Last summer Blake Lively
was stranded on a rock with a killer shark doing everything possible to make
her a meal in director Jaume Collet-Serra’s masterful thriller, The
Shallows. Lively’s character
was enjoying an afternoon of surfing — at an incredible beach — and things went
south from there.
This year, we have Mandy
Moore (A Walk to Remember) and Claire Holt (as Rebekah in The
Vampire Diaries), who play sisters in writer/director Johannes Roberts’
47
Meters Down (aka: In the Deep). They get talked into an afternoon
cage-diving excursion … and they too see
things go south.
The backstory, however,
is every bit as good as the film itself.
It was destined to be a direct-to-video release last summer titled In
the Deep, but with the success of The Shallows and filmmaker Johannes
Roberts knowing what his final product was, the film was pulled at the last
minute and switched to Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, Inc., which
immediately put the home entertainment plans on hold and went back to the
original title, 47 Meters Down, and then waited.
The film was release
theatrically this year (June 16) and was an indie-smash, pulling in $43.1
million in domestic box office receipts (that’s a monster number for a
non-studio distributed film). That’s
right, written off as direct-to-DVD release, 47 Meters Down pulls in
over $40 million at the box office against major-studio competition.
On Sept. 26, Lionsgate
Home Entertainment (technically an Anchor Bay release) will be shipping DVD and
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions of THIS YEAR’s shark thriller, 47
Meters Down … the ARR comes in at 102 days.
We can’t report on any
bonus features included with the home entertainment launch as Lionsgate Home
Entertainment is mum’s the word on those details.
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