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Remember when Mel Gibson "re-cut" The Passion of the Christ and released a "kinder, friendlier" version of the flick just over a year after the original cut hit the scene? (And how nobody really cared anymore by that point?) Have you been waiting for the "less gory" Passion to hit DVD? Well, here it comes as part of a 2-disc "definitive edition" that's scheduled to pass the collection plate on January 30.

To be fair, there's nothing even remotely new about all-new Special Editions, and it certainly looks like the impending DVD will be absolutely over-stuffed with supplemental features -- which helps to explain why the original Passion DVD was entirely bereft of extras. Fans of the film will no doubt delight in the FOUR separate audio commentaries (director, production, composer and theologian!), deleted scenes, production galleries, a pair of documentaries and some theatrical trailers. (Visit DVDActive for the cover art and full specs.)

The Passion Re-Cut will also be included on the new release, should you be among those who'd like to witness Christ's final hours without all that hardcore gore and terrible torture. I haven't done the math, but I'm guessing the violence-free version of The Passion should run about ... 49 minutes in length. (In reality the Re-Cut is only about eight minutes shorter.) And before you consider leaving me a nasty message for approaching this movie with such irreverence, have a look at my original review of the film. Yep, I liked it!

It's now been officially confirmed that, as had been rumored over the past couple of weeks, the print of Terrence Malick's The New World that goes into wide release on January 13 will be shorter than the 155 version currently playing in New York and Los Angeles. According to Sarah Green, one of the film's producers, Malick himself made the cuts, and the film remains largely intact: "None of the scenes were cut out, all the scenes are intact, but he did trim down scenes and made a tighter cut of the film."

In addition, Green confirmed to an AICN tipster that New Line has agreed to release an even longer, super-mega version of the film on DVD at some point. No date was mentioned, nor was the issue of exactly how many different The New Worlds will eventually show up on DVD addressed - if Green is telling the truth, it's safe to assume that the theatrical version and the as-yet-unseen longer version will both come out, though what will happen to that 155 minute cut is anyone's guess.