Paramount Home Entertainment Announces Two December Release Selections • 4K Ultra HD Debut For Titanic (Dec. 05) And Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Dec. 12)

Paramount Home Entertainment will be setting sail on Dec. 5 with the two-SKU 4K Ultra HD launch of writer/director James Cameron’s 1997 Best Pictures winner, Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane and Bill Paxton.

Not only did Titanic win the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars, it also cleaned up in the technical arena with seven additional Oscars … plus James Horner won for Best Music Score and Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” won Best Song!   Eleven Oscar wins in all.

This is the first time the film has been available as a 4K Ultra HD purchasing option.   Film fans will have two choices on Dec. 5.   These are: a 4K Ultra HD edition (with a companion Blu-ray disc housing the bonus features) and a “Limited Edition Collector’s Boxed Set.”

As to bonus materials common to both SKUs, the 4K Ultra HD disc will include two commentary options … the first features filmmaker James Cameron, while the second is a tag-team commentary with the cast and crew.   

The companion Blu-ray disc features four newly-prepared featurettes — “Titanic: Stories from the Heart,” “Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron,” “Behind-the Scenes” and “Trailer Presentation Hosted by Producer Jon Landau” — plus vintage materials that includes, deleted scenes (with optional commentary by Cameron), additional behind-the-scenes footage, four additional featurettes — “Deep Dive,” “$200,000,001: A Ship’s Odyssey,” “Videomatics” and “Visual Effects” — plus the Celine Dion music video, “My Heart Will Go On.”

The “Limited Edition Collector’s Boxed Set” has all of the aforementioned bonus selection, plus a hardcover coffee table book, blueprints of the Titanic with the locations of key scenes, a collection of movie props and the sheet music for “My Heart Will Go On.”

In another December product move, Paramount Home Entertainment has selected Dec. 12 as the street date for a full spread of the directing team Jeff Rowe and Kyler Spears’ summer theatrical reboot of the TMNT film franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.

The ARR works out to 130 days and the domestic box office $118.1 million.

Planned for distribution are stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray editions, plus a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.

Bonus features are a quartet of featurettes — “TEENage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “The Mutant Uprising,” “New York, New York: The Visual World of Mutant Mayhem” and “Learn to Draw Leo.”