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HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY On DVD And Blu-ray
The roughest, toughest, most unlikely hero of all is back in HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY, available in 3-disc special edition DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray on November 11, 2008 from Universal Studios Home Ent.
With bigger muscle, badder weapons and more ungodly villains than ever before, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY is available in multiple home entertainment versions. In standard definition DVD, fans can purchase either a widescreen or full frame single disc version for $29.98 SRP. For a limited time, fans can take home a widescreen 3-disc special edition DVD ($34.98 SRP) or 2-disc Blu-ray ($39.98 SRP), featuring a digital copy of the film and hours of additional in-depth bonus features that take fans deep inside the movie's extraordinary creative process -- all encased in 3-D packaging.
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY is also available in a limited edition collector's set featuring all of the bonus features of the 3-disc special edition plus a collectible Golden Army statuette, limited edition poster, director's production journal and certificate of authenticity. This set is priced for collecting and gift giving at $64.98 SRP for standard definition DVD and $69.98 SRP for Blu-ray.
Del Toro returns audiences to the exhilaratingly original world of HELLBOY. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones and Jeffrey Tambor reprise their roles from the groundbreaking first Hellboy film, joined by Luke Goss as Nuada, a renegade elvish prince, and more than 30 startling new creatures drawn from del Toro's untamed imagination. Based on characters created by Mike Mignola for Dark Horse Comics, HELLBOY has become one of the most successful independent comic books of all time, bursting with outlandish creatures, over-the-top action and unexpectedly comedic moments.
After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Now, it's up to the planet's toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders. He may be red. He may be horned. He may be misunderstood. But when you need the job done right, it's time to call in Hellboy (Perlman). Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development -- pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann -- the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal. And Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who's accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.
The movie was the largest character animation project ever undertaken by lead vfx vendor Double Negative. The facility had just delivered Grawp for HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, as well as the saber toothed tiger and the terror birds for 10,000 BC, so lessons learnt from these prior projects were incorporated into the nascent creature pipeline.
"The real challenge here was to gather all the different pieces of a creature pipeline developed on other shows," says co-CG Supervisor Andrew Chapman. "We had to form a complete character pipeline that would handle the vast array of different creatures we were animating, as well as a very high volume of creatures within a single scene, up to about 5,000 Tooth Fairies in some shots."
Double Negative's pipeline was modeled in Maya, ZBrush and XSI; rigging and lighting were done in Maya; effects work were done in both Maya and Houdini; rendering was done in RenderMan through a proprietary Maya-RenderMan tool called Rex; and compositing was done in Shake.
The Blu-ray, single- and 3-disc DVDs all feature the following bonus content:
--Feature Commentary with Director Guillermo del Toro
--Feature Commentary with Cast Members Jeffrey Tambor, Selma Blair and Luke Goss
--Set Visits: Seven mini documentaries provide viewers with unlimited access to the HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY set.
The roughest, toughest, most unlikely hero of all is back in HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY, available in 3-disc special edition DVD and 2-disc Blu-ray on November 11, 2008 from Universal Studios Home Ent.
With bigger muscle, badder weapons and more ungodly villains than ever before, HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY is available in multiple home entertainment versions. In standard definition DVD, fans can purchase either a widescreen or full frame single disc version for $29.98 SRP. For a limited time, fans can take home a widescreen 3-disc special edition DVD ($34.98 SRP) or 2-disc Blu-ray ($39.98 SRP), featuring a digital copy of the film and hours of additional in-depth bonus features that take fans deep inside the movie's extraordinary creative process -- all encased in 3-D packaging.
HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY is also available in a limited edition collector's set featuring all of the bonus features of the 3-disc special edition plus a collectible Golden Army statuette, limited edition poster, director's production journal and certificate of authenticity. This set is priced for collecting and gift giving at $64.98 SRP for standard definition DVD and $69.98 SRP for Blu-ray.
Del Toro returns audiences to the exhilaratingly original world of HELLBOY. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones and Jeffrey Tambor reprise their roles from the groundbreaking first Hellboy film, joined by Luke Goss as Nuada, a renegade elvish prince, and more than 30 startling new creatures drawn from del Toro's untamed imagination. Based on characters created by Mike Mignola for Dark Horse Comics, HELLBOY has become one of the most successful independent comic books of all time, bursting with outlandish creatures, over-the-top action and unexpectedly comedic moments.
After an ancient truce existing between humankind and the invisible realm of the fantastic is broken, hell on Earth is ready to erupt. A ruthless leader who treads the world above and the one below defies his bloodline and awakens an unstoppable army of creatures. Now, it's up to the planet's toughest, roughest superhero to battle the merciless dictator and his marauders. He may be red. He may be horned. He may be misunderstood. But when you need the job done right, it's time to call in Hellboy (Perlman). Along with his expanding team in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Development -- pyrokinetic girlfriend Liz (Blair), aquatic empath Abe (Jones) and protoplasmic mystic Johann -- the BPRD will travel between the surface strata and the unseen magical one, where creatures of fantasy become corporeal. And Hellboy, a creature of two worlds who's accepted by neither, must choose between the life he knows and an unknown destiny that beckons him.
The movie was the largest character animation project ever undertaken by lead vfx vendor Double Negative. The facility had just delivered Grawp for HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, as well as the saber toothed tiger and the terror birds for 10,000 BC, so lessons learnt from these prior projects were incorporated into the nascent creature pipeline.
"The real challenge here was to gather all the different pieces of a creature pipeline developed on other shows," says co-CG Supervisor Andrew Chapman. "We had to form a complete character pipeline that would handle the vast array of different creatures we were animating, as well as a very high volume of creatures within a single scene, up to about 5,000 Tooth Fairies in some shots."
Double Negative's pipeline was modeled in Maya, ZBrush and XSI; rigging and lighting were done in Maya; effects work were done in both Maya and Houdini; rendering was done in RenderMan through a proprietary Maya-RenderMan tool called Rex; and compositing was done in Shake.
The Blu-ray, single- and 3-disc DVDs all feature the following bonus content:
--Feature Commentary with Director Guillermo del Toro
--Feature Commentary with Cast Members Jeffrey Tambor, Selma Blair and Luke Goss
--Set Visits: Seven mini documentaries provide viewers with unlimited access to the HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY set.
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