Total Recall: Director's Cut Headed to BD, DVD

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will bring Len Wiseman's remake of Total Recall to Blu-ray and DVD December 18, 2012. The expensive and generally unwanted remake (review here), starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Bryan Cranston and Jessica Biel, proved a costly failure this summer, grossing a mere $58 million in the U.S. The film did, at least, make some bank overseas, where it grossed nearly $120 million.

The film was infamously hacked up shortly before release, with roughly 17 minutes of footage left on the cutting room floor. It would seem the Blu-ray will restore Wiseman's original "vision" for the film. Will it be enough to redeem the picture? Well, that remains to be seen.

Total Recall will hit Blu-ray with a 1080p transfer, mixed in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. There will be two releases -- a single-disc version and a two-disc Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. The DVD will include an anamorphic widescreen presentation, with 5.1 Dolby Digital audio. All three releases will include an UltraViolet copy of the film. Extras for the Blu-ray will include the following:

• Theatrical and Extended Cut of the film
• Audio commentary with Director Len Wiseman
• Total Recall With Insight Featurette
• Science Fiction vs. Science Fact Featurette
• Designing The Fall Featurette
• Colin Farrell Featurette
• The Tripping Den Featurette
• Quaid's Bedroom Featurette
• Kate Beckinsale Featurette
• Lobby Escape Featurette
• Jessica Biel Featurette
• Quaid vs. Cohaagen Featurette
• 5 Pre-Visualization Sequences
• DVD/UltraViolet Copy

Suggested retail for the Blu-ray is set at $40.99 for the two-disc combo pack, $35.99 for the single-disc Blu-ray, and $30.99 for the DVD. Amazon has all three releases up for pre-order. Current prices are $24.99 for the Blu-ray, $36.89 for the Blu-ray combo pack, and $21.99 for the DVD.

Be on the lookout for more news regarding this title. And be sure to check back for our review of the film and Blu-ray in the coming months. In the meantime, give our Blu-ray review of the original Total Recall a read.

Source : ign[dot]com

Underworld Director Reboots The Mummy

Len Wiseman, he of Total Recall reboot and Underworld franchise fame, is in talks to direct Universal's reboot of The Mummy. Or re-reboot, one might say.

We learned last April that Jon Spaihts -- who also handled the first draft of Prometheus -- was scripting the film. Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek, Transformers) are producing with Sean Daniels and Jim Jacks, the producers of Universal's Mummy series with Brendan Fraser that began in 1999.

Not much is known about Spaihts' script, though it is said to be set in the modern era. "I think the sensibility and the cutting edge of Underworld is a fantastic meld for what we want to do going forward with The Mummy,” Daniels told Heat Vision. “We are going to push the edge of scary entertainment.”

Boris Karloff, of course, starred in the original The Mummy in 1932. That film spawned a successful franchise in and of itself, which eventually culminated in a run-in with Abbott and Costello. Watch:

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