Paramount Home Media's DVD • Blu-ray And 4K Ultra HD Product Blitz — Like A Boss • Top Gun • Friday the 13th And More

It was a very, very busy announcement week over at Paramount Home Media … a recent theatrical release will be making the transition to the home entertainment marketplace, a new promotional Blu-ray label is being launched, Top Gun gets a 4K release and the 40^th Anniversary celebration of a venerable horror classic were all added to the release calendar in just one week! 

So let us get right to the good stuff.

Up first is director Miguel Arteta’s R-rated comedy, Like a Boss, starring Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne and Salma Hayek, with Jennifer Coolidge, Natasha Rothwell and Billy Porter co-starring.

The street date for both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions of Like a Boss will be Apr. 21.   The ARR for that street-date Tuesday works out to 102 days … domestic box office receipts were $22.1 million.

Mia (Tiffany Haddish) and her business partner, Mel (Rose Byrne), have a start-up cosmetics company that they call Mia&Mel, which could be a big success, but like many start-ups, they have run into money issues.

No problem, Claire Luna (played by Salma Hayek) is the head of a cosmetics empire and she would like to “help” out.   “Helping out” means taking control, sucking out their ideas and closing them down.   Once Mel and Mia — and their friends — realize that Claire Luna is the beauty equivalent of Darth Vader, they have to put aside their personal differences and find a way out of the mess that they’ve created for themselves.

Bonus goodies include deleted scenes and a pair of featurettes — “With Coworkers Like These, Who Needs Friends?” and “Get Some with Ron and Greg.”

On the date, Apr. 21, Paramount Home Media is launching a new promotional line, “Paramount Presents,” which features new 4K film restorations of popular films that will be re-released with new packaging on Blu-ray.

The first of “Paramount Presents” Blu-ray releases includes director Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, director Adrian Lyne’s sexually-charged thriller Fatal Attraction, teaming Michael Douglas with Glenn Close, and the Elvis Presley “Big Easy” classic, King Creole.

As to bonus features, To Catch a Thief comes with commentary from Hitchcock film historian Dr. Drew Casper and a pair of featurettes — “Filmmaker Focus: Leonard Maltin on To Catch a Thief” and “Behind the Gates.”

Fatal Attraction arrives as a Paramount Presents Blu-ray edition with commentary from director Adrian Lyne, rehearsal footage, an alternate ending and the featurette titled “Filmmaker Focus: Adrian Lyne on Fatal Attraction.”

And last, but certainly not least, is director Michael Curtiz’s 1958 “dramatic musical,” King Creole, starring Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart and Walter Matthau.   Bonus features here include a song-access feature (jump to any song and the featurette titled “Filmmaker Focus: King Creole.”

Not done yet!!!   On May 19 director Tony Scott’s 1986 Navy fighter hit, Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise, Anthony Edwards, Tom Skerritt and Kelly McGillis will be released as a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack selection.

Bonus goodies will include commentary from director Tony Scott, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and screenwriter Jack Epps, Jr. (plus comments by Naval flight experts) and at least two featurettes — “On Your Six: Thirty Years of Top Gun” and “The Legacy of Top Gun” … and more!!

Director Sean S. Cunningham’s 1980 horror film franchise kick-off classic, Friday the 13^th, will be celebrating its 40^th Anniversary with a new SteelBook edition.

This special edition comes loaded with previously issued special features, plus a viewing option for the uncut presentation of Friday the 13^th.