Family Guy goes to Darkside with DVD premiere
PHYSICAL: TV series spin-off will be released Dec. 22
By Susanne Ault -- Video Business, 8/24/2009
AUG. 24 | PHYSICAL: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will launch Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Darkside at retail on Dec. 22, marking the second made-for-DVD spin-off from the series after the studio’s runaway hit Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.
Family Guy characters spoof The Empire Strikes Back in Something, Something, Something, Darkside.
Something, Something, Something, Darkside will bow on two-disc standard-definition DVD ($22.98 SRP) and Blu-ray Disc ($29.99 SRP). Pre-orders are due on Nov. 25.
Stewie Griffin was the first straight-to-DVD release from the TV series and was met with great success by fans when it streeted in 2005. The title was the top-selling DVD premiere title that year, generating $78.2 million revenue. Stewie topped such popular 2005 straight-to-DVD feature films as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment’s animated Mulan II and Tarzan II.
Family Guy is the best-selling TV DVD franchise of all time, according to a Fox spokesman. That bodes well for the rollout of this next exclusive DVD/Blu-ray title. The early buzz on Something, Something, Something, Darkside is already encouraging, he added, explaining the studio teased it at last month’s Comic Con “to an astonishingly positive fan response.”
Something, Something, Something, Darkside is a retelling of The Empire Strikes Back installment of the Star Wars franchise. Family Guy’s Stewie plays Dark Vader; Chris, Luke Skywalker; Herbert, Obi-Wan Kenobi; Carl, Jedi Master Yoda; Lois, Princess Leia and Peter, Han Solo.
The DVD will be released Dec. 22.
The title also serves as a follow-up to Fox’s 2008 Family Guy Star Wars spoof Blue Harvest.
Something, Something, Something, Darkside’s Blu-ray version contains a digital copy, which is absent on the standard DVD edition. Otherwise, the bonus features are identical between the two versions, including audio commentary, deleted scenes and ‘The Darkside of Poster Art’ featurette.
