Director Jaume Collet-Serra’s Black Adam, starring Dwayne Johnson, will be skipping the Christmas rush with the news from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment this past week.
They have elected to go for Jan. 3 for a three-SKU helping of this DC Superhero flicks. The ARR comes in at 74 days and domestic box office receipts are a tasty $150.6 million.
Planned for distribution are Combo Pack editions for both the 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD) formats, plus there will be a stand-alone DVD buying option.
Bonus features are limited to the Comb Pack editions. These include the nine-part featurette bundle titled “The History of Black Adam.”
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment also announced this past week that Dec. 06 will be the release date for a long-awaited Blu-ray edition of director Nathan Juran’s 1958 sci-fi classic, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, starring the iconic Allison Hayes (Double Jeopardy, The Undead, The Unearthly, Zombies of Mora Tau).
This Blu-ray debut is a new 4K film restoration from the original 35mm camera negative.
In the 1950s there was a boom in sci-fi films. Partly driven by the Baby Boomers as avid theatre-goers, partly by the atomic age; the cold war, the space race … it was a fertile area for the movies. Some were good, some were B-grade schlock … and then there were those that hit a chord and became “classics” … Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is one those!!
In quick order we learn that Nancy Archer (Hayes) is a rich heiress, has a double-dealing husband named Harry (William Hudson — The Amazing Colossal Man, The Man Who Turned to Stone), who is shacking up with a local bar beauty by the name of Honey Parker (Yvette Vickers — Attack of the Giant Leeches, Reform School Girl, Short Cut to Hell) and poor Nancy has also had emotional issues that has seen her in a “rest home” for recovery (implied, unstable … nuts).
When you mix that cocktail with a close encounter with an alien — on a deserted country road — it is only a matter of time before her husband figures out that this could be the ticket to getting control of her wealth. After her encounter, she is found running around town in her bare feet screeching about a giant alien … back to the nut house and it will be all mine!!
Harry, after colluding with the sweet-as-sweet Honey, decides to humor Nancy by revisiting the area where she claims to have had her close encounter. This little trip will be the nail in her coffin!!
In one of those cool, unexpected twists, they actually have a second encounter with the alien — a giant red ball with a giant space visitor — and that spooks Harry, especially when Nancy is spirited away.
Later, she is found with radiation burns unconscious on top her pool house. Bed rest, heavily medicated … the perfect chance for an over-dose and the money will be all mine, figures Harry. When he sneaks into her room to “take care of business” he gets the surprise of his life!
The final act has the vengeful Nancy, now grown to 50-feet tall, on the prowl for her unfaithful husband and the not-so-innocent Honey. Screen magic.
Bonus features include a vintage commentary with film historian Tom Weaver “Science Fiction Confidential: Interviews with Monster Stars & Filmmakers,” “Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films, 1931-1946,” etc.) and actress Yvette Vickers.
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