20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment finally made
it official this past week. Miss
Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will indeed be retail-ready in
time for Christmas.
About two weeks ago Ingram Distribution’s videoeta.com web
site, which is usually out in front of everyone (for pretty obvious reasons),
was touting a Dec. 13 street date for DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack (two separate
SKUs — one with and one without a 3D viewing option) and a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray
Combo Pack selections of this Tim Burton hit film adaptation of the Ransom
Riggs best-selling novel.
Amazon.com immediately followed with order taking for that
mid-December street date, but then there was no follow-up from Fox. Days passed, nothing. A week went by, nothing. Another week came and went and again … nothing. Both sources pulled back on the date, so the
DVD
& Blu-ray Release Report held back on reporting the date.
Perhaps the “new world” would be delayed until January. And then, bingo the official press release
from 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment arrived and cheerfully
confirmed that Dec. 13 would be the date.
Thus it will be that on Dec. 13 everyone will be able to discover what
Jake’s (played by Asa Butterfield — Ender’s Game, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,
etc.) peculiar power is at Miss Alma Peregrine’s (Eva Green — Casino
Royale) magical home where very “unique” children dwell, including the
lighter than air Emma (Ella Purnell).
But, beware the Hollows!
For the record, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
arrives in the home entertainment market place with a lightning-quick ARR of
just 74 days. Ticket sales were an
impressive $86.2 million.
Bonus include a gallery of Tim Burton sketches and
photographs, a trio of featurettes — “The Peculiar Story,” “Hollows and
Ex-Hollows” and “May of Days” — and Florence and The Machine music video, “Wish
That You Were Here.”
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