Paramount Home Media
Distribution will unleash director Darren Aronofsky’s end-of-the-world biblical
epic, Noah, to the home entertainment market place on July 29.
There will be separate
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (with UltraViolet) and DVD editions … no word just yet
if a 3D version on Blu-ray is planned for a post-Labor Day push.
The ARR is 123 days and
domestic ticket sales at multiplexes nationwide — despite all of the
pre-release controversy — currently stand at $100.6 million (with an additional
$240 million from the film’s international release).
After Black
Swan and The Wrestler filmmaker Darren Aronofsky was in a position to
make whatever film he desired (studios go with winners) … Noah was certainly an
interesting choice.
Technically the film is
sound (come Oscar time Noah will be at the forefront in the completion in
virtually all of the technical categories).
The cast is excellent — Russell Crowe as Noah holds it together and Ray
Winstone is properly villainous — and Aronofsky’s telling of the Noah saga from
the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament is as good as any.
Indeed, if you were to
give ten different filmmakers the same challenge (and budget) you would likely
get ten completely different visions.
As to bonus nuggets,
these are reserved for the Blu-ray SKU and included three featurettes —
“Iceland: Extreme Beauty,” “The Ark Exterior: A Battle for 300 Cubits” and “The
Ark Interior: Animals Two By Two.”
Noah is not the only
release news from Paramount Home Media this week. Teaming with CBS Home Entertainment, DVD
collections of some of the most popular television series will be heading home
in two back-to-back release waves on Aug. 19 and Aug. 26.
Mark Harmon’s NCIS:
Naval Criminal Investigation Service - Season Eleven will lead the way
on Aug. 19 with a six-disc collection.
On the same date, the spin-off series, NCIS Los Angeles: The Fifth
Season, is also on the release calendar … as is The Good Wife: The Fifth Season
(both are six-disc collections).
The following week, Aug.
26, the hit detective series Criminal Minds: The Complete Ninth Season
and Elementary:
The Second Season will both be available for fans to enjoy as six-disc
set.
Lastly, Aug. 26 also
marks the DVD debut (a five-disc collection) of the 1999 sci-fi/comedy series Now
and Again teaming Eric Close and Dennis Haysbert as human-experiment
and doctor respectively. This unique
series is being released as Now and Again: The DVD Edition.
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complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
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