War For The Planet Of The Apes From 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment On Oct. 24

20^th Century-Fox Home Entertainment is the latest victim of amazon.com and the online giant’s penchant for jumping the gun on formal announcements for new theatrical releases heading to the home entertainment marketplace.   

The subject of their pre-order eagerness this week is writer/director Matt Reeves’ The War for the Planet of the Apes, which will be available on Oct. 24 as at least a four-SKU product offering.   Target jumped in with order-taking as well for the same date (nothing from them about a SteelBook edition) and Ingram’s videoeta.com website confirmed the date.   Nothing from the PR group over at Fox as of week’s end.

For the record, the ARR is 102 days and box office receipts for this third installment in the reboot of the series currently stands at $144.7 million, down from $208.5 million from the summer of 2014’s release of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.    

As for SKU configuration, amazon.com is touting a stand-alone DVD edition, two Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs (one with a 3D viewing option) and a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.   

Bonus features?   Although 20^th Century-Fox Home Entertainment’s PR machine hasn’t made an official announcement, the bonus features for the The War for the Planet of the Apes have been leaked and they include commentary from filmmaker Matt Reeves, deleted scenes (with optional commentary by Matt Reeves, a concept art gallery and a half-dozen production featurettes — “Waging War for the Planet of the Apes,” “All About Caesar,” “WETA: Pushing Boundaries,” “Music for Apes,” “Apes: The Meaning of it All” and “The Apes Saga: An Homage.”