Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment slapped down
the early “retailer rumors” of a Sept. 24 street date for director Josh Cooley’s
animated mega-hit, Toy Story 4, by
circulating a press announcement on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 22 making it
official … Oct. 8 is the date (oh how those retailers love to get a jump on the
competition by locking in pre-sales).
What’s two weeks among friends, right?
The ARR comes in at 109 days (no rush when you have
the gold) and domestic box office receipts currently register a whopping $424.4
million — and that’s just the domestic haul!
When you add in foreign markets this installment in the adventures of
Woody and Buzz Lightyear has pulled in a cool billion dollars in ticket sales.
Come Oscar time it will be a tough one to beat in
the Best Animated Feature category.
As to the “official” Oct. 8 release package, there
will be a three-SKU array of packaged media selections. Combo Packs for both 4K Ultra HD (with
Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD), plus a stand-alone DVD edition.
Bonus features, which are exclusive to the Combo
Pack editions, include a commentary option, which is unspecified at this
time. However, director Josh Cooley (his
feature film directing debut … Oscar-nominated for his Inside
Out script) is providing intros to a package of
six deleted scenes, so it seems reasonable that he, and perhaps others, will be
featured in the commentary of the film.
In addition to the aforementioned six deleted
scenes, there are also five production featurettes — “Toy Stories: The Toy
Story 4,” “Woody & Buzz,” “Bo Rebooted,” “Toy Box” and “Let’s Ride With
Ally Maki.”
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