Joe Dante's Matinee coming to Region 1 DVD

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U.S. label Shout Factory confirmed at Comic-Con in San Diego that it is preparing four new titles for the Shout Select line: Joe Dante's Matinee, John Landis' Into the Night (1985), Stewart Raffill's Mac and Me (1988), and Martin Rosen's The Plague Dogs. The four releases are expected to arrive on the market later this year.

Supplemental features to be included on each release will be finalized and revealed as the street dates approach.

Matinee

Synopsis: Step back into a time of outrageous movie-theater gimmicks and larger-than-life-B-screen stars in this charming homage to the great sci-fi and horror flicks of the 1950s and 1960s.

John Goodman is at his uproarious best as the William Castle-inspired movie promoter Lawrence Woolsey, who brings his unique brand of flashy showmanship to the unsuspecting residents of Key West, Florida.

It's 1962, and fifteen-year-old fan Gene Loomis (Simone Fenton) can't wait for the arrival of Woolsey, who is in town to promote his latest offering of atomic power gone berserk, Mant! But the absurd vision of Woolsey's tale takes on a sudden urgency as the Cuban Missile Crises places the real threat of atomic horror just 90 miles off the coast. With the help of Gene and Woolsey's leading lady, Ruth (Cathy Moriarty), the master showman gives Key West a premiere they'll never forget. Anything can happen in the movies, and everything does in this hilarious tribute to a more innocent (and outrageous) time in American cinema.