Dixon, Calif. - A Dixon family got an inappropriate surprise when the DVD they rented from a Redbox turned out to be a pornographic movie. "Definitely not what I was expecting that night," David Morris told Fox 40. Morris told FOX40 he went to Walmart in Dixon to rent a movie from Redbox after he and his wife put their two little boys to bed Saturday night. He was trying to rent the action-comedy "Central Intelligence," but the movie he went home with had a lot more action than he was expecting. "Right away it went into a triple-X movie. It went right into the scenes. It was pretty obvious what was going on," Morris said. Whoever returned the questionable DVD to the Redbox machine went to great lengths to prank a recipient at random. They printed a fake DVD label that looked exactly like the "Central Intelligence" label and glued it to the pornographic movie. It was only after Morris stopped the movie and ejected it from his DVD player that he noticed the edges of the label were peeling up.
", and there was a big explicit sign on it. I only peeled it back about half way," Morris said. The most shocking thing about the incident, Morris said, was the genre of porn on the DVD. "It wasn't a typical porno movie. It was old people in their sixties or seventies. That's what shocked us. We thought it was a bad preview for some cheesy movie. But as it progressed we were like, 'No, this is the real deal.' So we stopped it. And we took it out of the DVD player," Morris said. Morris said he and his wife were upset that their kids, or anyone else's kids for that matter, could have been subjected to viewing pornography. However, since they did not, Morris said they thought the incident was funny, and they were more disappointed in Redbox's customer service. "They didn't even say sorry. They just kept offering me more credits for movies, after I asked to talk to a manager. I didn't want anymore credits. I wanted to know how this happened," Morris said. FOX40 reached out to the corporate office for Redbox and did not hear back from them.
However, a Redbox customer service representative told FOX40 over the phone that in order to get that bad DVD out of circulation, a technician would have to physically remove it from the machine. Since Morris called to report the problem, they said it was documented, and the DVD should have been removed as soon as possible. "I felt guilty returning it like, what if someone else gets it. But I tried to re-rent it and it didn't let me," Morris said.Whether you're an Oscar completist who tries to see every single movie nominated, or you want to score in the smaller categories on your office Oscar ballot—here's your guide to the movies that aren't in theaters anymore. The Grand Budapest Hotel: Amazon Instant, Netflix DVD, HBO GOBest Picture Gone Girl: Amazon Instant, Netflix DVD, RedboxBest Actress The Boxtrolls: Amazon Instant, RedboxBest Animated Feature How to Train Your Dragon 2: Amazon Instant, Netflix DVD, RedboxBest Animated Feature Ida: Netflix Instant, Amazon InstantBest Cinematography, Foreign Film
Finding Vivian Maier: Netflix DVDBest Documentary Last Days in Vietnam: Amazon InstantBest Documentary Guardians of the Galaxy: Netflix DVD, RedboxBest Visual Effects Maleficent: Netflix DVD, Amazon Instant, RedboxBest Costume Design The Lego Movie: Netflix DVD, Amazon Instant, RedboxBest Song Begin Again: Netflix DVD, Amazon Instant, RedboxBest Song Captain America: The Winter Soldier Netflix DVD, Amazon Instant, RedboxBest Visual Effects Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Amazon Instant, Netflix DVD, RedboxBest Visual Effects X-Men: Days of Future Past Amazon Instant, Netflix DVD, RedboxBest Visual Effects Did I miss one? Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Here's the full list of nominees.In June, the Criterion Collection's president, Peter Becker, posted a statement on the company's website announcing that it was going to stop producing "dual-format" titles that contained both DVDs and Blu-ray discs. This was a huge step away from what had become an industrywide trend toward bundling every possible configuration of a movie into a single package: DVD, Blu-ray, digital download, cloud-hosted copy and in some cases even 3-D."
No one seemed particularly happy," Becker wrote. "Blu-ray customers didn't like making room for DVDs they didn't want, and DVD customers didn't like paying more to get a Blu-ray they couldn't play." That Criterion — the class act of the home-video market — even offered dual-format in the first place is a testament to what the DVD and Blu-ray business is like in 2014. Streaming services and digital devices are siphoning away the kinds of customers who used to be the first in line to buy a movie when it hit the stores. These multi-media combo-packs were meant to be a way to lure those customers back by reassuring them that they had to buy a movie only once.When it comes to physical media, though, it's increasingly looking like consumers are set in their ways. DVD owners and renters have been content to stand pat, leaving Blu-ray to the connoisseurs. (From 2012 to 2013, Redbox kiosk DVD rentals were down only 1%, while DVD and Blu-ray sales combined were down 8%.) Meanwhile, the audience for digital is figuring out what it wants, though it's becoming increasingly clear that what they don't want is more clutter around the house.
It's not all bad news for the handful of people who like to buy lovingly assembled Blu-ray sets. Although the new-release lists each week are cluttered with big studio re-releases of the same perennially popular movies — now available in their 10th, 15th or 20th "anniversary editions" — recent years have seen the rise of specialty labels that cater to those with no interest in buying "Ghostbusters" yet again. In 2014, one of the big stories in the DVD/Blu-ray business was the expansion of Kino Lorber. The venerable art house/indie distribution company launched a new "KL Studio Classics" line to release older Hollywood films on Blu-ray — many for the first time. Kino Lorber also struck deals with the specialty labels RaroVideo, Scorpion Releasing and Palisades Tartan to maintain a steady flow of cult films and foreign imports.At the same time, Shout! Factory has continued to release a diverse lineup of fan-favorite TV series and genre films — the latter mostly through its increasingly vital, horror-focused Scream!