Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment announced this past week that director Andrew Jay Cohen’s summer
comedy, The House — teaming Will Farrell with comedian and fellow SNL
alumnus, Amy Poehler — will be arriving as DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
selections on Oct. 10.
Against a reported $40
million production budget (that seems awfully high for a film of this nature),
domestic ticket sales came in at a disappointing $25.3 million … the ARR comes
in 102 days. The home entertainment group
will have their work cut out for themselves to move The House out of the red
and into the black.
Common to both SKUs is a
gag reel. Exclusive to the Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack are two featurettes — “The House: Playing with a Loaded Deck” and “If
You Build The House They Will Come” — deleted, extended and alternate scenes,
plus Line-O-Ramas.
Also on the
new-to-Blu-ray release calendar this week are five new vault selections that
will be hitting retail during the month of September.
First up on Sept. 12 is
director John Sturges’s masterful Western, The Law and Jake Wade, starring
Robert Taylor, Richard Widmark and Patricia Owens. Sturges was on a roll during this period
with such hit films as Bad Day at Black Rock (1955,
nominated Best Director), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The
Old Man and the Sea, Never So Few and topping it off in
1960 The
Magnificent Seven (that’s not to forget The Great Escape in 1963
and the sci-fi thriller, The Satan Bug in 1965).
The following week, Sept.
10, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has director Jack Smight’s 1969 film
adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel, The Illustrated Man (starring Rod
Steiger and Claire Bloom) and director John Landis’ 1992 horror flick, Innocent
Blood, with Anne Parillaud and Robert Loggia.
On Sept. 26 there are two
additional DVD selections, director Vincente Minnelli’s 1954 musical, Brigadoon,
with Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse and Van Johnson, and filmmaker Christopher
Guest’s magnificent comedy tale, Waiting for Guffman, starring his
traveling troupe of actors.
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