Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Announces Street Dates For The Animated The Star (Feb. 20) And Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Feb. 13)

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has selected Feb. 20 as the DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release date for director Timothy Reckart’s The Star, an animated faith-based tale about the first Christmas spun from the animal’s POV.

The ARR works out to 95 days and domestic box office receipts were a solid $40.4 million.

Bonus treasures include four featurettes — “Sweet and Sparkly Stars,” “Star Mason Jar Votives,” “Faith All Year Round with DeVon Franklin” and “An All-Star Cast” — plus there’s a sing-along with Bo (the donkey — voiced by Steven Yeun) titled “Star-aoke,” a “dance-along” titled “Life Is Good” and five sing-along videos — “The Star” by Mariah Carey, “Can You See” by Fifth Harmony, “Children Go Where I Send You” by Kelsea Ballerini, “We Three Kings” by Kirk Franklin and “Life Is Good” by A Great Big World.

Also getting a release date from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment this past week is writer/director Dan Gilroy's Roman J. Israel, Esq., starring Denzel Washington in an out-of-character drama role.  The street date will be Feb. 13.

The ARR is just 88 days and the film under-performed at the box office with just $11.9 million in domestic receipts — home entertainment to the rescue.   Planned for release are DVD and Blu-ray editions.

As to bonus features, Sony Pictures Home Entertaiment will be including eight deleted scenes (Gilroy spoke publicly of film trims to tighten the narrative after test screenings) and three featurettes — “Denzel Washington: Becoming Roman,” “The Making of Roman J. Israel, ESQ” and “Colin Farrell: Discovering George.”