Lionsgate Home Entertainment will be guiding the A24 film production of director Darren Afronofsky’s film adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s 2012 stage play, The Whale, starring Brendan Fraser (Best Actor nomination), to the home entertainment packaged media marketplace on Mar. 14 as a two-SKU product offering.
The ARR comes in at 95 days and domestic box office receipts currently stand at $15.8 million.
Planned for distribution are stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray editions.
The film, produced on a modest budget, opened at the Venice Film Festival in September of last year and then proceeded to work the international festival circuit until opening theatrically in December.
Fraser, for his performance, was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar and will likely be in a tight race with Austin Butler (Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … In Hollywood) for his charismatic interpretation of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
Also nominated for an Oscar were the makeup team of Adrien Morot (previously nominated in 2010 for Barney’s Vision), Judy Chin (two-time Emmy Awards nominee for her work on Sex and the City) and Anne Marie Bradley for their stunning transformation of Fraser into a 600-pound recluse (it took several hours each day to fit the actor with some 300-pounds worth of prosthetics).
And finally, Hong Chau as Liz, his caregiver and likely only friend, received a Best Supporting Actress nomination (she was also Elsa in director Mark Mylod’s The Menu).
Bonus features include a pair of featurettes — “People Are Amazing: Making The Whale” and “The Sounds of the Sea: Scoring The Whale.”
Also getting a DVD and Blu-ray push on Mar. 14 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment is director Mary Nighy’s abusive-relationship thriller, Alice, Darling, starring Anna Kendrick as Alice, the target of Simon’s obsession (played by Charlie Carrick — The Devout, The Wolf and the Lion).
The ARR works out to 74 days and box office receipts for the film’s limited theatrical run are $101,000.
The film, a Canadian production, had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2022 and then proceeded to screen at additional Canadian festival events throughout the balance of the month.
Alice, Darling then moved south in October with film festival dates at the Philadelphia International Film Festival, Miami Film Festival and more … an exclusive AMC Theatres theatrical release took place over the New Year’s weekend.
The featurette titled “Making Alice, Darling” is included as a bonus.
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