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Easter egg: On Die Hard 3 Ultimate Edition disc 2, highlight Trailers and TV Spots and press right to highlight a rail. Press enter to see the credits for the DVD(this is very similar to how it was done with Die Hard 2.).

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Easter egg: On Disc 3 of the Blu-Ray "Extended Collector's Edition", highlight the "Live Extras" and press the down button. This will display a "Theatrical Trailer 3D" and "Pandora Discovered 3D" option. Viewing these requires a 3D-enabled Blu-Ray and TV.

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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation picture

Easter egg: On the Extras menu, you will see a list of extras, some thunder, and the close-up of a dragon. As soon as you get to the extras menu, immediately press left on the directional pad on your DVD remote. The dragon's eye is now highlighted like any other text. Click on the dragon's eye, and the mini-game, Save Kitana, will open. When you win the game, you will see a scene of Lui Kang defeating Baraka, Sheeva, and rescuing Kitana.

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Easter egg: Select Extras, then when on the first page, click left, and you'll highlight a fish. Click enter to see a short effects film.

Hamster

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Easter egg: On Die Hard Ultimate Edition disc 2(special features) the menu is themed around the Nakatomi building roof, and the highlighted option has roof lights lit up. Press up to highlight secret lights, and press enter to see an explosion.

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Easter egg: In the Godfather DVD Collection, on the bonus materials disc, click on Set up. At the setup screen, press right to highlight a globe. Click on it to see clips from the Godfather movies translated into different foreign languages.

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Easter egg: Insert Disc 2 into your DVD player. When you reach the main menu and "Action Sequences" is highlighted, click the right button. You will see a bus enclosed in a square. When you click it, it shows an alternate scene for the final bus explosion that may have been for the in-flight movie. DVD Version: 2002 Special Edition (includes extra disc).

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Easter egg: On the disc's main menu, wait for a couple of seconds. Kate's rump will appear and will do a stinky like her son (Stinky). Press your down button until you see PRRRP. Press your enter button to see a clip of Kate teaching you to spell the word "POOP" and some weird message that is saying stinky stuff. Whew. On the special features menu, go to the second page. Highlight the "Photo Gallery" menu entry and press your enter button to highlight S Club. Press your enter button to watch this.

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Easter egg: From the Special Features menu, highlight the word FEATURES and then press LEFT. One of the markers in the picture to the left will turn blue. Press ENTER to see video of an avalanche that occurred during filming.

Jeff Swanson

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Easter egg: When accessing the directors' commentary, press right and you will find a 2nd commentary by different people.

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Easter egg: The Zone 2 DVD contains an easter egg accessible by pressing 'up' twice. A dollar icon shows on screen, press 'enter' and you'll get to a list of spot fines whilst filming (mentioned on the 'Making of Snatch' feature). There are three pages of crimes and cost, browse them by hitting 'previous' and 'next'.

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Easter egg: On the Region 4 DVD release from Eastern Eye, on disk 2, go to the Extras menu, then the Poster Gallery and press right. A fist will light up in the top right of the screen. Select it to see the director talking about using 3D computer animation to plan the tuk tuk chase sequence.

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Easter egg: This is on the Special 10th anniversary DVD. On second disc of the set go to the 'Special Features' section. There, select the 'Critics Commentary' menu option, followed by the 'Up' arrow key on your remote control. This will take you to 3 minutes of rolling DVD production credits, accompanied by cool background music. Also on the second disc of the set, select the 'K-Billy Radio Interactive Radio' and choose the last channel on the far right. Then, press the 'Enter' key on your remote control. This will allow you to view a re-enactment of the infamous ear-cutting scene from the film, as played out by some action figures, with the original footage from the film running in a small window.

Maria Santos

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Easter egg: On the Basic Instinct Deluxe Edition DVD, go to the main menu and click on Special Features. At the Special Features menu, scroll down and then to the right to highlight the icepick. Clicking on it gives you Sharon Stone's screen tests of 3 scenes in the movie.

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Easter egg: In the Special Edition DVD (with the white slipcover), in the Imaging Station, if you go to the top of the stack of the videotapes and hit the right arrow button, the TV screen changes to say, "They mostly come at night. Mostly." Hit "enter" to see a trailer for "Aliens," a movie James Cameron directed.

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Easter egg: If you look under Special Features, use the arrow keys to highlight "On Set Peeks", then use the left arrow key to light up a Red symbol. If you click on it, another menu called Haunts will appear with 2 more features - one shows a long version of the home movies shown in the film. The other is a scare reel that shows all the scary parts of the movie condensed to about 2 minutes.

Andrew Quattropani

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Easter egg: On Disc 2 go to Special Features, select The Production From Hell, highlight Main Menu and click left. This will make a cross visible. Click OK. This will take you to some stunt coordinations.

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Easter egg: Go to special features menu and click the centre arrow button for the next menu to agent action.Click left to show a red "x" to learn about a logo. (collectors edition).

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Easter egg: On the Collector's Edition Series DVD, go to the Bonus Material menu. Click on the More button, then scroll down to highlight the brown box and press Enter. M. Night Shyamalan will show you a clip of another horror movie he made.

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Easter egg: Region 2, disc 2 of The Mummy Returns there is a 'mummification featurette'. To get to it you must highlight and enter Egyptology 201, then enter 'In depth Look at Mummification' section and press right twice to highlight a scorpion. Press enter to see the featurette.

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