OVERVIEW:
Anchor Bay Entertainment and
The Weinstein Company are proud to present the home
entertainment release of the eighth film by two-time Academy
Award® winner Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained, Pulp
Fict2 (10 pt)ion). Shot entirely on 70mm and featuring a Golden Globe®
and BAFTA® award-winning score by Oscar® winner Ennio Morricone
(Bugsy, The Mission) THE HATEFUL EIGHT “absolutely delivers on
the sheer moment-to-moment pleasures fans have come to expect --
from dynamite dialogue to powder-keg confrontations,” Peter
Debruge, Variety.
An explosive frontier
mystery about eight strangers with one deadly connection, THE
HATEFUL EIGHT will be available for digital download on March
15, 2016 from Starz Digital before heading to retail on Blu-ray™
Combo Pack and DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment and On
Demand March 29, 2016. Special features for THE HATEFUL EIGHT
include two featurettes - “Beyond the Eight: A Behind-the-Scenes
Look” and “Sam Jackson’s Guide to Glorious 70mm.”
THE HATEFUL EIGHT marks
the triumphant return to the genre for legendary composer
Morricone (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, A Fistful of
Dollars). Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Original
Score, Morricone is back in the saddle after nearly four decades
since last scoring a full-length Western. Additional Academy
Award® nominations include 3-time Oscar® winner Robert
Richardson for Best Cinematography and Jennifer Jason Leigh for
Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
SYNOPSIS:
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or
eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach
hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The
passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his
fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), race
towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in those
parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice.
Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major
Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), a black former union
soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix
(Walton Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the
town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard,
Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s
Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass.
When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the
proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Demian
Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s
visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Tim
Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage
(Michael Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers
(Bruce Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside
stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not
make it to Red Rock after all…
BLU-RAY:
The film is
presented in widescreen in a 2.76:1 aspect ration preserving its
theatrical format. The picture is just flawless. Not only the
picture looks great in this release, also the sound it is good,
a 5.1 Dolby Digital in English that provides a good complement
to the picture. It also includes English,
French
and Spanish subtitles.
VIDEO:
Widescreen (2.76:1) 16x9
AUDIO:
English DTS-HD Master Audio
5.1/Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles -English SDH, Latin Spanish
SPECIAL
FEATURES:
Blu-ray™ unleashes the power of your HDTV and is the best way to watch movies at home, featuring 6X the picture resolution of DVD, exclusive extras and theater-quality surround sound.
DVD offers the flexibility and convenience of playing movies in more places, both at home and away.
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“Beyond the Eight: A Behind-the-Scenes Look”
“Sam Jackson’s Guide to Glorious 70mm.”