Promising Young Woman - August 2nd 2021

[CelestialAgent]

Another of the Oscar contenders: Universal will release the "Sky Cinema Original" Promising Young Woman on Blu-ray in August.

From visionary director Emerald Fennell (Killing Eve) comes a delicious new take on revenge. Everyone said Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a promising young woman...until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be: she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.

https://store.hmv.com/store/film-tv/...ng-young-woman

It's a shame this film has gone straight to Sky Cinema/NOW, delayed by a year from its intended release prior to the pandemic, and it won't be offered to cinemas to screen at all. And for a broadcast and streaming release, it seems silly to have to wait another four months for the next release window. I'm tempted to import the US Blu-ray in the meantime (it was also released in Australia.)

[DAT_JB]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Promising-Y...9425452&sr=8-1

[Aunt Peg]

The Australian release has a number of really good extras. My only qualm with the Oz release is that the two trailers are not included in the Special Features.

[Padawan9188]

Originally Posted by Aunt Peg

The Australian release has a number of really good extras. My only qualm with the Oz release is that the two trailers are not included in the Special Features.

What's on the OZ disc? Can't find a writeup online

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by Aunt Peg

The Australian release has a number of really good extras. My only qualm with the Oz release is that the two trailers are not included in the Special Features.

Are they the same extras as the US release?

Featurettes: A Promising Vision, Two-Sided Transformation, Balancing Act
Audio Commentary

[Aunt Peg]

Originally Posted by Padawan9188

What's on the OZ disc? Can't find a writeup online

The special features on the OZ disc are:

A Promising Ensemble
A Promising Story
A Promising Vision
Two-Sided Transformation
Balancing Act
Feature Commentary with Writer/Director Emerald Fennell

I'd be surprised if the UK disc doesn't have the same or more.

[CelestialAgent]

The first two appear to be absent from the US release?

A Promising Ensemble - 2 minutes on YouTube
A Promising Story - 2 minutes on YouTube

Unless they reauthor a new disc to add a Sky Movie Special or something similar I would expect this to be identical to the US release

[IanSchultz23]

Hated this so much, I wrote a savage takedown over on Dmovies.

[prophecygirl]

Originally Posted by IanSchultz23

Hated this so much, I wrote a savage takedown over on Dmovies.

What did you hate about it?

[IanSchultz23]

Everything you can find my piece on it.

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by IanSchultz23

Hated this so much, I wrote a savage takedown over on Dmovies.

Neat.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by IanSchultz23

Everything you can find my piece on it.

Or you could tell us here? It’s a forum not a self promotional space.

[Agent Kay]

Twas predictable but amazingly well made,

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

The first two appear to be absent from the US release?

A Promising Ensemble - 2 minutes on YouTube
A Promising Story - 2 minutes on YouTube

Unless they reauthor a new disc to add a Sky Movie Special or something similar I would expect this to be identical to the US release

Universal is releasing the UK/US discs, while Roadshow released the Australian disc. I would fully expect the UK disc to mirror the US one, though possibly with different language options.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

Universal is releasing the UK/US discs, while Roadshow released the Australian disc. I would fully expect the UK disc to mirror the US one, though possibly with different language options.

I would agree, although Universal released Hotel Mumbai in both the US and UK (Sky Cinema over here), and they weren't the same disc as the UK added the Sky Movie Special. Also, some Pathe titles that were released through Fox in the US, distributed by Fox in the UK, end up being different discs e.g. Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours. But yes, I'm expecting it to be the same. It's also happened where a UK StudioCanal release ends up with different extras than StudioCanal released elsewhere in Europe, e.g. Logan Lucky.

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

I would agree, although Universal released Hotel Mumbai in both the US and UK (Sky Cinema over here), and they weren't the same disc as the UK added the Sky Movie Special. Also, some Pathe titles that were released through Fox in the US, distributed by Fox in the UK, end up being different discs e.g. Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours. But yes, I'm expecting it to be the same. It's also happened where a UK StudioCanal release ends up with different extras than StudioCanal released elsewhere in Europe, e.g. Logan Lucky.

I thought about that, but I ended up not mentioning it.

By the way, on Hotel Mumbai, I found a back cover, but this review claims that the UK disc is identical to the US release:

https://www.avforums.com/reviews/hot...y-review.17132

I wonder if the extras might be identical, but marketed differently?

EDIT: Never mind, the US extras don't add up to the 19 minutes stated on the UK back cover.

Well, I certainly hope that the forthcoming UK disc of Promising Young Woman might be different to the US one. If it has different extras I might even buy it. I enjoyed the film, even if I found it a little corny at times.

[CelestialAgent]

Sky/Universal did indeed author a new disc for the film. The extras, according to the back cover, amount to 6 minutes worth - two brief featurettes. So it's probably better to import it from the US, Australia or France.

[Steedeel]

Got my copy today!

[BigNickUK]

Originally Posted by IanSchultz23

Hated this so much, I wrote a savage takedown over on Dmovies.

Me too (excuse the pun)

[IanSchultz23]

No the pun is great