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“Wuthering Heights” is coming home.
Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel will be available to buy or rent digitally for the first time on March 31, following a theatrical run that grossed more than $230 million worldwide. A physical release on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD will follow on May 5.
Written, directed and produced by the Oscar- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker, the romantic drama stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff. The film also features Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell.
The digital release will be available across major platforms including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home, with the title continuing to be offered in both high-definition and standard-definition formats.
Home editions will include a slate of bonus features, including “Threads of Desire,” a behind-the-scenes look at costume designer Jacqueline Durran’s work on the film’s Gothic aesthetic, and “The Legacy of Love and Madness,” in which Fennell discusses her approach to reimagining Brontë’s story. Another featurette, “Building a Fever Dream,” explores the film’s production design and overall visual language, while a full-length commentary from Fennell is also included.
“Literary purists may object,” Varity film critic Peter DeBruge wrote in his review, “but Fennell seizes on something passionate in the material that was always there but never made explicit, amplifying what has gone largely unrequited all these years: the physical desire, of course, but also the mind games by which power shifts between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.”
The film’s digital release follows a theatrical run in February that dominated the global box office with an $82 million debut.
Rent/purchase “Wuthering Heights” starting March 31.
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