Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has selected Nov. 9 for the home entertainment packed media rollout of director writer/director Lisa Joy’s neo-noir sci-fi mystery, Reminiscence, starring Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Ferguson (Dune, Doctor Sleep).
Although visually exciting and interesting in its concept, the pound-you-in-the-head woke narrative, complete with out-of-control climate change (Miami flooded and too hot to navigate during daylight hours … oh please, save us), meant that this $60 million production was doomed to some dismal numbers at the box office.
For the record, the ARR for this three-SKU release comes in at 81 days and domestic ticket sales were just $3.9 million.
Planned for release are stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray product offering, as well as a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.
Reminiscence is Lisa Joy’s feature film directing debut … she hit it big with her husband, Jonathan Nolan, with their re-imagining of Michael Crichton’s Westworld. The HBO series, by any standard, was an exciting sci-fi tale, but by season three they managed to drive that into a wall. It has been 18 months since HBO approved a fourth season … perhaps the dismal result from Reminiscence, coupled with the disastrous third season of Westworld, means that the magic is gone.
It falls to Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and the streaming numbers to salvage what they can for the producing partners … this was not an in-house Warner Bros. production, but a pre-production acquisition for distribution rights (how much skin the studio actually has in the game is unknown).
As to bonus features, common to all three SKUs is the featurette titled “Crafting a Memory.” The 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray editions include four additional featurettes — “You’re Going on a Journey,” “The Sunken Coast,” “Reminiscence: A Family Reunion” and “Save My Love.”
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