Tag: Summit

Blu-ray, DVD, 4K Ultra HD, Digital HD, On Demand Release: La La Land
Digital Release Date: April 11, 2017, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD & DVD Release Date: April 25, 2017
Price: DVD $14.96, Blu-ray $19.96, 4K Ultra HD $27.99
Studio: Summit/Lionsgate

Last year’s wildly popular musical romance La La Land arrives on Digital HD on April 11 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital HD), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and On Demand April 25!

We’re gonna assume that you’ve already formed your opinion on this one, which was helmed by Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench), so how about checking out the healthy list of bonus features that’ll be included on the film’s different digital incarnations?:

4K/BLU-RAY/ DIGITAL HD SPECIAL FEATURES
- Audio Commentary with writer/director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz
- “Another Day of Sun: They Closed Down a Freeway” Featurette
- “La La Land’s Great Party” Featurette
- “Ryan Gosling: Piano Student” Featurette
- “Before Whiplash: Damien Chazelle’s Passion Project” Featurette
- “La La Land‘s Love Letter to Los Angeles” Featurette
- “The Music of La La Land” Featurette
- “John Legend’s Acting Debut” Featurette
- “The Look of Love: Designing La La Land” Featurette
- “Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone: Third Time’s the Charm” Featurette
- “Epilogue: The Romance of the Dream” Featurette
- Damien & Justin Sing: The Demos
- Song Selection
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
- Audio Commentary with writer/director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz
- “Another Day of Sun: They Closed Down a Freeway” Featurette
- “La La Land‘s Love Letter To Los Angeles” Featurette
- “Ryan and Emma: Third Time’s the Charm” Featurette
- Song Selection
Buy or Rent La La Land

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April 13, 2017
Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital HD Release: Gods Of Egypt

Digital Release Date: May 17, 2016, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 31, 2016
Price: DVD $19.99, Blu-ray $22.99, Blu-ray 3D $26.99
Studio: Lionsgate

The ultimate struggle to rule the world begins with the arrival of the epic fantasy-adventure film Gods of Egypt…at least, that’s the studio is hoping for.

Gerard Butler (London Has Fallen) and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (The Other Woman) star as rival gods Set and Horus, who are locked in a war to rule the universe. To defeat the merciless Set, Horus joins forces with a brave mortal for a journey that will take them across Egypt, through the heavens, and into the afterlife in an unforgettable quest to save mankind.

Directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow), written by Matt Sazama (The Last Witch Hunter) & Burk Sharpless (The Last Witch Hunter), and featuring high-end visual effects and production design, the movie also stars Bryan Brown (Breaker Morant), Emma Booth (Swerve) and Chadwick Boseman (42).

The PG-rated movie only did moderate business at the box office during its wide release to theaters in February, 2016, grossing $31 million. The gods weren’t all that happy about those numbers…

The Blu-ray and Digital HD releases feature an in-depth look behind-the-scenes with six featurettes, plus storyboards of deleted scenes.

Buy or Rent Gods Of Egypt

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May 18, 2016
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Ender’s Game
Digital Release Date: Jan. 28, 2014, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 11, 2014
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Summit/Lionsgate

After decades of directors and studios taking on the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s ground-breaking and best-selling novel, Ender’s Game finally came to the screen with Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Summit.

In the PG-13 movie, young Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield, Hugo) is recruited by the International Military to train to lead a fight against an alien race that nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion.

Harrison Ford (Cowboys & Aliens) stars as the colonel who leads Ender’s training, Abigail Breslin (New Year’s Eve) plays his sister, Ben Kingsley (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time) is a legendary fighter, Viola Davis (The Help) is the psychiatrist who helps Ender and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) and Aramis Knight (Crossing Over) are fellow trainees.

Ender’s Game grossed $60.5 million at the box office, wowing moviegoers to a 74% approval, even if critics were a little behind that at 62%, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

Both the Blu-ray and DVD will contain these special features:
- deleted and extended scenes with audio commentary by director Gavin Hood
- feature-length audio commentary with producers Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orc
- and digital copy and instant streaming via UltraViolet.
The Blu-ray offers the exclusive eight-part featurette “Ender’s World: The Making of Ender’s Game.”

Buy or Rent Ender’s Game

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December 18, 2013
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Twilight Forever The Complete Saga
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 5, 2013
Price: DVD $64.98, Blu-ray $74.99
Studio: Summit/Lionsgate

It was inevitable. All the Twilight movies are brought together in the Twilight Forever: The Complete Saga Blu-ray and DVD sets, but Summit does include some new stuff in the boxes.

Twilight Forever is a 10-disc set on Blu-ray and 12-disc set on DVD, housing all five movies — Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, plus the extended edition of Breaking Dawn: Part 1.

The discs also carrying the more than 10 hours of special features that are on the earlier DVD and Blu-ray release, including multi-part making-of documentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, cast and crew interviews, deleted and extended scenes, photo galleries, red carpet footage and music videos, as well as lots more.

New in this set are:
- a cast retrospective with new interviews
- “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Character” with previously unreleased behind-the-scenes moments on set
- an exploration of the “Twilight FAN-omenon”
- “Twilight Forever: Edward’s Saga” and “Twilight Forever: Jacob’s Saga,” highlighting the characters’ stories.
Buy or Rent Twilight Forever: The Complete Saga

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August 14, 2013
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Warm Bodies
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 4, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Summit/Lionsgate

Warm Bodies is a twist on the usual romantic comedy, with zombies added into the mix.

Based on the novel by Issac Marion, the movie stars Nicholas Hoult (Jack the Giant Slayer) as R, a zombie who rescues human survivor Julie (Teresa Palmer, I Am Number Four) from an attack by other zombies. The two form a bond in their struggle for survival, while R becomes increasingly more human and starts a chain of events that begins to transform the other zombies.

Jonathan Levine (50/50) wrote and directed the PG-13 movie, which also stars Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine) and John Malkovich (Red).

Critics loved Warm Bodies, giving it an 80% approval, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Moviegoers felt the same, and the film earned $66 million at the box office.

The Blu-ray and DVD come with plenty of special features:
- featurette “Boy Meets, ER, Doesn’t Eat Girl”
- “R&J”
- “A Little Less Dead”
- “Extreme Zombie Make-Over!”
- “Busin’ Caps”
- “Beware of the Boneys”
- “Whimsical Sweetness: Teresa Palmer’s Warm Bodies Home Movies”
- “Zombie Acting Tips With Rob Corddry”
- audio commentary with writer/director Levine and actors Hoult and Palmer
- deleted scenes with optional commentary with Levine
- “Shrug and Groan” gag reel
- digital copy and instant streaming through UltraVolet.
Buy or Rent Warm Bodies

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May 21, 2013
Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, VOD Release: Snitch
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 11, 2013
Price: DVD $30.98, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Summit/Lionsgate

Dwayne Johnson infiltrates a drug cartel to win his son's freedom in Snitch.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Faster) gives his acting chops a workout in the action-flavored crime drama-thriller Snitch.

Johnson stars as John Matthews, the owner of a construction company, who learns his son faces 10 tough years in a Federal prison for drug possession. Convinced it was a set-up, he volunteers to become an undercover informant and infiltrate a ruthless cartel headed by the nefarious “El Topo” (Benjamin Bratt, La Mission). With his back against the wall and a web of tricky legalities and growing danger tightening around him, his life totally on the line, Matthews must expose the true criminals before they discover his identity.

Directed and co-written by Ric Roman Waugh (Felon), the film features a killer supporting cast, which includes Barry Pepper (TV’s The Kennedys), Jon Bernthal (TV’s The Walking Dead), Michael K. Williams (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire), Melina Kanakaredes (TV’s CSI:NY), Nadine Velazquez (Flight), and Susan Sarandon (Arbitrage).

Generally well-received by the critics, Snitch grossed a solid $42 million at the U.S. box office during its release to theaters in February, 2013.

The Blu-ray and DVD of the PG-13-rated Snitch (which is touted as having been “inspired by true events”)contain the following bonus features:
- “Privileged Information: The Making of Snitch” multiple part documentary
- Audio Commentary with Director Ric Roman Waugh and Editor Jonathan Chibnall
- Deleted Scenes
Buy or Rent Snitch

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April 1, 2013
Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, VOD Release: The Impossible
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 23, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Summit/Lionsgate

Tom Holland and Naomi Watts cling to their lives in The Impossible.

Naomi Watts (Fair Game) garnered her second Academy Award nomination for her starring role in the 2012 drama-thriller The Impossible.

The film offers an account of a family caught with tens of thousands of strangers in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of the modern era: the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

In the film, Marie Bennett (Watts), her husband Henry (Ewan McGregor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen) and their three sons Lucas (Tom Holland), Tomas and Simon are on Christmas holiday at a tropical resort Khao Lak, Thailand. A devastating tsunami hits on December 26, destroying the coastal zone and sweeping up everyone in the flood. Maria and Lucas are separated from the others and, with Maria’s leg badly injured, the two set out for help, finding it from locals and at an overcrowded hospital. Meanwhile, Henry and the boys search frantically for the missing members of their family.

Directed by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage) and based on the harrowing real-life experience of one family during the Indian Ocean tsunami, The Impossible was well-received by the critics when it was released to theaters in the U.S. in December, 2012 and around the world the next month. Though there was an outcry that the film focuses on the effects of the tragedy on a “Western” and not the thousands of indigenous people whose lives were lost or affected by the tsunami, the film has grossed some $145 million at the worldwide box office.

The film will also be available on April 2 as a digital download, three weeks prior to its Blu-ray, DVD and Video on Demand release.

The Blu-ray and DVD contain the following features:
- Audio commentary with director J.A. Bayona, writer Sergio G. Sánchez and producer Belén Atienza and María Belón (the woman on whom Naomi Watts’s character is based)
- “Casting The Impossible” featurette
- “Realizing The Impossible” featurette
- Deleted Scenes
February 4, 2013
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2
Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Release Date: March 2, 2013
Price: Two-Disc DVD $30.98, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Summit/Lionsgate

The final movie in the Twilight franchise? Author Stephenie Meyer has said there’s a possibility of more books, so never say never. But in the meantime, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2 is the end.

Of course, on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download, the end is available anytime.

Breaking Dawn — Part 2 takes off where Part 1 ended, with the birth of Bella (Kristen Stewart, Snow White and the Huntsman) and Edward’s (Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis) vampire child bringing conflict between Bella and werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner, Abduction), the third in the paranormal love triangle. The fast-growing child also spawns an all-out war between the Cullens and the ancient vampire Volturi.

Part 2 grossed a tidy $290 million in domestic theaters. No surprise, given the success of the previous films in the franchise. And critics liked Part 2 better than Part 1, even though reviews were still lukewarm. As Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers said of the PG-13 movie, “You’re going to hear a lot about Breaking Dawn — Part 2 being the best of the Twilight movies. That’s like saying a simple head cold is preferable to swine flu.” So, view at your own risk.

The two-disc DVD and Blu-ray contain these special features:
- Seven-part making-of documentary “Forever: Filming Breaking Dawn Part 2”
  - Chapter 1: Rebirth
  - Chapter 2: Renesmee
  - Chapter 3: The Cottage
  - Chapter 4: The Gathering
  - Chapter 5: The Field
  - Chapter 6: The Battle
  - Chapter 7: Forever
- Featurette “Two Movies at Once”
- Green Day music video for “The Forgotten”
- Jump To features
- audio commentary with director Bill Condon
- digital copy and instant streaming via UltraViolet.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 Extended Edition also is available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Buy or Rent The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2

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January 15, 2013
Blu-ray, DVD Release: Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1 Extended

Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Release Date: March 2, 2013
Price: DVD $22.98, Blu-ray $29.99
Studio: Summit Home Entertainment

Twilight fans rejoice! There’s more of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 to love. Yep, 8 minutes more. Eight whole minutes.

In what appears to be a way of squeezing out more of fans’ money, Summit’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Extended Edition offers eight minutes of footage not previously released before and added back in by director Bill Condon.

Condon also recorded a commentary track for the extended version of the film, delving deeper into the old and new scenes with Bella (Kristen Stewart, Snow White and the Huntsman), Edward (Robert Pattinson, Cosmopolis) and Jacob (Taylor Lautner, Abduction).

The 124-minute extended edition is unrated, but don’t expect anything too shocking. The scenes were created for the original PG-13 movie.

The Blu-ray and DVD also offer a digital copy of the film and instant streaming via UltraViolet.

The original DVD and Blu-ray of Breaking Dawn: Part 1 was released in February 2012.

Check out the trailer for the extended edition:

Buy or Rent The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Extended Edition

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January 11, 2013
Blu-ray, Digital, DVD Release: Alex Cross
Blu-ray, Digital & DVD Release Date: Feb. 5, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.99
Studio: Summit/Lionsgate

Tyler Perry (For Colored Girls) steps away from Medea and gets more serious in the thriller movie Alex Cross.

Based on James Patterson‘s novel Cross, the film follows the Detroit Police Department homicide detective/psychologist (Perry) as he takes on one of his toughest cases. Cross plays a cat and mouse game with a serial killer called Picasso (Matthew Fox, TV’s Lost). After Picasso makes the mission personal, Cross is pushed to the edge of his moral and psychological limits.

The character of Cross is, of course, the same one who was played by Morgan Freeman (Seven) in Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider.

Rated PG-13, Alex Cross also stars Giancarlo Esposito (TV’s Breaking Bad), Rachel Nichols (Conan the Barbarian), Jean Reno (Armored), Ed Burns (Edward Burns) and John C. McGinley (Platoon). The film was directed by Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious), from a script by Marc Moss (Along Came a Spider) and newcomer Kerry Williamson.

Alex Cross grossed $25 million in theaters after dismal reviews from critics — only 13% approval, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Entertainment Weekly‘s Lisa Schwarzbaum called the film is “so cloddish, slapdash, gracelessly written, and visually fugly that it’s difficult to distinguish Perry’s limitations in the role from those of the whole unpleasant enterprise.” Ouch!

Moviegoers liked it a little better, giving the film a 57% rating, but the reviews weren’t that much better than the roughly 35% approval Freeman’s movies got from critics.

Both the Blu-ray and DVD versions of Alex Cross have these special features:
- audio commentary with Rob Cohen
- deleted scenes
- featurette “The Psychologist and the Butcher: Adapting and Filming Alex Cross“
Buy or Rent Alex Cross

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November 28, 2012