While we wait for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
to make an official announcement for the home entertainment rollout of the Best
Picture front-runner, Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood,
there was other release news of note this past week from Sony.
Director Thurop Van Orman’s animated flick, Angry
Birds Movie 2, will be available on Nov. 12 as
a three-SKU product offering. That date
yields a quick-to-market ARR of 88 days … multiplex box office receipts
currently stand at $40.6 million.
Planned for release are Combo Pack editions for both
the 4K Ultra HD (with Blu-ray) and Blu-ray (with DVD) formats, plus there will
be a stand-alone DVD viewing option.
As to bonus materials, common to all release SKUs
are the new “mini-movie” titled Live Stream,
three interactive “how to” features — “Hangry Birds: Popcorn Balls,” “Smarty
Birds: Crafty Volcano” and “Crafty Birds: Pig Snot” — the sing-along titled “Jingle
Birds: A Holiday Song From The Cast of Angry Birds 2” and five featurettes
— “Bird Watching,” “Meet The New Birds & Pigs,” “Hatching the
Hatchlings,” “Flocking Together: Making The Angry Birds Movie 2” and “Happy
Thanks-pigging.”
The Blu-ray, which is included in both of the Combo
Packs, features six “classic” Hatchling
mini-movies.
As to Sony Pictures’ Once Upon
a Time in … Hollywood, there has been a strong
indication that Oct. 29 will be the street date, but nothing official as of
yet. It would not come as a surprise if
filmmaker Quentin Tarantino were the hold up (approvals and what-not). Angry Birds Movie 2
being slotted in on Nov. 12 does not preclude the Oct. 29 street date for
Tarantino’s film, but time is drawing short on that option.
