SPHE Announce: Year One (DVD/Blu-ray)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“Undeniable humor… I double dare anyone not to laugh”

-          Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

Jack Black and Michael Cera Star in the Hilarious New Comedy

From the Director of Caddyshack and Groundhog Day

YEAR ONE

Culver City, CA (8/10/09) – On October 6, 2009, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment invites you to witness the evolution of comedy as the hilarious YEAR ONE arrives on Unrated Blu-ray and DVD, plus Theatrical Edition DVD and PSP®. Created by comedy legend Harold Ramis (Caddyshack, Groundhog Day), YEAR ONE stars Jack Black (Nacho Libre, Tropic Thunder) and Michael Cera (Juno, Superbad) as an unlikely duo of primitive men who, after being exiled from their tribe, set out on a laugh-out-loud journey through the ancient world. Along the way, they encounter a host of famous historical figures played by a tribe of film comedy’s best, including Hank Azaria (Night at the Museum 2), David Cross (TV’s “Arrested Development”), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad), Oliver Platt (2012, Frost/Nixon),  Paul Rudd (I Love You, Man) and Horatio Sanz (TV’s “Saturday Night Live”). Trust us, history has never been this crude, rude or historically funny!

Now, YEAR ONE journeys from the ancient world onto Unrated Blu-ray and DVD, which include both the original theatrical version of the film and an all-new Extended Version with even more irreverently funny footage not shown in theaters, plus cool bonus features like deleted scenes, extended and alternate scenes, an alternate ending, Line-o-Rama, gag reel, audio commentary with director Harold Ramis, Jack Black and Micheal Cera, the making-of featurettes “Year One: The Journey Begins,” “Sodom’s Got’em” and “Leeroy Jenkins: The Gates of Sodom,” and more!  

Exclusive to the Unrated Blu-ray Disc™ of YEAR ONE are the highly evolved special features  “Year OneCutting Room,” which lets viewers create their own video using clips and music from the film, and share it on BD-Live™. YEAR ONE also includes the newest BD-Live feature from Sony Pictures: movieIQ, which lets viewers access real-time trivia information about YEAR ONE’s cast, crew, music and production, all while watching the movie (powered by Gracenote). The Blu-ray version also features cinechat, which allows movie watchers to send on-screen instant messages to friends around the world while watching the movie and, finally, a Digital Copy for playback on PC, PSP®, Mac or iPod. 

YEAR ONE is priced to own at $39.95 (Unrated Blu-ray), $28.96 (Unrated DVD), $28.96 (Rated DVD), and $24.94 (PSP). Whether you’re a hunter or gatherer of great movie comedies, be sure and drag YEAR ONE back to your cave for historical and hysterical laughs! 

Synopsis

History was made...by these guys? Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) are cavemen who stumble out of the mountains into an epic journey of biblical proportions. One’s a bumbling hunter, the other’s a gentle gatherer; together, they become unlikely participants in history’s most pivotal moments. Directed and co-written by comedy legend Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Analyze This), YEAR ONE is rude, crude, wildly absurd, deliciously tasteless and laugh-out-loud funny!

YEAR ONE was written by Harold Ramis and the writing team of Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg (upcoming Ghostbusters 3, TV’s “The Office”). It was produced by Harold Ramis, Judd Apatow (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Knocked Up) and Clayton Townsend (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,Knocked Up). Its cast also features Olivia Wilde (TV’s “House M.D.”) and Vinnie Jones (X Men: The Last Stand). It was released by Columbia Pictures. The theatrical edition has a run time of approximately ninety seven minutes and has been rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, brief strong language and comic violence. The unrated edition has a run time of 100 minutes.

Bonus Material Included on All Versions

·         Theatrical Version of the film

·         2 Deleted Scenes

·         Commentary with Director Harold Ramis, Jack Black and Michael Cera

·         10 Extended and Alternate Scenes

·         Line-o-Rama

·         Gag Reel

·         “Year One: The Journey Begins” Featurette

Unrated Blu-ray and Unrated DVD Exclusive Bonus Material

·         Both Theatrical and Unrated Versions of the Film

·         2 Deleted Scenes

·         Commentary with Director Harold Ramis, Jack Black and Michael Cera

·         10 Extended and Alternate Scenes

·         Alternate Ending: Sodom’s Destruction                     

·         Line-o-Rama

·         Gag Reel (Unrated Version)

·         “Year One: The Journey Begins” Featurette

·         “Sodom's Got'em” Featurette

·         “Leeroy Jenkins: The Gates of Sodom” Featurette

Blu-ray Exclusive Material

·         Year One Cutting Room: Create your own video and share it via BD-Live! (A Blu-ray first)

·         cinechat: Send on-screen instant messages to your friends around the world while you watch the movie together

·         movieIQ: Real-time in-movie information about the cast, crew, music and production via BD-Live (Domestic Only)

·         A Digital Copy of the film for PC, PSP®, Mac or iPod