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The specs and box-art for the DVD of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has been released. Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release the film to the UK markets on 7th December 2009.

Check out the box art above. Full specs after the jump.

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has revealed that he does still plan to make a KILL BILL VOL. 3. The INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS helmer appeared on an Italian chatshow recently, where he told the interviewer that he wants around ten years to have passed between the release of Vol 2 and the release of the new film. That means we'll get to see it sometime in 2014. Wa? The reason for the delay? Well, he apparently was The Bride (Uma Thurman) to have a break after everything she went through. The interview is on You Tube. See below.

As we predicted last week, Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS made a whole heap of money at the US box-office over three days, taking a huge $37m. Well, the Brad Pitt starring WWII movie did well in the UK two, easily topping the box-office for its first few days.

'Basterds' took three times as much as it's nearest rival, the big-screen version of the book THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, which scored just under GBP1m (compared to IB's GBP3.5m). Positions three and four were made up by two animated fares in the form of G-FORCE and ALIENS IN THE ATTIC. HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE is a stayer too, making another GBP598,335, securing it the number five position.

All in GBP:

I am trying to remember the first time that I saw a Quentin Tarantino movie. It was his debut RESERVOIR DOGS, and I first saw it at a late night screening session at my local multiplex in either 1993 or 1994. The movie had been denied a video release in the UK, so film chains like Odeon and I think Virgin Cinemas at the time, took it upon themselves to show the film late at night to a nation of filmgoers who literally couldn't get enough of this exciting new filmmaker. Then, just a couple of months later PULP FICTION arrived on the scene, and that movie changed everything. The film won the Palme D'or, and the following year garnered a few Oscar nominations to boot. I fell in love with the film, and could not wait to get back to the cinema to see it again the following weekend.

Then came JACKIE BROWN in 1997, a film that, while not really disliking it, felt that it didn't quite live up to the man's previous two bohemoths. Then, after a long break, came KILL BILL, parts one and two, which out of the two, I prefered the second one, and then last year's GRINDHOUSE flick DEATH PROOF, which actually turned out to be a non-event over here in the UK really. So, Quentin had to get movie with another project. After lackluster box-office success with GRINDHOUSE, and a critical mauling, the director had to amp it up and deliver the goods. And quick.

Well, quick he was, and with a period of just over nine months since completing the screenplay, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS was debuting at the Cannes Film Festival, and competing for the Palme D'or, exactly 15 years after Pulp scored the big one in 1994. Expectations were high...

A new trailer for Quenin Tarantino's new film, the highly anticipated INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS has been posted online.

Opening August 21st, the film begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

Check out the trailer below.

It seems that there may be more to come from the INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. Apparently Universal want more from the Quentin Tarantino movie, including an addition scene.

This from Thompson on Hollywood.

Brad and Angelina seemed happy, as did an ebullient Quentin Tarantino, although TWC's 50/50 partner on the picture, Universal is talking to the filmmaker about returning to the editing room post-Cannes to make some trims edits that might include adding a scene, says Tarantino, who reminds that the film, at two hours 27 minutes, is well under his contractual final cut length of two hours 48 minutes.

More at the end of the link above.

Quentin Tarantino's INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is literally premiering over at the Cannes Film Festival as I write this. We're amped! The reviews have been mostly positive for the film, which actually gets a release in August.

Tarantino spoke to the BBC today: "All the world's film press from the planet Earth - they're all here," he said with typical ebullience.

"There's something about them all being here and seeing you drop the movie, bam - everybody weighs in at the exact same time.

"It's like the cat is out of the bag for the entire planet Earth, and I'm down with that," the Pulp Fiction director continued.

"I am not an American filmmaker. I make movies for planet Earth and Cannes is the place that represents that." He added.

Brad Pitt stars in the film. The Pittster is also in Cannes to attend the premiere for the flick, which is 'in competition' at this year's fest.

That crazy film geek just can't stop working. I am talking of Quentin Tarantino, who has apparently half-finished writing the prequel to the upcoming INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, months before the movie comes out. He spoke to the New York Times.

Mr. Tarantino, who was born in Tennessee, said his childhood revenge fantasies centered more on the Ku Klux Klan. "But it's all the same," he said. "Once the Basterds get through with Europe, they could go to the South and do it to the Kluxers in the '50s. That's another story you could tell."

Not to mention a shelved subplot about African-American soldiers stuck behind enemy lines. "I have a half-written prequel ready to go if this movie's a smash," he said.