With $145.7 million in domestic box office receipts
(and counting … closing in on $500 million worldwide) it is clear that the
DreamWorks Animation production of How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden
World is an animated film franchise to be reckoned
with.
This is the third installment in the series and all
three films have easily pulled in over one hundred million dollars in ticket
sales in the domestic market alone. It
will therefore come as no surprise that the home entertainment rollout will be
just as popular.
To that point, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
announced this past week that director Dean DeBlois’ How to
Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World will
be available as a three-SKU product offering on May 21.
For the record, the ARR works out to just 88 days.
Planned for release are a stand-alone DVD edition
and Combo Pack presentations for the Blu-ray (with DVD) and 4K Ultra HD (with
Blu-ray) formats.
As to bonus goodies, we begin with commentary from writer/director
Dean DeBlois (Lilo & Stitch, How to
Train Your Dragon (Oscar-nominated for Best
Animated Feature), How to Train Your Dragon 2
(also Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature)), who is joined by producer
Bradford Lewis (Antz, Ratatouille) and
the head of character animation Simon Otto.
There are also deleted scenes, an alternate opening
(with intro by filmmaker Dean DeBlois), two new animated short films — Bilby and Bird
Karma — plus a whopping 11 featurettes — “How
to Voice Your Viking,” “Creating an Epic Dragon Tale,” “How I Learned from
Dragons,” “Brave Wilderness Presents: Nature + Dragons = Awesome,” “The Dragon
Sheep Chronicles, A Deck of Dragons,” “Growing Up with Dragons,” “The Evolving
Character Design of Dragons,” “Drawing Dragons,” “Epic Villain,” “Astrid's
Whole Dragon Trilogy in 60 Seconds” and “Welcome to New Berk.”
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