Kong! The mighty Kong returns on July 18 with Warner
Bros. Home Entertainment’s home entertainment launch of director Jordan
Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island, the second re-boot of classic “monsters”
under the Legendary Entertainment envisioned “MonsterVerse” film franchise
series.
The first of these was director Gareth Edwards’ spring of
2014 film release of a revitalized Godzilla in a film simply titled, Godzilla. Both of these “MonsterVerse” film releases
have been successful … so, expect more.
In any case, Kong: Skull Island arrives with an
ARR of 130 days and domestic box office receipts were an impressive $167.1
million (expect more movies starring Kong too).
As for SKU configuration, we have four choices for consumers
to choose from. There will be a
stand-alone DVD edition, two Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs — one featuring a 3D
presentation of the films — and a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.
Give credit to director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and his team of
screenwriters — Dan Gilroy (Oscar-nominated for his Nightcrawler script), Max
Borenstein (provided the script for the 2014 Godzilla re-boot) and
Derek Connolly (Monster Trucks and part of the Jurassic World writing
team) — they deliver a story that both stands alone and yet has a feeling of
connectivity to past incarnations of the King Kong film series (in its
various forms). In other works, it
works … and filmgoers liked it!
As to bonus goodies, which are common to all SKU
configurations, we have commentary by Vogt-Roberts, deleted scenes and a half-dozen
production featurettes — “Creating a King: Realizing an Icon,” “Creating a
King: Summoning a God,” “Monarch Files 2.0,” “Tom Hiddleston: The Intrepid
Traveler,” “Through the Lens: Brie Larson’s Photography” and “On Location:
Vietnam.”
In other release news this week from Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment, writer/director John Patrick Shanley’s 1990 comedy teaming Tom
Hanks with Meg Ryan, Joe Versus the Volcano, will be
getting a Blu-ray push on June 20.
This was the first of four times that Hanks and Ryan would
appear together … they would re-team for the smash hit, Sleepless in Seattle in
1993 and they would find the magic once again in You’ve Got Mail in 1998
and lastly, Ithaca, directed by Meg Ryan (bet you didn’t see this one) and
available on DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
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