The staff and management
over at 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment have been dealt some
tasty cards of late courtesy of their theatrical (and acquisition)
counterparts.
Last week they were
trumpeting the arrival of Skyfall on Feb. 12 and Parental
Guidance on Mar. 26. Next, the
remake of Red Dawn was dropped in on Mar. 5 (for the record, the ARR
comes in at 102 days and the box office take was better than expected at $44.5
million … that’s a pretty amazing number for a dopey remake).
Now comes the Mar. 12
three-SKU home entertainment debut of director Ang Lee’s technical-achieved and
skillfully-delivered film presentation of Yann Martel’s “unadaptable” adventure
novel, Life of Pi.
The ARR for this dark
horse Best Picture nominee is 109 days and the box office take (and growing) currently
stands at a very solid $103.4 million.
In a year where you can start
by filling in your “Oscar Ballot” with wins for Daniel Day-Lewis and Anne
Hathaway ... they are, as they say, “in the bank.”
Trying to figure out the Best Picture winner is a horse of a different
color.
In an Oscar derby
featuring Argo and Zero Dark Thirty (which could likely
split votes), Les Misérables (a brilliantly-delivered film adaptation of the
beloved stage musical, but … iffy) and Lincoln (marked by a stunning
performance by Day-Lewis, but tedious in its telling), there is the
not-so-unlikely possibility that a film such as Life of Pi could slip in
as the Best Picture winner.
It is a strong field this
year and lots of elbows will be thrown.
Academy voters are going to be split seven ways from sundown on trying to
ferret-out which film deserves the gold.
You won’t get any clues from the track record for this group, which at
times can be a bit sketchy on getting it right — Shakespeare in Love over Saving
Private Ryan; The Greatest Show on Earth over High
Noon? Please!
And with the rush that Silver
Linings Playbook is a making at the box office (all generated by word
of mouth) in the past three weeks, you can’t even count that one out.
As to Fox’s SKU
configuration, there are two Blu-ray SKUs — a three-disc Combo Pack featuring the
3D theatrical experience on Blu-ray, a 2D Blu-ray companion and a DVD edition
of the film and a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (both of these SKUs include
UltraViolet) — and a stand-alone DVD edition.
As to bonus features,
those are limited to the Blu-ray SKUs.
Included are a pair of featurettes — “A Remarkable Vision” and “Tiger,
Tiger Burning Bright” — the feature-length documentary titled A
Filmmaker's Epic Journey and a multi-part stills gallery. Exclusive to the 3D SKU are four deleted
scenes and two examples of 3D/2D VFX Progressions — “Tsimstum Sinking” and “The
Wave Tank.”
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Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
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