Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment Loads Up In October With Two Summer Theatrical Hits: Writer/Director Joseph Kosinski's F1: The Movie (Oct. 7) & Filmmaker Zack Cregger's Weapons (Oct. 14)

Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment loads up in October with a pair of recent theatrical hits that are heading to the physical media marketplace.

 
First up, on Oct. 7 is the full-spread physical media rollout of writer/director Joseph Kosinski’s F1: The Movie, starring Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem and Damson Idris.  The configuration of consumer buying choices includes stand-alone DVD and Blu-ray editions, plus two 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Packs (standard and SteelBook).

 
The ARR comes in at 102 days and the domestic box office haul currently stands at $189.5 million.

 
Bonus features for F1: The Movie are limited to the 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray SKUs, which are a whopping nine production featurettes — “Inside the F1: The Movie Table Read,” “The Anatomy of a Crash,” “Getting Up to Speed,” “APXGP Innovations,” “Making it to Silverstone,” “Lewis Hamilton: Producer,” “APXGP Sets and Locations Around the World,” “APXGP and F1: How it was Filmed” and “Sound of Speed.”

 
Arriving the following week, Oct. 14, is writer/director (producer) Zach Cregger’s summer horror hit, Weapons, which will be a full-spread physical media launch.

 

The ARR is a quick-to-market 67 days and the domestic box office gross is an impressive $150.1 million (plus another $114 million in box office receipts overseas) against a reported $38 million production budget.   Can we say “franchise” might have been created here?

 
There is a certain irony in Warner Bros. delivering this New Line Cinema production to the physical media marketplace in 67 days, while Disney has yet to release his 2022 film, Barbarian, on DVD, Blu-ray or 4K Ultra HD, despite in pulling in $40.8 million in domestic ticket sales … you can, however, purchase a Blu-ray copy from the vast “Helper” community (our term for pirates, bootleggers, etc.).

 
Genre fans, and consumers in general, will have stand-alone DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD purchasing options for Weapons on Oct. 14.

 
Bonus goodies (limited to 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray editions) are three featurettes — “Director Zach Cregger: Making Horror Personal,” “Weaponized: The Cast of Weapons” and “Weapons: Texture of Terror.”