Into The Woods Blu-Ray Features

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 2/22/15 at 11:58am

So I was on Amazon.com and this is all that was listed under special features:

The Cast As Good As Gold -- The Film's Stars Share The Experience Of Taking This Epic Musical Journey


And all I have to ask is, is that it? Is that the only special feature on the Blu-Ray? Be a shame if it was.

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Posted: 2/22/15 at 12:02pm

I think i read somewhere on here that the deleted song "She'll Be Back" will be on the Blu-Ray/DVD

[SmokeyLady]

Posted: 2/22/15 at 12:07pm

I also thought I had read there was some stage to screen feature.

[Showface]

Posted: 2/22/15 at 12:20pm

I posted this on the other thread so I will copy and paste the answer to your question:

"The DVD BONUS FEATURES have been revealed!

Streep Sings Sondheim – ‘She’ll Be Back’ (4:35)
There’s Something About the Woods (12:46)
The Cast as Good as Gold (9:42)
Deeper Into the Woods – From Stage to Screen (8:10)
Deeper Into the Woods – The Magic of the Woods (7:03)
Deeper Into the Woods – Designing of the Woods (6:4
Deeper Into the Woods – The Costumes of the Woods (6:35)
Deleted Scenes* – Meryl Climbs (:21), Witch Riser (:46), Sneakers (:12)
Jack and the Bean Stalk Rehearsal (1:30)
Bird Attack (:19)
Into the Woods Audio Commentary with Director Rob Marshall and Producer John Deluca


Read more: 'Into the Woods' Blu-ray Bonus Features Complete List - Stitch Kingdom
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http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-into-woods-bluray-bonus-features-complete-list-74281/"

Updated On: 2/22/15 at 12:20 PM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 2/22/15 at 3:58pm

Sweet!

Thanks :)

[Showface]

Posted: 2/26/15 at 9:32pm

A trailer with a little bit of "She'll Be Back" was released! Even though it was just a little bit of the song, it is obvious it is amazing (yes, I can tell that from that little bit), and Streep kills it. The lyric is "When she knows who to trust..."
I like how they added in Jack's line after that snippet: "Wow! She can do that?" Yes, Jack- Meryl Streep can do anything...

Enjoy the Trailer

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 2/26/15 at 10:00pm

Not bad considering, though the Deeper features were all of course released online before the film came out.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 2/26/15 at 10:06pm

I got the sheet music of "She'll Be Back" online (i think on musicnotes.com), I'm glad that it was cut. It doesn't really fit in with the fabric of the rest of the score, in my opinion. But all of the songs from the show seem to echo each other, which I've always enjoyed. She'll Be Back seems out of place (and obviously is and that's why they cut it). I look forward to hearing Meryl Streep's performance either way.

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 2/26/15 at 10:46pm

I will obviously buy the Blu-ray because I adored the film but am I the only one who is annoyed by how quickly films are coming out on home media these days? If I didn't work at a movie theater part time, I wouldn't be going to the movies as much as I used to by any means. What is the point when you can wait a few months and just watch it in the comfort of your own home for cheaper? With the window of theatrical release to Blu-ray getting smaller, the horrible audience behavior at the theater and the growing prices, it isn't a shock why many people never go to the movies anymore. I really miss seeing a movie in theaters, then waiting 5-8 months for it to come out on DVD. I would be SO excited for the release because it's been so long since I saw it and I would watch it the day I picked it up. Now I do buy them but I'm rarely excited and rarely do I watch them right away.

#endrant

[Broadwaywest]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 10:13am

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/26/meryl-streep-into-the-woods-deleted-song

clip of she'll be back. Not a bad song, buy I agree what it takes away from the moment in the film.

[Bilbo3]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 10:26am

I thought we were going to hear the entire thing? Either way, what an awful song.

Updated On: 2/27/15 at 10:26 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 10:59am

When you hear the full thing it's a very pretty song, at least I think so.

gypsy, it opens with a verse to the melody of Children Will Listen (similar to Stay With Me), which I think does bring it in to the fabric of the score.

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 11:08am

I love how Meryl performs the song (or the part we heard), but it undermines the idea that the Witch "loses" Rapunzel. It's one thing to eliminate the death, but if Rapunzel's leaving doesn't seem to be a final gesture, that kind of ruins it, and also makes the Witch's choices and remarks in the second act make no sense at all.

It needed to go.

What this clip does do is make me wish (a lot) that Sondheim would write an original musical film score for Meryl Streep. The combination of the two of them (as talents) is wonderful.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 11:21am

"but am I the only one who is annoyed by how quickly films are coming out on home media these days?"

I believe three months from opening is the industry standard. That is a quarter of a year to play in theaters. That seems pretty sufficient to me. Usually by that time people have seen it in the theater if they are going to and have moved on to newer releases.

[tazber]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 11:24am

They shortened the window of home video/on demand to save on marketing.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 11:29am

I recall reading that they shortened the window, but wasn't it only by a month? I remember reading that the theater owners were having a fit and thinking it strange because it was only by a few weeks. I also remember thinking it strange because after the first month or so films seem to play to less than half a house. I have seen many film with less than 10 in the room with me.

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 11:41am

I think it's...odd. I'm surprised it was even filmed.

Updated On: 2/27/15 at 11:41 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 12:05pm

The theater owners threw a fit when studios started releasing films on VOD day and date of their theatrical release.

The window for home video physical copies has been shrinking for years.

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 12:14pm

Taz is right about all of this.

The window has been shrinking for years between theatrical and home video releases. Having worked on over 200 film and TV DVD/Blu-ray releases myself, I can attest.

Yes, they are capitalizing on the theatrical marketing campaign (and keeping the film in the public eye), which is the reason for the shrinking window.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 1:38pm

Taz, I know it uses the same verse from the Lament as a lead-in, I still think it feels tacked on. Hearing Meryl's interpretation of part of it now makes me definitely glad it was cut. It defeats the purpose of Last Midnight.

As for the release of DVD & Blu-Ray, I always hated the long wait between theatrical and home media release. I'm glad it's only three months these days! Waiting 6 months to year back in the day for DVD was the worst.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 2:18pm

Disney films (and select other HUGE releases) would get the 8 month window from theater-video which made their release an "event". I miss those days.

[Wildcard]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 2:46pm

The shortened window is also to combat piracy. People who haven't seen the movie are less likely to acquire bad quality bootlegs if the original good quality version is available.

[amoni]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 4:39pm

Used to take at least a year for a feature to debut on HBO

Les Misérables Theatrical Premiere December 25 2012

DVD/Blu-ray Release March 22, 2013

HBO Premiere August 31 2013

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 5:46pm

Let me just tell you how hard it is to work on a project like that when the production window shrinks and the home video releases are 3 months after opening. You start working on the DVD/BD special features (games, trivia, galleries, menu designs, etc.) before they finish shooting. You watch the film in a rough edit, with no music, and very few green-screen VFX finished. Sometimes it says wonderful things on the screen like "big explosion FX here," because they haven't been created yet.

The edit isn't final, you have little to no finished footage (nothing is color-timed yet), and if you even get a one-light (which is a generic, all-purpose level correction placed over the entire film), you're really lucky.

Then you have to pitch ideas for the content, not knowing if what you're talking about will even be in the final edit, or exactly what it will look like. After they approve everything, you start working anyway ... without a film.

Then you have to deliver usually on or before the film actually opens, so the authoring houses have time to assemble everything and QC all assets and compress the video and audio for the movie. Their time is cut way down too, which is why you have idiotic mistakes like a green tint being put over the entire feature film of LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended), or a crappy blue tint over The King & I, or they clip off audio or edit scenes (like the recent Batman TV release) and have to recall discs to fix the problem.

Then the replication, packaging, assembly, and distribution starts.

Meanwhile the print people (in our case, they were in the same company, so we were lucky) are also working on their packaging designs, which may or may not be approved at the same time your material is ... and sometimes they don't go together and have to be redone to match better.

So yeah, it's lots of fun when the production window shrinks.

And if you miss a street date on a major title, it can be tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars in promotional expenses to change it and fix the advertising/launch.

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 2/27/15 at 6:38pm

Thank you for sharing your perspective, best12bars! It does seem like a pain.

And Jordan, I agree with you 100%. For a movie I LOVED, I was so excited to get to Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, whatever to get there as soon as I could to get a copy of the film and get home to watch it. Now I may buy it the day it comes out (or even the week, which 5 years ago for a movie I loved would have been crazy) but it usually sits for a bit before I watch it. Take Gone Girl for example. LOVED the movie and it was on my top 10 of 2014. I bought it the day it came out. I feel no need to watch it yet though because I've seen it only a few months ago.

I was happy it took Boyhood awhile to release on Blu-ray, that was a movie I bought the day it came out and watched it nearly the second I walked into my apartment.