Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Sets Dates For Both Little Women (Apr. 07) And Jumanji: The Next Level (Mar. 17)

With the Oscar season over and both Sony and Quentin Tarantino unloved by the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has moved on with two new announcements for the home entertainment packaged media marketplace.

Arriving on Apr. 7 is writer/director Greta Gerwig’s re-imagining of the Louisa May Alcott classic, Little Women, which was nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture, two acting nominations (Best Actress, Saoirse Ronan and Best Supporting Actress, Florence Pugh) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Greta Gerwig), but had to settle for Best Costume Design.

The ARR is 102 days and box office receipts were a winning $102.7 million.

Planned for release are both a stand-alone DVD edition as well as a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack.

As to bonus features, there are six featurettes common to both release SKUs — “A New Generation of Little Women,” “Making a Modern Classic,” “Greta Gerwig: Women Making Art,” “Hair & Make-Up Test Sequence,” “Little Women Behind the Scenes” and “Orchard House, Home of Louisa May Alcott.”

Also on the release schedule from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the smash Christmas-season comedy, writer/director Jake Kasdan’s Jumanji: The Next Level.   The street date is Mar. 17, which yields an ARR of 95 days.

Box office receipts were an eye-popping $298.5 million in the domestic market and over $460 million in overseas markets.   By any standards, that is a SMASH hit … count on sequels in the future.

As to SKU configuration, look for Combo Pack editions for both the 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD) formats, plus a single-disc DVD selection.

Bonus goodies common to all three release SKUs are a trio of featurettes — “Body Swapping: Snapping Into Character,” “Back Together: Reuniting the Cast” and “Level Up: Making Jumanji: The Next Level.”

Exclusive to the Combo Pack releases are a gag reel and ten additional featurettes — “Rhys Darby Wants To Jingle,” “Body Swapping: Snapping Into Character,” “Back Together: Reuniting the Cast,” “Level Up: Making Jumanji: The Next Level,” “Scene Breakdown: Mandrill Bridges,” “Awkwafina Cat Burglar,” “NPC Confessions: Jurgen The Brutal,” “Telenovela,” “Grow Up,” “VFX Pre-Vis: Zeppelin Battle” and “VFX Pre-Vis: Ostrich Chase.”