It is 25 years later in Woodsboro and the past has been unearthed … Ghostface is back!!
Paramount Home Entertainment announced this past week that Scream, from the Radio Silence directing team — aka: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett — will be arriving at retail on Apr. 5 as a three-SKU product offering.
You could call the film a reboot or you could call the film a sequel … for the sake of argument, let’s just say the story continues with series veterans, Courteney Cox (as Gale Weathers), David Arquette (Dewey Riley) and Neve Campbell (Sidney Prescott) handing over the Ghostface saga to the next generation.
The ARR for the Apr. 5 street date works out to 81 days. Box office receipts currently stand at $79.6 million, double the take of Scream 4 when it arrived in theatres in 2011. These positive results have triggered a green-light for the next film in the series (arriving in theatres sometime in 2023).
Planned for release are stand-alone editions for all three formats (no Combo Packs).
The DVD edition is a movie-only presentation with the bonus features being exclusive to the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD SKUs. These are: commentary with filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who are joined by screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, plus there are deleted scenes and a trio of featurettes — “Bloodlines,” “New Blood” and “In the Shadow of the Master.”
In other release news from Paramount Home Entertainment this past week, the latest addition to the “Paramount Presents” library will be the May 17 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack debut of director John Ford’s 1962 film adaptation of Dorothy M. Johnson’s short story, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Not only is the film a brilliant ending-of-the-frontier tale — a transitional Western, if you will — but it is blessed with a magnificent cast that is toplined by James Stewart as greenhorn Ranse Stoddard, John Wayne as Tom Doniphon, Vera Miles as Hallie and Lee Marvin as the notorious Liberty Valance.
The film also contains one of the all-time classic screen lines, which was delivered by Carleton Young, playing reporter Maxwell Scott, who has been interviewing now Senator Ransom Stoddard upon his return to where all of the action had taken place so many years before. When the flashback story finishes, and the actual truth has been revealed, Scott rips up all that he has written for his planned story and utters the line, “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
Bonus goodies include feature commentary by the late Peter Bogdanovich, along with his archival recordings with John Ford and James Stewart, seven selected scene commentaries with introduction by Dan Ford (John Ford’s grandson), along with his archival recordings with John Ford, James Stewart and Lee Marvin, plus the newly-prepared “Filmmaker Focus,” featuring Leonard Maltin’s comments on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Lastly, director Antoine Fuqua’s long-delayed film adaptation of author D. Eric Maikranz’s “The Reincarnationist Papers,” which was slated for theatrical release during the summer of 2020 as Infinite — and then delayed to Memorial Day weekend in 2021, and then delayed again and finally pulled from being a theatrical release and shuffled over to Paramount+ — will be heading to the home entertainment packaged media marketplace on May 17 as a three-SKU array of buying selections.
With a well-known director, Antoine Fuqua (Olympus has Fallen, Tears of the Sun, The Magnificent Seven) and Mark Wahlberg starring, Infinite becomes a very pricey direct-to-video release.
Bonus features, which are exclusive to the stand-alone 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray SKUs, include four production featurettes — “They Call Themselves Infinites,” “The Kinetic Action of Infinite,” “Anatomy of a Scene: Police Station and Forest” and “Infinite Time.”
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