Don’t stop believin' in Jane Lynch & the cast of Glee on DVD Special

The actors of Glee sing the praises of the hit song-&-dance TV series -- now out on DVD. You can also spend New Year’s Eve with Jennifer’s Body, A Perfect Getaway, 9, It Might Get Loud, Spaceballs, U.S. of Tara, Marine 2, Vampire Killers & Facing Ali.

Filled with beloved characters and sensational musical numbers, television’s latest critical hit and ratings winner, Glee, is an electrifying, pitch-perfect winner the world over. Recently nominated for a handful of Golden Globe Awards (four, including Best Comedy), and another quartet of nods from the Writer’s Guild Awards (WGA), Glee is a genre-defying show filled with sharp wit, infectious musical numbers and undeniable heart. The funniest and most talked-about first 13 episodes of the inaugural season of TV's favorite is now on DVD — Glee: Season 1- Road To Sectionals. With a cast led by veteran actors Jane Lynch (Julie & Julia, Role, Models, The-40-Year-Old-Virgin) and Matthew Morrison (Music & Lyrics, Dan In Real Life, Taking Chances), Glee is set in the fictional world of William McKinley High School — an educational institution that once boasted a championship, award-winning glee club, but over the years the club began to flounder and has become something of a joke... until an idealistic Spanish teacher, William Schuester (Morrison), surprisingly begins to spot real talent among the remaining members of a glee club now filled with wannabes, pseudo-divas and insecure but ultra-talented performers. Determined to transform the rag-tag group of singers and dancers into the champions they once were, the determined Mr. Schuester tries to convince the school’s principal and the other faculty members — like the ambitious Sue Sylvester (Lynch) — to help resurrect McKinley’s once award-winning Glee Club. Slowly, but surely, the snobs, the geeks, the wheelchair-bound, handicapped teen and the jock all get behind Mr. Schuester (who was once a glee club star when he was younger). With new episodes of Season 2 scheduled to begin airing in early 2010, the Glee: Season 1, Vol. 1 - Road To Sectionals DVD is your chance to catch up on all the fun, singing and dancing of Season One. The creative brainchild of Ryan Murphy, the creator of Nip/Tuck, Glee also stars Jessalyn Gilsig (Nip/Tuck) and a slew of talented newcomers, including Lea Michele, Jenna Ushkowitz, Jessalyn Gilsig, Kevin McHale, Mark Salling, Cory Monteith and Chris Colfer.

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Heather Morris, Amber Riley, Kevin McHale, Cory Monteith, Harry Shum Jr (far back), Dianna Agron, Lea Michele, Naya Rivera (back), Chris Colfer, Mark Salling and Dijon Talton

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Lea, your character, Rachel, is so obsessed with music and with fame. When you were a kid, how much of her could you relate to?

LEA MICHELE: "I think what's so great about Rachel is that she knows what she wants and she knows what she loves, and that's exactly how I was. When I was eight years old, I fell in love with singing, and ever since then it's been my passion. And I've been dedicated to it since I was young. And Rachel is the exact same way. So in a way I can relate to it, and I also respect and love that about her.” Cory, could you talk about the pressure of not just learning lines, but dances and songs and all of that every week, too? Is it tough?

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CORY MONTEITH: “Yeah, it was really hard, especially in the beginning, because we were learning how to work with a choreographer and shoot the show and prerecord the music, to learn the dance choreography, too. So I mean, at the beginning of the show, we were taking weeks to do some of these dance numbers. And near the end of the season, we were taking days. So I mean, everything had just gotten compacted and condense. It's a huge workload alongside eight days to shoot an episode. So it's pretty much every moment that we're not shooting the show, we're learning the dance routines or choreographing the dance routines or recording the songs. So it's a lot. It's great that it's all good stuff.” JENNA USHKOWITZ: “Coming from, like, a theater background, I feel like we're doing so much stock theater every single week, where you're performing the show at night and rehearsing during the day for the next show or episode. So I feel like we're doing a musical and doing a TV show at the same time. It's this whole new experiment, and we're all — I think it's bonding us closer and, you know, making us work harder and learn faster because it's just so new and fresh.” Jane or Jessalyn, do either of you have any favorite rock songs or bands that you'd like to see incorporated in the show?

JESSALYN GILSIG: “No…well, there's our band that Jane and I are in together.” JANE LYNCH: “Yes. We sing around set all the time. We're hoping that we'll get a song.” JESSALYN GILSIG: “Yes.” JANE LYNCH: “We're always whispering into their ears — singing.” (laughs) JESSALYN GILSIG: “Uh-huh, humiliating. Gosh. Someone asked me that the other day, like, ‘If I could sing on the show, what would I sing?’ I've learned from being lucky enough to work for (creator) Ryan (Murphy) on Nip/Tuck, I learned a long time ago that whatever ideas I have are never going to be as interesting as what Ryan comes up with. My characters have shown that. So I have stopped coming up with ideas. I literally just say, ‘Let it go. I'll do it. You know me.’” JANE LYNCH: “True. He always comes up with what's in my imagination as nowhere near what's in his. But I would like to do ‘Rose's Turn’ from Gypsy. (Begins singing) 'Momma's got to let go.' We'll do a duet.” (laughs) Jane, you have been cast in two great comedies — Party Down and Glee. Did you end up doing Glee because it was just a matter of it getting picked up first? Do you actually prefer this role? What was the deciding factor in choosing this over Party Down?

JANE LYNCH: “Well, I didn't choose this over that. This was in first position, as they a say, technically. But I'm thrilled to be home at Glee. I'm having the time of my life. I am acting in the role of a lifetime. And the words that I get to — they have written to come out of my mouth are some of the best of heinous things I've ever said in my life. I could not be happier. I really loved doing Party Down, but this is really a highlight.” For Chris and Kevin, in high schools and junior highs in the chorus, choir or the theater group, the proportion between girls and boys is usually about 90 percent girls/2 percent boys. What do you love about that idea?

CHRIS COLFER: “Less competition for one, when we were auditioning. I think that was my favorite part.” KEVIN McHALE: “Me, too. I quit choir in 6th grade, so I didn't really have to think about that. But that was always the thing. I was one or two or three boys in choir, so we were kind of the default, ‘Oh, you can sing this. It's kind of low.’ But I have a girlish high voice, so I just lost anyway.” CHRIS COLFER: “Me, too.” (laughs) Can you relate to your characters in any way?

CHRIS COLFER: “Well, I think Kurt probably loves that there's more girls in Glee, but then he probably hates it, too, for reasons I won't go into. But I think, yeah, he can relate to girls more than he can with guys.” KEVIN McHALE: “Did you say are we like our characters?” Yes.

KEVIN McHALE: “Well, I'm really nerdy, and Artie is obviously very nerdy. I do walk. (laughs) But, no, I absolutely love playing somebody in a wheelchair. I've learned so much from it. And I just appreciate the fact that I get to get up after every take. But it's — no, it's amazing, you know? I've — I mean, I come from, like, a dancing background. So for me being able to be in a wheelchair and watch everybody else dance is kind of torture. But it's been awesome.” CORY MONTEITH: “We always say that he's, like, the best dancer.” LEA MICHELE: “He's the best dancer, and they have him in a wheelchair.” Mark, I guess you can chime in on this.

MARK SALLING: “Can I relate to my character? Well, I suppose so. My character, from the episodes I guess you've noticed, you know, he's kind of a brute but has, you know, musical aspirations just like the rest of the Glee club, and that's kind of what brings everyone to it from different backgrounds and stuff. I was kind of more of a hippie in high school, to be honest. I wrestled. I didn't play football. But, yeah, I try to make the character my own and try to implement, you know, aspects of my personality into him. So hopefully you will be seeing me in some degree.” Jane, you were in the film Another Cinderella Story, correct?

JANE LYNCH: “Correct.” In that movie you played a scheming Dominique, and now you're playing a scheming arrogant coach. What is it about these type of roles that you like?

JANE LYNCH: I'm scheming and arrogant. (laughs) You know, I don't necessarily know, but I find that kind of — I love that lack of shame, and I find it fascinating that a lot of people walk through life that way thinking they're really something and they can be that mean. And I guess I'm attracted to that on some level. I don't think it's first and foremost in my personality, but it's a lovely delicious thing to call upon, and I love doing it, obviously. I get to — I do it a lot actually, but I think it's reached a pinnacle with Sue Sylvester. She has to be the most scheming, unashamed, entitled person I've ever played, and I'm just adoring it.” Bonus Features: Director’s cut of the pilot episode, exclusive behind-the-scenes featurettes; audition videos from the talented cast. On iTunes: Cast versions of Queen’s “Somebody To Love,” Heart’s “Alone,” Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Céline Dion’s “Taking Chances,” Rihanna’s “Take A Bow,” Carrie Underwood’s “Last Name,” Jazmine Sullivan’s “Bust Your Windows,” Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” and REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling.” Jennifer’s Body In a script penned by Academy Award-winning Juno scribe Diablo Cody, the sexy and talented Megan Fox has temporarily hung up her girl-next-door persona — which she perfected in director Michael Bay’s two Transformers box office mega-hits — to dip her toes in the murky, blood-red waters of horror/thriller movies. Seductive temptress Megan Fox is hotter than hell as Jennifer, a gorgeous, sexy cheerleader who takes evil to a whole new level after she’s possessed by a sinister demon. In this exciting thriller/killer, steamy action and gore galore ensue as the male student body succumbs to Jennifer’s insatiable appetite for human flesh on this all-new Unrated Extended Cut Blu-ray/DVD — with scenes that were too sexy and gruesome for theaters. In Jennifer’s Body, it’s up to Jen’s best friend and kissing pal (played by Mamma Mia! star Amanda Seyfried) to stop the naughty, cheerleading, bi-curious little demon before she kills every sex-hungry guy she can find. Bonus Features - Blu-ray: Unrated extended cut with audio commentary with director Karyn Kusama and writer Diablo Cody, deleted scenes, six featurettes, gag reel, Jennifer’s Body: The Dead Pool documentary, Video Diaries with Fox, Simmons, Seyfried, Cody and Dan Dubiecki, “Megan Fox Is HOT,” Megan Fox “Peer Pressure” PSA, Fox Movie Channel Presents ‘Life After Film School’ With Writer Diablo Cody and Digital Copy of Extended Version. Bonus Features - DVD: Audio Commentary with Kusama and Cody. 9 When you combine the imagination and visionary talent of filmmakers Tim Burton (A Nightmare Before Christmas), Timur Bekmembetow (Wanted) and Oscar-winning director Shane Acker, moviegoers are blessed with one of the most stunning and original epic adventures ever created for the screen (big and small). In 9, it is the final days of humanity and a dedicated scientist decides to give a spark of life to nine of his creatures before all life ceases to exist. He hopes to bring some semblance of real life to their world — an unrecognizable landscape filled with machinery and spare metal parts. However, the doctor’s group of nine soon discover that if they stick together that their small grouping could have a greater effect on the course of history itself. A stunning, visually dazzling animated feature, 9 features the vocal talents of such brilliant actors as Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly and Crispin Glover. A spellbinding work of visual art, this thrilling and suspense-filled motion picture is destined to become a cinematic masterpiece. (Also on DVD) Bonus Features –Blu-ray: Deleted scenes, feature commentary with the filmmakers, three featurettes, “9-The Original Story” documentary, D-BOX Motion Enabled. “On Tour With Director Shane Acker” Blu-ray exclusive,” pocketBLU, U-CONTOL – Picture-In-Picture and BD-LIVE – bonus content and latest trailers. Vampire Killers In this witty, British horror/comedy hit — titled Lesbian Vampire Killers in the U.K. — English TV stars James Corden and Mathew Horne (of the BBC hits Gavin & Stacey and Horne & Corden) play two blundering, clueless mates who find themselves right smack dab in the middle of one bloody big adventure after leaving their homes in Essex to go on a weekend vacation in Wales and accidentally wander into the feeding ground of a group of big-breasted, fang-baring, lesbian vampire babes. Stuck in a Welsh village with a busload of hot history students that they are also trying to protect, this pair of brave and bumbling blokes certainly have their hands full — at least until dawn breaks. Not only do they have to try to survive the night and keep the students alive and breathing, they must find a way to break an ancient curse and discover some handy and quick tactics to take down as many buxom, bi-bloodsuckers as possible. It’s a tall order for these two hysterical comedians from the British Isles, but if any one can get the job done (and treat viewers to some beautiful bare vamp flesh and a load of hysterical jokes and sight gags) it’s James Corden and Matthew Horne. Vampire Killers is a load of bloody, brilliant British horror (with a heavy dose of gut-busting comedy, for good measure). The Perfect Getaway: Unrated Director’s Cut Milla Jovovich, the star of the action-packed, zombie-filled Resident Evil horror film franchise, tries her hand at the suspense/thriller genre with A Perfect Getaway and comes away a real winner. Cydney (Jovovich) and her brand new hubby (Steve Zahn) head to a remote Hawaiian island for what they hope will be a perfect, romantic honeymoon. Before beginning their walk through the Hawaiian jungle on a secluded hiking trail, they are informed that a grisly murder has just been uncovered by the local police, and the cops suspect that the murderers are still on the island. Unsure whether they should cut their honeymoon short with a killer possibly close by, when they meet up with two other couples (including one with Timothy Olyphant and Kiele Sanchez) they decide to stay — figuring there is safety in numbers. They could have never been more wrong. As soon as the small group embark on their trek through the jungle, they are plagued by one dangerous, deadly accident after another. Before long, the honeymooners begin to suspect their traveling mates are the killers, and as the danger mounts, so does the suspense in the the David Twohy-directed heart-pounding thriller. (Also on DVD). Bonus Features – Blu-Ray: Unrated and Theatrical Versions of the film, shocking, original scripted ending and BD-LIVE! with more content and trailers. The Marine 2 In this nail-biting second installment of The Marine film franchise, WWE Superstar Ted DiBiase stars as Marine recon sniper Joe Linwood in the aptly titled The Marine 2. Inspired by a true story, shot entirely on location in Phuket, Thailand and reminiscent of the 2001 Dos Palmas incident, Linwood (DiBiase) and his wife’s trip to paradise is suddenly cut short and shattered when gun-toting, local guerillas take control of a secluded, five-star hotel/resort and demand a substantial ransom from the owners or the hotel guests will be killed one-by-one. To prove they mean business, the guerilla leaders begin murdering hostages as the hours tick away -- forcing Linwood to use his expert marksman skills to save the hostages (Temuera Morrison, Lara Cox, Robert Coleby, Michael Rooker) from certain death. Bonus Features: Behind-the-scenes fight scene footage, Making of terrorist siege sequence, Profile of Ted DiBiase (including interviews with Ted DiBiase Sr. and brother Brett), “Inside Thailand” featurette and deleted and extended scenes. It Might Get Loud In one of the best music documentaries of the all-time, director/producer Davis Guggenheim filmed one of the most dynamic gatherings in music history when legends Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White came together to play, compare notes and talk about music and their mutual love of the electric guitar in It Might Get Loud. Through the words and music of three generations of musicians, this brilliant film celebrates the love affair these men and countless others have with the electric guitar, perhaps the most innovative and challenging instrument ever created. But It Might Get Loud isn't like any other rock 'n’ roll documentary. Rare discussions are provoked as we travel with Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White to influential locations of their pasts. While each guitarist describes his own musical rebellion, a rock 'n’ roll summit is being arranged. Set on an empty soundstage, the musicians come together, crank up the amps and play. They also share their influences, swap stories, and teach each other songs. During the summit Page's double-neck guitar, The Edge's array of effects pedals and White's new mic, custom build into his guitar, go live. The musical journey is joined by visual grandeur too. We see the stone halls of Headley Grange where "Stairway to Heaven" was composed, visit a haunting Tennessee farmhouse where Jack White writes a song on-camera, and eavesdrop inside the dimly lit Dublin studio where The Edge lays down initial guitar tracks for U2's next single. The images, like the stories, will linger in the mind long after the reverb fades. (Also on DVD). Bonus Features: Deleted scenes, commentary with director Davis Guggenheim, producer Lesley Chilcott and producer Thomas Tull, Toronto Film Festival Press Conference with Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White, Davis Guggenheim, Lesley Chilcott and Thomas Tull. BLU-RAY ONLY: movieIQ: featuring the "Loud" Playlist. United States Of Tara: The Complete First Season Toni Collette continues to shine in her Emmy Award-winning role as Tara Gregson, a loving wife and mother who goes off her dissociative identity disorder (DID) medication and unleashes her "alters," a cast of internal characters — for good and bad — including Buck, a beer-guzzling, gun-loving truck driver/vet, "T," a foul-mouthed teenager and Alice, a perfect '50s housewife, all intertwined with Tara herself, a woman who is desperately trying to hold her own family together. A comedy, a drama and a brilliantly witty series about a serious medical disorder, United States Of Tara is a stunning collaboration between Executive Producer Steven Spielberg, Creator/Executive Producer Diablo Cody and a stellar supporting cast that includes John Corbett and Rosemarie DeWitt that allows you to experience an identity crisis of epic proportions. Bonus Features: All 12 first season episodes of the series, "Tara's Alters"" and "Sitting Down With Diablo Cody" featurettes, audio commentary with Cody on one episode and the Season Three premiere episode of The Tudors, EBRIDGE – First two episodes of Californication Season 2, Podcast interview with Toni Collette, John Corbett, Rosemarie DeWitt and Brie Larson, Episode 2 of The Tudors: Season 3 and “On The Set” featurette. Facing Ali Based on the Random House book of the same name by Stephen Brunt, Facing Ali is a Must-Have documentary for boxing fanatics, sports enthusiasts and lovers of great motion picture documentaries. Simply put, Facing Ali is top-notch cinematic masterpiece. Throughout his illustrious career, three-time World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali defeated almost every top fighter of the golden age of boxing. Now, through the untold stories of his opponents in the fights that defined him, experience “The Champ” like never before. Director Pete McCormack’s Facing Ali turns the cameras on some of Ali’s biggest rivals including George Chuvalo, Sir Henry Cooper, George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Ron Lyle, Ken Norton, Earnie Shavers, Leon Spinks and Ernie Terrell providing a fresh and impactful perspective on the famed boxer, the sport, talent and courage. Facing Ali is a cinematic homage to the famous boxer and a well-chronicled story of an iconic figure. Bonus Features: Animated trivia cards, “After the Bell,” “Facing Ali: Book to Screen” and “Bringing The Fights To Life” featurettes and the theatrical trailer. Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures May the farce be with you! In this funny, outrageous and witty animated feature, modern filmdom and popular culture get lampooned at ludicrous speed. Re-introducing the art of ridiculous satire to the small screen, the animated half-hour episodes pick up where the cult-classic feature film left off, showcasing rollicking parody of pop culture for a new generation of fans, including hilarious imitations of James Bond, Harry Potter and the video game “Grand Theft Auto.” Executive produced and co-created by the Academy Award-winning comic master himself, Mel Brooks (The Producers, Young Frankenstein), Spaceballs: The Totally Warped Animated Adventures! reprises the roles of the original Spaceballs cast — including Joan Rivers (The Joan Rivers Show, Shrek 2) as the droid Dot Matrix, Daphne Zuniga (Melrose Place, One Tree Hill) as the lovely Princess Vespa and Brooks as the comic sage Yogurt. Joining the fight against the evil Dark Helmet are unforgettable characters Captain Lone Starr and his half-human-half-canine sidekick, Barf. Bonus Features: The Moron’s Guide, 4 Episodes, 3 Intermission plus the featurettes “And That’s Not All” and “One More Goodie.”