Jane Austen meets George A. Romero … that’s what is in store
for genre fans (genre fans with a touch of class, that is) on May 31 as Sony
Pictures Home Entertainment unleashes a three-SKU helping of writer/director
Burr Steers’ film adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s 2009 parody novel, Pride
+ Prejudice + Zombies.
The ARR is 116 days and box office receipts were a bit light
at just $10.9 million, but that won’t detour Sony from including a day/date
release of the newly launched 4K Ultra HD format (a Blu-ray combo pack is in
the mix) as part of the product mix.
DVD and Blu-ray editions will also be available.
Colonel Darcy (Sam Riley — Maleficent, Control,
etc.) is hot the trail of a 19th Century zombie outbreak, which
leads him to the Bennet sisters and lovely Elizabeth (Lily James — as Lady Rose
MacClare in the Downton Abbey television series, plus such films as Burnt,
Cinderella
and Wrath
of the Titans), who is skilled in martial arts and, of course, social
manners.
Bonus nuggets include a pair of featurettes that are common
to all three SKUs — “Courtship, Class and Carnage: Meet The Cast” and “From
Austen to Zombies: Adapting a Classic.”
Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack editions include
four additional featurettes, deleted scenes and a gag reel.
The second part of the
session, titled “Time Is But A Window: Ghostbusters II and Beyond,” is featured
on the 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack of Ghostbusters II. Other bonus goodies for that SKU include deleted
scenes and the Bobby Brown music video, “On Our Own.”
And speaking of 4K Ultra HD, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
has picked June 7 for the release of new 4K restorations of both Ghostbusters
and Ghostbusters
II … timed to take advantage of the new female re-launch of the
franchise on July 15.
Bonus goodies for the 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack release
of Ghostbusters
includes commentary from director Ivan Reitman, writer Harold Ramis and
producer Joe Medjuck, the iconic music video from Ray Parker, Jr., ten deleted
scenes, four featurettes and part one of a video session with Ivan Reitman and
Dan Aykroyd titled, “Who You Gonna Call: A Ghostbusters Retrospective.”
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