Paramount Home Entertainment Tabs Oct. 10 Street Date For Director Steven Caple Jr.'s Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts

Paramount Home Entertainment has selected Oct. 10 as the street date for the release of a full-spread (4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD) of home entertainment packaged media selections of director Steven Caple Jr.’s latest installment in the Transformers film franchise series (seven and counting), Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

The Oct. 10 release date yields an ARR* of 123 days … domestic box office receipts currently stand at $146.7 million.

Bonus features include extended and deleted scenes, both an alternative opening and an alternative ending to the film … and an impressive collection of nine production featurettes — “Human Affairs,” “Life in the 90s,” “Heroes,” “Villains,” “The Chase,” “The Battle of Ellis Island,” “Into the Jungle,” “The Switchback Attack” and “The Final Conflict.”

The extended-release window of 123 days between the film’s theatrical opening and subsequent release on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD is commendable — 60 to 74-day release windows for hit films (those grossing in excess of $25 million) is way too fast.  

However, with that said, the July 11 digital release date gives industry “helpers” and “void fillers” a 90-day jump on supplying unaware consumers with physical media copies.