chairs and Young Frankenstein.


The collection also features an exclusive book created in conjunction with Mel Brooks highlighting his life and films.

Studio: 20th Century Fox | Release Date: 12/15/2009 | Number of Discs: 9

Blazing Saddles (on loan from Warner), Spaceballs and Young Frankenstein are already available separately and the same discs appear in this set. Features on all titles are outlined below…


Blazing Saddles

Main Feature:

• 1080P High Definition 16x9 2.40:1
• Dolby Digital: English 5.1, French 1.0 and Spanish 1.0
• English, French and Spanish subtitles

Extra Features are presented in Standard Definition and are identical to those found on the DVD release:

• Additional Scenes
• Scene-Specific Commentary by Mel Brooks
• 2 Documentaries:
  
  
  
  • Back in the Saddle
  • Intimate Portrait: Madeline Kahn (Excerpt)
  
  
  
  
• Black Bart: 1975 Pilot Episode of the Proposed TV Series Spinoff
• Theatrical Trailer

Spaceballs

A Blu-ray + DVD Combo release, features include:

• 1080P 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• French 5.1 DTS and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital
• English, French and Spanish subtitles
• Commentary by Mel Brooks
• Additional Commentary Tracks:
  
  
  
  • Mawgese
  • Dinkese
  
  
  
  
• Spaceballs: The Documentary featurette
• In Conversation: Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan featurette
• John Candy: Comic Spirit featurette
• Watch the Movie in Ludicrous Speed featurette
• Still Galleries:
  
  
  
  • Spaceballs: The Behind-the-Movie Photos
  • Spaceballs: The Costume Gallery
  • Spaceballs: The Art Gallery
  
  
  
  
• Trailers
  
  
  
  • Exhibitor Trailer with Mel Brooks Introduction
  • Theatrical Trailer
  
  
  
  
• Film Flubs:
  
  
  
  • Edge of the Mirror
  • Grabs Himself Early
  • The Magic Reappearing Ring
  • More Than His Head
  • No End in Sight
  • Track Behind Dot
  
  
  
  
• Storyboards-to-Film Comparison
• Spaceballs DVD
  
  
  
  • Widescreen Feature Film (Side A)
  • Full screen Feature Film (Side B)
  
  
  
  

Young Frankenstein
 

• 1080P 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio
• English, Spanish and French Mono
• English, French, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional & Simplified) and Korean subtitles
• BD Exclusive – Inside The Lab: Secret Formulas in the Making Of Young Frankenstein
  BonusView – picture-in-picture mode featuring all-new on-camera interviews with Mel Brooks, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman and others
• BD Exclusive – It’s Alive! Creating A Monster Classic featurette
• BD Exclusive – Transylvanian Lullaby: The Music of John Morris featurette
• BD Exclusive – The Franken-Track: A Monstrous Conglomeration of TriviaBD Exclusive – 17 Deleted/Extended Scenes in HD
• BD Exclusive – “The Brain Game” set-top game
• BD Exclusive – “Blucher Button” interactive feature
• BD Exclusive – Isolated Score Track
• Commentary by Director Mel Brooks
• Making FrankenSense of Young Frankenstein featurette
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Deleted Scenes
• Interviews with Marty Feldman, Gene Wilder & Cloris Leachman
• Still Galleries – 19 individual production photograph galleries
• Theatrical trailers
• TV spots

High Anxiety

• Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
• The “Am I Very, Very Nervous?” Test
  
  
  
  
  
  • Dr. Thorndyke’s Ink Blot Test
  • How Anxious Am I?
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Don’t Get Anxious! The Trivia of Hitchcock - Trivia Track
• Isolated Score Track (DTS MA)

History of the World Part 1

• Musical Mel: Inventing “The Inquisition”
• Making History: Mel Brooks on Creating the World
• The Real History of the World - Trivia Track
• Isolated Score Track (DTS MA)

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

• Funny Men In Tights: Three Generations of Comedy
• HBO Special: Robin Hood: Men In Tights - “The Legend Had It Coming”
• LaserDisc Commentary by Mel Brooks
• Isolated Score Track (DTS MA)

Silent Movie

• Silent Laughter: The Reel Inspirations of Silent Movie
• Speak Up! Historical Hollywood - Trivia Track

To Be Or Not To Be

• Brooks and Bancroft: A Perfect Pair
• How Serious Can Mel Brooks Really Get?
• Profiles of Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning
• To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Trivia! - Trivia Track
• Isolated Score Track (DTS MA)

Twelve Chairs - No extras.

Audio options are simply listed as English 5.1 DTS-HD MA, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English, French and Spanish subtitles (no title specific information is available).



BIOGRAFIA DE Mel Brooks:

Melvin Kaminsky (1926-), más conocido como Mel Brooks, es un guionista, actor y director de cine estadounidense, especializado en el género de comedia.
Su entrada en el mundo del cine fue en 1968 con Los productores (The Producers), siendo el director y el guionista. Da vida a un productor de musicales estafador y a un contable tímido y nervioso que encuentran la más grande estafa jamás creada: producir un musical cuyo fracaso es asegurado de forma de hacer más dinero que con un muscial exitoso. Ganó el Óscar al mejor guión en 1969.
Mel Brooks también ha sido el productor de El hombre elefante de David Lynch (1980) y de La mosca de David Cronenberg (1986). Para producir estas películas tan ajenas a su estilo tuvo que crear la empresa Brooksfilms, debido al hecho de que el público, viendo en los carteles «Mel Brooks presenta», pensaría de inmediato en una comedia.  Parte de sui obra:

• Los Productores (The Producers, 1968) (director y guionista) .
• El misterio de las 12 sillas (The Twelve Chairs, 1970) (director, guionista y actor).
• Sillas de montar calientes (Blazing Saddles, 1974) (director, guionista y actor).
• El jovencito Frankenstein (Young Frankenstein, 1974) (director, guionista).
• La última locura (Silent Movie, 1976) (director, guionista y actor).
• Máxima Ansiedad (High Anxiety, 1978) (director, guionista y actor).
• La loca historia del Mundo (History of the World. Part I, 1981) (director, guionista y actor).
• Soy o no soy (To be or not to be, 1983) (actor).
• La loca historia de las galaxias (Spaceballs, 1987) (director, guionista y actor).
• ¡Que asco de vida! (Life Stinks, 1991) (director, guionista y actor).
• Las locas, locas aventuras de Robin Hood (Robin Hood: Men in Tights, 1993) (director, guionista y actor) .
• Dracula: muerto pero feliz (Drácula: Dead and Loving It, 1995) (director, guionista y actor).

Mel Brooks fue invitado especial en el programa de televisión llamado Loco por ti (Mad About You), programa protagonizado por Helen Hunt y Paul Reiser, pero la producción de la serie de la década de los años 60 (1965 a 1970) titulada El Superagente 86 (Get Smart), protagonizada por Don Adams, ha sido de lo más exitoso en sus logros televisivos.

FUENTES: http://dvdtimes.co.uk/content/id/71573/ , http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Brooks