Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Tomb Raider Heads Home On June 12

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced a four-SKU helping this past week of director Roar Uthaug’s reboot of the Lara Croft adventure and gaming series, Tomb Raider — starring Alicia Vikander (Oscar-winner for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Danish Girl, plus Ex Machina, Jason Bourne, Testament of Youth, etc.) as Angelina Jolie’s replacement — for delivery on June 12.

The ARR comes in at 88 days and the domestic box office gross was $56.9 million, which does not bode well for any sequels — not giving anything away, the film ends with hints that more Lara Croft adventures might be in the offing.

As for SKU configuration, there is a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition, plus two Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs — one with a 3D viewing option.   Additionally, there will also be a no frills stand-alone DVD product offering.

Bonus features include four production featurettes — “Tomb Raider: Uncovered,” “Croft Training,” “Breaking Down the Rapids” and “Lara Croft: Evolution of an Icon.”

Also on the release calendar from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is the DVD and Blu-ray arrival on June 5 of director Michael Sucsy’s film adaptation of David Levithan’s fantasy romance novel, Every Day.

The ARR is 102 days and box office receipts were a disappointing $6.1 million.

Levithan’s novel might simply not be a story that translates well to the screen.  That could be one explanation for the poor showing on the film’s close 1,700-screen rollout.   Basically, no one came to see it.

Or, it’s impossible to sell.  The novel was New York Times best-seller, so presumably there was a built-in audience.  They didn’t come.

It is a head-scratcher as Every Day is unique and when you get a film with a unique storyline that should at least be a curiosity item.  

Rhiannon (Angourie Rice — These Final Hours, The Beguiled, Spider-Man: Homecoming) is a high school teenager who is in a meaningless relationship with a fellow student named Justin (Justice Smith).   He’s cute, but self-centered and pretty shallow, but then one day he isn’t … he’s perfect.   The next day Justin is back to his same-old self.

Except Justin wasn’t Justin on the perfect day.   He was inhabited by “A,” that’s right just “A.”   “A” is something of a detached soul that wakes up in a different teenage body — male and female — of basically the same age each new day.

“A,” as it turns out, has fallen in love with Rhiannon — you can see how confusing that can be — and arrives in her life as a new individual each day.   Each actor/actress — and there are over a dozen — that play “A” are obviously different, but they are all the same.

That creates funny bits, amusing bits and sad bits … and an ending that can’t ever be quite right.   In kind of an odd way, maybe Every Day is the anti-social media and anti-electronic device film that delivers a message about human beings interacting one on one, even if the combinations seem unlikely.    

Like we said, it is a curiosity item and that should translate well to the home entertainment marketplace.

As to bonus goodies, there are deleted scenes and a quartet of featurettes — “An A By Any Other Name,” “Love is Love,” “Every Day People” and “Book to Film Adaptation.”