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It's been 50 years since Barbra Streisand dazzled audiences as Dolly Levi in director Gene Kelly's lavish, eye-popping Hello Dolly!- and she'll be looking swell when the dazzling musical returns to movie theaters for two days only to mark its milestone anniversary.

Barbra Streisand leads a huge cast that also includes Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, E.J. Peaker, Danny Lockin and Tommy Tune as they sing and dance through more than a dozen memorable songs by Jerry Herman, including "Put on Your Sunday Clothes," "It Only Takes a Moment," "Before the Parade Passes By" and, of course, the title tune, which features a cameo by jazz legend Louis Armstrong.

In Hello, Dolly!, matchmaker, Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City.

It’s been 50 years since Barbra Streisand dazzled audiences as Dolly Levi in director Gene Kelly’s lavish, eye-popping Hello, Dolly!– and she’ll be looking swell when the dazzling musical returns to movie theaters for two days only to mark its milestone anniversary.

Streisand leads a huge cast that also includes Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, E.J. Peaker, Danny Lockin and Tommy Tune as they sing and dance through more than a dozen memorable songs by Jerry Herman, including “Put on Your Sunday Clothes,” “It Only Takes a Moment,” “Before the Parade Passes By” and, of course, the title tune, which features a cameo by jazz legend Louis Armstrong.

Winner of three Academy Awards®, the spare-no-expenses production transformed Hello, Dolly! from a Broadway musical-comedy into an extravagant Hollywood production – which most recently enjoyed newfound popularity as the favorite movie of Wall-e in the Disney-Pixar film. Now,...

With this year marking the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott's Alien and the 25th anniversary of Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shawshank Redemption, Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies are teaming up to celebrate in style and bring both films back to theaters:

Press Release: Denver – July 23, 2019 – After a spectacular first six months of 2019, Fathom Events and Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will bring seven more classic films to movie theaters in the second half of the year, beginning with Barbra Streisand starring in Gene Kelly’s lavish adaptation of Hello, Dolly!, and ending with a newly announced presentation of the MGM musical classic Meet Me in St. Louis.

For its 50th anniversary, Hello, Dolly! is back where she belongs: on the big screen, playing Sunday, August 11, and Wednesday, August 14. Winner of three Academy Awards®, Hello, Dolly! kicks off the second half of 2019’s TCM Big Screen Classics series,...

Dr. John Beck finds himself turning into a literal Bat-Man (sans Gotham) in 1974's The Bat People, and with the horror thriller now out on a new Blu-ray from Scream Factory, we've been provided with three Blu-ray copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.

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For the brand new Blu-ray and DVD offerings coming out on Tuesday, July 18th, we have an eclectic assortment of titles, both new and old. As far as cult classics go, The Bat People, Freeway, Stalker, and Stormy Monday are all making their HD debuts on Blu this week, and if you missed Kong: Skull Island, Free Fire or Buster’s Mal Heart during their theatrical runs, now you’ll have a chance to catch up with these films on their home entertainment releases.

Other notable release for July 18th include Resident Evil: Vendetta, Another Evil, Lake Alice, and The Expanse: Season Two.

The Bat People (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

Half Man, Half Bat, All Terror!

From director Jerry Jameson (Airport 77, Raise The Titanic) comes a high-flying horror from the darkest corner of the drive-in: The Bat People!

When Dr. John Beck and his wife Cathy fall into an underground cave,...