This past week Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced that Reinaldo Marcus Green’s King Richard, a vanity piece about the stunning tennis careers of sisters Venus and Serena Williams (played by Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton respectively) and their father, Richard (Will Smith — in what will certainly be his third Best Actor nomination … Ali (2001) and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)) — who pushed and pushed … and pushed to make it happen — will arrive as a three-SKU product offering on Feb. 8.
The ARR comes in at 81 days and domestic box office receipts are running a bit light at just $14.7 million. This could improve significantly when the Oscars are announced as Best Picture and Best Actor nominations are certainly in the cards.
As to SKU configuration, there will be stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray editions, plus a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.
Bonus features common to all three home entertainment package media product offerings is the featurette titled “Following the Plan: The Making of King Richard.” Exclusive to the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray editions are deleted scenes and two additional featurettes — “Becoming Richard” and “Champions on Screen.”
Also on the new-to-Blu-ray release front during the month of January are Song of the Thin Man and director Alfred Hitchcock’s Stage Fright.
Director Edward Buzzell reunites William Powell and Myrna Loy for the final time in 1947 as Nick and Nora Charles in Song of the Thin Man, which will be making its Blu-ray debut on Jan. 18. Bonus goodies include the Passing Parade short film titled A Really Important Person and the Tex Avery theatrical cartoon, Slap Happy Lion.
Heading home on Blu-ray the following week, Jan. 25, is Hitchcock’s 1950 thriller, Stage Fright, starring Marlene Dietrich and Jane Wyman. Included with this new 4K scan from the original nitrate camera negative is the featurette titled “Hitchcock and Stage Fright.”
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