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300's Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx are on the hunt in Overture Films' Law Abiding Citizen, which grossed $72 million in theaters and will arrive on DVD and Blu-ray on Feb. 16 (prebook Jan. 14).

The DVD, priced at $29.98, will include the theatrical version of the film, but the Blu-ray ($39.98) will have an unrated director's cut with nine more minutes of action.

In Law Abiding Citizen, Butler takes justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.

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Disney is debuting two new TV series on DVD in February.

First up is Gary Unmarried: The Complete First Season on Feb. 9 (order now). Starring Jay Mohr, sitcom Gary airs on CBS. The three-DVD set will be priced at $39.99 and include bloopers and three featurettes: "The Chemistry of Comedy," "Planet Begley" and "Tuesday On the Set With Jay."

ABC's FlashForward will bow as a Season One: Part One release, including only the first 10 episodes of the drama. Priced at $29.99, the two-DVD set also will contain two featurettes: "Creating Catastrophe: The Effects of the Global Blackout" and "FlashForward: A Look Ahead."

With Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies coming to Blu-ray on April 6, Warner is making it LOTR day, releasing the 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings as a two-disc special edition DVD ($19.98) and as a Blu-ray combo ($29.99).

The animated movie, which features the voices of John Hurt and William Squire, will be remastered for the new home releases.

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Now, here's another movie that will show off Blu-ray's high-definition picture and sound nicely.

Roland Emmerich's world-as-we-know-it-destroying 2012 will be released as a two-disc Blu-ray with digital, single-disc Blu-ray, DVD and for the PlayStation Portable on March 2 (prebook Jan. 28).

Sony's two-disc Blu-ray (priced at $39.95, only $1 more than the single-disc Blu-ray at $38.96) is the ultimate package, of course, including digital copy for the PSP on the Blu-ray disc, transferable through the PS3, as well as digital copy for PC, Mac and iPod on a separate disc. Here's the rest of the extras menu:

Disc 1

The Coen brothers latest film, A Serious Man, has already received some award attention, including winning the Robert Altman Award at the Independent Spirit Awards and Best Screenplay at the National Board of Review. The limited-release film also was nominated for a Best Actor Golden Globe for Michael Stuhlbarg’s performance.

Universal will capitalize on the award buzz when it releases the film on Feb. 9 (prebook now) on DVD ($29.98) and Blu-ray Disc ($36.98). Both releases include featurettes, and the Blu-ray also has BD Live.

The dark comedy follows a physics professor (Stuhlbarg), who must deal with a wife (Sari Lennick) who is leaving him, a brother (Richard Kind) who won’t move out of the house and rabbis who fail to give him guidance.

Paul Weitz's fantasy comedy Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant didn't bite at the box office, drawing in only $13.7 million in an in-and-out wide release. But this movie, starring John C. Reilly, is based on the novel by Darren Shan, and fans of the book series should seek out the film when it hits the home market.

And that will be on Feb. 23 (prebook Jan. 5). Freak will be priced at $29.98 on...Read More

Universal has lined up the DVD and Blu-ray release of Couples Retreat with Valentine's Day. The romantic comedy will arrive for the home market on Feb. 9 (order now) priced at $29.98 on DVD and $36.98 on Blu-ray.

Starring Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, Jon Favreau, Kristin Davis, ...Read More

The latest Stargate spin-off, Stargate Universe, will bow on DVD and Blu-ray on Feb. 9 from Fox.

The third Stargate series, after Stargate SG-1 (1997) and Stargate Atlantis (2004), takes a slightly different tack than the other series in the franchise, which began with the 1994 movie starring Kurt Russell and James Spader. In Universe, a group of soldiers, scientists and civilians flee an attack on an Ancient ship called Destiny and find themselves stranded billions of miles ...Read More

The mini-series, starring Kathy Bates and Tim Curry, comes to DVD and Blu-ray March 2, days before the theatrical bow of Tim Burton's ...Read More

Homer Simpson and his popular family will arrive on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on Jan. 12 with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s release of The Simpsons: The Complete Twentieth Season (prebook Dec. 16; DVD $49.98, BD $59.98). The release will mark the first time the TV series has been available on Blu-ray.

Fox’s Amelia Earhart biopic Amelia, starring Oscar winner Hilary Swank in the title role, will take off on DVD ($29.98) and Blu-ray Disc ($39.99) on Feb. 2 (prebook Jan. 6).

Directed by Mira Nair (Vanity Fair, Monsoon Wedding), the $14.1 million-grossing film also stars Richard Gere as George Putnam, Amelia’s husband, and Ewan McGregor as Gene Vidal, with whom Amelia had an affair.

The DVD will include deleted scenes, a making-of featurette, Movietone News and a featurette about Earhart’s life. The Blu-ray also has additional featurettes and digital copy.