Paramount Home Media
Distribution has tagged Mar. 31 for the DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack debut of
writer/director Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
The ARR is 144 and the
domestic ticket sales at the local multiplex currently stand at a toasty $185.9
million.
Nominated for five Oscars
(Production Design, Music, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Visual Effects), Interstellar
is a whole lot more than what the theatrical trailers presented it as. And there is a good reason for that — wormholes,
gravitational distortions and time paradoxes are difficult concepts to convey in
a limited amount of time.
To be honest, the
trailers (plural) were way off the mark.
These snippets of film portrayed a global warming catastrophe (oh please
… that does not sell tickets), political correctness malarkey and some sort of
disjointed space thrills that take place on alien landscapes. Instead, Interstellar is a
well-told, if a little complicated, adventure tale, complete with a villain
(surprise!) and a series of edge-of-your-seat encounters on planets in a galaxy
far, far away.
Matthew McConaughey
absolutely shines as former NASA astronaut Cooper, who is sent on what seems to
be an impossible mission to survey three distant planets as a possible new home
for humanity. Joining him on the
Endurance are Amelia (Anne Hathaway), Romilly (David Gyasi) and Doyle (Wes
Bentley), while his daughter Murphy (variously played by Mackenzie Foy, Jessica
Chastain and Ellen Burstyn) is left behind to fend for herself.
So best advice is to
ignore the trailer(s) and join Cooper and crew on an intergalactic adventure
that plays as quite nicely as a tribute to films of sci-fi lore.
Bonus goodies here
includes 15 production featurettes, some of which are titled: “Plotting an
Interstellar Journey,” “The Endurance,” “Across All Dimensions and Time” and
“The Simulation of Zero-G.”
Also getting a DVD
release date this past week is the Comedy Central series starring Amy Schumer, Inside
Amy Schumer - Seasons 1 & 2 (a three-disc set). This series blends sketch comedy bits with
stand-up routines and featured such guests as Paul Giamatti, the incredible
Parker Posey, Josh Charles, SNL’s Rachel Dratch and Patrick Warburton.
The street date is Apr. 7.
Bonus nuggets include
unaired sketches, Amy Schumer’s stand-up routines and the featurette titled
“Behind Amy Schumer.”
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