Monday, October 15, 2018

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Adds Director Marc Forster's Christopher Robin To The Nov. 6 Home Entertainment Release Calendar


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
This comes as a total surprise.   With Walt Disney Home Entertainment’s mega hit, The Incredibles 2, already in place on Nov. 6, we fully anticipated that director Marc Forster delightful Christopher Robin would be targeted for release during early December.

Instead, this live-action/CGI story of the grown man, Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) from the “Hundred Acre Wood” and his childhood friends — Winnie the Pooh (voiced by Jim Cummings), et al — will also be heading home on Nov. 6 as DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack product offerings.

The ARR works out to 95 days and box office receipts were an impressive $98.1 million.   
Disney did a very rare thing with the home entertainment announcement of Christopher Robin and turned to an outside PR agency to get the word out (Think Jam), which leads us to suspect that sign-offs (or other internal issues) came very late (we are likely inside the pre-book date) and an extra push was felt necessary for this very special film.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyThere’s nothing else in the theatrical pipeline for this year, so any December promotions will likely be from the studio’s film library.    Just can’t imagine Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment not having a Christmas-season promotion of some sort … perhaps additional 4K Ultra HD product offerings.

As to bonus features, which are limited to the Blu-ray SKU, include a quartet of featurettes — “A Movie Is Made for Pooh,” “Pooh Finds His Voice,” “Pooh and Walt Become Friends” and “Pooh and Friends Come to Life.”




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