Corpse Bride Limited Edition Steelbook Preorders Discounted, Releases This Week

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride launches on 4K Blu-ray for the primary time on September 23. The cult-classic stop-motion animated film is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with two totally different editions, together with a Restricted Version Steelbook with a collectible steelbook case and ornamental sleeve. Burton followers can preorder Corpse Bride’s Limited Edition Steelbook for $30 (was $35) at Amazon and Walmart. The usual 4K Blu-ray version is up for grabs for only $23.79 at Amazon and Walmart.

This has been a well-liked Steelbook Version–it bought out for the primary time in July earlier than the official paintings was even revealed–and has been listed for as excessive as $45.49 at each retailers. When you already preordered from Amazon or Walmart, your order whole shall be adjusted to replicate the bottom worth supplied earlier than launch ($30). Burton followers also can preorder the brand new Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Limited Edition Steelbook for $30 (was $35). The Beetlejuice sequel’s collectible version releases the identical day as Corpse Bride.

$30 (was $45.49) | Releases September 23

Corpse Bride’s Limited Edition Steelbook continues a trend we’ve seen more of recently by including a transparent sleeve with artwork that changes the look of the display case. With the sleeve on, as shown above, Emily Merrimack’s eyes are closed, and she’s surrounded by butterflies. When you remove the sleeve, the Corpse Bride’s eyes open and the butterflies disappear, leaving the night sky background clear besides the full moon.

The back of the steelbook features Victor Van Dort, the man who unwittingly marries Emily (according to her, at least). More undead characters are featured on the interior covers, including General Wellington and Bonejangles.

$23.79 | Releases September 23

Corpse Bride’s standard 4K Blu-ray mirrors the Steelbook Edition in terms of on-disc content and technical specs. Both editions come with one 4K Blu-ray disc and a voucher for the digital edition via Movies Anywhere.

The 4K restoration includes HDR10 and supports Dolby Atmos surround sound. Along with the film, fans can watch a bunch of bonus content, including retrospectives, featurettes, interviews, and more. Special features are on the disc regardless of which edition you choose, but they aren’t rendered in 4K.

Corpse Bride Special Features

Digging Up the Past: The Minds Behind Corpse Bride
‘Til Death Do Us Art: A Corpse Bride Reflection
The Animators: The Breath of Life
Danny Elfman Interprets the Two Worlds
Inside the Two Worlds of the Corpse Bride
Voices from the Underworld
The Corpse Bride Pre-Production Galleries
Tim Burton: Dark vs. Light
Making Puppets Tick
The Voices Behind the Voice

Corpse Bride Limited Edition Steelbook — Corpse Bride Restricted Version Steelbook

Corpse Bride is the darkish story of Victor Van Dort (Johnny Depp), a younger bachelor roped into a marriage of comfort to his bride-to-be, Victoria Everglot (Emily Watson). After a sequence of incidents end in Victor by chance marrying a deceased girl named Emily (Helena Bonham Carter), he should discover a option to escape the Land of the Lifeless, assist Emily transfer on.

Whereas Burton’s work spans a number of genres and a long time, every movie carries his signature type and visible ambiance, and in case you’re trying to take a look at extra of his catalog, a lot of his movies can be found on Blu-ray at Amazon. Burton made his directorial debut with Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, and he adopted up it with a number of different cult-classic films all through the Eighties and Nineties, corresponding to A Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, and Mars Attacks. He additionally directed two of one of the best Batman movies ever, in 1989’s Batman and its sequel, Batman Returns. Each movies can be found in a four-film 4K Blu-ray collection alongside Batman Perpetually and Batman & Robin for under $33 (was $90) at Amazon.

As talked about, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Burton’s newest movie, is getting a Restricted Version Steelbook on September 23, too. It is price noting Walmart nonetheless has just a few copies of the film’s original Steelbook Edition for $20.

Take a look at an inventory of much more Tim Burton films on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray under.