TH:BotFA on BR/DVD

[Elentári]

2 BOFTA Blu ray covers have popped up on the official bluray.com website. No release date as yet...

1. A cover featuring the teaser poster
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Hobbi ... ay/121322/


2. A Target Lego exclusive package with cover featuring Bard
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Hobbi ... ay/123152/

[Elentári]

And now The British Board for Film Certification (BBFC) lists 3 bonus features for the BOFA home video release which were rated today.

•The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: A Seventeen-Year Journey - 8 Min. 26 Sec.

•The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: Music Video — The Last Goodbye - 4 Min. 06 Sec.

•The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: Credits - 1 Min. 25 Sec.


http://bbfc.co.uk/search/releases/THE%2 ... E%2BARMIES

[Voronwë the Faithful]

According to TheHutt, another rated feature:

- Recruiting the Five Armies (11:01)

[Voronwë the Faithful]

BluRay.com is now listing March 24 as the release date:

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Hobbi ... ay/120260/

[Elentári]

Is that just the US date or worldwide?

The post over on TORn also linked to the BR forum where someone has posted an image of the HOBBIT Trilogy Boxed set, (TE only) which Warner will also release on the same day!

http://i.imgur.com/5blsOUd.jpg

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Your guess is as good as mine!

Shouldn't the trilogy box set say "There and Back Again"?

[sauronsfinger]

MARCH 24th!!!!!!! All right!!!!!!!

[Elentári]

Hmmm...according to TheHutt the European release dates are not before April, with Germany being April 23rd...

Oh well. I shall be holding out for the EE anyway...

[Elentári]

TheHutt has also been ferretting around and uncovered this listing:

The Swiss shop (CeDe) has listed two interesting releases of The Hobbit Trilogy on BluRay. There are two versions: a 2D only (6 discs) and a 3D+2D (12 discs) in steelbook packaging. However, the most notable bonus is hidden in the description (marked bold by me):

Der Hobbit Trilogie (Steelbook + Bilbo's Journal / 6 Discs)
Der Hobbit 3D Trilogie (Steelbook + Bilbo's Journal / Real 3D + 2D / 12 Discs)

A facsimile copy of Bilbo's Red Book of Westmarch would indeed be a really nice extra to have.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

indeed, the Red Book would be a cool thing to have!

[Alatar]

I'm still saving up for it!

http://www.indyprops.com/pp-rb.htm

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I'm pretty sure that isn't the version that will be included with the BluRay set. Just a hunch.

[Passdagas the Brown]

Is there a chance that the EE will be released much earlier this time, given that PJ doesn't have a new Hobbit film to deliver in December?

[Voronwë the Faithful]

I doubt it. That didn't happen with RotK.

[Elentári]

Yeah, they'll still be filming new scenes for it until after the Oscars...

[Passdagas the Brown]

Pick ups in July!

[Elentári]

From TheHutt:

In Russia, both artworks for the 2D and the 3D version of the Hobbit trilogy box have been published. The 3D artwork was not sighted before:



Source

and the DVD artwork:

Cool!

[LoremIspum]

Was that Ouroboros on the DVD cover intentional or a happy accident (cool ring + dragon design). I find it so fitting here.

[Voronwë the Faithful]

Can you elaborate on why you think Ouroboros is a fitting image here?

[LoremIspum]

I just thought both Smaug and the ring are manifestations of the same evil, the dragon had died but the ring lives on at the end of the Hobbit, and definitely the greed in human/elvish/dwarven hearts does and it's an eternal struggle.
Making a kind of ouroboros out of it as a symbol of continuity made sense in my head, especially for this version of the story where the ring is not just an innocent magical object.