Annihilation is coming to home video on May 29, 2018, and Slice of SciFi listeners can win a 4K UHD copy for their home collections!
Starting Tuesday May 29 through midnight Tuesday June 5, participants can enter either by leaving a comment here on the website or via Tweet. You can enter once per day, but participation for this giveaway is limited to US-based listeners only.
Hailed as “a masterpiece” (Chris Evangelista, Slash Film) and “a mind-blowing experience” (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone), director Alex Garland’s (Ex Machina) ANNIHILATION debuts on Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD May 29, 2018 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The film arrives on Digital May 22.
The prize set includes the film on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and Digital copy, which is also exclusively available at Best Buy.
Read our movie review: “Annihilation” Entertains but Misses on Some Elements
Biologist and former soldier Lena (Academy Award® winner* Natalie Portman) is shocked when her missing husband (Oscar Isaac) comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone no one has ever returned from. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth. The film also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, and Tuva Novotny.
The ANNIHILATION Blu-ray includes over an hour of bonus content. Natalie Portman, director Alex Garland and other cast and crew take viewers behind the scenes for a deeper look inside the film’s stunts, intricate set design and breathtaking visual effects. The Blu-ray also boasts a Dolby Atmos® soundtrack remixed specifically for the home to place and move audio anywhere in the room, including overhead‡.
The ANNIHILATION Blu-ray is presented in 1080p high definition with English Dolby Atmos, French 5.1 Dolby Audio™, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Audio, and English Audio Description and English, English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles. The DVD in the Combo Pack is presented in widescreen enhanced for 16:9 televisions with English 5.1 Dolby Audio, French 5.1 Dolby Audio, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Audio and English Audio Description and English, French, and Spanish subtitles. The Combo Pack includes access to a Digital copy of the film as well as the following:
Blu-ray
Feature film in high definition
Bonus Content:
Part 1 – SOUTHERN REACH
Refractions – See how director Alex Garland created the tone, textures and color palettes for the various film environments on set.
For Those That Follow – Listen to the cast’s perspective on their roles and learn why they found the story so intriguing.
Part 2 – AREA X
Shimmer – See how filmmakers transformed real set locations to create the world of Annihilation.
Vanished into Havoc – Check out all the action as cast and crew walk you through the mind-blowing stunts and special effects.
Part 3 – TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
Unfathomable Mind – Learn why the visual effects are integral to achieving director Alex Garland’s overall vision for Annihilation.
The Last Phase – Listen to the cast and crew share their fondest memories from filming Annihilation.
Although I have a 4K TV and BR player, I still don’t own any 4K discs. This would be a great one to start!
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Slice of SciFi is still an active podcast, I’ve just been hosting it solo since 2015, hadn’t ya noticed? Did I fly too far under the radar? 🙂
This week’s episode features a fun interview with Ian Verdun, who plays Xander on Freeform’s mermaid-mystery series, “Siren”. You can check out the past 3 years of Slice of SciFi episodes here on the website, or in iTunes
I’ve also got a new fiction & writing podcast over at WritersAfterDark.com, and I’m still doing scifi and horror short story narrations for various fiction podcasts. It’s available in iTunes now, too.
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Another question: Who doesn’t?
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