Lionsgate Home Entertainment has placed the CBS Films
production of writer/director Peter Berg’s Patriots Day on its release calendar
for delivery as DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack editions on
Mar. 28.
It joins the previously announced release of filmmaker Mike
Mills’ 20th Century Women on that date, and with Disney
selecting Apr. 4 as the street date for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the
next available window for Lionsgate’s La La Land looks to be Apr. 11.
The ARR for Patriots Day works out to 95 days
and ticket sales were a little disappointing at just $31.5 million.
The theatrical group for Lionsgate selected a platform
release strategy of just seven screens during the Christmas through New Years
period (3 full weeks) and then elected to widen it out to just over 3,000
screens in mid-January. By that time
the bloom was off of the rose (so to speak).
More and more it appears that traditional theatrical release
strategies of the past are falling victim to digital and on-demand platforms —
consumable media on an “eye-squint” machine (what’s the point of widescreen
hi-def in that viewing environment).

There were several examples over the holiday period that
absolutely tanked with the platform theatrical release strategy. So it is go-wide out the gate or find
another date if all of the venues (screens) are spoken for … that looks like
the dynamics of the market place going forward.

The film itself focuses on the activities of a “composite”
character named Sergeant Tommy Saunders (played by Mark Wahlberg) of the Boston
Police Department, who represents a number of Boston’s finest who were involved
in the series of events that began on the day of the bombing and continued up to
the capture of the surviving terrorist four days later.

Bonus features common to all release SKUs are the
featurettes titled “Boston Strong: 3 True Stories of Courage” and “Researching
the Day.” Exclusive to the Blu-ray and
4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack editions of Patriots Day are a two-part
presentation of “Actors Meet Real-Life Counterparts” and three additional
featurettes — “The Boston Bond: Recounting the Tale,” “The Real Patriots: The
Local Heroes' Stories” and “The Cast Remembers.”
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