Paramount Home Media
announced this past week that director Julius Onah’s sci-fi thriller, The
Cloverfield Paradox, will be heading to the home entertainment
marketplace on Feb. 5 as both DVD and Blu-ray product offerings.
The film itself got
caught up in a vortex of distribution experimentation when it was decided — and
the details are a little murky — that it would debut on Netlflix, with the only
announcement being a Super Bowl spot last February. The gamble was that the traditional
theatrical distribution pattern — complete with all of the expense that goes
with that — would be bypassed and shifted to the Netflix platform and social
media (digital word of mouth) would do the rest.
The results were mixed,
but it is certainly a distribution alternative that has merit … there will be
future attempts to launch films in this manner.
As to the film itself, The
Cloverfield Paradox is a very ambitious, and very busy, sci-fi
adventure that mixes in elements of a number of familiar and popular genre
films. There is some Interstellar
in here, some elements of Event Horizon, bits and pieces of Alien
and others. Fun and enjoyable and
certainly worth a look come Feb. 5 when it is available on DVD and Blu-ray …
especially if Netflix is not in your queue.
Bonus features include a
pair of production featurettes — “Things Are Not as They Appear: The Making of
The Cloverfield Paradox” and “Shepard Team: The Cast.”
In other release news
from Paramount Home Media this past week, director David Hemmings’ 1985 event
mini-series adaptation of Ken Follett’s World War II spy novel, The
Key to Rebecca, will be making its long-overdue DVD debut on Feb. 12.
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