Sony Pictures Home
Entertainment was busy with a swarm of new product announcements this past
week, including director Ridley Scott’s troubled film adaptation of the John
Pearson book “Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the
Heirs of J. Paul Getty,” which was mercifully retitled for the screen as All
the Money in the World. It will
be available on Apr. 10 as DVD and Blu-ray editions.
During the middle of the
production the Kevin Spacey controversy erupted and he was replaced, with all
of his scenes as J. Paul Getty scraped (would love to see those dailies) and
reshot with Christopher Plummer (he received his third acting Oscar nomination
for his performance).
For the record, the ARR
is 106 days and ticket sales currently stand right at $25 million.
Bonus features include 8 deleted
scenes (hoping these are of Kevin Spacey) and a trio of production featurettes
— “Ridley Scott: Crafting a Historical Thriller,” “Hostages to Fortune: The
Cast” and “Recast, Reshot, Reclaimed.”
Also getting both Blu-ray
and DVD product offerings in April is director Babak Najafi’s hitwoman crime
thriller, Proud Mary, starring Taraji P. Henson as a professional
assassin who begins to have second thoughts about her career choice. The street date will be Apr. 3.
The film got a bungled
theatrical launch — home entertainment to the rescue once again — which means
that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is moving it quickly from theatres to the
home entertainment marketplace with a zippy-quick ARR of just 81 days. Ticket sales were a lackluster $20.8 million.
Bonus goodies for Proud
Mary are three featurettes — “Mary’s World,” “The Beginning of The End”
and “If Looks Could Kill.”
Lastly, look to May 22
for two new 4K restorations that will be available as 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo
Pack selections.
The first up is director
Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger and Jason Isaacs
as one of the screen’s nastiest villains.
And the second 4K launch is writer/director David Ayer’s World War II
tank thriller, Fury, starring Brad Pitt.
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