Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment's Full Spread Physical Media Launch For Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Will Take Place On Nov. 19

The hits continue to come from Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment, so it is just a question of where one starts when ticking them off.   

Let’s start with the full physical media rollout of director Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on Nov. 19.   That street date yields an ARR of 74 days … the domestic box office take currently stands at $277.2 million.

There will be four purchasing options — stand alone DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD editions, plus a Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.

Impressive!

Not so impressive is the current obsession among the studios to insert premium VOD dates between the theatrical launch and the subsequent move to the physical media marketplace.   This is the equivalent of selling the paperback before the hard cover first edition … violating the long-standing rule of “Promo, Better, Best.”'

With Beetjuice Beetlejuice the VOD window opened on Oct. 8, which gave the “Helper” community six full weeks to churn-out Blu-ray editions of their own to unsuspecting consumers.

That aside, bonus features — which are limited to the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD SKUs — include commentary from Burton and seven production featurettes — “The Juice is Loose! The Making of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” “The Ghost with the Most: Beetlejuice Returns,” “Meet the Deetz,” “Handbook for the Recently Deceased,” “Shrinkers, Shrinkers Everywhere!,” “An Animated Afterlife: The Stop-Motion Art of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” and “‘Til Death Do Us Park.”

Also arriving on 4K Ultra HD this coming Nov. 19 is the 40th anniversary celebration of director James Cameron’s The Terminator.

Bonus features are seven deleted scenes and three featurettes — “Creating The Terminator: Visual Effects & Music,” “The Terminator: Closer to the Real Thing” and “Unstoppable Force: The Legacy of The Terminator.”

And, digging into the vaults, Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment will also be releasing on Nov. 19 a 4K Ultra HD edition of director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 wrong-man thriller, North by Northwest, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.

Bonus features include commentary by screenwriter Ernest Lehman and five feaaturettes — “North by Northwest: Cinematography, Score and the Art of the Edit,” “Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest,” “The Master’s Touch: Hitchcock’s Signature Style,” “North by Northwest: One for the Ages” and “A Guided Tour with Alfred Hitchcock.”