The Conjuring/Annabelle film
franchise gets a new home entertainment addition on Oct. 8 with the arrival of
the latest theatrical hit in the series, writer/director Gary Dauberman’s Annabelle
Comes Home.
That second street-date Tuesday in October will be
the release window for both Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack and stand-alone DVD
editions, so says Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
With a domestic multiplex haul of $72.3 million for
the seventh film in the series, it is pretty obvious that Warner Bros. can make
as many “Conjuring Universe” films as it pleases … indeed, three are currently
in the works, with The Conjuring 3
targeted for release in September of 2020 and a new The Nun
sequel in development, plus The Crooked Man also
in the planning stages.
For the record, the ARR works out 102 days.
It does get a bit confusing, but there is an actual
timeline for the series, with Annabelle Comes Home
falling into the fifth slot in this horror saga. That would put it right after The
Conjuring and right before The Curse
of La Llorona in the early-1970s timeline of
events. The series has been jumping
back and forth in the story-telling of events, but genre fans don’t seem to
mind.
As to bonus features (which are exclusive to the
Blu-ray SKU), there are deleted scenes and a trio of featurettes — “The
Artifact Room and the Occult,” “The Light and the Love” and “Behind the Scenes: The Ferryman/Demon, The
Bloody Bride and The Werewolf.”
In other release news from Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment, a new 4K scan of The Wizard of Oz (a
new 8K 16bit scan of the original Technicolor camera negative supervised by
Janet Wilson) will be available on Oct. 29 as a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.
Bonus goodies include a vintage commentary track
hosted by Oz-expert (and author) John Fricke, who is joined by Margaret
Hamilton, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Barbara Freed-Saltzman, John Lahr, Jane Lahr,
Hamilton Meserve, Dona Massin, William Tuttle, Buddy Ebsen, Mervyn LeRoy and
Jerry Maren, the 1990 CBS Special, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a
Movie Classic,” featurettes titled “The Making of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,”
and “Wonderful Wizard of Oz Storybook” (narrated by Angela Lansbury), plus the
nine-part presentation titled “We Haven't Really Met Properly.”
Other bonus features include a “Music & Effects
Track,” “Sing Along Tracks,” the Christmas Day Lux Radio Broadcast of 1950
featuring Judy Garland and Hans Conreid … and more!!!
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