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DVDs bundle cinema discount coupons
By Robert Marich
March 10, 2009 – Coupons for cinema ticket discounts are being bundled in high-end DVDs by movie distributors that want to jump-start lagging DVD software sales and to help keep movie-going high.
Yesterday, it was announced the Blu-ray DVD release of Da Vinci Code: Extended Cut would contain a $10 movie ticket coupon and three weeks earlier a similar discount coupon was included in the Watchmen: Motion Comic DVD.
A press release from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment yesterday says, “Da Vinci Code: Extended Cut will include access to $10 in movie cash toward Angels & Demons theatrical tickets and a Web-enabled feature dubbed ‘Cinechat,’ in which fans can chat to their friends while watching the movie together on broadband-connected Blu-ray players.” The Da Vinci DVD also contains a five minute video of Angels & Demons to promote the theatrical release.
Warner Home Video provided the $7.50 cash coupon to the Watchmen theatrical in connection with purchase of the property’s non-theatrical motion comic DVD.
DVD movie sales peaked a few years and the Christmas season was sharply down for film distributors. However, cinema box office remains strong.
PRESS RELEASE
The $750 MM International Box-Office Sensation Debuts on Blu-ray™ High-Def
THE DA VINCI CODE: EXTENDED CUT
Available for the First Time, Only on Blu-ray Disc™ April 28th
Extended Cut Includes 28 Minutes of Never-Before-Seen Footage
With an Exclusive First Look at “Angels & Demons” –
Five Minutes of the Upcoming Theatrical Release Introduced by Ron Howard
Two-Disc Set Boasts Eight Interactive Picture-in-Picture Streams and
Advanced BD-Live Features including cinechat and $10.00 e-Movie Cash
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (March 9, 2009) – The mystery unfolds in a whole new way April 28, 2009 when The Da Vinci Code: Extended Cut debuts on Blu-ray Disc from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The two-disc extended cut will be available for the first time ever, exclusively on Blu-ray High-Def, for the suggested retail price of $38.96.
THE DA VINCI CODE: EXTENDED CUT
Available for the First Time, Only on Blu-ray Disc™ April 28th
Extended Cut Includes 28 Minutes of Never-Before-Seen Footage
With an Exclusive First Look at “Angels & Demons” –
Five Minutes of the Upcoming Theatrical Release Introduced by Ron Howard
Two-Disc Set Boasts Eight Interactive Picture-in-Picture Streams and
Advanced BD-Live Features including cinechat and $10.00 e-Movie Cash
CULVER CITY, CALIF. (March 9, 2009) – The mystery unfolds in a whole new way April 28, 2009 when The Da Vinci Code: Extended Cut debuts on Blu-ray Disc from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The two-disc extended cut will be available for the first time ever, exclusively on Blu-ray High-Def, for the suggested retail price of $38.96.
The Da Vinci Code: Extended Cut includes 28 minutes of never-before-seen footage and all-new special features including the interactive picture-in-picture (I-PiP) feature “Unlocking the Code” which allows viewers to toggle between eight simultaneous I-PiP streams, new commentary on select scenes with director Ron Howard, and advanced BD-Live features including cinechat in-movie chat and access to $10.00 e-Movie Cash for Angels & Demons.
The set also includes an exclusive high-def first look at Angels & Demons (in theaters May 15th) – a complete five minute scene from the upcoming film introduced by Oscar®-winning director Ron Howard (Best Director, A Beautiful Mind, 2002) and available only on The Da Vinci Code: Extended Cut Blu-ray Disc. Additional special features on the Blu-ray Disc include 17 featurettes: First Day on the Set with Ron Howard, The Filmmakers’ Journey two-part featurette, A Discussion With Dan Brown, A Portrait of Langdon, The Codes of The Da Vinci Code, Who is Sophie Neveu?, The Music of The Da Vinci Code, Unusual Suspects, Book To Screen, Magical Places, The Da Vinci Props, Close-up on Mona Lisa, The Da Vinci Sets, Re-creating Works of Art, Scoring The Da Vinci Code, and The Visual Effects World of The Da Vinci Code.