islandclaws

Yep, lame cover. And those comments by Fincher basically seal the deal on an eventual double dip. Eh, I'll still be picking this up. Never caught it in theaters.

DeanoBKN

Since the movie sadly bombed in theatres, i'm guessing this release will be to test the waters. If it's a major seller, they will re-release.

Still, shocked at no HD or BR release yet.

Dan Average

Well, it's shown in a flyer for upcoming Paramount BD/HD releases.

Matthew Chmiel

Fight Club tanked in theaters and the first release we got was a two-disc special edition. Granted, it took a few months after it was released to VHS, but still....

chris_sc77

I actually think the cover art isnt too bad....
It could have been a lot worse at least....

However it appears that we wont be getting a special edition which really pisses me off seeing as this is one of my fav. films so far this year...
Add to this that Perfume was announced this week as well by those greedy bastards over at Paramount and after a 7 month wait it appears my favorite film of 2006 gets buttf*cked by only receiving one featurette...
Thanks alot Paramount...I am really losing my love for DVD in general now with all of these shitty releases for every great movie I love (Children of Men, Casino Royale, The Fountain etc.....)...
Oh well, i guess things cant always be perfect....
Hopefully we'll get a 3 disk Zodiac set sometime down the road...

PopcornTreeCt

Yeah but it's not only Paramount every movie gets effed on DVD nowadays. At least Pan's Labyrinth got some decent love.

chris_sc77

Yeah but we get effed by having to pay more for it than we would have a few years ago like when New line released Del Toro's Blade II with even better features than P.L. for a decent price...
I went to Wal Mart at midnight on release day to pick this up but i saw the price at more than $27 and i walked right the hell out without picking it up...
I wont pay more than $20 for this one but hopefully it'll be a good price on a 20% off sale sometime soon...

PopcornTreeCt

I agree the prices are ridiculous. I remember when Boogie Nights 2-disc came out for like $14.99 the first week. Ah, the good ol days of DVD.

caiman

"From the director of Seven and Panic Room" really pisses me off for some reason. If Eli Roth is getting a "Directed by *director's name*" credit under his movie titles, David Fincher sure as hell should.

Dane Marvin

Looks like this will be a crappy release of my favorite film of the year and possibly one of my favorite films of all-time (I'd have to see it at least a second time to know for sure).

I was looking for a Director's Cut, the A&E Casefiles doc on the Zodiac killer (or a similar doc to that), a making-of featurette, an audio commentary or two, etc.
In short, I was hoping for at least 2 discs. But Paramount is one of the worst studios ever when it comes to releasing SE's, so I should have known better. Even considering that the director has packed SE's for almost all his other films.

canaryfarmer

That's all I can focus on now.

powersofi

I was actually hoping this movie wouldn't be coming out on DVD for a while...as in, I was hoping they would re-release it in theatres in the fall and really give it the push it deserves. It is the best movie of the year, I don't expect to see anything better. It's just sad that a genuine masterpiece like this gets dumped in a bare-bones edition in the middle of the year, whereas relative fluff like Dreamgirls(fun movie, don't get me wrong) is given an insane three-disc treatment (at Target, at least) with all the accompanying hype. Oh well.

JumpCutz

Well apparently Jake has done an audio commentary, more than likely for a SE down the road...

http://www.hellomagazine.com/film/20...ke-gyllenhaal/

Dane Marvin

^ Well, I have no idea what the special features are on this edition, but it appears that there might be some hope for an SE at least.

Saw this at noon on a Saturday and it was the best movie theater experience I've had in years.

indiephantom

I'm hoping we'll get the typical badass SE that Fincher films usually get down the road. Not sure I can hold off, but I'll try.

Goldblum

I liked this film. It was a good tribute to the victims and really laid it to Arthur L. Allen, who probably was the zodiac.

tylergfoster

I dunno if you should blame Paramount directly for Perfume. It might be DreamWorks fault, Paramount is only distributing the DVD (as they do all DreamWorks films). And you never know, there is a 53m documentary on the R2 DVD, so perhaps that is the included "featurette".

Zodiac_Speaking

Oh man! Wake up on a sunday morning and I read this!

Paramount is now like Warners once was concerning extras. Warner is the best studio now but they mistreated a lot of movies on dvd. Now Paramount jipped the best of 07, damn it!

toxie321

So this has been confirmed for HD-DVD and blu ray. Does anyone think it will be released July 24th or whenever along with the standard dvd?

Clockwork

Except his DNA, Prints & Handwriting didn't match.


Found a pretty comprehensive "Fact vs. Fincher" for people interested in the Zodiac case facts.

http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/movie.htm

Shannon Nutt

About half of those are "nit picky" stuff...stuff Fincher changed not so much to twist the "truth", but for plot/flow/character purposes. I think most people know by now that "based on a true story" means exactly that...it's not the gospel truth. Like Oliver Stone's "JFK", "Zodiac" should be a introduction for those looking to dive deeper into the case, not an end-all/be-all of actual "fact".

JumpCutz

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/790/790345p1.html

May 21, 2007 - On July 24, 2007, Paramount Home Entertainment will release Zodiac on DVD. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a cartoonist that single-handedly gets further in the case of the identity of the Zodiac than anyone in history. The DVD will feature tons of bonus materials and extra features, and will be available for the MSRP (Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price) of $29.98.

mickey65

Can't wait to see what the "tons" of bonus features are! This was a great movie!

cupcake jesus

I read the movie as an indictment of the GWB administration. Two men lose everything because they're stubborn and obsessively chase the wrong man. I thought that Fincher was using the subjects' story and books to make a wider statement about GWB, Cheney, and the Iraq war.

Not that I necessarily agree with the sentiment, but I thought it was pretty obvious when watching the flick.

Loved it as a horror film and a political one.

cheers,

-the Jesus

Dane Marvin

I'll believe it when I see it I guess. From the cover, it looks like a standard Paramount single-disc release (with no special name applied to it like 'Special Collector's Edition' or what have you). How many features can you fit on one disc along with a movie that's almost 3 hours long? Regardless, I'm interested to see what they've come up with.