A "Beautiful" DVD (Yes,... another 4/1 topic)

[pdjennings]

This was posted over at TheDigitalBits in the spirit of the day.... I just wanted to share

Hey, gang! Hope you all had a great holiday weekend. In the spirit of the day today (wink!), we've just gotten the complete list of details on Universal's forthcoming A Beautiful Mind: Collector's Edition Full Screen DVD Interactive Playset, which streets on 6/12 (SRP $99.95).

Special features include a new high-definition, digital transfer of the PG-13, 134-minute cut in rental friendly full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio - because Blockbuster demanded it), custom "pop-up" playset packaging recreating three scenes from the film: John's Game Theory (move the characters in on the cute blonde girl), Charles and John Desk Throw (Charles and John throw a desk out of a window) and John and the Baby (move Alicia to the tub to take the baby out of the water), HBO Spotlight on Location featurette, 3 deleted scenes (including John and Bender sharing an intimate kiss, a conversation between William Parcher and John about John's fear of deli meat and Clint Howard playing one of John imaginary friends), Gag Reel (featuring Russell Crowe and company breaking out in hysterics while Ron Howard talks about directing Eat My Dust), Crowe meets Nash featurette (featuring Russell Crowe meeting John Nash for the first time and the subsequent "altercation"), Make-Up Application and Design featurette (showing the elaborate Oscar nominated make-up work of Greg Cannom), Window Math photo gallery (an in-depth look at the window math created by the set department with Do Your Own Window Math tutorial), Visual Effects breakdown for "Pentagon Office" sequence, the Are You Schizophrenic, Are You Schizophrenic Too? featurette (Dr. Harold Rosenfeld walks you through a series of Rorschach Tests to help you both determine if you might need professional help), My Mind is Beautiful music video by Dwight Yoakam, Beautiful Day music video by U2, multi-angle footage of John Nash's actual Nobel Prize acceptance speech and Russell Crowe as Nash giving same speech from film, complete text of Russell Crowe's BFI Best Actor acceptance speech including his reading of Sanctity by Patrick Kavanagh, John Nash's Top 10 Rejected Truly Original Ideas, 2 Universal Theme Park commercials, By the Numbers fact sheet, theatrical trailer, production notes, cast and crew bios, recommended titles, DVD newsletter, John's Playhouse section with human calculator game and secret code Easter eggs (look through magazine articles for clues to unlocking additional bonus material on the DVD), How to Find Things on This DVD menu instructional overview, Ron Howard's Baseball Caps interactive dress-up game, DVD-ROM features (including A Beautiful Mind X-Box "first person shooter" game demo, weblinks and screen savers), DVS (Descriptive Video Service) audible menu navigation feature, animated film-themed menu screens with sound, audio in English (DD & DTS 5.1) and French (DD 5.1) and English subtitles. The packaging also includes a wax crayon and a set of collectible, limited edition flash cards depicting potential imaginary friends of your very own. Should be a hoot! ;-)

Way to go, Bits!!

[Drexl]

Yeah, that's funny, but I wonder why they have the street date as 6/12. The real disc of ABM is supposed to be released on 5/28. Not to mention that 6/12 is also a Wednesday (I know because I'm eagerly counting down the days until 6/11, when "Mr. Show" arrives on DVD).

[SolidSnakeASS]

That was really really really unfunny. DVD humour is pretty hard to swallow.