Monday, January 14, 2019

Paramount Home Media Tabs Feb. 19 For The Home Entertainment Debut Of Director Julius Avery’s Overlord


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
We know from our history books and Hollywood movies — including Saving Private Ryan and The Longest Day, among others — that June 6, 1944 was D-Day, the turning point of the war in Europe.

However, an event of perhaps greater importance occurred in small French village on the evening of June 5, 1944 that has been lost to history … until now.  On Feb. 19, Paramount Home Media will launch a three-SKU home entertainment invasion of director Julius Avery’s Overlord (which was the closely-guarded code name for the Normandy invasion). 

Planned for release are Combo Packs for both the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray formats, as well as a stand-alone DVD edition.

The ARR works out to 102 days and domestic ticket sales for the film’s pre-Thanksgiving theatrical launch were $21.7 million.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyThere were hundreds of planes and gliders hauling paratroopers on the night of June 5, each group had a mission.   Such is the case of the squad assigned a German radio tower located in a small French village … and as we learned from Saving Private Ryan now everything went as a planned — they even had a name for it, FUBAR.   Filmmaker Julius Avery’s Overlord is a FUBAR mission from the D-Day invasion like none other!!!

Their aircraft is shot down and only a handful of the paratroopers survive the crash, but the mission continues … find the radio tower and blow it up before dawn!  It will be a mission unlike any other that took place on that fateful night!! 

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyAvery’s mix of World War II action and sci-fi is one of those wonderful surprises that surface from time to time.   The title — Overlord — and the D-Day theme suggest (on the surface) a behind-the-lines war story, but it quickly evolves into anything but that.

Corporal Ford (Wyatt Russell — Table 19, Everybody Wants Some!!, etc.) is but one of a handful who survive the crash and he suddenly finds himself in charge of the mission.   The target is in sight and with his fellow survivors they set about to destroy the radio tower, but soon discover that something weird has been going on … a sinister experiment by the Nazis to create an invincible soldier.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeyThe mission quickly turns to one of survival and stopping a bigger threat than just the broadcasts from the radio tower!  And then there’s that sudden realization that no one — not even the Allies — should have the results of the science being created by these evil scientists.  

Overlord … complete the mission … and SAVE THE WORLD in the process!!!

Bonus features include a six-part making-of production titled “The Horrors of War,” which features these six components: “Creation,” “Death Above,” “Death on the Ground,” “Death Below,” Death No More” and “Brothers in Arms.”


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