This week's batch of releases for your Blu-ray home entertainment systems spell out action in big, bold, and bullet ridden letters. John Rambo's in the spotlight and you know how most of his stories go: lots of bullets, arrows, and explosions. This week's release also has the first two Dragon Ball Z movies, The Air I Breathe, martial arts flick Dragon Tiger Gate, and an operetta by Johann Strauss II. Click the link below for more info.

Disney Interactive Studios recently voiced its stance regarding video games, but what about the other movie studios out there? Are they just as enthusiastic about licensing out their movie rights? Or do they actually publish video games themselves?

More on the status quo in the full article, right after the jump.

It's time for this week's batch of Blu-ray releases and the list features a couple of titles for the wholesome family movie fans and horror junkies. What have we got for this week? The Game Plan and Saw IV: Unrated Director's Cut.

Hop on to the full article for the lowdown on these two titles.

This week's dose of Blu-ray releases differ greatly from the previous week's themes of action and zombies. This week, we've got a courtroom drama, a drama set in Coney Island, and three comedies. Check out the full article for more info.

Last week's horror-zombie fest has been replaced by a batch of double features and action flicks - and that's not a bad thing. We've got Nicholas Cage in Con Air and The Rock, Denzel Washington in Man on Fire, and Christian Bale in 3:10 to Yuma. Check out the list in the full article.

Celebrating 2008 may just be a Resident Evil fan's treat as the Blu-ray shelves have tons in store for the high-definition movie enthusiast with a inclination for zombie horror flicks. But the action packed list also has shooterfests and blitzes of fisticuffs tucked in with two action spectacles of 2007.

Get the full release list for January 1 to January 7, 2008 at the full story.

In light of the recent announcement of Lionsgate's BD-Live movies, the latest firmware update for the PlayStation 3 has been speculated to be released as early as this month already. We're not sure if it'll already have DivX technology, but here's what movie studios expect: the next PS3 firmware could pave the way for interconnectivity functions of BD-Live Blu-ray movies.

How far can this go? Read more to find out.

Lionsgate will be the first studio to be rolling out web-enabled Blu-ray discs come January of next year in the form of War and Saw 4. This is despite the fact that there are still no Blu-ray players out there that can support the online networking functions of the BD-Live discs. Yet.

No worries though... it's going to be none other than the PlayStation 3 to be one of the first in line to support BD-Live functions. How, you ask? How indeed! Read more for details.

Now that we're in the movie-to-game mood in the meantime, here's one for turning tables: news coming in from Hollywood has Lionsgate's movie adaptation of Eidos Interactive's Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, PC) starring no other than Bruce Willis of Die Hard fame and Billy Bob Thornton of Pushing Tin and Armageddon fame.

Eidos and IO Interactive's latest franchise seems to be picking up much hype in Tinsel Town, but will it match up to that of Eidos' own Lara Croft Tomb Raider? Find out in the full article.

A group of major Hollywood studios and leading consumer electronics manufacturers have announced that they will be extending the 5 Free Blu-ray Movies promo through this year's holiday season.

The promo goes like this: Consumers who buy any qualifying Blu-ray player - this includes the Sony PlayStation 3 home video game console - between now and January 31, 2008 will be able to choose 5 free Blu-ray titles from a total of 18 titles being offered by participating studios.

Titles available in the promo are Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Wild Hogs, American Psycho, Chain Reaction, The Devil's Rejects, Flight of the Phoenix, Full Metal Jacket, Hart's War, The Last Waltz, Omen 666, The Patriot, The Prestige, Species, Stir of Echoes, Superman: The Movie, SWAT, Swordfish and Ultraviolet. All of these titles will be available through mail-in redemption.

Participating hardware manufacturers include Panasonic, Philips, Pioneer, Samsung, Sony Electronics and Sony Computer Entertainment. The studios offering the free Blu-ray movies are Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, Lionsgate, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video.