It was a one-two punch
this week from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment as not one, but current
theatrical hits got their marching orders for the home entertainment arena.
Up first is the latest
blockbuster in Sylvester Stallone’s decades-long Rocky film series, the Mar. 5
debut of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures’ production of director Steven Caple
Jr.’s Creed II, starring Stallone as the iconic "Rocky"
Balboa, who has taken Apollo Creed’s son (played by Michael B. Jordan — Black
Panther, Fantastic Four, Fruitvale Station) under his wing.
Creed II arrives as a three-SKU product offering — Combo
Pack for both Blu-ray (with DVD) and 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and a
stand-alone edition — and that first-Tuesday-in-March street date yields an ARR
of 102 days. Box office receipts for
this eighth installment in the Rocky film franchise series
(something like $1.7 billion in worldwide ticket sales since 1976) were a
stellar $114.9 million.
As to bonus features, the
featurette titled “The Rocky Legacy” is common to all home entertainment
packaged media release configurations.
Exclusive to the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD SKUs are deleted scenes and
three additional featurettes — “From Father to Son, Blood Runs Hot,” “Finding
the Authentic” and The Women of Creed II.”
The other theatrical
blockbuster “punch” landed this past week by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
was the press announcement for director David Yates’ wizarding tale, Fantastic
Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Its home entertainment
launch follows one week after Creed II with a Mar. 12 street
date. The ARR works out to 116 days and
domestic ticket sales generated during the Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday
period were a toasty $158.5 million (already in the works is the third
installment in this Harry Potter spin-off film series ... Thanksgiving of 2020).
Lined up as consumer
purchase options for the release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
are the same SKU configurations as Creed II — DVD and Combo Packs for
both Blu-ray (with DVD) and 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray).
Bonus features include
deleted scenes, a trio of featurettes — “J.K. Rowling: A World Revealed,” “Wizards
on Screen, Fans in Real Life” and “Distinctly Dumbledore” — plus the six part
film production series titled “Unlocking Scene Secrets” … the six segments are
variously titled: “The Return to Hogwarts,” “Newt’s Menagerie,” “Credence,
Nagini and the Circus Arcanus,” “Paris and Place Cachée,” “Ministere des
Affaires Magiques” and “Grindelwald's Escape and the Ring of Fire.”
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