Issue #34 • ships from Sep 5 2002
News-stand Price • UK £3.99 / US $7.99

The Scorpion King
• He appeared in five minutes of The Mummy Returns, and almost stole the show. Now The Rock has his own fantasy-tinged movie – and he’s here to tell Ultimate DVD all about it.

Big Brother 3
• From Nasty Nick to Mingin' Jade, we look back at the popular show's best bits as we prepare for the third, uncut, and extras-filled Big Brother adventures to hit DVD…

Free Coverdisc
• The complete 100th episode of Stargate: SG-1, 'Wormhole X-treme!'. This VCD PAL disc is available from our catalogue with the Scorpion King cover.

Beauty and the Beast
• One of Disney’s very best animated features comes to disc, with an extended Special Edition. We hear from members of the voice cast and the disc’s producer.

Mel Gibson
• The star of We Were Soldiers discusses his role as real-life Hal Ashby, the daring First Batallion Seventh Cavalry leader of the first military mission of the Vietnam War.

Grease
• The word is out! Classic songs, mad dancing, high school larks and a film to treasure: we explore why the John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John musical is a DVD Essential.

DVD-Audio
• You think you’ve sampled all that DVD has to offer? Then it’s time to sample what Warner has in store with its newly re-mastered releases of classic albums on DVD-A. The company’s Simon Heller explains why the format is the next big thing…

Gerry Anderson
• His timeless fantasy series of the ‘60s and ‘70s have found new fans among subsequent generations, with Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet and UFO as popular today as they were 30 years ago. As puppet spy series Joe 90 comes to DVD, we talk to the inimitable Gerry Anderson about his amazing career.

Stargate SG-1
• Ten reasons why this cutting edge Sci-Fi series is the one to watch.

New discs available in both Regions 1 and 2 including:

• Beauty and the Beast
• Peter Pan: Return to Neverland
• The Scorpion King
• Shiner
• We Were Soldiers

A wealth of new reviews including...

• The Accident Spy
• Clockstoppers
• Frailty
• Gremlins 1 and 2 Special Edition
• Iris
• In the Bedroom
• Murder by Numbers
• Reservoir Dogs: 10th Anniversary Edition

All the latest discs including:

• Black Hawk Down
• Cabaret
• Fatal Attraction
• Friends Season 8 Volumes 5 & 6
• From Hell
• I, Claudius
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Jerry Maguire Special Edition
• Mulholland Drive
• The Odd Couple
• The Odd Couple 2
• Roots
• Tron Special Edition

• The new DVD-Audio releases!
• Commentary – News from the DVD scene
  News Sci-Fi releases from the BBC, The Osbornes go DVD, and 24 is missing a few minutes.
• Hardware
  The Bush DVD 2023 and Cyber Home CH-DVD 505 reviewed, and we reveal all the must-have hardware coming to the market soon
• Your letters
  Why not tear yourself away from the tube or flat screen, and drop us a disc-related line?

Images taken from this issue are copyright or courtesy of: Disney, Paramount Pictures

All other contents © Visual Imagination Ltd 2002. Not for reproduction

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