Sure enough, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment “cleared the
decks” last week with an Aug. 23 street date for writer/director Shane Black’s The
Nice Guys, which will be followed on Aug. 30 by director Thea Sharrock’s
Me
Before You.
Both had respectable theatrical runs, with The
Nice Guys pulling in $36.2 million in ticket sales and Me
Before You gathering up $55.7 million at local multiplexes during its
June/July theatrical run.
But Warner Bros. has three films in inventory (currently in
theatrical release in one form or another) that have exceeded $100 million at
the box office and with the focus now on the post-Labor Day to Christmas
timeframe, The Nice Guys and Me Before You needed to be
“deck-cleared” to make way for those larger theatrical hits.
The first of these is director James Wan’s haunted house
thriller, The Conjuring 2, which will be released on Sept. 13 as both DVD
and Blu-ray product offerings.
Domestic ticket sales currently total $101.8 million and the
ARR for this mid-September street date works out to 95 days.
Bonus features for both SKUs included deleted scenes and
five production featurettes — “The Enfield Poltergeist: Living The Horror,”
“The Conjuring 2: Hollywood’s Haunted Stage,” “Creating Crooked,” “Crafting The
Conjuring 2,” and “Sounds of Scary.”
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