«Casting Off: The Making of Failure to Launch» (12 minutes) is
your standard featurette, as it offers comments from the cast and crew and some behind - the - scenes footage.
«Blood on the Land: The Making of a King» (17:05) is a pretty
standard featurette on King Arthur's production.
Next up and perhaps of greatest interest to the typical American viewer is «Behind the Microphone» (7:59),
a standard featurette on the English voice cast.
«The Making of The Brothers Grimsby» (11:50) is a sincere and fairly
standard featurette serving up lots of behind - the - scenes footage and talking heads.
The Blu - ray's mostly - SD bonus features begin with «The Making of The Paperboy» (6:14), a short and
standard featurette
Overall, it's
standard featurette material, but it reveals a sense of humor on behalf of everyone that supports the idea that no one took this too seriously, and it's worth watching just for effects artist Alec Gillis to drop the bombshell that he went from dressing up dogs on this movie to helping come up with the dog - hybrid xenomorph from David Fincher's Alien 3.
This is a fairly
standard featurette, but it also has a very intimate feel due to the honest comments from the cast & crew.
«The Making of Heist» (15:11) is
a standard featurette serving up the usual blend of clips, behind - the - scenes footage, and talking heads.
DVD Extras Director's commentary, bog -
standard featurette, a trailer, and an unintentionally hilarious reading of Coleridge's «Kubla Khan» by a series of talking heads including random celebrities like John Hurt, Hannah Spearritt, Keith Allen and Jack Davenport.
The annotation videos would be better enjoyed as
standard featurettes and the rest of the video is promotional fluff, of which the DVD includes the weakest.
Not exact matches
The DVD's deleted scenes contain scene trims — one involving the priest's son is a silly red herring, and makes no sense — and there's a
standard making - of
featurette, and an audio commentary with director Corbijn.
The paltry single - disc DVD / Disc 1 bonus features begin with «Meet the Cast of Megamind» (9:22), a
standard promotional voice cast
featurette.
There's the
standard «making of»
featurette with The Reign Continues: Making «Elizabeth: The Golden Age.»
Video extras, all of them presented in
standard definition, kick off with «The Making of Solomon Kane» (11:47), an ordinary, general, promotional
featurette that gathers enthusiastic, plot - descriptive remarks from the cast and crew and a tiny bit of behind - the - scenes footage.
«Five Films» is packed with the
standard assortment of DVD bonus features: background information, behind - the - scenes
featurettes, interviews with principals and collaborators, etc..
«Old School Orientation» (13:02) is a
standard EPK - style
featurette with the stars, producers, and director commenting on the film amidst clips.
«The Making of Henry Poole Is Here» (15:49, SD) is a pretty
standard behind - the - scenes
featurette, with Pellington, Torres, Radha Mitchell, producers David Kern and Richard Wright, Cheryl Hines, George Lopez, Luke Wilson, and Adriana Barraza.
They are short
featurettes centered on Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, and writer - director Taylor Sheridan, unfolding with a
standard mix of talking head interviews, film clips, and footage from the location production.
First, «Behind the Scenes of Danny Collins» (3:44) is a short general making - of
featurette dispensing the
standard mix of cast and crew comments, clips, and production B - roll.
The soundtrack is in French and Cantonese with a smattering of English and the disc features English subtitles and the
featurette «Johnny x Johnnie,» a
standard Hong Kong promotional
featurette with lots of mutual - admiration interviews with To and the cast (in Cantonese and English) and behind - the - scenes footage: not very informative (and curiously missing any interviews with Hallyday) but pleasant company for ten minutes.
A five - minute
featurette called «Greetings From Bull Mountain» is the
standard five - minute B - roll / soft - sell interview errata that features a few additional male buttock shots; «King of the Mountain» is a two - minute music video that splices action sequences from the film together with bloopers and sets it to music (something resurrected in feature - length form by this year's ESPN's X-movie); and nine chapter - encoded deleted scenes (blissfully sans commentary and running between fifteen seconds and a minute, each) are essentially long «comedy» shticks that prove for as bad as Out Cold was, it could have been even worse.
Available in
standard edition and 2 - Disc «Collector's Edition» on both DVD and Blu - ray, that latter featuring the 18 - minute «The Making of Ip Man» (more promotional
featurette than making - of documentary), deleted scenes, cast and crew interviews and a shooting diary among the supplements.
Game, «Celebrating Dumbo»,
Featurette Animated Short: «The Flying Mouse» Animated Short: «Elmer Elephant» Movie Download (
Standard Definition & High Definition Versions): Deleted Scene — «The Mouse's Tale», Deleted Song — «Are You a Man or a Mouse?»
Produced in the
standard promotional Starz mold that fills time between movie broadcasts, these short
featurettes — composed of clips, comments from creator Mitch Glazer and cast,
The DVD comes with a
standard making - of
featurette, and the Blu - ray adds Q&A highlights with cast and crew.
«On Set with Insidious» (8:15) is a fairly
standard making - of
featurette.
In typical Weinstein supplement fashion, the
featurette «The Untold Story of an American Icon» (19:07,
standard definition on BD) begins like a fluffy EPK piece but proves to have substance.
Dundee II is joined by a behind - the - scenes
featurette (5:25, SD) with that
standard 1980s publicity feel.
is a
standard - def behind - the - scenes
featurette that's kind of interesting for showing the unseen margins of a convincingly un-movie-like set, and I like a part where the unidentified videographer is following Paul Thomas Anderson and becomes obviously distracted by a pretty P.A..
The former is a
standard - issue behind - the - scenes
featurette with brief talking - head interviews with the majority of cast and crew members, while the latter serves as a too - short but intriguing look at the film's costume and production design.
Though it sounds like it could be a
standard promotional EPK piece, «The Making of The Big Lebowski» (24:35, SD) is in fact a thorough and substantial (albeit unsightly)
featurette from the time of production.
The Blu - ray includes just a single bonus feature: a
standard, slick, short EPK - type behind - the - scenes
featurette (4:56, SD).
I suppose these mini-episodes are ultimately superfluous, but no more than a
standard making - of
featurette would be and I praise the producers for thinking outside the box.
«Discovering Around the World in 80 Days» (18:50) is a
standard but good making - of
featurette.
, each your
standard infomercial - cum - making - of (they're actually called EPKs within their own credits); and «Stan Winston
Featurette» (5 mins.)
The
standard material — fine picture and sound plus bloopers, deleted scenes, and a
featurette worth watching — redeems the disc some, but I can still think of dozens of Disney movies, dog movies, heck even a dozen Disney dog movies that would be more worth owning than this.
The next section is Music & Sound, which begins with «Designing Sound» (5:39)(SD), a
standard sound design
featurette that also includes three versions of the famous scene in which the toys cross the road (score - only, effects - only, and the final mix).
«New Frontiers: Making The Missing» (29 minutes) is a
standard «making of»
featurette, as it touches on the film's production, regarding the weather, costuming, casting, and stunts.
The two - disc set also contains a making - of
featurette («Plan of Attack»), character profiles for Hannibal, Face, B.A., Murdock and Jessica Biel's Charissa Sosa, a before - and - after visual effects montage, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and the now -
standard digital copy.
Whereas Warner Bros.» early DVD for Shaft contained just a vintage promo
featurette, Superfly is given the deluxe treatment by the studio, sporting numerous
featurettes on the cast, style, the loud and flashy clothes, and the film's stature as one of several key African - American film works that revitalized Hollywood's production arm when revenues from more
standard fodder were once again ebbing low.
Next up is «The True Hollywood Story» (16 minutes), which is your
standard «making of»
featurette, offering behind - the - scenes footage and comments from the cast and crew.
The fairly
standard platter includes a series of various short, themed making - of
featurettes; it's all slickly cut - together EPK B - roll that isn't a total wash, but it's dismaying that some interview bites are recycled between them.
An eight - minute behind - the - scenes
featurette is the
standard press junket glad - handing intercut with scenes from the picture.
Call it a classic cross-promotion release, but the original films are better enjoyed in their own collections (which assemble all wolf, blood - sucking, and monster sequels in complete collections); the X-Box game is only level 1; and the missing music
featurette could easily have fit onto the
standard two - disc edition.
The de rigueur behind - the - scenes
featurette plays like
standard EPK material, but it does mention how this feature came to be while succinctly covering all the bases as far as the technical aspects of the production.
«The Giver: From Page to Screen» is the
standard, obligatory making - of
featurette (21:39, HD).
On the video side, we get seven 1.33:1
standard definition
featurettes produced for the 2005 DVD.
The bulk of the video supplements (all but the trailer in
standard definition) come in three substantial
featurettes, which can easily be thought of (but not played) as one 70 - minute documentary.
Extras: Pretty
standard making of which is repeated in parts on the other
featurettes.
Among the vintage features dating to the theatrical release (
standard definition, of course) is an old EPK that clocks in at 17 minutes and a promotional
featurette with voiceover, more tightly edited from the same raw material, that runs 7 minutes.