The 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.
16 comments - Add yours
#1
Getting both the Blu-ray and the Best Buy DVD. Covering all platforms, helping Warner and New line fund the sequels—joy!
# April 29, 2008 02:43 by Seretur
#2
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…
# April 29, 2008 03:37 by shilshadu
#3
I will probably pick this up while getting GT4. =) The timing for this is awesome!
# April 29, 2008 04:40 by Katiin
#4
Oops that best buys link should be:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site//olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat149900050012&type;=category
Cheers
:-)
# April 29, 2008 09:25 by mattouter
#5
Or rather…
http://www.bestbuy.com/site//olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat149900050012&type;=category
# April 29, 2008 09:26 by mattouter
#6
OK that’s weird the board introduces a random ; after type....it should be type=category rather than type;=category…
# April 29, 2008 09:28 by mattouter
#7
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. ;)
# April 29, 2008 17:20 by rococoed
#8
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.”
# April 29, 2008 21:48 by Phit
#9
Target packaged it in with a miniture version of the movie storybook...which did NOT omit the ending.
# April 30, 2008 04:21 by Kingpun
#10
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.
# April 30, 2008 06:28 by fbi_woman
#11
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
# May 1, 2008 01:04 by Lee_Scoresby
#12 In Finland
Here in Finland I have to wait till it’s 9.5!! Aaarrhhggg!!
# May 1, 2008 18:31 by http://www.hisdarkmaterials.org/profile
#13
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*
# May 2, 2008 03:30 by namster
#14 How much those it cost?
How much those the DVD cost???
# May 2, 2008 15:14 by http://www.hisdarkmaterials.org/profile
#15
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.
# May 3, 2008 15:48 by Phit
#16
Yes, just picked up my 2-disc copy yesterday! His Dark Materials is the best!
# May 5, 2008 03:32 by LoveBitesLoveBleeds