Someone over at Universal
Studios Home Entertainment was up well before dawn on the morning of the Oscar
nominations with an announcement at the ready for director James Marsh’s The
Theory of Everything. It will be
out as both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (with UltraViolet) editions on Feb.
17.
The Oscar telecast will
take place on the following Sunday, Feb. 22, so the timing is spot-on for
maximum sales impact.
For the record, the ARR
is 102 days and box office receipts currently are on the slight side with just
$25.9 million in ticket sales recorded since the film opened during the first
weekend of November. The number of
tickets sold will improve dramatically in the next couple of weeks if the
studio can somehow add screens to its relatively light rollout of the film
(just a little over 400 screens were still active on the morning of the Oscar
nominations — the initial launch was just over 1,200 screens).
The Theory of Everything picked up Oscar nominations for Best Picture,
Best Actor (Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking), Best Actress (Felicity Jones as
Jane Hawking) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Anthony McCarten for the screen
adaptation of Jane Hawking’s book, “Travelling to Infinity: My Life with
Stephen”) … all are first time nominees.
Bonus features include
commentary from director James Marsh (Oscar-winning for his documentary, Man
on Wire), deleted scenes (with optional commentary by Marsh) and the
featurette titled “Becoming the Hawkings.”
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