Paramount Home Media will
be going into the Labor Day weekend with the end-of-summer home entertainment
rollout of director Seth Gordon’s reboot of David Hasselhoff’s 1990s television
series, Baywatch.
DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo
Pack and 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack editions will be available on Aug.
29. That street date yields an ARR of
95 days and local multiplex ticket sales registered $57.8 million.
Media critics loathed it
(which is to be expected), but fans came away more than pleased with the results
… and that’s all that counts. When you
add in overseas tickets sales — well over $100 million — you would have to
score this Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron action/comedy a hit.
Paramount has an
extended, unrated cut of the film planned.
It arrived in theatres as an R-rated film release, so it will be
interesting to see what the unrated version contains … of note, it does clock
in at 116 minutes, so perhaps these trims are for length. Still, 45-minutes of additional material is
something to take note of.
As to the film itself,
Johnson is Mitch Buchannon (Hasselhoff’s character), the head of the Emerald
Bay, Florida lifeguards (the original series was in SoCal), with Stephanie
Holden (Ilfenesh Hadera — as Deb Kawi from the Billions TV series) and
C. J. Parker (Kelly Rohrbach) — as his go-to girl guards. New to the team for the fun-in-the-sun
season are Summer Quinn (Alexandra Daddario), Ronnie Greenbaum (Jon Bass) and
former Olympic standout, Matt Brody (Efron), who immediately butts heads with
Buchannon.
The plot revolves around
a drug-smuggling operation run by Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra), the owner
of the exclusive Huntley Club, whose ultimate plan is to take the entire beach
front private by either buying up competing businesses or killing their
owners. She is beautiful, but deadly.
Bonus goodies include
deleted and extended scenes and a trio of featurettes — “Meet the Lifeguards,”
“Continuing the Legacy” and “Stunts and Training.”
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