Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, with three summer hits in
current release that have grossed in excess of $100 million — Central
Intelligence, Legend of Tarzan and Conjuring
2 — took steps this past week to clear the decks for action with the
assignment of release dates for recent theatrical releases that didn’t quite hit
the status of “blockbuster.” These are Me
Before You and The Nice Guys, and both will be
retail-ready prior to Labor Day.
Up first is writer/director Shane Black’s The
Nice Guys, teaming Russell Crowe with Ryan Gosling in what might be
best be described as an action comedy — the timeframe is 1977 in the City of
Angels. The street date for both DVD
and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions will be Aug. 23.
The film pulled in $36.1 million in ticket sales and the ARR
is 95 days.
If you are a fan of the Lethal Weapon films (Shane Black
wrote the first, got credit for the story on the second … and character credit
on numbers three and four), then this is going seem like an old friend. A buddy film, with Crowe and Gosling teaming
as private eyes to investigate murder, porn and smog in Los Angeles … the “LA
trifecta!”
As to bonus goodies, both the DVD and Blu-ray SKUs have the
featurette titled “Always Bet on Black” … exclusive to the Blu-ray/DVD Combo
Pack is the additional featurette titled “Worst. Detectives. Ever. — Making The
Nice Guys.”
The following week, Aug. 30, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
launches the second theatrical release of this late summer one-two punch. This would be Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film
production of the tearjerker, Me Before You, which will be
available for consumers as either Blu-ray or DVD editions.
Based on Jojo Moyes novel of the same name (she also
provided the screenplay), Thea Sharrock handled the direction (in her feature
film directorial debut — she received accolades for her work on The
Hollow Crown mini-series) and Sam Claflin (as Finnick in The
Hunger Games film series and William in both Snow White and the Huntsman
and The
Huntsman: Winter's War) and Emilia Clarke (as Daenerys Targaryen in the
Game
of Thrones cable series, plus Sarah Connon in the Terminator reboot, Terminator
Genisys) star as Will Traynor and Louisa Clark respectively.
You will need a box of Kleenex for this one as Louisa is the
caregiver for the paraplegic
Will, they hit it off, but despite her efforts to change his mind, he arranges
for the medical-assisted termination of his life.
The film took
in $55.3 million at local multiplexes during its May/June
theatrical run and arrives in the home entertainment market place with an ARR
of just 88 days.
Bonus features for both the DVD and Blu-ray editions are
outtakes, deleted scenes and the featurette titled “Me Before You: From Page to
Screen.”
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