![]() and The Hunt, concurrently available for both streaming rental and in theaters in what was considered an industry first. In March, Universal made three of its films, The Invisible Man, Emma. ![]() But amid 2020’s pandemic-panicked movie marketplace, the move to Blu-Ray is more unusual. The choice to follow up Mutants’ theatrical bow with a DVD rollout just over three months later can be understood as standard operating procedure many titles wind up on home video after a 70- to 90-day “window” from their box-office arrival has closed. Likewise, the House of Mouse’s filmic version of the smash Broadway musical Hamilton skipped multiplexes to become available on the platform in July. The studio famously forwent a theatrical release of Mulan to offer rental of the $200 million China-set period thriller on its streaming platform Disney+ for $29.99. Since the first quarter of the year, Disney - which folded the Fox-produced title into its existing slate of films as part of last year’s $71.3 billion megamerger - has pressed reset on its traditional distribution methods. Which all points toward The New Mutants bucking another film trend of the COVID-19 era by side-stepping streaming and going straight to home video. Befitting a troubled production that underwent numerous roundelays of rewriting and spent years in development hell, the “Ultimate Collectors Edition” will feature seven deleted scenes in a naked bid to appeal to X-Men completists. Since August 28, The Breakfast Club meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest comic-book caper has remained one of the few new titles at the multiplex in the latter half of 2020, standing firm while audiences display an alarming reluctance to return to the public-viewing forum and event films such as No Time to Die and Dune pull up stakes and flee into release corridors next year.Īnd now, on the heels of Mutants’ $42 million worldwide theatrical run - ranking it next to Howard the Duck as one of the lowest-grossing Marvel-associated movies to date - Disney has announced the asylum thriller will arrive on Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD DVD, and Digital HD formats on November 17. ![]() The horror-slanting X-Men spinoff saw its theatrical release agonizingly delayed four times over the last three years only to finally hit screens at a time when more than a third of movie theaters were still closed owing to coronavirus lockdown measures. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporationĭespite the film’s much-remarked-upon shortcomings, you’ve got to give the critically lambasted New Mutants credit for a kind of startling consistency - confounding expectations about how and when the average person is actually able to see the PG-13 superhero movie. In the midst of a pandemic, the X-Men spinoff is unlikely to break even at the box office, so it’s turning to collectible DVD sales instead.
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