Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment announced a four-SKU helping this past week of director Roar
Uthaug’s reboot of the Lara Croft adventure and gaming series, Tomb
Raider — starring Alicia Vikander (Oscar-winner for Best Supporting
Actress for her performance in The Danish Girl, plus Ex
Machina, Jason Bourne, Testament of Youth, etc.) as Angelina Jolie’s
replacement — for delivery on June 12.
The ARR comes in at 88
days and the domestic box office gross was $56.9 million, which does not bode
well for any sequels — not giving anything away, the film ends with hints that
more Lara Croft adventures might be in the offing.
As for SKU configuration,
there is a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack edition, plus two Blu-ray/DVD Combo
Packs — one with a 3D viewing option. Additionally,
there will also be a no frills stand-alone DVD product offering.
Bonus features include
four production featurettes — “Tomb Raider: Uncovered,” “Croft Training,” “Breaking
Down the Rapids” and “Lara Croft: Evolution of an Icon.”
Also on the release
calendar from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is the DVD and Blu-ray arrival on
June 5 of director Michael Sucsy’s film adaptation of David Levithan’s fantasy
romance novel, Every Day.
The ARR is 102 days and
box office receipts were a disappointing $6.1 million.
Levithan’s novel might
simply not be a story that translates well to the screen. That could be one explanation for the poor
showing on the film’s close 1,700-screen rollout. Basically, no one came to see it.
Or, it’s impossible to
sell. The novel was New York Times
best-seller, so presumably there was a built-in audience. They didn’t come.
It is a head-scratcher as
Every
Day is unique and when you get a film with a unique storyline that
should at least be a curiosity item.
Rhiannon (Angourie Rice —
These
Final Hours, The Beguiled, Spider-Man: Homecoming) is a high school
teenager who is in a meaningless relationship with a fellow student named
Justin (Justice Smith). He’s cute, but
self-centered and pretty shallow, but then one day he isn’t … he’s
perfect. The next day Justin is back to
his same-old self.
Except Justin wasn’t
Justin on the perfect day. He was
inhabited by “A,” that’s right just “A.”
“A” is something of a detached soul that wakes up in a different teenage
body — male and female — of basically the same age each new day.
“A,” as it turns out, has
fallen in love with Rhiannon — you can see how confusing that can be — and
arrives in her life as a new individual each day. Each actor/actress — and there are over a
dozen — that play “A” are obviously different, but they are all the same.
That creates funny bits,
amusing bits and sad bits … and an ending that can’t ever be quite right. In kind of an odd way, maybe Every
Day is the anti-social media and anti-electronic device film that
delivers a message about human beings interacting one on one, even if the
combinations seem unlikely.
Like we said, it is a
curiosity item and that should translate well to the home entertainment
marketplace.
As to bonus goodies,
there are deleted scenes and a quartet of featurettes — “An A By Any Other Name,”
“Love is Love,” “Every Day People” and “Book to Film Adaptation.”
