Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Selects Apr. 9 For The Home Entertainment Launch Of Holmes & Watson


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced this past week that the reteaming of “Step Brothers” — Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly — in writer/director Etan Cohen’s Holmes & Watson will arrive in the home entertainment marketplace on Apr. 9.

The ARR works out to 102 days and box office revenues generated during the film’s domestic theatrical run came in $30.5 million.

Planned for release are a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and a stand-alone DVD edition.
As to bonus nuggets, there are a whopping 18 deleted scenes, the Line-O-Rama interactive feature and a trio of production featurettes — “Will and John: Together Again: Nearly Step Brothers,” “Seriously Absurd: The Cast” and “Mrs. Hudson’s Men.”

In other release news from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment this past week, director Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla stomps home on May 14 as a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph TribbeySony appears to be working its film library for 4K Ultra HD candidates at the rate of one or two per month … Black Hawk Down (May 7) and The Karate Kid: 35th Anniversary Edition (Apr.  16) were both recently announced as candidates for the format.

And, director Jon S. Baird’s biopic, Stan & Ollie, starring John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy and Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel, will street on Mar. 26 as both DVD and Blu-ray SKUs.
The ARR is 88 days and tickets came in a little light at just $4.3 million.

Bonus features include a trio of deleted scenes, a Q&A session with the cast and crew and a trio of featurettes — “Making Stan & Ollie,” “Playful Prosthetics” and “The Dancing Duo.”


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