Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has selected May 7
as the street date for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part,
which will be served-up as a three-SKU product offering.
The ARR works out to 88 days and box office receipts
were a stellar $101.3 million.
As for SKU configuration, there will be Combo Packs
for both the Blu-ray (with DVD) and 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) formats, as well
as a stand-alone DVD edition.
Bonus features common to all home entertainment
packaged media editions include commentary “by filmmakers” — we assume that
means director Mike Mitchell (Trolls, Shrek Forever After, Deuce
Bigalow: Male Gigolo) and perhaps the screenwriters
or producers — outtakes, deleted scenes, the LEGO short titled Emmet’s
Holiday Party, the “Super Cool” music video by
Beck (featuring Robyn and The Lonely Island) and a pair of featurettes — “LEGO
Sets in Action” and “LEGO Designers.”
Exclusive to the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack
offerings are the “Everything is Awesome Sing-Along” and the additional
featurette titled “They Come in Pieces: Assembling The LEGO Movie 2.”
Well, that was quick. In other release news this week, Nancy
Drew and the Hidden Staircase is
making its way to the home entertainment marketplace on Apr. 2 as both DVD and
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions.
Warner Bros. (the studio) announced in the early
months of this year that director Katt Shea’s remake of Nancy
Drew and the Hidden Staircase
would be released on a limited theatrical basis beginning on March 15. The studio didn’t report out any box office
numbers … usually an indicator that the receipts were really, really bad.
It is actually playing in a few theatres (a Fandango
search shows where and when … if you are in California and willing to drive to
Clovis, you can see it), so with everything in place for an Apr. 2 home
entertainment push, the home entertainment group figured out early on that the
theatrical launch was just for show (perhaps even something in the production
agreement that required the studio to release the film “theatrically).
For the record, joining the list of silver screen
actresses who have played Nancy Drew is Sophia Lillis (as Beverly in It and
the forthcoming It: Chapter Two) …
Bonita Granville launched the series back in 1938 (four films in all) and Emma
Roberts starred in director Andrew Fleming’s 2007 film that was simply titled, Nancy
Drew.
Bonus features include a gag reel and a pair of
featurettes — “A Sleuth, A Girl and an Inspiration,” “Pink Footprints: Touring
Twin Elms.”
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