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SherlockChronicles.orgThe Golden Compass arrives on DVD and Blu-Ray today, 29 April.
The Golden Compass is released in a two-disc special edition as well as a single-disc edition.
A Best Buy Exclusive offers fans a bonus disc included with the two-disc widescreen edition of the film. The extra disc includes footage of the cast, stunt work, and filming locations.
Please note: some places appear to be promoting an "Extended Edition" of The Golden Compass. Note that this is actually the two-disc edition of the movie. There is no extended footage available at this time outside of the early film left in The Golden Compass video game.
Read a review of the special two-disc edition
Special Two-Disc Edition Features
- Feature-length audio commentary from writer/director Chris Weitz
- Eleven “Making-of” featurettes including “The Armoured Bears” featurette, “The Adaptation” featurette and the “Production Design” featurette
- Theatrical and teaser trailers
- 16×9 widescreen (2.35:1) version of the film
- Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete Audio and English 2.0 Stereo Surround
- Galleries
- English & Spanish subtitles
- English SDH subtitles (Blu-ray only)
- Closed captions (Standard Definition only)
- Enhanced visual commentary (Blu-ray only)
- Interactive menus (Blu-ray only)
- 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio™ (Blu-ray only)
Single-Disc Edition Features
- Animated menus
- 16×9 widescreen (2.35:1) or 4×3 fullscreen version of the film
- English Dolby Digital 5.1 EX Surround Sound, DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete Audio and English 2.0 Stereo Surround
- English & Spanish subtitles (Feature only)
- Closed captions (Feature only)
- Special sneak peeks of upcoming New Line Cinema films
And for those who are looking to give The Golden Compass as a gift, Walmart is offering the movie paired with a plush polar bear.
Comments (16) — Add Yours
Getting both the Blu-ray and the Best Buy DVD. Covering all platforms, helping Warner and New line fund the sequels—joy!
# Posted by Seretur on 1:43, 29 April 2008
i hope they go ahead with the sequels as well. i guess they’ll wait to see how much money they can make off of the dvds…
# Posted by shilshadu on 2:37, 29 April 2008
I will probably pick this up while getting GT4. =) The timing for this is awesome!
# Posted by Katiin on 3:40, 29 April 2008
Oops that best buys link should be:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site//olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat149900050012&type;=category
Cheers
:-)
# Posted by mattouter on 8:25, 29 April 2008
Or rather…
http://www.bestbuy.com/site//olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat149900050012&type;=category
# Posted by mattouter on 8:26, 29 April 2008
OK that’s weird the board introduces a random ; after type….it should be type=category rather than type;=category…
# Posted by mattouter on 8:28, 29 April 2008
Hopefully New Line/Warner Brothers derives enough profit from DVD sales to seriously consider doing the sequels. It would be a pity if they did not!
This of course means that I am going to buy it today without hesitance. ;)
# Posted by rococoed on 16:20, 29 April 2008
Best Buy link is hated, news doesn’t like double equal signs. Adding that the bonus disc *appears* to make the 2 disc DVD edition far more expensive - from 24.99 to 35.49, but it’s a “new release” so the price comes down to 24.37 anyway (or near those numbers). Will report back sometime soon on the value of the “bonus disc.”
# Posted by Phit on 20:48, 29 April 2008
Target packaged it in with a miniture version of the movie storybook…which did NOT omit the ending.
# Posted by Kingpun on 3:21, 30 April 2008
Screen captures of all 3 disks of the Best Buy edition are being added to photograms momentarily ;).
There’s over 7,000 files if my computer calculated correctly.
# Posted by fbi_woman on 5:28, 30 April 2008
OOOOH MY GOD—just got it in the mail
SOOO pumped to watch it once it is dark out (for the proper atmosphere) and then REwatch it with the commentary
# Posted by Lee_Scoresby on 0:04, 1 May 2008
Here in Finland I have to wait till it’s 9.5!! Aaarrhhggg!!
# Posted by Howl on 17:31, 1 May 2008
fbi_woman, I thank you with all ten fingers for the screencaps! We finally have a closeup of Lord Asriel’s prison!!!
Now, if only we could see it all… *sobs*
# Posted by namster on 2:30, 2 May 2008
How much those the DVD cost???
# Posted by Howl on 14:14, 2 May 2008
The Best Buy with bonus disc costs around $24 in the US right now. That’s only right now though because it’s a new release. It depends which store you’re looking at, which country you’re looking from, and which DVD you’re looking to purchase, though.
# Posted by Phit on 14:48, 3 May 2008
Yes, just picked up my 2-disc copy yesterday! His Dark Materials is the best!
# Posted by LoveBitesLoveBleeds on 2:32, 5 May 2008
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