Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, in something of a surprise move, made it official this past week that director Colin Trevorrow’s latest addition to the Jurassic Park film franchise, Jurassic World Dominion, will be arriving home on Aug. 16 as a three-SKU home entertainment packaged media product blitz.
With $372.4 million in domestic box office receipts, the ARR of just 67 is unprecedented. Of the 86 films that have surpassed the $300 million mark since 1997 (the launch year of the DVD format), the 67-day spin from theatrical venues to the home entertainment marketplace eclipses the previous 81-day record by two full weeks (and two of those record-setters arrived earlier this year — Warner’s The Batman on May 24 and Disney’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness hit home on July 26 … back in 2017, Disney moved the live-action Beauty and the Beast in just 81 days as the other member of that exclusive club.
Obviously, the quick-turn is being driven by the streaming platforms. We’ve made the point before, so we won’t belabor it, but this strategy seems counter-productive to the century-long dominance of the theatrical distribution marketplace by the “Hollywood” studio system. But, the “Hollywood” studios will do what the “Hollywood” studios do … we are just a humble observer and historian of release trends.
Planned for release are Combo Pack editions for the 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD) formats, plus a stand-alone DVD edition.
Bonus features for all three release configurations include the short film titled Battle at Big Rock.
Exclusive to the Combo Pack presentations are an extended viewing option of the film (running an addition 14 minutes — it is likely that trims were made for theatrical exhibition reasons).
Bonus nuggets exclusive to the Combo Pack SKUs are the featurette titled “A New Breed of VFX,” plus two multi-part featurette bundles. The first of these is titled “Dinosaurs Among Us: Inside Jurassic World Dominion” and includes three separate featurettes — “Together for the First Time,” “Underground Dino Market” and “Mayhem in Malta.”
The second grouping is titled “Scary Real” and sports six featurettes — “Spit Take: The Return of the Dilophosaurus,” “Inside the Dimetrodon,” “Creating a Plague,” “Passing the Bata … N,” “Giga-Bite” and “Final Night.”
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