Title: Rise of the Silver Surfer (IMDb)
Starring: Jessica Alba
Released: 2nd October 2007
SRP: $34.98 (2-Disc)

Further Details:
Fox Home Entertainment has announced single ($29.98) and double-disc editions ($34.98) of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer which stars Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, and Ioan Gruffudd. Each will be available to own from the 2nd October. The film itself will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. The only extras on the single-disc will be a commentary by director Tim Story, and a commentary by producer Avi Arad, writer Don Payne and film editors Peter S. Elliot and William Hoy. The two-disc "Power Cosmic Edition" will include that, along with extended/deleted scenes with optional commentary, a making of documentary, a featurette on the Comic Book Origins of The Silver Surfer, a FantastiCar: State of the Art featurette, and a Power Cosmic special effects featurette. Completing the package will be a Character Design With Spectral Motion featurette, a Scoring the Fantastic featurette, an Interactive FantastiCar concept images gallery, still galleries (behind the scenes, characters, and concept art) and trailers. The official package artwork is attached below:

Also available from the 2nd will be a Blu-ray release of the film. The release will be authored in BD-Java with AVC (MPEG 4 compression) on a dual-layer 50GB disc with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Master Audio plus English, French and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. The disc will feature all of the above features, along with the BD exclusive “Saving The World One Question at a Time” trivia game, “Who Dares Defy Galactus?” multi-player strategy game, D-Box motion sensor capabilities and several HD trailers.

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