It was a very busy announcement week for Paramount
Home Media … a series goodbye, a mini-series arrival and two new 4K Ultra HD
releases, and more.
After 15 seasons and 324 episodes, Criminal
Minds: The Final Season will be ready on DVD (a
three-disc set) on Apr. 14 … this brings this venerable FBI crime-solving
series to a close.
All ten episodes are featured here, including the
double-episode conclusion featuring a showdown with serial killer Everett
Lynch, aka: “The Chameleon” (Michael Mosley), who was introduced during the
previous season and came close to killing Rossi (Joe Mantegna). Will agent Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler)
finally find love … one that isn’t crazy?
Apr. 14 brings the answers to fans.
Also on Apr. 14, Paramount Home Media will be
releasing a complete series box set collection of Criminal
Minds.
The following week, Apr. 21, Paramount Home Media
will be bringing to market the eight-episode mini-series adaptation of writer
John Green’s Looking for Alaska.
Following the success of the film adaptations of his
Paper Towns and The Fault
in Our Stars novels, there was renewed
interest in bringing his first novel, Looking
for Alaska, to the screen as well. It had been in “turn-around” since first
published in 2005 and there were constant issues relating to turning the story
of Green’s semi-biographical experiences at the Indian Springs Boarding School
in Birmingham, Alabama, into a coherent two-hour screenplay.
The solution was finally arrived by producers Josh
Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (they have collaborated on such series Gossip
Girl, The O.C. … among others) who turned Looking
for Alaska into an eight-episode
mini-series.
It is 2005, and Miles Halter (Charlie Plummer — Lean on
Pete, All the Money in the World)
arrives at Culver Creek Academy as a fish out of water. His roommate is “The Colonel,” Chip Martin
(Denny Love — Slasher Party),
and Miles quickly learns that there is a pecking order at the school, which
pits The Colonel and his friends against the “Weekend Warriors.”
Also at the school is Alaska Young (Kristine Froseth
— The Assistant, Prey),
whom Miles will become enamored with as she becomes central to his experiences
at Culver Creek. Others at the school
include Takumi (Jay Lee), another friend of The Colonel, and “The Eagle,” Mr.
Starnes (Timothy Simons), the school’s headmaster.
Bonus features included with the DVD releases of Looking
for Alaska include 18 deleted scenes and a
video session with novelist John Green.
Not done yet … Paramount Home Media has two new 4K
Ultra HD/2 Blu-ray Combo Pack presentations — both are Steelbooks and include
Digital Copy — ready for release on May 5.
These are, Gladiator:
20th Anniversary Edition and Braveheart:
25th Anniversary Edition ... and they come
packed with bonus goodies (hence the two Blu-ray companion disc).
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