Sony Sets ‘Hancock’ Blu-ray for November
After weeks of speculation, Sony Pictures has confirmed a late-November Blu-ray touchdown for the Will Smith blockbuster ‘Hancock.’
Originally rumored for an early-December release, fans will get the $200 million-plus-grossing superhero spoof earlier than expected when Sony debuts the Blu-ray of ‘Hancock’ on November 25, day-and-date with the standard DVD.
ADVERTISEMENTAs the studio has only just issued a trade alert for ‘Hancock,’ all tech specs and supplement details are still under wraps. We’ll certainly keep you posted as soon as the full press announce comes in.
Suggested retail price for the Blu-ray has been set at $38.95.
- from HDDigest
‘Hancock’ a hero at the boxoffice
“Hancock” parked itself atop the domestic boxoffice for the Fourth of July weekend as Sony’s Will Smith-starring superhero film registered an impressive $66 million in estimated Friday-Sunday grosses and $107.3 million since bowing Tuesday night. “Hancock” is Smith’s fifth movie to open at No. 1 over the Fourth of July. The others were “Men in Black” and its sequel, “Independence Day” and “Wild Wild West.” “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,” the penultimate release from soon-to-shut Picturehouse, expanded to 1,843 theaters during the weekend after two frames in limited release but fetched a disappointing $3.6 million. That put the Abigail Breslin-toplined family film in eighth place on the session and yielded a $6.1 million cume. Disney/Pixar’s feature animation “WALL-E” finished in second place during its sophomore session, with a skimpy 47% drop from first-weekend grosses producing a $33.4 million frame and a 10-day cume of $128.1 million. - from THR
Variety’s Hancock Review, Thumbs down on Will Smith
An intriguing high concept is undermined by low-grade dramaturgy in “Hancock.” This misguided attempt to wring a novel twist on the superhero genre has a certain whiff of “The Last Action Hero” about it, with Will Smith playing an indestructible crime-buster in a pointedly real-world context. Although it will inevitably open very large, this odd and perplexing aspiring tentpole will provide a real test of Smith’s box office invincibility.
The central idea of Vy Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan’s script — of Smith’s John Hancock being an ornery, unwilling hero who escapes from his ordained role in life via booze and general cantankerousness — is amusing and plausible enough to sustain the first section of the film. What the writers and director Peter Berg do with the concept in the end, however, is nowhere near sufficiently thought out, and narrative illogic and missed opportunities plague the film increasingly as it cartwheels through its surprisingly brief running time.
from Variety