Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning stop-motion animated film Pinocchio is getting a bodily launch courtesy of the Criterion Collection, sitting alongside a number of the most prestigious movies in historical past.
A brand new itemizing for the film popped up on the Criterion web site with Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio sporting backbone quantity 1201 and set to launch in 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on December twelfth, 2023.
This information doesn’t come as a whole shock to us. Over the summer season, we reported that one of many editors had posted on-line that he was reopening the mission recordsdata so as to add new extended-edition content material. The deleted Tweet from Chris Salters mentioned:
“It’s been a year since I first started on @Netflix’s Handcarved Cinema, (Pinocchio doc) and it’s time to crack it open to extend it for the #bluray release.”
At the time, we speculated that it might head to the Criterion Collection, the place eight Netflix Original motion pictures have been launched through the years, together with Beast of No Nation and Marriage Story. We additionally mentioned that a number of Netflix Originals have been launched bodily, however normally solely when one other firm owns the underlying rights.
The reimagining of Pinocchio got here to Netflix globally in December 2022 after premiering on the BFI Film Festival and having proven in choose theaters all through November. It was launched to common acclaim, and we rank it as one of many greatest Netflix animated motion pictures ever.
It’s not the primary Guillermo del Toro film to be launched as a part of the gathering. Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone are each a part of the gathering, too, and the creator has been a large advocate for bodily releases in recent times.
Here’s the total listing of particular options Criterion lists for the upcoming launch:
- 4K digital grasp, supervised by administrators Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, with Dolby Atmos
- One 4K UHD disc of the movie introduced in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the movie and particular options
- Handcarved Cinema, a brand new documentary that includes del Toro, Gustafson, and forged and crew, together with the movie’s puppet creators, manufacturing designers, and animation supervisor
- Directing Stop-Motion, a brand new program that includes del Toro and Gustafson
- New dialog between del Toro and movie critic Farran Smith Nehme
- New interview with curator Ron Magliozzi on The Museum of Modern Art’s 2022 exhibition dedicated to the movie
- New program on the eight guidelines of animation that knowledgeable the movie’s manufacturing
- Panel dialogue that includes del Toro, Gustafson, manufacturing designer Guy Davis, composer Alexandre Desplat, and sound designer Scott Martin Gershin, moderated by filmmaker James Cameron
- Conversation amongst del Toro, Gustafson, and writer Neil Gaiman
- English subtitles for the deaf and arduous of listening to and English descriptive audio
- PLUS: Essays by movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz and writer Cornelia Funke
The launch additionally sports activities a brand new cowl design by James Jean.
Here’s what the brand new launch seems like:
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