By Ray Pride Pride@moviecitynews.com
PR o' the day: William Shatner's DVD club
William Shatner Launches DVD Club
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, December 16, 2005
Brooklyn, NY
William Shatner’s new DVD club casts him in the one role he’s not had during his storied 50-year acting career: film critic. The recently launched Official William Shatner DVD Club… a DVD-of-the-month club, showcases the best sci-fi movies that didn’t come to a theater near you. Shatner explains, “Determining what movies get broad distribution and studio marketing support is [complicated], and… the caliber of the film isn’t the only consideration. I’ve chosen a select group of memorable and entertaining sci-fi movies that never got the exposure they deserved, and made them available to fans everywhere at a great price.” The Canadian Shatner’s first pic is Ginger Snaps, a popular-on-DVD Canadian horror entry. “One of the benefits of featuring less well known content is that the movies are available at very reasonable prices. In fact, subscribers to the William Shatner DVD Club will own a new film every month for about the cost of a rental. At the very reasonable price of less than $4 per DVD (including shipping) William Shatner hopes to make his club available to all sci-fi fans. Right now, the William Shatner DVD Club is offering anyone with an e-mail address a free Ginger Snaps DVD.
“Adam Schwartz, one of the very first people to join the club, had this to say, “I had never heard of Ginger Snaps but it was a great movie. And they gave me a bonus disc with it, so I actually got two movies for free. I’ve always liked William Shatner as an actor, but I think I like him even more as a film critic.”