Director Barry Jenkins' Mufasa: The Lion King Will Be Getting A Full-Spread Physical Media Launch From Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment On Apr. 1

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has circled Apr. 1 (no fooling) on its physical media release calendar for the full spread launch of director Barry Jenkins’ latest installment in the “Lion King” film franchise, Mufasa: The Lion King. 

The ARR works out to 102 days and the domestic box office haul is an impressive $225.9 million.

Planned for distribution on Combo Pack for both the 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD) formats, plus a stand-alone DVD product offering.

A premium VOD window opens on Feb. 18, which will give the “Helper” community six full weeks to distribute their own Blu-ray (the favorite physical medium for bandwidth … HD is not a consideration) copies to unsuspecting consumers.

It should be noted, based on data collected and reported by the DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, that consumers continue to visit the various “Helper” sites that we document in each edition of the report again and again … their demands are likely being filled.  

Indeed, films and series programming from Netflix, Amazon Prime and Apple TV (among others) can only be found at these “Helper” sites, so when the product shows us from Disney (or any other studios) it just seems “normal” … just look at the numbers and you can easily see how “normal” this pattern of alternate distribution has become.

Bonus features include a “Sing-Along” view mode, deleted scenes, outtakes, “Ostrich Eggs” and a pair of production featurettes — “Finding Milele: The Making of Mufasa: The Lion King” and “Songs of the Savanna” — and the Lin-Manuel Miranda music video “I Always Wanted a Brother.”