Universal Pictures Home
Entertainment looks to the New Year for the home entertainment debut of two
recent hit theatrical releases.
Up first is the STX
Entertainment production of director Martin Campbell’s The Foreigner, starring
Jackie Chan as an unstoppable force of revenge! It will be January 9, 2018 for DVD and
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack selections, which yields as ARR of 88 days and ticket
sales were an impressive $33.5 million.
Bonus features include
the featurette titled “The Making of The Foreigner” and unspecified video
sessions with the cast and crew.
Also getting a home
entertainment launch in the New Year is director Christopher Landon’s smash
“Groundhog Day” horror hit, Happy Death Day.
Universal Pictures Home
Entertainment has tabbed the following week, Jan. 16, as the street date for
both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions.
With that street-date Tuesday, the ARR comes in at 95 days and multiplex
box office receipts were an eye-popping $54.9 million.
Jessica Roth (as Alexis
in La
La Land) stars as Tree Gelbman, a nasty, self-centered college student
who gets murdered … and murdered … and murdered again and again. While Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day is the
all-time champion for time-loop movies, and there have been a couple of
interesting (and successful) films of late with the same conceit — Before
I Fall and Edge of Tomorrow — Happy Death Day is a real winner as
it is not just “another time-loop movie.”
Not only does it combine the storyline of a young woman being stalked
and murdered by a hooded figure over and over again —which makes for a solid
horror entry all on its own — but it also mixes in a devilishly good mystery as
well.
As to bonus goodies, we
have deleted scenes, an alternate ending and a trio of production featurettes —
“Worst Birthday Ever!,” “Behind the Mask: The Suspects” and “The Many Deaths of
Tree.”
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