While one data point does not signal a trend, it is encouraging that writer/director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer will not, repeat not, get an early VOD/Streaming window.
Instead, it will be a full spread of physical media product offerings on a day and date basis with the digital window. This move by Universal cuts the “helper” community out of pirating Blu-ray editions of the film prior to the arrival of the legitimate copies.
They have gotten so good at the packaging and the “turn” (literally within hours of the digital launch — either VOD rental/sales window or streaming, in this case on Peacock) that unsuspecting consumers can’t tell the difference (or don’t care).
The street date for 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions of Oppenheimer will be Nov. 21. There will also be a stand-alone DVD edition available on the same date.
For the record, the ARR works out to 123 days and the domestic box office haul was an eye-popping $323.3 million.
As to bonus goodies, there is a seven-part “making of” presentation titled “The Story of Our Time: The Making of Oppenheimer” — “Now I Am Become Death,” “The Luminaries,” “The Manhattan Project,” “The Devil of Details,” “Walking a Mile,” “Can You Hear Music?” and “We Can Perform This Miracle” — plus the “Meet the Press” Q&A session and two additional featurettes, “Innovations in Film” and “To End All War: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb.”
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