X-Men: The Last Stand kicked off the summer movie season to become the (so far) 2nd biggest movie of the summer, bringing in $233 million at the box office. You can read my review here, Zahra's here, and Leather Lass' here. But can the mutants perform as well when it kicks off the 4th quarter DVD buying season?
Fox Home Entertainment announced that the third film in the X-Men franchise will be coming to DVD on October 3, 2006 in two different special editions... the special edition and the "X"-tra special edition, perhaps? Wah-wah-waaaah...
"It's a big enough title that we believe it will perform from street date all the way through Christmas, and we've got a campaign behind it to ensure that it does," said 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment senior vp marketing communications Steve Feldstein. Jeez... he makes it sound like he's hired thugs to rough up the kids or something.
The DVD will feature 3 different alternate endings, all with commentary by director Brett Ratner, 10 deleted scenes, audio commentary by The Rat, the writers, and the producers, and two Easter Eggs, one of the Beast reciting Shakespeare, and the other of the Blackbird landing in Washington.
But the big deal is the Collector's Edition, which will feature a 100-page commemorative booklet, including an all-new story written by Stan "The Man" Lee, his first original Marvel comic in 5 years.
And of course, the money-grubbers will also be wrapping up all 3 X-films in a nice trilogy pack. Get your wallets ready.
