March 03, 2005 - Paramount Home Entertainment will release Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, featuring Jim Carrey, in both single- and double-disc editions on April 26. The single-disc release will run $19.99 while the two-disc version will cost you around $29.99.

Based on books by Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket), three children are placed in the care of their odd uncle Count Olaf (Jim Carrey) after their parents are killed in a fire. Count Olaf plots to kill the kids and take the fortune they will inherit upon reaching adulthood.

The single-disc edition special features are:

Director Brad Silberling commentary

Brad Silberling and the Real Lemony Snicket commentary

Bad Beginnings: "Building a Bad Actor," "Making the Baudelaire Children Miserable," "Interactive Olaf"

Orphaned scenes: 11 Dismal Deletions and five Obnoxious Outtakes

The double-disc Special Collector's Edition includes all of the above features plus the following:

A Terrible Tragedy: Alarming Evidence from the Making of the Film: "A Woeful World," "Costumes and Other Suspicious Disguises," "Violet's Functional Designs," "CAUTION! Incredibly Deadly Vipers," "The Sad Score"

Volume. Frequency. Decibels: "The Unsound Sound Designer," "You Probably Shouldn't Listen to These"

Sinister Special Effects: "An Alarming Conspiracy Involving Sunny," "An Even More Alarming Conspiracy Involving Sunny" "The Terrible Fire," "Trains, Leeches and Hurricanes"

Gruesome Galleries: "Shadowy Stills," "A Woeful World"

-- IGN DVD