Benjamin Button Gets DVD Release Date of May 5th

Posted on March 18, 2009

The Hollywood Reporter reports that the Oscar nominated movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, will be released on DVD and blu-ray on May 5th. The release date is a over a month after Slumdog Millionaire comes out on March 31st.

The "Button" plans were sewed up during the weekend, and Paramount will announce the home-entertainment release date Thursday. The Brad Pitt-Cate Blanchett starrer won three Academy Awards and is among the last of the high-profile Oscar pics to set a debut on home video.
Fox Home Entertainment will release Oscar best picture winner "Slumdog Millionaire" on March 31.
Universal Studios Home Entertainment's "Milk," for which Sean Penn copped a best actor statuette, hit retail shelves March 10. USHE has set an April 21 street date for its political drama "Frost/Nixon," which, like "Button" and "Milk," was a nominee for best picture.
The fifth nominee -- the Weinstein Co.'s Nazi-themed drama "The Reader," for which Kate Winslet was voted best actress -- will be released by Genius Products on DVD. No date has been set.

Usually the studios don't want to wait too long before releasing Oscar films on DVD. The single disc Benjamin Button DVD will have a retail price of $29.99. Two-disc DVD and Blu-ray set will retail for $39.99. Discounting generally pushes the price much lower.

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