Becky Albertalli’s
award-winning and best-selling novel, “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,”
which was retitled when it went into film production as simply, Love,
Simon, will be making the journey from multiplex venues to the home
entertainment marketplace on June 12.
That’s the news from 20th
Century-Fox Home Entertainment … more on that in a minute.
Last week we produced a
“Special Edition” of The DVD &
Blu-ray Release Report that covered a forthcoming event that will take
place on June 12. That’s the
street-date Tuesday when the 52-week ARR moving average drops below the 100-day
mark for the first time in the 22-year history of the DVD format.
The event was triggered
and became a date-certain when Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment tagged
June 5 as the street date for A Wrinkle in Time (ARR of 88 days)
and 20th Century-Fox Home Entertainment teamed with MGM Home
Entertainment for the June 5 launch of Death Wish (95 days).
There was no turning back
as the 100-day barrier (which is, of course, completely artificial) would be
cracked. This week, with the
simultaneous announcements from Lionsgate Home Entertainment (I Can
Only Imagine), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Tomb Raider) and the
aforementioned arrival of Love, Simon, all on June 12 — and
all with ARR values of 88 days — it is as if the “Hollywood” studios have
gotten together (in some mysterious place) and said let’s pick up pace and push
for 95 days.
All three films opened
theatrically on Mar. 16, and all three films have the identical home
entertainment release date of June 12.
Is it a coincidence? The forces
of the universe at work … the alignment of the sun, the moon and “Hollywood.”
O.K. enough of that, back
to director Greg Berlanti’s high school romantic dramedy, Love, Simon, starring Nick
Robinson as Simon Spier, the gay high school student who gets caught up in a
web of secrets that spin around a secret admirer and petty blackmail.
The ARR, as mentioned, is
88 days and box office receipts were a solid $40.5 million … with that level of
box office performance, it seems likely that Albertalli’s latest novel (a sort
of sequel), “Leah on the Offbeat” — which just dropped on Apr. 24 — will
also find its way to theatrical exhibition.
As for SKU configuration,
there will be a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack, a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and a
stand-alone DVD edition.
Bonus features include
commentary by Greg Berlanti (prolific TV series producer, plus director of Life
as We Know It) and producer Isaac Klausner (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our
Stars), deleted scenes and five featurettes — “The Adaptation,” “The
Squad,” “#FirstLoveStoryContest,” “Dear Georgia” and “Dear Atlanta.”
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