The Best Picture winner
for 2013 will likely come down to three candidates. Director Steve R. McQueen’s film adaptation
of the Solomon Northup novel, 12 Years a Slave, director Steve
Greengrass’ deeply flawed — but the nevertheless entertaining — Captain
Phillips and the majesty of Gravity.
Of course there will be
others in contention. Anytime you have
Harvey Weinstein with a $100 million box office and critical success — that
being Lee Daniels’ The Butler — you can expect today’s best showman
to make it a competitive race. Scorsese
and DiCaprio have teamed for the Wolf of Wall Street … that should be
there. And, Tom Hanks could be competing
with himself with both the aforementioned Captain Phillips and director John
Lee Hancock’s Disney biopic, Saving Mr. Banks.
Everything else is either
too small or haven’t had the theatrical exposure to generated enough buzz …
yet!
If “Hollywood” (and we
use that term loosely) wants to make a statement and erode theatre-going
audiences even further, then a majority of the members of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences will select 12 Years a Slave as the Oscar-winner
for Best Picture. That’s the PC thing to
do. It is an excellent film and based
more or less on actual events prior to the Civil War. Case closed.
If Hanks knocks Hanks off
and both Scorsese and Weinstein come up short, then the winner is … Gravity.
On Feb. 25 (just days
before the March 2, 2014 Academy Awards festivities), Warner Home Video will
serve-up a three-SKU helping of writer/director Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity. In the works are a stand-alone DVD edition
and two Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs — one with and one without a 3D viewing option
(all three SKUs include UltraViolet).
The ARR is 144 days and
the current box office take is an stratospheric $251.5 million.
No word at this time as
to bonus goodies, but you can expect this not to be a barebones home
entertainment product offering.
In other release news
from Warner Home Video, Blu-ray editions of both director Stanley Donen’s 1957
romantic musical comedy, Funny Face (teaming Audrey Hepburn
with Fred Astaire) and Billy Wilder’s 1954 romantic comedy, Sabrina
(Audrey Hepburn opposite Humphrey Bogart and William Holden) will be released
on Apr. 8.
On the DVD release front,
a three-disc helping of The Middle: The Complete Fourth Season
has been added to Feb. 25 and both Teen Titans Go!: Mission to Misbehave -
Season One, Part One and Venture Bros.: The Complete Season Five
will be available as double-disc SKUs on Mar. 4.
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