Walt Disney Studios Home
Entertainment apparently doesn’t need pre-book windows any longer as the
official press announcement came on Monday, Jan. 7 for a Jan. 29 release date
for the directing team of Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston’s The
Nutcracker and the Four Realms.
The ARR is just 88 days,
which suggests (coupled with the short solicitation window) that Disney is
cutting their loses on this one and preparing the decks for more important
theatrical-to-home entertainment product launches. Box office receipts were $54.7 million
(compared to published film production cost easily twice that … and that is before
P&A costs).
Planned for release are
combo packs for Blu-ray/DVD and 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray configurations, as well as
a stand-alone DVD edition.
Bonus features for The
Nutcracker and the Four Realms include deleted scenes, a pair of
featurettes — “On Pointe: A Conversation with Misty Copeland” and “Unwrapping The
Nutcracker and the Four Realms” — and two music videos, “Fall on Me” (the duet
of Andrea and Matteo Bocelli) and Lang Lang’s presentation of “The Nutcracker
Suite.”
No sooner had we
completed the above comments on the quick-to-market release news for The
Nutcracker and the Four Realms — and filed it away for publication —
when Best Buy and Target began posting “special edition” pre-book solicitations
for director Rob Marshall’s Mary Poppins Returns.
We still haven’t seen an
official press announcement from Walt Disney Home Entertainment — which is
typical when they get into crisis mode — but Best Buy and Target say that Mary
Poppins Returns is set for its home entertainment rollout on Mar. 19,
so we are taking them at their word.
The ARR is just 88 days,
which suggests that the PR group will make an official announcement after the
traditional pre-book date comes and goes.
Box office receipts improved dramatically after a sluggish start and now
stand at a solid $138.8 million.
Planned for release are
4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Packs, plus a stand-alone DVD
edition. Bonus features? That is anyone’s guess at this point.
Also on the 4K Ultra HD
release calendar from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is Feb. 26 release
of The
Little Mermaid: 30th Anniversary Edition. There will be Combo Packs for both the 4K
Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD) packaged media formats.
New bonus nuggets include
a “Sing-Along Mode” viewing option, a quartet of new featurettes — “Alan Menken
& the Leading Ladies Song,” “What I Want From You…Is YOUR VOICE,” “Stories
From Walt’s Office: Gadgets & Gizmos” and “#TreasuresUntold” — and the
music video titled “Part of Your World,”
Vintage bonus features
include commentary from Ron Clements, John Musker and Alan Menken and three
featurettes — “Deleted Character: Harold The Merman,” “Under the Scene: The Art
of Live Action Reference” and “Howard’s Lecture.”
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